JimDandy
lvl.4
Flight distance : 144649 ft
United States
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MisterFrag Posted at 4-24 11:25
So I started playing with DroneLink yesterday, planning a few missions: two at a friend's property that I have yet to fly and one at home, which I tweaked a few times and flew twice today. My initial impressions are mixed.
The good news is that DroneLink respects Authorization Zones -- I'm in one, and after doing the self-unlock and importing the license into the Mavic Air 2, DroneLink was able to have the drone take off. The bad news is that both times the mission aborted after straying too far from the intended flight path. The first time I had used the default tolerance of 75 feet, and after the mission aborted I raised it to 100 feet, and the mission aborted again. I'm not sure why it can't stay within that pretty lax tolerance. And annoyingly, once the missions aborts, from what I can tell you can't resume from the current location -- I wish it would give you that choice.
One more thing on the waypoint heights. the waypoints are tied to the approach. when you make a path and click the starting point of the mission a box comes up and has several settings in it. Altitude being one of them. if you choose 150 feet for height ALL waypoints you add in, or that are there by default. will be 150 feet. If you want the elevation to change from way point one to waypoint 2 you right click near the path choose new marker, choose altitude, set altitude. from that point in the mission every waypoint from that point on will be the set to the marker. Make as many markers as you like. Now in the mission preview screen you can see the altitude of you path. There are several graphs that run along with your flight in the preview screen that show the altitude, vertical speed, horizontal speed, Distance from launch, and so on. |
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