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It's the MIT saying: It’s only a matter of time before a drone takes down a passenger plane. And no, technology can’t fix the problem. It’s only a matter of time before a drone takes down a passenger plane

Everything is interconnected these days. Maybe some Whatsapp message? Or they just saw him on your contact list, plus his GPS close to yours. Companies read even your private messages on Facebook, apps ask (and usually get from the user) to use your phone camera, mike, etc. The scale of...

Odds are it was handheld at the time, you can see there was forward tilt, so you need to do that too, maybe not more than 20 degrees down. I would try a transparency overlay on my screen, with the main landmarks traced. By the size of trees (specially pines), it seems your height / distance is...

Another video, this one from Youtube, people wondering if this could be the one responsible for all the trouble (seems to be a Mavic):

This video shows that even airport personnel could see the drone. There is also a clip from another recent situation there, you can see the drone very close to landing aircraft: Jornal Hoje | Drone causa fechamento do aeroporto de Congonhas (SP) | Globo Play

Unfortunately more bad press, angry passengers for sure won't see drones as a good thing. A drone closed Brazil's busiest airport for 2 hours sunday night, flights were diverted and cancelled: Aeroporto de Congonhas fica lotado de passageiros que tiveram voos cancelados por causa de drone

Me too, specially the USB charging issue. Had the horizon tilt issue for the first time recently. Overall it is great tech for the money, but you are not the only one to dislike the things mentioned.

I'm impressed, would never tell it's all drone, congrats! i love photography but would never be able to do a wedding, the logistics seem scary. Send it to DJI, nice showcase of their product, different kind of usage.

Lucky one, wonderful place

People seem to confuse the front (or head) of the drone with 'heading'. The front is related to the physical object, 'heading' is related to magnetic North. And, as you mentioned, a forward control input is associated to some command to the motors that will make it move along the longitudinal...

Maybe you are having a transition problem. If you want to travel from 2 to 3 with the course heading, it may be better to ad another waypoint, check the images:

When you don't use a POI, just set the desired heading and make sure 'Interopolate' is selected. That way the heading should smoothly transition from the previous waypoint heading to the next one (applies to gimbal tilt too). I usually start with POIs just for Litchi to estimate heading and...

Hi Gary, I'm sorry to learn about that, specially as I was trying to help you get some good results. But maybe a few lines from far away are not really enough.. I don't understand the nosedive you described, shouldn't happen between waypoints with the same height. Regarding the emergency...

Glad to help, nowadays the mission planning is part of the fun to me. In case you want to be extra careful, keep the flight over the deep part, filming the walls, etc, while changing height. Flight it first, if everything is OK, deploy the terrain following mission. Regarding trees, with time...

I would approach it with a 'survey' flight to measure things around, using safe margins. After watching the video, I start trimming it down, fine tuning the mission. Litchi allows you to go down too (I've reached -54 ft). You can check the real heights as measured by Mavic/Litchi reading the...