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Mark Weiss Posted at 2018-10-4 12:56
They're putting down process stone on our private road today, so I decided to take the Phantom for a local flight to see how it looks from above. I waited til I had 10 satellites and full five bars of GPS signal, but the home point never updated. Since I was staying within 800', after waiting five minutes with the bird hovering at above treetop level, I decided to fly my route up and down the road and come back. Even after that entire flight, the home point never updated and I had no map display. It was starting to sprinkle a tad as I was returning. Above treetop level, there should be no obstructions and satellite signal quality was maxxed out at five bars. There must be another factor to setting the home point besides GPS. Within the first minute, I get GPS lock and seconds later it tells me what class of airspace I'm in, but no home point recorded. Seems to only happen on cloudy days.
I waited til I had 10 satellites and full five bars of GPS signal, but the home point never updated. Since I was staying within 800', after waiting five minutes with the bird hovering at above treetop level, I decided to fly my route up and down the road and come back. Even after that entire flight, the home point never updated and I had no map display.
Are you sure that the homepoint never recorded?
Or was it just that you did not hear the confirming message?
No map doesn't mean no homepoint. - The map comes from your wifi or cached map, not from GPS.
Were you flying in atti mode or P-GPS mode?
If you have GPS mode, you have a home point.
Did you have a distance showing in the app?
That distance is the distance from .... home point and until your Phantom records a home point, it won't show any distance.
Post your flight log and it will clearly show whether you had a home point or not.
I'm guessing it will show one.
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