I did some flying yesterday to further test the new update, my last flight got what I call "the weird GPS offset". For some reason the drone thought I was about 800' away from my actual location. I shadowed me at that distance obviously using an incorrect GPS fix. At the time I was with some others and just packed up the drone. Yesterday I took the drone out to my proving grounds, a really nice area with few trees and obstacles that I can easily see what the drone is doing. Wouldn't you know it, the four flights were perfect, no connection issues, disconnects or weird behavior. I wish it always worked this well.
I think I've got a good routine going for the initial connection and re-connections during a battery change. Previously I had this process down to a point it was pretty smooth but battery changes were time consuming and the whole process became problematic after some of the recent updates. I typically fly with the beacon but use the app to speed up the GPS lock.
Here's what I've started doing; First I power up the drone, then the beacon, at that point I start packing up the case and getting stuff put away before launching. I have the app open on the phone but not connected to anything, the phone is set to "not" auto connect to the drone or beacon, that's kind of important. Once the case is packed up the beacon says something like getting GPS data, at that point I go into the phone's wifi and tell it to connect to the beacon. I then mute the screen on the phone and stick it in my pocket. By the time I get my gloves on less then an min later it's ready to launch. At that point I spin up the props and go flying.
When I stop for a battery I recover the drone but I don't power it down. Instead I get the new battery out and ready. First I power off the beacon, then power down the drone, swap the battery and immediately power it back up as well as the beacon, I go into the app and tell it to reconnect to the beacon and again stick the phone in my pocket. By the time I've got my gloves on it's ready to launch. It was less then a min from the time I powered down the drone to when it's ready to fly again. It was very consistent, I performed this 3 times and it acted the same each time. For me it means allot less fiddling around getting the drone ready to fly and I waste less battery while the drone is sitting there getting a GPS fix.
Anyway I thought I'd pass that along in case other are having the same situation.