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GPS SPOOFING RESOLUTION

So all of you commenting that it wouldnt affect your flight when gps spooling/hack its on, have no idea whats happening to the drone. I live in Cyprus and the gps attacks affects us when we are near the sea.
What happen is: lets say you have correct gps before you take off. You take off and you are good and flying, then gps attack get you. you sattelites goes to 0 and then 10 or whatever number and you are in the center of beirut airport. dji fly pops up a warning saying tha you have 100s to land as you are flying in a restricted area and you are actually flying in atti mode (but drone thinks you are in gps, but the gps is always the same position so it doesnt give any feedback to correct wind or speed). sometimes the lebanon gps glitches a bit so it not always the same position so that bring it back to the flight controller to randomly do some minor twitches in the air to try to fix what it think it moves.
No problem so far. we can of course land and fly in Atti.
The problem is THIS!!!
As soon as your drone gets correct location from where you are. The position lock of the dji system is trying to take your drone to the last position that it was before. So for my side from Lebanon to go back to Cyprus. Theres absolutely nothing that you can do except go up and down. The drone just goes full speed and it tries to go like 200+km away, nothing can stop it as said before its not trying to go back to home position but it tries to go back to where it was 2seconds ago, correclty saying where the drone though it was 2seconds ago. The only way to that drone to be saved its to get 0 satellites again in the air and then you get full control and can land as soon as possible. I havent tried it to see what happens when there is an obstacle and vision sensors works.

This happen to me in more than 5 times to fully understand the problems and I managed to to some tests like taking of from my hand and as soon as the gps happens to grap the drone and change modes and move the sticks around to see whats happening. on my tests. after some time the dji fly app comes with an error system navigation error, where the drone just stops using angle mode and it goes in a kinda acro mode with angle limitation to 45degrees, but the sticks are just so random, the yaw might do roll and the roll might do half yaw and pitch, and whatever movement you do and leave the sticks the drone stays at that position, it doesnt go back to level.
I was in Cyprus (Ayia Napa) in April and had the same thing happen where satellites suddenly dropped out so I descended quickly to 20 metres. Satellite signal returned.
 
The tests where done on mavic 3 pro and mini 3 pro. On the mini I could replace the sport and add atti mode. when i was flying atti it was okay but after that the location changed to beirut and then again back to cy, the system navigation came up and it was all crazy. And even when switching modes at that time nothing was changing on the drone. I want to do more tests. like what happens if i keep it all the time atti.
thats what i meant have you tried taking off in atti mode and staying in it as if you were canceling gps control from the begining and do u know if i can replace the sport mode with atti on the mavic 4 pro thanks for your help my friend summer is here and being a drone operator in lebanon has become riskier than ever
 
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