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It did show a valid heading after I did a bunch of fast yaw in place maneuvers left and right. So I guess the vision and inertial sensors a pretty good at keeping track of its heading in the absence of lateral motion.

The Skydio rep admitted his error in claiming the Skydio 2 had an onboard magnetometer. After a few more exchanges I received this message from him. shown below. Based on a test I did yesterday the Skydio 2 has no clue which way it is pointing on the ground before takeoff but once airborne it...

Exactly what I plan to do, if I can’t fool it after several aggressive yaws in place I guess there must be some other magic going on

Currently that is not a telemetry reading on the application, but we do have a more enterprise focused application that will offer more telemetry data coming before the end of this year.

For GPS to be used for heading the drone needs to be moving. If I yaw it in a fixed spot (no translation) it still shows a plausible heading on the FPV. So how can it do that just using GPS alone?

i received my Skydio 2 pro last week and have flown it for about 2 hours now. I am impressed with its ability to ”know” its heading but puzzled as to how it does it. I too sent a help query to Skydio and got the reply shown below. How can there be a magnetometer with such a powerful magnet for...