patiam
Core User of DJI
Flight distance : 1118740 ft
United States
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On a recent multispectral + RGB mission to map kelp offshore, I ran into what appears to be a size limit in DJI Pilot. We're flying an M210 V2 w/ X5S + Micasense Altum mounted. All firmware & software up to date. Flight area polygon was imported from kml. We're in the approach vector for a local airport so we've obtained clearance from ATC and a DJI Geozone unlock, but our max altitude is 200 ft / 61 m AGL, which makes our line spacing close and our estimated flight time rather long. DJI Pilot allows us to create the mission, but when we go to upload it to the aircraft we get "Failed to upload flight mission: the trace of waypoint is too long". Clicking Retry fails repeatedly.
The only way to get around it was to dramatically reduce the size of the polygon to be mapped, via trial and error. Needless to say, hand-adjusting flight areas in the field until you get something "doable" is not the preferred way to design a survey for best coverage/efficiency/accuracy. I'd like to avoid this in the fututre.
Does anyone know whether it is the total distance, number of waypoints, number of photos, or estimated flight time, or a combination of those factors that is causing Pilot to choke? If we knew that in advance we could try to design surveys that stay within those limits.
Thanks in advance! I like many things about Pilot but if we can't figure out a workaround for this issue it will be much less useful to us. Oh and it would be nice if Pilot had the X5S as a standard camera, rather than requiring the creation of a "custom" one...
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