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just got my Mavic Air last Weekend. I didn’t get a chance to really fly it due to a relative visiting from out of town.
I did hover it in my living room. I noticed it kept climbing, but was fine as soon as I pressed down on the left control stick. I figure I must have checked “precision landing” and it was attempting to climb to the right altitude. No big deal.
I took a 360 pano in my living room. There were some stitching artifacts, but I figured, well, it is in my living room, what do I expect?
Today I took the the drone out into a State Recreation area for it’s first real flight test.
While the drone did not ask me to calibrate, I went ahead and did it anyway per the flight manual instructions. It took me a few times to calibrate correctly, but eventually after moving it far enough away from a large volcanic rock it calibrated fine. I launched the drone, it launched about 4 feet. Hovered just fine, and eventually I took it up to about 300 feet to do a 360 panoramic shot. The shot looks fine, no real problems, also had no problems controlling or landing the drone.
After hiking about 2.5 miles I launched the drone from another location, this time from a metal boat dock. Up on launching I noticed that the drone continued to gain altitude, precision landing was not checked. I watched it until it was about 25-30 feet up before I decided it might keep going up and used the left control stick to bring it back down.
One back about 8-10 feet above me, the drone started drifting to the left. I was starting to wonder if I had a poor GPS connection, but everything on the controller seemed fine. When I brought the drone back to me, the drone did not fight me, and taking my hands off the sticks, it seemed to hover just fine. After waiting a few more seconds, I did a full 360 yaw, and after assuring that the drone was maintaining its position I went ahead and moved it in position for a 360 photo.
This time the 360 photo turned out horribly. It had very obvious stitching artifacts in it. I’m not sure I’d the stitchimg artifacts are just Normal for 360 photos or if it may have been due to the drone having difficulty with maintaining its position. I have attached a copy below
Some questions:
Would “Tripod mode” help with 360 stitching?
Are stitching artifacts just normal with curennt technology?
Note: I hand launched from the end of a metal pier, and was flying over water when the drone seemed to be showing difficulty maintaining position.
I did hover it in my living room. I noticed it kept climbing, but was fine as soon as I pressed down on the left control stick. I figure I must have checked “precision landing” and it was attempting to climb to the right altitude. No big deal.
I took a 360 pano in my living room. There were some stitching artifacts, but I figured, well, it is in my living room, what do I expect?
Today I took the the drone out into a State Recreation area for it’s first real flight test.
While the drone did not ask me to calibrate, I went ahead and did it anyway per the flight manual instructions. It took me a few times to calibrate correctly, but eventually after moving it far enough away from a large volcanic rock it calibrated fine. I launched the drone, it launched about 4 feet. Hovered just fine, and eventually I took it up to about 300 feet to do a 360 panoramic shot. The shot looks fine, no real problems, also had no problems controlling or landing the drone.
After hiking about 2.5 miles I launched the drone from another location, this time from a metal boat dock. Up on launching I noticed that the drone continued to gain altitude, precision landing was not checked. I watched it until it was about 25-30 feet up before I decided it might keep going up and used the left control stick to bring it back down.
One back about 8-10 feet above me, the drone started drifting to the left. I was starting to wonder if I had a poor GPS connection, but everything on the controller seemed fine. When I brought the drone back to me, the drone did not fight me, and taking my hands off the sticks, it seemed to hover just fine. After waiting a few more seconds, I did a full 360 yaw, and after assuring that the drone was maintaining its position I went ahead and moved it in position for a 360 photo.
This time the 360 photo turned out horribly. It had very obvious stitching artifacts in it. I’m not sure I’d the stitchimg artifacts are just Normal for 360 photos or if it may have been due to the drone having difficulty with maintaining its position. I have attached a copy below
Some questions:
Would “Tripod mode” help with 360 stitching?
Are stitching artifacts just normal with curennt technology?
Note: I hand launched from the end of a metal pier, and was flying over water when the drone seemed to be showing difficulty maintaining position.
