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Total noob question.

If I get an iPad Mini 4 to fly either a DJI Mavic or Phantom 3 Advanced will the iPad need an internet connection put in the field? For mapping?
 
If you need maps at site, you definitely need internet or else cache the maps at home with wi-fi. Alternatively get the maps at site by creating hotspot.

If you are using iPad, then you will not have built in GPS if it is wi-fi only.
 
You would need internet for mapping but you can cache map data.
Worse case scenario you could set up a hot-spot with your phone.
 
The maps can be cached in DJI GO like this before you head out to fly. As alokbhargava noted, another option is to create a hotspot on your phone to share its Internet connection via Wi-Fi.
 
All the apps - Go, Litchi, Maps Made Easy and Drone Deploy allow you to cache or save your maps and mission while you have internet connection and then use them in the field where there is no internet.
 
All the apps - Go, Litchi, Maps Made Easy and Drone Deploy allow you to cache or save your maps and mission while you have internet connection and then use them in the field where there is no internet.
Thank you. Which app do you like best?
 
The go 3 has more of a problem caching maps than the go 4. At least that's true for the Android. If you power off an Android running go 3, you will lose at least terrain data.
I just confirmed that go 3.1.3 still does not have the setting to enable map cache.
 

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