Recent content by DJ Wes

Since you posted your question in this thread, and this thread is about the VLM application (as opposed to the VLM browser extension), I'll answer your question assuming you are using the VLM application. VLM has changed. Instead of choosing an export function to send the mission to Google...

An electronic shutter will not prevent you from taking photos for a mapping mission. While the Mavic 3 cannot be flown using 3rd party software the method described in this thread is just using 3rd party software to design the mission. You still fly the mission using DJI Fly.

Those diagrams are from DJI's Flight Hub 2. Each one is configured using various combinations of the "waypointHeadingMode" and "useStraightLine" parameters.

Yes. The WPML language supports a number of "Waypoint Turn Modes". The setting that is closest to Litchi is "Coordinated Turn". By default, DJI Fly uses "ToPointAndPassWithContinuityCurvature" which is the last displayed example in the image below. Here is a diagram of the five modes: While...

This is correct. DJI uses a Catmul-Rom spline to define the flight path from the waypoints. Speed has nothing to do with the path. Geometry alone defines the path.

Welcome to the forum. I used to live in Brisbane (Paddington).

They won't. The primary reason is because DJI stores a drone identifier in the KMZ file. All consumer models (using DJI Fly) use the same drone ID. However, each DJI enterprise model uses a different drone ID. You will get an error if a KMZ file with a mismatching drone ID is loaded...

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That's really cool. I'm curious if you used my utility to rotate that mission? If so, something I suggest to others is to place a POI at the location of your land camera when you bring the rotated mission back into Litchi's Mission Hub. If your default "Gimbal Pitch Mode" is set to "Focus...

Yes. You did mention GPS which prompted my initial reply. In this case I was still fixated on your comment about no GPS = no take-off. iPads do have a location service which can be enabled or disabled. However, with no GPS its accuracy is limited. I have not tried that. Thinking back to...

DJI Fly will let one take off with a device that does not have GPS. iPads do have location services but most do not have GPS. Without GPS, an iPad must depend on WiFi for location where possible. I fly with one all the time with DJI drones updated to RID-enabled firmware and the latest...

That is not correct. When I said those of us who fly using iPads that means those of us who fly using iPads with DJI RID-capable drones. Try it.

How so? Some of us fly with iPads which have location services but no GPS. Away from WiFi there will be no location data available to the iPad.

I think you meant: If you are on planet earth, most monitors refresh at 60Hz. 50Hz was common back in the days of analog monitors. Of course, if you have a gaming monitor, the rate is higher.

Of course, they could. Since the waypoints are uploaded to the drone, the path is also calculated on the drone. However, the path preview is also shown in DJI Fly. Therefore, it would be possible for them to display the minimum and maximum heights that the path will take.