Roger Harris
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Here's an online calculator that uses a precise formula. (The formula you are trying to use, the equirectangular approximation, is also down that page a bit, but it is only an approximation -- f...
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Distance and altitude are both relative to the home point.
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Never mind -- sorry, I was confused. When you +Create a Waypoints plan, it's showing you the box for the plan details, not the path. If you select the Waypoints component and open its Advanced op...
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You want the path to use straight lines instead of Bézier curves, which is the Pathing option for the component. If you're using the current release mission planner, the Pathing options are Curved ...
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On one occasion, I had a mission that would repeatedly stop with a "maximum altitude reached" message, even though I was well below the maximums I had set. I eventually determined it was because it...
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The Minis are supposed to avoid ground contact (if they are flying slow enough, anyway) using their bottom cameras, so it should be safe to give it a try at slow speed, being prepared to abort (as ...
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If you mean a filter that turns the camera into a "thermal" camera, then no, that isn't possible. The CMOS sensors used in normal cameras are sensitive to near-IR and there is usually a filter add...
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If I'm understanding what you want to do -- which I take to be to manually create a map plan? -- you need to start by figuring out the size on the ground of your images, which depends on your camer...
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Here's a download link for the last version of MS ICE: https://download.fileeagle.com/files/2016/09/ICE-2.0.3-for-64-bit-Windows.msi ICE does a pretty good job in most cases. My favorite feature is...
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