Helix
New to using DroneLink for Telecom collection. Is there an option to do a helix up or down the entire length of the tower?
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Yes. Orbit can do this.
With the advanced orbit elements you can specify a start altitude and end altitude, start radius and end radius, and the number of rotations.
That allows you to create spirals like this very easily
As Barry Houldsworth says, yeah they are really easy to do, I've even got what I call an Hour Glass Spiral, that I just made for Kicks.
Also you can do them out on site using the on the fly Spiral wizard which is available at Hobbyist Elite plan level and in all professional plans
Amazing, thank you both.
When doing the spiral wizard, once flying, am I able to interact with it? I flew a spiral around a telecom tower and when I was half through the center of the tower was no longer in the middle.
2 features that would be of interest for this use case are Drone Offsets for real time adjustment during flight, and also Mission Alignment for re-centering a mission after a battery swap or whenever you see substantial drift in GPS.
Here are more details on those features.
https://support.dronelink.com/hc/en-us/articles/4416141457171-How-to-Enable-Drone-Offsets-Adaptive-Flight
Dronelink has a tower specific solution that might be of interest.
For more details, please contact us here: https://www.dronelink.com/contact-us
Jacob, is there a way to have this feature enabled all the time vs having to enable it for each project?
It must currently be enabled per mission plan. If you copy the mission plans and move them around to new locations, this setting would remain on for all the copies.
When flying a spiral via the on-the-fly missions, is there no way to bring up the adjustments for the yaw and altitude? I did a mission that had offsets set to yes but when I did an on-the-fly spiral, it went away.
The on the fly functions do not enable the offsets panel (unless you are using the Scanlink function, our solution for towers mentioned in the other thread).
Ok, how do I test scanlink? I sent an email back to Jacob but have not heard anything back.
is there a link to see how it works or scanlink info Jim
Please allow a few more days given the holiday.
Please email sales@dronelink.com.
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