Advice on terrain follow mode.

[Cheech Wizard]

Does anyone know what the altitude limit is when using "terrain follow" mode? Lets say I wanted it to stay 100 ft of the ground and there is a fairly steep hill with 70 ft trees on it (not too thick), would the trees interfere with the sensors? Or is it more GPS?

Thanks for your replies.

 

[Vegasrobbi]

Forgot about flying 100 feet AGL with Terrain Follow, DJI lists 10 meters maximum. I find VPS based altitude inaccurate and influenced by speed. In addition altitude will only be corrected going uphill; you will need to pull the left stick down to terrain follow downhill.

There's a work around by programming AGL into waypoints.

There is some cool technology being developed for true terrain follow based on GPS/topography data but it's still quite a bit crude.

 

[hammick]

Don't rely on it to save your MP from flying into the ground or obstacles. I only use it if my MP is in VLOS and even then I don't stray too far in Terrain mode.

 

[Cheech Wizard]

Forgot about flying 100 feet AGL with Terrain Follow, DJI lists 10 meters maximum. I find VPS based altitude inaccurate and influenced by speed. In addition altitude will only be corrected going uphill; you will need to pull the left stick down to terrain follow downhill.

There's a work around by programming AGL into waypoints.

There is some cool technology being developed for true terrain follow based on GPS/topography data but it's still quite a bit crude.

Thanks Vegasrobbi, I'm a new drone user, so not up on all the tech involved in flying a Mavic. I haven't used Litchi. I will You Tube it and check it out.