Recent content by Meta4

Yes, they work just fine outdoors with GPS ... which is exactly the way most drone flying is done. They would always be working unless your drone has had a very rare hardware failure. But if you are wanting to land on a helipad at sea, do you really need precision landing anyway? Like this...

I was with you up till you said this, betraying your false ideas about the degree of freedom enjoyed in other countries. Most countries are at least as free as yours, quite a few have even more freedom.

I remember a high-ranking US citizen some time back saying that you need to show ID to buy a loaf of bread ??

Except that being close to anything never initiates RTH. It just doesn't happen and never happens. Being close to obstacles might initiate obstacle avoidance or in could initiate a crash, but that's all. Whatever the cause of your RTH was, it had nothing to do with proximity to anything.

You can't get it to work because you need an Android or iOS tablet. You can;t load the app on a Windows device.

He hasn't been back to the forum for 4 years. You'd have a better chance of contacting him via the email address in the post you were replying to.

Bigger sensors require bigger (and heavier) lenses and bigger, stronger gimbals. Looking at the camera module on the Mavic 4, or the size of the X7 lenses, you can see that there won't be a bigger sensor.

You never explained what it was about your RTH that didn't seem right and you had suspicions about the GPS. It's only now that we find out that what you were concerned about was that the drone initiated RTH and you had the mistaken idea that RTH could be initiated by being close to something...

What are you talking about? RTH is not initiated by being close to anything.

No-one is ever going to get caught out by that pedantic nonsense.

There's no logic to that statement.

That's something we can agree on.

One doesn't have to come across detailed plans somewhere to make observations and join the dots. It sounds like you and I wouldn't agree on what constitutes propaganda.

I don't see any evidence of a well thought out strategy and what goals have been suggested are confused and contradictory.

The flight data isn't much help except to eliminate some possible causes. Everything normal, plenty of battery. The drone was hovering in place and started climbing and 7 seconds later the data just stops. No indication of any impact or collision. That leaves sudden loss of power as the chief...