kenargo
Second Officer
United States
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You do NOT need a mobile signal and in fact many people, myself included have a non-call connected device. I use a Samsung Tab S tablet.
Regarding the map usefulness; it's personal preference I guess. A map gives you the ability to plot to a location and without a map I can't imagine that GPS autonomous flight would be much use (aka, Ground Station). As long as your device can connect to the internet though, maps can be downloaded and cached.
Using Ground Station as you mention, to plot a route at your guest house is very possible and home location is always where you take off from (assuming you allow the Phantom to properly connect to 6 or more GPS satellites). Some software, the one I'm creating, will allow for home to be set either to your device's location (if it supports location) or, an addition I added to my app, a location by pointing on the map. I felt the map point to set home might be good for people flying from boats, for example, allowing them to set a home point on dry land, a nearby beach head. It would also be good if you are taking off from an unfriendly area for landing and want home to be set to a clearing nearby.
Now go out and enjoy your Phantom! |
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