I am a drone instructor in Central & Western NY. I received a phone call today from some high school teachers that I instructed on part 107 test prep and a 3 day hands on training class as well. They just updated their Mavic3 Firmware to 01.00.0900, and the RC firmware to 04.13.0700 with the fly app version 1.8.0.
They were attempting to fly with their tablet, they had no WiFi or Data with the tablet and received this error.
"Remote ID error. Unable to take off. Connect to network to obtain mobile device location. Flying without broadcasting required remote ID message may violate local regulations (code: 161000b4)"
As soon as they switched to their phones, they were allowed to take off, if they put their phones in Airplane mode, it again refused to take off.
Why is this happening now? Is this a know issue?
Also connecting the iPad tablet to Wifi hotspot did not resolve the issue.
They were attempting to fly with their tablet, they had no WiFi or Data with the tablet and received this error.
"Remote ID error. Unable to take off. Connect to network to obtain mobile device location. Flying without broadcasting required remote ID message may violate local regulations (code: 161000b4)"
As soon as they switched to their phones, they were allowed to take off, if they put their phones in Airplane mode, it again refused to take off.
Why is this happening now? Is this a know issue?
Also connecting the iPad tablet to Wifi hotspot did not resolve the issue.