Forest Weston
I have been a licensed Forester in the northeast United States for over 35 years. As a newly certified part 107 pilot, I am using a Mavic Air 2 for mapping private woodlots and supervising forest harvesting operations.
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Recent activity by Forest Weston
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Ninja_Geezer exactly. I suspect that the DJI Fly’s ability to lock on to the subject is what smooths it out. Can’t post my orbit video from yesterday’s Dronelink mission but it’s very similar to yo...
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Ninja_Geezer jerky, like when I was first learning to orbit manually. The roll of the aircraft is not well synced with the yaw and that causes the jerky steps. The drone seems like it is searching ...
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David White if you set up a plan, look at the list of components and click on one to see the details. Speeds, rotation rates, deceleration and many others can be edited from there. The stock value ...
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sammy ortiz the MA2 is now fully supported by Dronelink and works great!
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In MME, when initiating a new map, there is an option for “Full 3D”. Be sure to check that box if you are trying to model buildings. What exactly is “hatch angle”?
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I ran my first orbit today and yes, it has the herky-jerkys. My MA2 has the latest firmware and I’m running an iPad mini 5, also updated yesterday. It looks like my manually flown orbits did when I...
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I just added a premium account so I will set up an orbit and try it. I’ll post the results as soon as I can fly it. Hoping for good flying weather later today!
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The new release of the finished product is working great with the MA2 for me! I’ve only run a couple mapping missions so far, hope the weather permits more testing today. Very smooth and accurate m...
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Thanks for the explanation, Jim. Now that you say it, it sounds familiar. I was doing my manual flight testing very close to the home point so it all makes sense. I rarely use RTH in my normal flig...
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Sorry, Jim but I disagree on the RTH button. With my MA2/iPad Mini5 and the Dronelink app in manual flight mode, I was unable to make RTH button work correctly yesterday. The drone would land in pl...
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