Gimbal mode: Free vs yaw follow?
Can someone explain the difference between Gimbal mode Free vs Yaw follow?
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Check this out:
https://mavicpilots.com/threads/gimbal-mode-please-explain.59919/
Thanks, Jim. That does explain things a good bit.
Which of course, brings to mind more questions...
I have a Mavic Air, and I would suspect that the free mode is not applicable. Or, does it let you yaw the aircraft without changing its direction as if the camera were mounted below the body of the aircraft and one could rotate it 360.
My ultimate goal is to have free reign of yaw and gimbal direction without changing or deviating from the path. Seems like I saw a how to on how to do just that. But I didn't book market it can't find it atm. grrr
There is some disagreement in the forums, and apparently even in the manual.
The primary difference between Follow mode, and FPV mode is the behaviour of roll, not yaw.
Gimbal yaw on the Magic Air is ONLY for compensating for un-commanded yaw in the aircraft due to wind. Its range of motion is limited.
In Normal mode, the gimbal will roll to keep the camera horizontal. It compensates for any roll in the body of the drone required to hold position or move.
In FPV mode, this compensation does not occur, giving you the pilot the visual cue to how much your drone is banking. It's not very convincing, IMHO, but that's what it does.
P.S. No, free mode does not exist for the Air. Apparently, DJI have been quite lazy copy/pasting between manuals.
Thanks, Dan! I knew some of the information I was researching wasn't making a lot of sense.
Any thoughts on how to achieve what I mentioned above?
Sure.
Your mission determines the path/track your drone will fly, and you can independently set the direction it is pointing.
In short, your drone can fly in any direction regardless of where the camera is pointed. You control the direction the camera points thorough the yaw of the drone's body.
That's true whether flying under control of a mission, or by hand.
I did a reasonable manual pan by starting out flying straight over a river. Then I applied just a little, slow Left yaw, while simultaneously rotating the Right stick clockwise. I thus gradually transitioned form forward flight, to Right strafe, to fully backwards as the camera came to be looking back at me.
Much easier with software. Viva Le Dronelink!
So, if I am flying a normal mission, no specific AC, camera, gimbal, waypoint, or marker commands, (just fly point A to point B) I can yaw the AC without changing the direction the AC is flying? (Sorry to sound so dense...)
Thanks again!
This was the idea behind the feature on the roadmap called Independent Flight and Gimbal Control.
Thanks, Jim. I'm totally down with that.
Cheers!
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