rayrokni
Second Officer
Flight distance : 8139875 ft
United States
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i have been trying to wrap my tiny brain around this "setting up waypoints at home "and "need to go further than 500M waypoints" thing, and i just cant! Can someone help me out here please?
here is my dillema:
Scenario 1: Never been on that location before
so, if ive never been on that location before, how do i know there is anything worth filming?
you may say, "it is not for filming, it is just to fly". i say if it is just to fly, then why do u want the .... thing to do it for you? why not fly it manually and actually enjoy flying?
lets say, hey just for the heck of seeing an autonomous flight. ok, thats fair enough, but how do you know where the obstacles are because you sure as ... cant tell from the map.
Scenario 2: you have been on location before
a lot of people want to be able to go further than 500m. for both scenarios i assume you would need to use, lets say, Litchi software cuz none of the scenarios are possible with DJI GO, hence a few uproars from annoyed phantomers.
So, ok, you have been on site, but unless you have a photographic memory you wont remeber where all the obstacles are exactly on the map and at what height, so when you are at home trying to setup the route, how are you going to do it safely, so that you wont break your p3. lets just forget people for now.
You say, well i would have flown the route and marked all the obstacles because i sure as .... dont see you guys walking 3miles or so around the path with a handheld gps to mark all the ....obstacles so you can safely do a route at home. So if you are going to fly it around the route first to survey the area, why wouldnt you use the DJI GO app at that moment and build your route????
You say because you want to go further than 500M. I say, read all the above again, twice!!! the distance is not the issue the issue is unless you are going to walk around using an accurate handheld gps marking all the, trees, electric lines, electric towers, tel lines, farmer john's silos, water towers, etc etc. its not practical. You still may be hard headed and say that is what you would do, i say your hand held gps variances, the google maps variances and finally the P3 gps variances are all going to be different. it may be +- 3' on one and +- 30' on the other, so you might as well not go through all the trouble and just wing it!
Unless you just want to video everything from a max height of 400' and make a really nice 4k video of either; water, trees or if lucky of water and trees. this is the only time i can see that pre planning your route maybe possible without any danger to p3 or others.
so unless i am totally missing something, can someone enlighten me as to why it is good or better to be able to sit at the comfort of your home and blindly pre plan a route and then send your p3 to its possible demise?
i have tried to write this in a light hearted way, so if you dont have a sense of humor you may want to change the channel.
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