Low-altitude waypoint mission...

[hwkacy]

I would like to create a very low altitude waypoint mission to shoot a field of wildflowers, but even if I set the points by flying, or manually entering 1 or 2 feet for the altitude, when I execute the mission it goes no lower than about 5 feet.

Is there a way to get Litchi to fly a very low altitude mission?

Will

 

[MavicFrank]

I'm not sure I would have the guts to try what you are doing, but I'm wondering if VPS is kicking in and raising your altitude?

 

[Owen Manderfield]

Remember the height is relative to the take off point. If you a launching from slightly above the field you may have to set negative altitudes.

 

[hwkacy]

I'm not sure I would have the guts to try what you are doing, but I'm wondering if VPS is kicking in and raising your altitude?

Hmm... I turned Landing Protection off, but didn't think of VPS -- I'll try that, thanks!

The shot I have in mind is a very SLOW pass above the flowers. Hopefully no big disaster waits... [emoji4]

 

[hwkacy]

Remember the height is relative to the take off point. If you a launching from slightly above the field you may have to set negative altitudes.

When I set the path from the Mavic it actually did set negative values -- still went back and executed at 5'.

 

[hwkacy]

Hmm... I turned Landing Protection off, but didn't think of VPS -- I'll try that, thanks!

The shot I have in mind is a very SLOW pass above the flowers. Hopefully no big disaster waits... [emoji4]

Turning VPS off seems to have done the trick!

 

[MavicFrank]

Excellent! Got some footage for us?

 

[hwkacy]

Excellent! Got some footage for us?

The wind has been blowing 20-35 MPH since I figured this out, but when it calms down some and I can get to where I know the bluebonnets are thick, I'll get some and upload!

Will

 

[MrMavic]

You can also use Litchi and create your mission in Google Earth and import it into Litchi. You can set your altitude relative to ground and it will ascend / decsend to keep the same elevation throughout the mission. Of course you would have to disable the VPS for this also.