Apparently the Return-Home function is relatively simple:
1. Ascend to about 60 feet (higher than the home spot?)
2. Travel level, an a straight line, back to "Home"
3. Descend and land.
As long as the intended flight path is clear,
that would seem to work rather well.
Complications:
1. Accuracy of the altitude measurements via GPS
2. Vertical obstacles, hills, trees, and buildings
3. Straight-line path obstacles, same types.
Questions:
1. Can one set the "60-foot" value to another value, like 100 feet?
2. Can the P2V fly a preset GPS course?
Suggestion:
1. While flying, using DJI-Vision, one could tell the P2V to "remember"
a GPS location and altitude, like dropping a breadcrumb at a point
in the air. Perhaps the P2V could remember up to a half-dozen or so,
and they could be erased individually, if the pilot desired.
2. Then, in the event of control signal loss, like when accidently
flying behind a large building, the P2V could go to each of the
breadcrumb positions, in reverse order of course, to make it
safely home (or back into control range), instead of flying "splat"
right into the side of the big building, hill, or trees.
With the software functions already implemented, I believe that
this feature would be relatively easy to implement. It is not
much different than flying any preset GPS course.
Any comments or suggestions?
Cheers, Gary
1. Ascend to about 60 feet (higher than the home spot?)
2. Travel level, an a straight line, back to "Home"
3. Descend and land.
As long as the intended flight path is clear,
that would seem to work rather well.
Complications:
1. Accuracy of the altitude measurements via GPS
2. Vertical obstacles, hills, trees, and buildings
3. Straight-line path obstacles, same types.
Questions:
1. Can one set the "60-foot" value to another value, like 100 feet?
2. Can the P2V fly a preset GPS course?
Suggestion:
1. While flying, using DJI-Vision, one could tell the P2V to "remember"
a GPS location and altitude, like dropping a breadcrumb at a point
in the air. Perhaps the P2V could remember up to a half-dozen or so,
and they could be erased individually, if the pilot desired.
2. Then, in the event of control signal loss, like when accidently
flying behind a large building, the P2V could go to each of the
breadcrumb positions, in reverse order of course, to make it
safely home (or back into control range), instead of flying "splat"
right into the side of the big building, hill, or trees.
With the software functions already implemented, I believe that
this feature would be relatively easy to implement. It is not
much different than flying any preset GPS course.
Any comments or suggestions?
Cheers, Gary