Flying hilly terrain

[Bill_Hagen]

I get to fly some challenging, hilly, heavily forested terrain in the middle of nowhere tomorrow.

I’ve got a shot list (mostly videos), but I want to know where the property boundaries are so I’m not wasting battery time flying farther than I need to fly.

I’ve created a new mission by importing the kml of the property boundaries into litchi. It shows up as 3 rectangles, each with 4 waypoints.

With that mission loaded, I can still just fly wherever I want, correct? And simply use the mission lines to keep myself within the property?

Thanks!

[Sam_G]

@Bill_Hagen ,
No, that is not possible with Litchi. Litchi is designed to tell a drone WHERE to go, instead of where NOT to go.
Here is a similar post.

Importing a shape file creates a waypoint mission

I would like to be able to import a shape file and create my own missions within that shape file. When I import a kml created by drawing a polygon in google earth pro, a waypoint mission is created by Litchi. I ONLY want the shape to be used and I will decide what happens within that shape. Is this possible? [Screenshot 2023-05-29 080406]

[wesbarris]

@Bill_Hagen

With that mission loaded, I can still just fly wherever I want, correct? And simply use the mission lines to keep myself within the property?

Yes, that can be done. If you wish to simply use the loaded mission to show the property boundaries, you can then manually fly within those boundaries.

I think Sam was assuming you wanted to create another mission within the constraints of your “boundary mission”.

[Sam_G]

@Bill_Hagen

And simply use the mission lines to keep myself within the property

@Bill_Hagen @wesbarris ,Yes, I could have misunderstood what was meant by that statement.
If you want to use the mission lines as a visual cue, you can certainly do that.
I took it to mean that the polygon would serve as a fence and prohibit the drone from crossing the line.

[Bill_Hagen]

Thanks to both of you! It looks like it’ll work for my purposes…as long as I don’t hit the “play” button to start the mission!

[Bill_Hagen]

Update: it worked just like I hoped it would!

And yes…I did accidentally press “play” not once, but twice! I’m thankful that it pops up a dialog asking what waypoint I want to start at, with an option to cancel.

That feature alone was worth the extra $25 to add it to my ipad (I already have it for my android).