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  1. DJ Wes

    2 Pro First try at Light Painting

    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...
  2. DJ Wes

    How does RID work?

    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...
  3. DJ Wes

    How does RID work?

    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...
  4. DJ Wes

    How does RID work?

    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.
  5. DJ Wes

    How does RID work?

    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.
  6. DJ Wes

    Shuttering on playback

    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.
  7. DJ Wes

    Planning a DJI Fly "Waypoint Flight" - BEWARE! Unknown altitudes set and no warning provided.

    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.
  8. DJ Wes

    Planning a DJI Fly "Waypoint Flight" - BEWARE! Unknown altitudes set and no warning provided.

    Waypoint flights exist in 3 dimensions. You have to think in "3-D" when planning a mission. Consider the following mission: The light blue path is how Litchi's flight path would look. The red path is how DJI Fly's flight path would look. DJI Fly uses a spline that goes through each...
  9. DJ Wes

    Where are waypoints stored?

    A DJI KMZ file is a compressed archive containing two files: template.kml waylines.wpml What you are showing is the template.kml file. As you have discovered, it only contains some global information and actually is not used by the Mavic 3. You need to look in the waylines.wpml file for the...
  10. DJ Wes

    Light Painting - On Board Waypoints vs Virtual Sticks

    This is a very good visual representation of the difference between the execution of on-board waypoints and the execution of virtual stick waypoints. We all pretty much knew this was the case, but these photos make it clear how much smoother the flight path of on-board waypoints is. The...
  11. DJ Wes

    Mini 4 pro create a spiral waypoints

    I have a suite of utilities that include: Spiral mission creator Litchi mission to DJI Waypoints converter Light painting utilities https://www.litchiutilities.com/
  12. DJ Wes

    New To Mavic 2 Pro Forum

    Welcome to the forum. The Mavic 2 Pro is an excellent drone.
  13. DJ Wes

    Where are waypoints stored?

    This question has been partially answered already. The previously mentioned thread contains more information. However, I want to add a few things. Despite the uninformed answer from the DJI forums each waypoint mission is stored in its own KMZ file in a data repository of sorts on your flying...
  14. DJ Wes

    Litchi Waypoints

    Please clarify whether or not you have the Litchi app installed. Here you imply that you do not have the Litchi app: Here you imply that you already have the Litchi app: Obviously, the Litchi app is needed to perform Litchi functions, but I can't tell what you have by your description.
  15. DJ Wes

    DJI GO and Litchi offload from iPad -- very annoying

    This setting was introduced in IOS 11 in 2017. It is off by default.