Recent content by Robert Leigh

Thank you for those helpful replies. DJI it is then.

Hi, I'm in the UK and I often have to fly my Mavic very close to objects (inspection work). I know that if its props were to touch an object, that could easily cause it to crash, so I'm thinking of buying some prop guards. The trouble is, there are quite a few to choose from and I don't know...

You're always warned that if a waypoint has a custom speed, if the craft loses signal when it's at that waypoint, it will continue the mission at that custom speed rather than reverting to the cruising speed. This is a problem you need to speed out to somewhere distant to conserve the battery...

Thanks!

Does anyone else have problems with their cached maps vanishing really quickly? I plan a waypoint mission in Litchi when I'm connected to the Internet on wi-fi, and all the satellite imagery of the map comes up as I plan the route. I save the mission, open it again straight away and sure...

My Nexus 7 tablet keeps rebooting halfway through Litchi waypoint flights so I would like to do a factory reset. Can anyone tell me how I can do this without losing my Litchi app? Also, I registered my Mavic via my Nexus - will I have to register again? Thanks.

I often set up a waypoint mission where I have access to the internet, then when I go out to fly it, the mission route is there but the map is gone. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to how long Litchi keeps the cached topography that goes with a waypoint mission - for instance, I recently...

I've done a lot of Litchi waypoint flying but have never used POIs yet, because they confuse me. There's one thing especially I'd like advice on. Suppose you've got a flight that consists of 20 waypoints, and you've put a POI for an object between, say, points 5 and 6, but not directly on the...

I'm really puzzled about this. If you send a drone forwards, the controller gives the rear motors more power and this tilts the drone, allowing the force to be directed slightly backwards. Same principle for going backwards or sideways. But how does it turn on its axis? you'd think the...

I like flying Litchi waypoint missions, but I'm always a bit nervous about hitting a tree or something, so I fly very high, which tends to make for boring videos. One way people avoid collisions is to keep a finger hovering over the pause button on the screen, or on the switch that puts you into...

When I had a Phantom, I used to read posts from people who flew waypoint missions where meeting an obstacle might be possible. They would usually talk of keeping their finger over the P-A-F switch, ready to switch to manual if the bird got too near to anything. With my Mavic, up to now I've...

Thanks for that advice Flawless. I tried doing that but it hasn't worked. The tablet still restarts about 2 or 3 mins into a flight. I checked and the tablet was still set at usb debugging.. I wonder what else it could be? It only only started happening recently.

There's one thing that I think would make flying the Mavic Pro really exciting, and you'd think it would be easy to achieve, but it seems it's not available. I'm talking about a way of helping it look after itself when it's on a waypoint mission. I often plan missions over countryside that has...

I use a Nexus 7 to control my Mavic, usually with Litchi, and usually doing waypoint missions. Lately I've noticed that my tablet often just goes blank suddenly, then I see the Android starting sequence, then I get control back again. I *think* this has also happened with the Go 4 app, but I...

As I understand it, in Tapfly the craft follows where the camera is pointing. So what happens if you then angle the gimbal down as you fly over something in order to get a creative shot? Will the craft descend?