This was my first 'true' test of the follow me feature, (after walking around the yard and making sure the P3 did in fact follow me okay from about 50ft in the air - which was perfect BTW) and I had a somewhat puzzling result.
First let me say that I was using an ipad Mini2 (wifi only) hooked up to a Garmin Glo GPS via BT, which had a good satellite lock as did the P3 (17 Sats on the P3).
I sent the P3 up to ~200ft in order to clear all the trees on my intended short drive down the street and back, and panned the camera down to keep my car in view.
I set the Garmin on the dash to make sure I maintained a good sat signal, and set the controller on the passenger seat. I was solo, so did not look much at the ipad while driving and did not control anything. I kept my car speed between 10-15mph.
After the short drive/flight I took the SD card out and reviewed the video. The 'downward leg' of the trip seemed to be perfect as you can see from the video, however after doing a U turn at the end of the street to come back, the P3 seemed to lose me... it stopped and appeared to be 'looking around' to find me.. then continued up the street following the road, but stopped again and started looking around. Eventually it came back but I still was not controlling anything until overhead and I manually landed it. Does this behavior sound a bit strange to you?
First let me say that I was using an ipad Mini2 (wifi only) hooked up to a Garmin Glo GPS via BT, which had a good satellite lock as did the P3 (17 Sats on the P3).
I sent the P3 up to ~200ft in order to clear all the trees on my intended short drive down the street and back, and panned the camera down to keep my car in view.
I set the Garmin on the dash to make sure I maintained a good sat signal, and set the controller on the passenger seat. I was solo, so did not look much at the ipad while driving and did not control anything. I kept my car speed between 10-15mph.
After the short drive/flight I took the SD card out and reviewed the video. The 'downward leg' of the trip seemed to be perfect as you can see from the video, however after doing a U turn at the end of the street to come back, the P3 seemed to lose me... it stopped and appeared to be 'looking around' to find me.. then continued up the street following the road, but stopped again and started looking around. Eventually it came back but I still was not controlling anything until overhead and I manually landed it. Does this behavior sound a bit strange to you?