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Hi, There is something I can't quite get my head around and can't seem to find in the manual.
If the Home Record point is being locked by GPS during start up and doesn't require the compass calibration , how are they related?
IE, a friend of mine (seriously, not me) neglected to calibrate his compass when at the beach, he sent the Phantom way out over the water and suddenly lost connection. He then realized that it was flying in the direction of his actual home ( which was the last place he had flown and calibrated-15 miles over the mountains). It appeared it was doing a RTH but not to where he started at the beach. He chased after it when it was over land and was able to re-establish connection and fly it back to him. So it wasn't RTH to his current start point (which is why, I assume. he should have re-calibrated the compass) So in a related thought ...when I fly by cheap toy quad (no GPS), by staying in range I never lose connection, no worries......but are flyaways on the Phantom caused by losing connection with radio (which I would think would force a RTH) or losing connection with the GPS or Compass connections that the Phantom makes during startup....In that case, does switching to ATTI mode, negate all the GPS info and allow my to fly the Phantom back to me (assuming LOS) without any interference from some confused or lost GPS or Home info(I hear people joke about it trying to "Fly back to china") but again, if I switch to ATTI, do I have total control to fly it back relying on the signals from the radio just like when I fly my cheap quad?......I know I am covering a few issues here...but hopefully they are related enough to make sense.
Thanks for your patience
If the Home Record point is being locked by GPS during start up and doesn't require the compass calibration , how are they related?
IE, a friend of mine (seriously, not me) neglected to calibrate his compass when at the beach, he sent the Phantom way out over the water and suddenly lost connection. He then realized that it was flying in the direction of his actual home ( which was the last place he had flown and calibrated-15 miles over the mountains). It appeared it was doing a RTH but not to where he started at the beach. He chased after it when it was over land and was able to re-establish connection and fly it back to him. So it wasn't RTH to his current start point (which is why, I assume. he should have re-calibrated the compass) So in a related thought ...when I fly by cheap toy quad (no GPS), by staying in range I never lose connection, no worries......but are flyaways on the Phantom caused by losing connection with radio (which I would think would force a RTH) or losing connection with the GPS or Compass connections that the Phantom makes during startup....In that case, does switching to ATTI mode, negate all the GPS info and allow my to fly the Phantom back to me (assuming LOS) without any interference from some confused or lost GPS or Home info(I hear people joke about it trying to "Fly back to china") but again, if I switch to ATTI, do I have total control to fly it back relying on the signals from the radio just like when I fly my cheap quad?......I know I am covering a few issues here...but hopefully they are related enough to make sense.
Thanks for your patience