vaarticus
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Mavic Air 2. Latest firmware (01.00.0340)
I was doing some testing and noted a couple of things that gave me concern. Thought I would see if this was expected behavior or an issue with my specific model.
1. Altitude issues. I am getting significant variance with altitude between takeoff and landing at the same location within a 15-20 minute flight time. My understanding from reading/searching on this forum is that barometric pressure is used for altitude above about 30m, and below that the downward vision system is used to determine altitude. I was noticing during the course of the flight that the altitude was wildly inaccurate. In this particular flight screenshot, the actual height is probably 15-20 feet above ground level (at the home location where it previously took off). As you can see, the reported altitude is -18.7 ft, which is quite a bit off. I understand experiencing some variance at higher altitudes or over water...but this is over solid ground where I would assume the vision system could take over with a little better accuracy. The sensors are clean on the bottom. Any thoughts on this?
2. Disable Sideways Flight. I was testing disabling sideways flight, and at one point ended up enabling it after drawing a tracking box over myself (resulting in Spotlight tracking). Given that full manual control is still available during spotlight tracking, I would expect that the safety feature to disable sideways flight would be able to be used here. I can think of several scenarios where I would find it useful to track a subject (camera tracking) while flying through a location where I would not want to permit sideways flight (between trees, for example). I found that I when I attempt to enable this feature, I am presented a popup that indicates sideways flight is disabled (even though it is not). It turns out that option to disable sideways flight goes away completely as soon as you draw a tracking box over a subject (and returns if you exit out of tracking mode). For fully autonomous flight modes (Trace and Parallel) I can live with this, but surprised that in simple spotlight mode it doesn't allow you to disable sideways flight. More concerning is the popup that tells you it is disabled when it clearly isn't. I'm not certain which is the expected behavior. Was it expected that sideways flight is able to be disabled and the popup is correct, and the behavior is wrong? Or was it expected that sideways flight is not able to be disabled in Spotlight, making the behavior correct, and the popup wrong? I will say I noticed after the fact (when reviewing the video) that the new icon was flashing after the popup in this screenshot...
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