Course lock and home lock

Mikeg · Dec 30, 2018

Course lock and home lock. I am disappointed that I never see any posts about the absence of these on the Mavic 2. I’m worried that DJI may not realise how important these two flight modes are. I would like someone from DJI to reply to this post and reassure us that course lock and home lock are priority software developments .

raven swe · Dec 30, 2018

Home lock Course lock

posted this on the DJI site as well

OldBeachBum · Jun 28, 2019

Yep, I just spent half a day searching for Home Lock (should have come here first!). Course lock would also be useful. Let's hope that DJI can see their way clear to add them back in to the Mavic 2.

JAW · Jun 28, 2019

With Litchi, Home Lock and Course Lock are both available as icon choices on the primary flight screen. You can switch to Home Lock mid-flight and use it as a modified RTH. Move the right stick fully down and regardless of where the drone is or its orientation, it will fly in a straight line back to the Home Point at its then current altitude, unlike DJI's RTH where the drone will generally climb to its preset RTH altitude.

paulatkin73 · Jun 28, 2019

JAW said:
With Litchi, Home Lock and Course Lock are both available as icon choices on the primary flight screen.

is litchi working reliably enough on the smart controller now or are there still any issues that wait to be resolved?

tcope · Jun 28, 2019

Mikeg said:
I would like someone from DJI to reply to this post and reassure us that course lock and home lock are priority software developments .

1) There is no indication that any DJI employee reads this 3rd party forum and 2) No one can get DJI to fix problems with their app, let alone add new features.

Those modes did not add a much that some practice would not replace. Also, modes such as Active Track made them less useful.

JAW · Jun 28, 2019

paulatkin73 said:
is litchi working reliably enough on the smart controller now or are there still any issues that wait to be resolved?

I use Litchi on a CS monitor (7.85) without any issues (so far)

Mikeg · Jun 28, 2019

I’m totally agree with you. It is a disgrace that course lock are not available on the Mavic 2. I bought it because I thought it would be an all round improvement on Mavic one. It has been so long since they launched the Mavic 2 that I now give up on the DJI.
Until now I was committed to DJI but next time round I will be more cautious and not believe that the latest version is an all-round improvement on the previous version. IT DEFINITELY IS NOT and I Doubt Will Be in the Future !!!

paulatkin73 · Jun 28, 2019

no one has to commit to anything, but, realistically, there isn`t much of an alternatives left. only other new model out there is a FIMI X8-SE, but, based on what people post about it - it is not for a weak minded ones. why too many bugs and issues. and, it uses smaller sensor than M2P. Parrot models - well, also not really worth spending much time on. So, for a commercially available pre-built ones DJI still rules the market... like we that or not.
3DR Solo was supposed to be a good one, but, they screwed up royally, as they underestimated the difference between making a nice prototype build and a commercially profitable consistent production operation.

JAW · Jun 29, 2019

Isn't Course Lock available as a choice in Hyperlapse?

Mikeg · Jun 29, 2019

Yes but I don’t want to go to hyper lapse to use course lock and I also need home lock

JAW said:
Isn't Course Lock available as a choice in Hyperlapse?

JAW · Jun 29, 2019

Mikeg said:
Yes but I don’t want to go to hyper lapse to use course lock and I also need home lock

Then Litchi is your only solution I would think.

SoCalDude · Jun 30, 2019

There is a course lock method. It's when using TapFly in Free mode.

This guy demonstrates it. Please skip forward to the 02:47-minute mark to see it...

conchman · Jun 30, 2019

Tapfly (free mode) is basically the same thing. It's cool that you can fly in one direction and control the camera in another.

zappy54 · Jul 1, 2019

So in free mode to move the camera you move the joy sticks on the RC ?

conchman · Jul 1, 2019

zappy54 said:
So in free mode to move the camera you move the joy sticks on the RC ?

Yes the left stick will move camera left or right. I can't remember if the AC will go up and down if you move left stick up and down. I am pretty sure you can tilt the camera as normal, with the dial on the left side. There are some good tutorials on youtube for the Tapfly feature on the M2P.

zappy54 · Jul 1, 2019

conchman said:
Yes the left stick will move camera left or right. I can't remember if the AC will go up and down if you move left stick up and down. I am pretty sure you can tilt the camera as normal, with the dial on the left side. There are some good tutorials on youtube for the Tapfly feature on the M2P.

ok thanks conchman will try free mode once the wind calms down ......