I did the update this evening. It all seemed to go well. I did notice an abnormal IMU after it rebooted along with a calibration prompt, so I did that and then all readings were nominal on the next boot.
When I powered it on to take off later on, I noticed the camera gimbal up/down didn't work. I re-calibrated the controller sticks and gimbal control and restarted the AC. Seemed to work okay after that. So I took it up for a short flight.
As the AC behaved nominally, I decided to go for a little excursion about 2500' and come back. I noticed that at the edge of the signal coverage zone, I got the red warning about weak video transmission, but the video feed was not breaking up. I turned the AC around and started to return, but he weak transmission message didn't go away like it normally does when I start to return or raise altitude. It remained on until I got within 1400' of the takeoff location.
The other thing I noticed is more pop up warnings about wind, air space, etc. Usually, these would clear on their own after a minute or so, but not this time. They started to become so numerous that they obstructed my screen view and I had to manually cancel them one by one.
Other than I don't like that hysteresis on the weak signal warning (that should go away as soon as signal returns) I noticed no serious issues. I used to use the weak signal warning as a means of determining my safe flying radius, but now it just gets stuck on once it triggers, so I have no idea if I returned to a strong signal area or not.
Oh, one other thing... it took MUCH longer than usual to acquire enough satellites to fly. After a minute, usually it has 12-13. This flight, under blue skies, it only had 6 satellites after a minute. 3 minutes passed before 11-12 and the status went green. I've never seen it take this long to acquire GPS. Usually it takes 30 -40 seconds to get to 11-12 and ready status. That's annoying for those quick deploy by the side of the road and fly situations where you want to get airborne as quick as possible. Having to set there 3 minutes as the battery drains down, until you get GPS is not all that good.
And one last item: the unit boots up with the red head lights on. Even though the switch is in the off position. It is necessary to toggle it to shut off the arm LEDs.
When I powered it on to take off later on, I noticed the camera gimbal up/down didn't work. I re-calibrated the controller sticks and gimbal control and restarted the AC. Seemed to work okay after that. So I took it up for a short flight.
As the AC behaved nominally, I decided to go for a little excursion about 2500' and come back. I noticed that at the edge of the signal coverage zone, I got the red warning about weak video transmission, but the video feed was not breaking up. I turned the AC around and started to return, but he weak transmission message didn't go away like it normally does when I start to return or raise altitude. It remained on until I got within 1400' of the takeoff location.
The other thing I noticed is more pop up warnings about wind, air space, etc. Usually, these would clear on their own after a minute or so, but not this time. They started to become so numerous that they obstructed my screen view and I had to manually cancel them one by one.
Other than I don't like that hysteresis on the weak signal warning (that should go away as soon as signal returns) I noticed no serious issues. I used to use the weak signal warning as a means of determining my safe flying radius, but now it just gets stuck on once it triggers, so I have no idea if I returned to a strong signal area or not.
Oh, one other thing... it took MUCH longer than usual to acquire enough satellites to fly. After a minute, usually it has 12-13. This flight, under blue skies, it only had 6 satellites after a minute. 3 minutes passed before 11-12 and the status went green. I've never seen it take this long to acquire GPS. Usually it takes 30 -40 seconds to get to 11-12 and ready status. That's annoying for those quick deploy by the side of the road and fly situations where you want to get airborne as quick as possible. Having to set there 3 minutes as the battery drains down, until you get GPS is not all that good.
And one last item: the unit boots up with the red head lights on. Even though the switch is in the off position. It is necessary to toggle it to shut off the arm LEDs.