I noticed tonight that while using "Find iPhone" app that my daughters iPhone ( 5C running iOS 8.1.3 ) location was way off while on the cell network. I refreshed several times but it was still 2/3 miles from the correct location. I switched on Wifi and the correct location in Find iPhone showed up.

The Pilot app uses some of the location services for the map overlay on the camera screen. There may be a bug in some of the earlier iOS versions that is sending conflicing location information which may explain some flyaways I've heard/seen. I know Chowtime's flyaway happened while using iOS 8.1 on an iPhone 6.

This video ( ) makes it look like the Inspire was caught between confliction locations. One moment heading one way, then doing a 180 turn and heading the other way.

I just updated from 8.1.3 to 8.3 and the location offset on the cell network seems to have been corrected. It would be interesting to see which iOS version the flyaways have happened on.

that's freaking scary considering I do shots near multi billion dollar casinos
A fly away could cost not just the bird itself but much more than I could even calculate.

So you'll get a replacement and do what with it?

At least a technical explanation would be nice from the manufacturer.

One of a kind video of a quad filming another one. Awesome stuff

This is a very old video of the Inspire. Its been around since the early days of release. I really don't think the app uses location services of the phone. Most people put their phones/tablets into airplane mode to avoid any possible interference. The transmitter has its own GPS. If that is off, then its possible the transmitter isn't getting a lock on the satellites.

lethbrp Posted at 2015-5-29 20:20
This is a very old video of the Inspire. Its been around since the early days of release. I really d ...

I'm not sure the transmitter has any GPS unit inside it. I believe all the GPS data is send from the Inspire to the TX and then displayed in the Pilot App. The Pilot App does however get the map data from the Phones location services I believe.

I could be wrong and would like to know if I am.

HFI Posted at 2015-5-29 20:51
I could be wrong and would like to know if I am.

Actually - both the transmitter and the bird have GPS receivers.  The transmitter relies on its own GPS to determine its location for the purpose of setting a dynamic home point.  It relies on the phone only to download the map data, since it needs Internet access for that purpose.  But the coordinates themselves are set internally.

Note the location of the built-in GPS antenna in the diagram below.

I did not know that the TX had a GPS unit in it. Thanks for the info