WernerD
Second Officer
Flight distance : 350837 ft
Germany
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The one thing that is missing from DJI is a tiny handhelt device sending its GPS position to the aircraft constantly.
Just imagine how cool that would be, you equip a biker or whatever with a small device, and now you can fly freely around him but the camera points to him all the time. He does quick turns, jumps but you have to fokus on your flight path only as the camera keeps the rider in the center all the time. It is like a second remote camera operator but automated.
A second use case is the follow mode of course, so the tracker controls the position of the bird as well.
Either a real follow mode for cases where you do not make radical manouvers. Or you draw a flight path, say a line between two points, and the bird is moving along while the tracker is moving - trying to be nearby. With height adjustments so you can finally film downhill actions.
Would love to know your opinion...
3rd party apps try to solve that and partly such functionality is present in the Go App but this is not sufficient.
Current solution 1: Use the smartphone - precision not high, a new position information is sent once per second, drains phone battery, phone sends the information via bluetooth (range limited) or via LTE to the RC sender - high latency.
Current solution 2: Use the GPS of the RC sender or its connected tablet - precision not high, a new position information is sent once per second, not partable (Do you want to carry the second remote in you backpack, active, so it tracks you? Certainly not.)
The ultimate solution would be if you have a small GPS device in you pocket, that sends the GPS coordinates as if it is a second RC sender or like the DJI Googles do send the head tracking information. The GPS chip used has a refresh rate of 10Hz, meaning it sends 10 positions per second. Is backed by an Inertial Navigation System for even higher precision) and a barometric sensor for precise height information.
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