Hey folks, I do a lot of flying of my Mavic in polar regions - specifically in Northern Canada, where we're quite close to the magnetic north pole.
For a couple years I've been making surface mosaics flying in a grid (like w/ Pix4D or similar). Problem is any quick movements or breezes knock the drone out of GPS mode and into ATTI, which I'm assuming is because of the compass flipping out. I've gotten quite good at controlling in these weird areas without stabilization, flying my own grid and stitching later. I'm doing large mosaics at high elevations so these are full 20-25 minute flights over a few square km. It is very hard in wind!
However, after being pointed to this form I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts for how I might eliminate this GPS problem or abate it. Perhaps a firmware downgrade, or some other change to the sensors. For example, any 3rd party software that might control via the output imagery, etc.
For a couple years I've been making surface mosaics flying in a grid (like w/ Pix4D or similar). Problem is any quick movements or breezes knock the drone out of GPS mode and into ATTI, which I'm assuming is because of the compass flipping out. I've gotten quite good at controlling in these weird areas without stabilization, flying my own grid and stitching later. I'm doing large mosaics at high elevations so these are full 20-25 minute flights over a few square km. It is very hard in wind!
However, after being pointed to this form I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts for how I might eliminate this GPS problem or abate it. Perhaps a firmware downgrade, or some other change to the sensors. For example, any 3rd party software that might control via the output imagery, etc.