Mavic 3 Waypoint mission reproducibility

[guzewski]

I was wondering how reproducible waypoint missions are on the Mavic 3 Classic. I've just started playing around with them and there is some good potential there. I was thinking about running the same mission during two different seasons and somehow merging the results creatively in post.

Anyway, it turns out they are not all that precise. It's still a great feature, but the precision is just not there for some of the fancy stuff I was thinking of. Here's a lame little clip I did as an experiment. I ran the mission twice and overlaid the results. It seems that the precision falls off the closer the subject is, but that's a conclusion from just one experiment. Maybe one can align the clips better in post, but any parallax issues will not be correctable.

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[FLDave]

GPS location determination will vary based on the available precision of the GPS system.
For a fun mission create one that flies through the goal posts and check that for reproducibility.

 

[guzewski]

GPS location determination will vary based on the available precision of the GPS system.
For a fun mission create one that flies through the goal posts and check that for reproducibility.

I figured that GPS accuracy would play a big part in this, and it's not possible to get that accurate with a GPS. BTW the goal-post test does not actually sound like a lot of fun, but I had considered it for a minute

 

[JoelP]

It may not be precise enough to superimpose images, but certainly good enough to compare seasons or camera settings or flight modes or construction progress.

 

[guzewski]

It may not be precise enough to superimpose images, but certainly good enough to compare seasons or camera settings or flight modes or construction progress.

Agreed. I'm anxiously waiting for warmer weather here in Ottawa so I can get flying again.