Flying a Certain Course from a Waypoint
Hello,
I want to find the location of a building I have seen in a photo I have taken with the drone. Using airdata I have the location the drone took the photo from and the baring and angle the gimble was pointing.
I have made a simple mission with a start location and a waypoint. When the drone reaches the waypoint, I want it to them fly on the bearing for a predefined distance so I can work out visually, the exact location of where the building in the photograph is.
How would I go about doing this in drone link?
Many thanks in advance for any assistance offered.
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Whilst there might be a way of doing it in dronelink, I have used the FFC website https://www.fcc.gov/media/radio/find-terminal-coordinates to workout out coordinates for additional waypoints along the bearing I want to fly. I'll then manually find the building and be able to get it's location that way.
Ok I had to think about this for a while, but then thought use the virtual drone in the preview and use the following procedure:
once in preview scroll the time line till the drone is on the waypoint
click on the bearing setting in the bottom of the preview screen to open the virtual drone panel, enter the bearing and gimbal angle, where the red dot is, in the main screen is where your building is
Hey Martin that's a great idea. Due to the distance what I have done is used your method and made the red dot a POI. The new plan will now fly to the POI, and take a -90 picture to see if the building is there, and then one at -45 and one at 0 on the correct bearing. If it's still ahead, I can keep repeating the process until I actually get to it. It will be interesting to see how close the calculated waypoints will be to this method.
Its the small tower in the centre of the image. This was taken on a MM2 from 30m ASL altitude, so I am guessing it is approximately another 1-2km in front of the current waypoint I took the original picture at.
Many thanks Martin.
Duncan Lovett, no problem, one suggestion with your implementation, is when you are flying that last approach, maybe fly it with the gimbal pointing down slightly, say about -5
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