nickedw
lvl.4
Flight distance : 2177287 ft
United Kingdom
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Just performed my first two test flights using dji Terra for mission planning on the P4 RTK. Still processing the output (in PIX4D) but it is so much better than the GS RTK app IMHO.
it has a few foibles of course, but the level of control and ease of planning is in a different league. oh yeah, and it uses google maps, not my friend, mapbox.
It would appear that the mission planning side of this doesn't require a license (until someone notices perhaps?) but I assume the software post-processing bit does. If so. I'll take that all day long.
Well worth a look if you haven't tried it, you need a USB C cable to connect your P4RTK TX to your laptop. for 3D (Oblique) it generates 5 separate flight plans, and uploads them individually to the aircraft.
I know this to be true as my laptop ran out of juice on the last mission and I wanted to test what would happen anyway. The mission continued, completed and autolanded nicely.
The TX doesn't show the planned mission (as it does with the native app) but the laptop does - you just see a track of the mission on the TX screen as it executes.
The 'STOP' button is non obvious, and lives on a pull out on the right of the laptop screen I discovered.
So far so good, I'll post some feedback on the model when it's cooked, but certainly looks promising.
The only slight concern is that the flight profile differs to the one PIX4D generates (in a non-RTK world of course), in as much as Terra performs S shaped flights, N, E ,S, W (all separate missions, which is great, if you only need 3 faces such as a quay or quarry etc) with the aircraft oriented in that direction the entire time, ie it flies sideways and backwards, and does not turn, PIX4D missions always face ahead in the S shapes in my experience, ie turns at the corners to always face the direction of travel, terra does not turn at the corners.
Feeling much better about this rig than I did yesterday |
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