Pattern Normal ability to not align North/South
I might be missing something obvious here, but if I am setting up a basic mission and selecting a "pattern/normal" to map an area, the flight path is always north/south for the majority of the mission.
Is there an easy way to change this so that it prefers east/west or any arbitrary angle?
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Drag the green approach icon around - it will change the orientation
Thanks that seems to work and I'm able to rotate the path now.
When dragging/releasing the green approach icon though it jumps to another point on the map, so not necesarily where I'd want the mission to start from. I guess I could manually insert a waypoint. Do we know how/why the auto move is calculated?
I presume it is optimising the start of the map. I've adjusted mine a few times to get it to start near my take off point rather than 300 metres down the other side of the map. Having an option of where to start the approach, through dragging the icon, would be ideal.
In the end the approach is auto-calculated based on the mapping direction. We had a choice to either implement a new map icon just to control the mapping direction (and thus make the approach icon not draggable which would have been inconsistent with the other component types), or hi-jack the meaning of dragging the approach icon to mean "mapping direction" in the case of the map component type. In the end we decided for the latter option because it feels intuitive to want to drag the approach (since you can do it in the other component types). If you watch closely as you drag, you can tell where the approach icon will snap to. It is more of a question is what is your higher priority, the mapping direction or the actual start location of the map?
Thanks @Jim - that makes sense and yeah once I know to look for where it snaps to, it's blindingly obvious!
Direction for sure 😀
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