Questions about Resuming Waypoints Mission
Hi,
I would like to know, with the Elite version that I am planning to purchase, if I can resume a long (say 50 km) waypoint mission, where each waypoint is defined as 30m above ground level and there are difference in altitude. Say Waypoint 1 (initial take off) is 50m above sea level and 40 km down into the mission (say Waypoint 122) the take off is from 170 meters above the sea level. So in other words, resuming will it use the current resuming waypoint altitude as zero or a fixed value (above sea level) or it will keep using the WP#1 as the zero?
Secondly: is it possible to resume a mission on a different day (in the same conditions as above question)?
Thanks?
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Hopefully I’m understanding correctly. The altitude is always based on the ATL, not sea level. So if stopping the plan for a battery swap to continue the mission it will use the new take-off point for altitude reference. Also you would need to set a controller function button to update the home-point sometime just before the low battery triggers the RTH for a battery swap. If you don’t update the home-point it will fly all the way back to the original take-off location, but land close by for the swap. Only other way would be to purchase a professional plan which has ability to set the dynamic home-point function which updates automatically every 5 seconds. Your second question is yes, any mission which has been paused can be ran on another day from your flown missions tab in the Native app. If you need more help or your question wasn’t addressed please let someone know.
I was helping a client with this recently - he was creating a flyover of a route that was about 23 miles long.
We determined the best idea was to break the route up into sections based on the distance it could fly on a battery. We created the whole route and then broke it up at battery swap points. You can use the preview function to get a good idea of battery life.
We then set fixed take off locations at each break point to allow it to continue. Since we were using AGL instead of above take off, it worked well.
Fixed take off is covered here https://youtu.be/HCa4zHIM9GQ?si=DjtqaHremI_7aXOa
Mike's advice about handling RTH is good advice.
Agree. Always best to run smaller, shorter missions than one long, large plan. Since the battery will need to be changed out anyway it won’t change the mission time overall. Also if you have any issues with the media being captured or any other issue with any section you can just re-run any of the sections separately. Otherwise if there is an issue with the one long plan you would need to run the entire mission again and hope for the best. Good luck.
Thank you for your answers.
The ideea with a longer mission to be resumed after replacing battery or even switching the drones is that there are always unforeseen things, mostly weather, that can have a big impact on how many miles you can fly with a battery... or sometimes there is something extra I want to shoot before resuming back to my mission. I am also thinking how to optimize battery usage. Instead of replacing a battery at 35-40% when you can still fly with it, but your mission has ended and with another battery on another mission you end up replacing battery at under 20% just because, say, wind put a toll on the battery...
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