GPS lock inside my house?

[richnat]

I was testing a new gimbal and had the Solo, controller and tablet all connected. As I was playing around with the gimbal controls and watching the live feed when I got a "ready to fly" message. I got a GPS lock from inside my house?! Not only that, I was in the basement with walls, concrete, computers, a steel desk and modems all around me and yet it still got a GPS lock somehow. In all my previous testing in my workshop/office I never even got a single satellite. Weird.

Did we launch some super powerful GPS satellites recently? I mean, I got a tan while sitting in my basement so there might be something to it.

 

[evangelionhd]

Exact same thing happened to my Saturday night was testing the gimbal and all of a sudden gps lock and ready to fly!!

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[richnat]

Hard and fast rule: never install the props except when ready to fly just in the event you can't help but push that FLY button!

 

[pyrate]

And never trust a GPS signal you get indoors, anymore than you would trust a GPS signal right next to a tall building
Both are likely to be very poor fixes prone to glitches

 

[Pedals2Paddles]

The lock is fake due to multipathing of the signal from outside. It's unusual that it even happened. But rest assured it was a bogus lock.

 

[quickamg]

I get GPS lock every time I power up inside with m8n. At least 25 times I've powered up inside. I get from 8 to 16 satellites while inside.


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[nikono]

Downstairs, I never got GPS lock. Upstairs, yes, GPS locked all the time. The lock seemed genuine. But I never had props on the Solo when indoor because if I did and held Fly to start, held Fly to take off, the ceiling would divert the Solo to the floor or the wall or the HDTV.

 

[3DRnoob]

I get GPS lock every time I power up inside with m8n. At least 25 times I've powered up inside. I get from 8 to 16 satellites while inside.


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Me too 12-13 in the living room with M8N

 

[Marich]

Yep, I always get lock with M8.

 

[hackbard23]

this is not new to me, used this often to fly to the kitchen and see if the coffee is ready