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EyeUpHigh said:I see a similar issue and it's always subtle enough that I think that perhaps I'm not quite as aligned "straight ahead" as I thought. I might drift five yards off course for a hundred yard straight line flight and that's straight enough for most work... I've also recalibrated the compass with no change in tracking.
I suspect it's coupled to another odd behavior that I see - I can fly 'stick forward' in a (reasonably) straight line but when I let the stick go and the Phantom 'coasts' to a stop it always drifts left - sometimes by as much as ten or twenty yards if I was moving at a good rate of speed. I suspect it's an artifact of the hand-off from inertial guidance to GPS position hold but I have no insight to the inner workings of their software.
Do you see a similar drift at the end of a straight line run?
I noticed my phantom is now drifting to the right. Today I did both a basic and advanced calibration on a straight level surface and a new compass calibration and it's still drifting to the right when doing straight forward flight, then when I let go of the stick it drifts a little further. On the flip side it goes in a straight line back and side and has a rock solid hover. Really strange.