Recent content by Nico El Greco

I fly mainly on a rugged Greek island where there are rarely any clean or flat areas to take off and land. Thus I try and do hand launch / catch whenever I can. So thanks for posting the video. I haven't ever had any problems with hand launching. But hand catching has been a big challenge for me...

Thanks for the suggestion. As you say it isn't hard to calculate but does require a little planning in advance to find your take-off elevation. Also, keep in mind that if you use a GPS device to figure out your take-off elevation, you will suffer from the same inaccuracy in GPS elevation that...

I am guessing this "Altitude" you see in the video caption data is in fact "GPS elevation", as it's displayed to 6 decimal places like the GPS lat/lon. All these XYZ data appear to be coming from the GPS receiver. There has been much written about the inaccuracy of GPS elevation data (eg here)...

In recent releases of DJI Go 4, Altitude is captured in the realtime video metadata recorded in the video's subtitle sidecar file (.srt file). These SRT subtitle files are created automatically when the Video Caption option is enabled. The altitude recorded in this data is the real altitude...