Recent content by Coyyote

I tend to display the histogram and use Auto and then adjust the EV to keep from clipping the histogram or pushing it too far to the right. This seems to work pretty well for me, but I am a rank amateur as far as photography goes. Just trying to get pretty good images easily. Would appreciate...

As mentioned, Litchi has an AGL check box that allows you to run a waypoint mission specifying one or more specific altitudes above ground. I have used it often but am fairly conservatine and dont go nap of the earth. Use 150-200 feet up mtn in areas with large pines and usually not less than 60...

One other issue you probably are aware of is mountain winds are capricious and unpredictable. Winds at launch site may be negligible but 1000 feet higher winds funneling down a canyon may be a gusty turbulent 25-30 mph. Buena Suerte

Have several Litchi waypoint missions that start at our ranch housec(5600 ft) and fly up the mountain (6700 ft) on our ranch. It cruises around the peak then surveys the canyon on tje way back home. Use this after thunderstorm to look for potential lightning stikes that may initiate a wildfire...

The "false ground" of the lower branches of the pine possibly did register as an obstacle in my instance, as well as the tree in front of the drone. The remote displayed "Obstacle" and then immediately went into "Landing" w/o any stick inputs and did not respond to the red pause button before...

I had a similar malfunction yesterday with my Mav 2 Pro. Flying slowly around my yard to evaluate how obstacle avoidance worked. Would carefylly approach a small pine tree and it would signal obstacle and go into hover. I would then back it off and go to another tree. Did 3-4 evolutions and it...

I do not think the emphasis here is the dodging trees so much as to how the control system went from Obstacle to Landing w/o pilot input, ant then failed to respond to control stick attempts to avert the crash caused by landing. Similar crash reported in the Mavic Pro 2 section - autonomous...

A second report of uncommanded landing! In Mavic 2 General about rooftop landing. Drone decided autonomously to land and crashed “Yup. With no warning, no notice and for no reason, it sounded the landing tones and dropped itself right on the roof of the rotunda! I couldn't power up lift or...

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I dont recall the battery being low (no warning on remote) and I used a newly charged battery and was just fiddling around my yard, no long missions. Am still trying to find the txt log on the iPad I used (flying with Litchi) but no joy in locating it. I did sign up to UAV and they have the...

Good thought. Are logs in the drone (now on its way to DJI) or where do I find them? Tnx

I have seen the info about when sensors are active. What is unexplainable is how did the system go from "Obstacle" to "Landing" and crash in less than a second or two - certainly before I could make an active crash avoidance response. If it would have merely responded with "Obstacle", as it...

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Having flown my Mavic Pro 2 for a couple days with excellent performance from the bird today i was having it creep around the yard at low altitude and low speed to observe how the obstacle avoidance worked while I was carefully watching both control and drone. After several good episodes of the...

I ran a short very safe initial waypoint mission and then subsequently let out the leash with no difficulty. Last mission was about 1.2 miles with 1000 feet of elevation gain to mtn top and then back down again. I added about 120-150 feet over the AGL to account for the pine trees and piles of...