To the best of my knowledge, nothing in the app tells you that a home point has been registered. Going gray-to-blue on the GPS status only tells you that you have enough satellites (6+) to fly.Cocoa Beach Kiter said:Really the only reliable way to know if it has acquired a home point is to look on the app or do a quick home lock check.
Werz said:To the best of my knowledge, nothing in the app tells you that a home point has been registered. Going gray-to-blue on the GPS status only tells you that you have enough satellites (6+) to fly.Cocoa Beach Kiter said:Really the only reliable way to know if it has acquired a home point is to look on the app or do a quick home lock check.
Michigan_PI said:Werz said:To the best of my knowledge, nothing in the app tells you that a home point has been registered. Going gray-to-blue on the GPS status only tells you that you have enough satellites (6+) to fly.Cocoa Beach Kiter said:Really the only reliable way to know if it has acquired a home point is to look on the app or do a quick home lock check.
The small radar screen at the lower left of the app will show the recorded home point and where the phantom is relative to that point
cshaw said:I had a flyaway yesterday. Had a successful flight about 250km away in the morning. In the afternoon I took it out again recalibrated the compass at the new location. Waited for 7 satellites and took off. I didn't turn on the camera but just just idled around a bit to make sure everything was sweet. It was performing as I expected so I gained some height ready to film a lake.
The Phantom suddenly shot upwards and headed off to god knows where. It wasn't responding to any input from me. At that point I switched to ATTI mode and got it the drop straight down into a forest as the only other option was the lake.
At that stage I figured it would be stuck in the highest tree it could find, However I walked into the forest and basically within 2 minutes I saw it sitting on the ground. I have no idea how it made it through all the branches above but they must have slowed it down as it was completely undamaged. The battery had come out but the gimbal, props and body were undamaged. Props are now a bit green.
The pic is the flight path from my Flytrex in Google Earth ground level view. Data shows 7 - 8 Satellites at all times.
I expected the worst but couldn't believe my luck. Got home and wrote my phone number on it immediately