I'm not sure if this should be in Discussion or Help, but as you see I have chosen Help.
I have no previous experience of controlling RC planes, a very small amount with RC cars, but it was never a long term hobby. After flying the Mavic a few times, always in Beginners mode, I cannot kid myself that I'm a 'natural' pilot. Hopefully, with perseverance I will be able to place the aircraft, and more particularly, the camera, where it needs to be, without each flight becoming a Kamikaze event.
Rather than just fly aimlessly around I thought I'd structure the training by setting out ground markers and flying around them, using the camera in downward facing orientation.
Today was my first attempt, and the results were pretty appalling.
I laid out 4 empty plastic milk bottles in a straight line, with 4 paces between each one. My take-off / landing pad was a fifth marker, and I soon became the sixth. The idea was to fly in a zig-zag pattern between the markers, around the end one, and zig-zag back.
After some experimentation I set the height at about 5 metres.
Too low and I became totally disorientated as the camera lost sight of one marker before the next came into view.
Too high and the markers became so close together that the delicacy of control required to navigate between them was totally beyond me.
I was still in Beginners mode, and have attempted no change to the reaction of the Gimbal controls.
It seems that the response is very laggy, so there is always the temptation to move the stick a little further than necessary, and of course when the stick is released the aircraft keeps on going.
Would I better off changing to P mode, or Tripod mode, for this training?
Should I change the spacing of my ground markers?
Am I being unrealistic in setting out my expectations like this, at this time?
The snag I see of NOT setting a learning target is that it's all very well just pratting around in the air, but I won't learn the skills necessary to take 'fairly close' pictures of ground conditions.
'Anyone' can overfly an area at 150 feet, but you can't see much detail at that height (with a Mavic Camera).
Regards.
I have no previous experience of controlling RC planes, a very small amount with RC cars, but it was never a long term hobby. After flying the Mavic a few times, always in Beginners mode, I cannot kid myself that I'm a 'natural' pilot. Hopefully, with perseverance I will be able to place the aircraft, and more particularly, the camera, where it needs to be, without each flight becoming a Kamikaze event.
Rather than just fly aimlessly around I thought I'd structure the training by setting out ground markers and flying around them, using the camera in downward facing orientation.
Today was my first attempt, and the results were pretty appalling.
I laid out 4 empty plastic milk bottles in a straight line, with 4 paces between each one. My take-off / landing pad was a fifth marker, and I soon became the sixth. The idea was to fly in a zig-zag pattern between the markers, around the end one, and zig-zag back.
After some experimentation I set the height at about 5 metres.
Too low and I became totally disorientated as the camera lost sight of one marker before the next came into view.
Too high and the markers became so close together that the delicacy of control required to navigate between them was totally beyond me.
I was still in Beginners mode, and have attempted no change to the reaction of the Gimbal controls.
It seems that the response is very laggy, so there is always the temptation to move the stick a little further than necessary, and of course when the stick is released the aircraft keeps on going.
Would I better off changing to P mode, or Tripod mode, for this training?
Should I change the spacing of my ground markers?
Am I being unrealistic in setting out my expectations like this, at this time?
The snag I see of NOT setting a learning target is that it's all very well just pratting around in the air, but I won't learn the skills necessary to take 'fairly close' pictures of ground conditions.
'Anyone' can overfly an area at 150 feet, but you can't see much detail at that height (with a Mavic Camera).
Regards.
