Autoland vs return to home...
If I do an orbit and then have the action after it is completed set to "return to home," will it hover at the set altitude of the orbit over the takeoff location, or will it reduce altitude and/or land?
If I do an orbit and then have the action after it is completed set to "auto land" will it auto land where it finished the orbit? Or will it auto land from where it took off?
Maybe the action names could be renamed to eliminate this ambiguity from a new user perspective.
Thanks.
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Return to home means the same behavior as if you had pressed the hardware RTH button.
Auto-land means land immediately right where the mission ends.
Agreed, in that the current descriptors are already accurate.
‘Newer’ users need to have already used eg native apps and experienced RTH options.
In addition, with eg Dronelink the only true way to trust what’s going to happen is to do it!
Set up 2 simple orbits in a safe easy location, one RTH, another Autoland etc etc and see what happens ;-)
Always remembering ‘sports mode’ (at least on Mavic Pro) is your friend, ie if something starts to happen that you might panic about switch to ‘sports mode’ and it stops other auto functions giving you full control.
Hope that helps ;-)
Yeah. Last night I realized my statement was dumb. This software is great and I like every part of it.
I did my first dronelink flight today. It was an orbit and then return to home.
The one thing that went wrong was when it completed the orbit at 400 feet, it started to go down to the ground at the orbit radius and didn't fly back to the launch position before going down. When it went below 100 feet, and concerned about it landing in trees, I changed to sport mode, and raised elevation, and then manually landed it.
Trying to find out why it didn't return to home at current altitude because the first command in the script was Drone Return Home Altitude 200. So why didn't it go from 400 to 200, and then fly to above my head and hover?
Looking at the script now, I didn't set the optional "add final altitude." Was that the problem?
Here is the link - only change was that just now I did add a final altitude.
https://app.dronelink.com/robert-silvers/first-test/plan/jmHqowsGk4h9bFkIDCLi/h7t82HwA1Nxoyxn7PaGK
Hi Robert, thanks for the plan link which I looked at, though you mention “return to home altitude, you are correct but your plan is set “action on finish” to “auto land” and not using RTH at all.
that’s why it started to descend at mission end.
Select the purple take off point on your mission to see that “action on finish is set to auto land.
Start a new plan at 400 ft etc but ensure RTH is set for action on finish on the plan rather than auto land let us know ;-)
Great. Thanks.
Next thing I am learning - why do you think the center of the school is not in the center of the view for the entire rotation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVGwAe6DM8I&feature=youtu.be
https://app.dronelink.com/robert-silvers/first-test/plan/cC9D0AFqH3u9umI99Kbu/GDx2LB3jEsEFVtTk2n3khttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVGwAe6DM8I&feature=youtu.be
Yes, noticed that, concerning because you seemed to be flying slowly.
See “Mapping glitches - flying off course and gimbal issue” and add your concern to that thread would be my advice then Jim/Eric can comment.
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