I live in the mountainous and heavily treed West Coast of Canada and am finding that the Phantom just can't lock onto a good GPS signal unless you're right out in the open on a big field with no mountains or trees nearby.
If you take off without having a good GPS Home location, your Phantom could fly away if something goes wrong, or do something else unexpected, like fly into nearby trees.
All modern GPS's today use the fast SiRF chip set, which is able to pick up very low signal levels and, in the case of the SiRFstarV, signals from all available satellite networks- the original GPS system, the Russian GLONASS system, the European Galileo system, and others.
If DJI is listening, they should take heed and make sure that the next generation of Phantoms have a modern, sensitive, and fast GPS.
If you take off without having a good GPS Home location, your Phantom could fly away if something goes wrong, or do something else unexpected, like fly into nearby trees.
All modern GPS's today use the fast SiRF chip set, which is able to pick up very low signal levels and, in the case of the SiRFstarV, signals from all available satellite networks- the original GPS system, the Russian GLONASS system, the European Galileo system, and others.
If DJI is listening, they should take heed and make sure that the next generation of Phantoms have a modern, sensitive, and fast GPS.