Rodger Marjama
lvl.3
United States
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In my limited experience using active tracking, object avoidance really isn't any good, except to keep from running in to a wall or something solid. Things like bushes, trees and the like, seem to, at best, confuse active track and it tends to change flight paths in unpredictable ways. Last week I was using active track to follow my son and his dog down a greenbelt path. Trees scattered about and some fairly close to the sidewalk on either sides. As the sidewalk twists and turns, active track likes to make straight paths towards it's target, which of course can run it into a tree or a branch pretty easily. Not really knowing what it's sensor(s) are indication, it often will actually rise up or shift left or right and it could very easily run right into a branch or something else, not knowing it's there. I keep my fingers on the sticks, and I have avoided all but a single small branch on one occasion that the front left prop hit. Broke the prop, so it came crashing down, but only about 6 foot or so to the grass. Didn't hurt anything else, but it did warn me not to trust it very much at all. Good lesson. |
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