OneMatt
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Charles Adams Posted at 2017-9-5 12:32
What am I missing? I've read a lot of speculation that "Paper Plane" mode could be a disaster, a nightmare, a "lawsuit in waiting", etc. I'm having trouble envisioning how it could be dire or disastrous. At the same time, I'm not really finding a constructive use for it either, but I'm not able to wrap my head around any harm.
I'm assuming it's a mode just like helix and dronie, etc. So you initiate it from the phone. I'm assuming that it will fly ahead for some distance from it's starting point (distance is configurable). I'm assuming that with obstacle detection, it won't crash into anything unless the obstacle is too "fine" to see. I'm assuming that the pilot will exercise the mode just as judiciously as normal flight (so no concerns with running into people, because a pilot should not do that period).
I think it is supposed to be a Gesture Mode option (enable it in the app initially, then use disconnected). Given how reliable that has been, I am concerned about false positives on the throw (meant to do palm launce, Spark interprets paper toss).
The description was that it would take a dronie and return, so the implication there is the camera is facing the user (toss it backwards), so obstable avoidance wouldnt exist.
So, problems are:
Person tosses drone,crashes into ground.
Person tosses drone, doesnt gain altitude, crashes into object.
Person tosses drone, doesnt gain altitude, crashes into people.
Person tosses drone, gaines altitude and distance....and more distance....and more...where did my drone go?
This mode already exists in the app, called Dronie. And we all read how that worked on the first few firmware releases (it didnt). I would hate to see this work and failin autonomous mode. |
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