14 sats but not enough to get home point?

[Buel]

Hi all.

I just tried to fly and could see that it said I had 14 satellites but the icon was red and wouldn't let me get my home point and resttricted height etc. If I flew up to max height and stayed a minute then it would gain enough sats to fly, but then I would come down to 4 m and it would lose them again.

This is at my home where I have always enjoyed lots of sats and no issue previously.

Any ideas, please?

 

[mavic3usa]

My understanding is there's more to GPS and location than just "getting" satellites. I would do some basic research on consumer-grade GPS, how they get a fix, the quality of the signal, etc and go from there. Behinds the scenes, there's really a lot going on there....

 

[Phantomrain.org]

Nothing Wrong with flying up to get signal, you will be fine when you come back as you most likely will not loose signal as its harder to loose than gain.

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