First off, I'm using Litchi because I really like the idea of building a flight plan while sitting in my La-Z-Boy, carefully reviewing it and then going out and flying it. Just can't imagine what the DJI folks were thinking about doing it the way they do it. (IMHO & not the point of this post)
So my first actual flights with Litchi waypoints were with a modest 4-waypoint flight plan. Just a rectangle, very small, certainly nothing at all fancy. I have a P3S, an iPad mini wifi-only. Litchi IOS app is dated January 25, 2016. I loaded the modest flight plan into the iPad using my home WIFI.
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So my first actual flights with Litchi waypoints were with a modest 4-waypoint flight plan. Just a rectangle, very small, certainly nothing at all fancy. I have a P3S, an iPad mini wifi-only. Litchi IOS app is dated January 25, 2016. I loaded the modest flight plan into the iPad using my home WIFI.
- Traveled to the location that the flight plan was designed for (in my neighborhood)
- Powered the whole business up and got the iPad onto the flight WIFI.
- While in P-mode I got the greenlight from Litchi on the GPS.
- Flipped the S1 switch down into F-mode, Litchi changed the mode it was using to F-mode.
- Pressed the start/play button and there was a dialog box that had me confirm that I wanted to start the mission. Said OK.
- Long pause for thought at this point, nothing going on for 20-30 seconds with no visual or audible feedback.
- Finally got a small dialog box that was empty, all white, on the iPad mini. The box was maybe 3/8" high and 2" wide. It said nothing.
- Didn't know what to do about the null "message" and while I was scratching my head, I heard a verbal notification that the "upload was complete"? or something to that effect. Then the props started up and the aircraft was off doing its little mission.
- I was able to execute the flightplan twice then modified it to lower the altitude of one of the waypoints and ran it again.
- I was able to modify the flying speed while the program was running, paused it, resumed it. Pretty straighforward operation. No flying issues. While it was flying it all made sense. Not so much when I was trying to launch the mission.
- Is it normal to have such a delay after saying that I did want to start the mission?
- Is there a more graceful method that I should have used to initiate this mission?
- What was the empty dialog box(notification, maybe?) trying to tell me?
- Does all this sound routine or did I screw something up and got away with it?
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