ACTIVETRACK - Guess I'll be the Guinea Pig

[adambfarmer]

When my battery is done charging I will be doing an Activetrack following my truck down the road shown in this pic. I will post the video, bad or good, here. Hopefully good.

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[John Locke]

Beware, Active track doesn't alter elevation. If your truck gains or decreased in elevation, the P4 stays at the same elevation. However CA will be enabled, so hopefully you won't hit anything. Can you test that too?

 

[Techcop50]

Awesome pic, Adam. Where is that?

 

[adambfarmer]

Rainbow canyon outside Barstow, CA. I posted a few more in the P4 pic and video thread.


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[adambfarmer]

Awesome pic, Adam. Where is that?

P4 photos and video


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[adambfarmer]

Beware, Active track doesn't alter elevation. If your truck gains or decreased in elevation, the P4 stays at the same elevation. However CA will be enabled, so hopefully you won't hit anything. Can you test that too?

Thanks. I plan on riding in the back of the truck with the RC just in case I need to alter elevation or abort. Haha


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[Tron_X]

...I will be doing an Activetrack following my truck down the road shown in this pic. I will post the video, bad or good, here. Hopefully good.
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Beautiful place, thanks for sharing... and looking forward to seeing the vid!

 

[John Locke]

P4 photos and video


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Cool shots. I took this video last Thanksgiving at Copper City Rd, about 12mi north of Barstow, only about 4mi east of your location.

 

[sgs182]

If you're curious to see activetrack work without flying you can set your P4 on a table and go through all the menus to enable it. It works surprisingly well and it's pretty cool seeing the track in action.

 

[NorthcountySD]

What!!! The active track doesn't change elevation?

 

[sgs182]

What!!! The active track doesn't change elevation?

Not sure if it does or doesn't change elevation. My guess is it won't and that's up to the pilot to control…

 

[NorthcountySD]

So much for it following me on a downhill single track on my mountain bike. I can always get someone else to pilot it. I'll attempt this weekend and see what happens

 

[sgs182]

So much for it following me on a downhill single track on my mountain bike. I can always get someone else to pilot it. I'll attempt this weekend and see what happens

That's exactly what I was hoping to use it for. Curious to see how it goes.

 

[Cale262]

It would be nice if it was on a virtual tether and would maintained altitude & distance away from the target. For example, maintaining 5m away and 5m above target.

 

[sgs182]

That would be the ideal default. Let's hope it works that way!

 

[John Locke]

It would be nice if it was on a virtual tether and would maintained altitude & distance away from the target. For example, maintaining 5m away and 5m above target.

To do that you would need something on the target telling the craft what it's elevation is.

I believe Autopilot with Air Space does this using a phone with the airspace app planted on the target.

However it's going to be a while before autopilot will run on P4.

 

[Cale262]

To do that it would need something on the target telling the craft what it's elevation is.

I kinda was hoping the proximity sensors could measure that...I guess we'll all find out soon.

 

[adambfarmer]

Does not change elevation. I was driving up hill and had to constantly climb in elevation. Such a disappointment. Video will be up soon.


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[adambfarmer]

Good news is that I didn't run into anything. It stopped when it got to close to something and it stopped when it lost visual.


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[NorthcountySD]

The only way I know how to do that is with the auto flight logic app. Uses the barometer in the iPad to adjust elevation. Hope they update and incorporate the P4 soon.