huntjock
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The waypoint implementation in the app appears that it is not going to work well for my purpose - agricultural recon - with many of the waypoints being beyond visual range (BVR) and some waypoint altitudes potentially exceeding the builtin limitations of the P3's firmware (ridiculous).
For example, I need to be able to have the bird rise from 6400' to '8600 over a 2.75 mile run, and from that point drop to 7200' over a 1.25 mile run, THEN move from point to point taking video of animals, water, feed, fences, etc, for a couple of minutes and finally to return home. I am guessing about a dozen minutes roundtrip for such a mission. The path to initially setup the mission manually would not be ideal in the *example*, as the trails (horse/foot) are not "as the crow flies" Plus, setting an altitude to clear the peak in this case would exceed the 1640' max
This is just one example of several missions for me. I only need video for the few minutes after reaching the destination.
Seems the capabilities I am looking for may be fully supported in firmware - just not in the GO app. Disappointing. I just started looking into the SDK for what it would take to develop a "simple" (iOS) app for setting up a mission WITHOUT having to first manually record the waypoints. The altitude limitation still concerns me, though, as it appears that the altitude property of ANY waypoint for a mission is "relative" to the home point, meaning that the actual altitude of any of a mission's waypoints cannot exceed the builtin limitation of the device (drone firmware).
Would really like to have a solution before moving from summer ranges to winter ranges mid-Oct. (Winter range missions will be much simpler setups...won't go into that now) I bought the P3 based on what it sounded like it would do. Maybe I jumped the gun on buying the P3. |
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