ix3lplix Posted at 2017-8-25 05:52
To be honest I have not tried doing a palm landing  facing the other way, but it definitely does not do the same up-down scan (facial detection) it does when you do a palm launch right before a palm land. I highly doubt facial detection is involved at all.

Maybe one of the mods can chime in and explain how it works.

You may highly doubt it but having tried it I'm pretty sure you are wrong. Try it for yourself.

lfkiter Posted at 2017-8-25 05:51
I tried to snatch my Spark out of the sky and flip upside down to land in gusty winds, and when I get my hand underneath it, it gains altitude automatically.  This is with the RC connected, and obstacle avoidance disabled.  Any ideas on what's going on? Anyone else experience this?

The spark by default wants to be 300mm above the ground apart from when it thinks its landing. Unless you put it in landing mode (left stick down or press the landing option on screen or its doing a RTH) you would have to be super fast in grabbing it to stop it thinking your hand was ground and going up to avoid it.

Convert Posted at 2017-8-25 05:56
You may highly doubt it but having tried it I'm pretty sure you are wrong. Try it for yourself.

This screams for a video

Convert Posted at 2017-8-25 06:03
The spark by default wants to be 300mm above the ground apart from when it thinks its landing. Unless you put it in landing mode (left stick down or press the landing option on screen or its doing a RTH) you would have to be super fast in grabbing it to stop it thinking your hand was ground and going up to avoid it.

Exactly what I was thinking!

lfkiter Posted at 2017-8-25 05:51
I tried to snatch my Spark out of the sky and flip upside down to land in gusty winds, and when I get my hand underneath it, it gains altitude automatically.  This is with the RC connected, and obstacle avoidance disabled.  Any ideas on what's going on? Anyone else experience this?

When doing a grab n flip I always hover the spark facing away from me so when I reach for it my hand doesn't affect any sensor

ix3lplix Posted at 2017-8-25 05:52
To be honest I have not tried doing a palm landing  facing the other way, but it definitely does not do the same up-down scan (facial detection) it does when you do a palm launch right before a palm land. I highly doubt facial detection is involved at all.

Maybe one of the mods can chime in and explain how it works.

So how does it know to land on your Palm? Is it programs to recognize the shape of somebody's hand?

DJI Thor Posted at 2017-8-23 23:48
Nope, palm landing is not available when it is not in Gesture Mode.

wrong i palm land all the time with rc and not in gesture mode

I would love to see some video's of the suggested methods!

hover n grab

Thanks. What technique was that? With a tilt or using the remote?

Convert Posted at 2017-8-23 23:59
Depends what you mean by palm landing. You can of course land in your palm when not in gesture mode but DJI may quibble that it is not strictly 'palm landing' as a DJI patented function. The rest of us would still call it palm landing.

My usual method is to bring it down manually to within reach, press the initiate landing icon (and then do the swipe to confirm) on screen and once it has started to descend place my hand underneath. Just like in official 'palm landing' in gesture mode the rotors turn off as soon as it touches down in your hand. A lot less faff than going into gesture mode.

This was easily the best forum post i have ever read on here.  I literally laughed out loud

djiuser_NeiK8WS6DnIF Posted at 5-10 01:20
This was easily the best forum post i have ever read on here.  I literally laughed out loud

Nice that something started 2 years ago is still relevant