Can Litchi Become Disoriented by Complex Waypoint Flights?

Seeking to create some unusual imagery, I constructed a spider’s web-shaped waypoint flight centered around a single POI Point of Interest, which entails the drone crossing its own flight path multiple times in numerous directions.

Virtually all of my previously created Litchi waypoint flights rarely included any overlap of the inbound and outbound legs of the mission, so I decided to show this intended flight to the experts before I send my Mavic 1 Pro out to make the flight. My question is, therefore, whether there is any risk that the drone may become disoriented if it is programmed to follow a course that repeatedly crisscrosses airspace in which numerous waypoints have been defined both before and after the drone’s current location.

The confirmation that I hope to hear is that the drone will faithfully follow the numerical sequence of all waypoints in every mission, regardless of how many times the flight path doubles back over itself in rapid succession. Any thoughts on this question that can be shared would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

I must add that the drone has flown this less complex flight path with no stops or hesitations seen en route.

Your bird won’t get disoriented or dizzy. It will go from one waypoint to the next without looking back at the path that you programmed, nor will it look ahead (farther than its next waypoint).

Until they put AI in these drones, we’ll be safe from the machine uprising.

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The machine uprising might already be underway in Eastern Europe, further blurring the line between science fiction and the unfolding AI era.

Back on topic, and emboldened by your vote of confidence, Sam_G, I launched my trusty Mavic 2 Pro to fly this convoluted mission, which it did smoothly and without a single pause.

I was pleasantly surprised that the resultant footage from this mission was easy on the eyes with smooth pans and no jarring camera movements. All told, this was another brilliant flight made possible by Litchi.

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