rrmccabe said:I took delivery on a new Phantom V2+ Thursday to replace one that DJI decided to have issues.
This particular unit seems to have a hard time getting GPS and toggles between 4-6 satellites and takes 5 minutes to get that. I usually hover at about 15' trying to get 6 and wait for lock.
The problem is around my land I often lose GPS and end up in ATTI. Record video pretty much guarantees that. In all fairness our acreage sits in a valley.
I called DJI and their only suggestion was the replace it. They had me do a calibration which at the time seemed to help and it got me to 6. That or it was just the extra time while I did the calibration. Basically they told me it was logged and to go fly it and see how it did.
As it turned out the calibration did not help so today I ran to my local big box store and grabbed some aluminum tape.
WOW ! 7 satellites on the ground in quick order and jumped to 9 as soon as I lifted off and then to 12.
I really think its more the exposed cable than anything. If I had it to do over I would have just taped the cable down and tried that.
Great news , good luck