Hi Again: I finally flew this mission I have been planning. It was a bit more complicated than others I have flown in that 1: Where I was flying had no Internet, and 2: Half of the mission was going to be behind a small hill so I was going to lose RC Control. Well I flew it and every thing went well. As predicted I did lose RC Control where I thought I would. Now in the area of no connection I had a POI and several waypoints around it. Setting for Gimbal was “Focus on POI : On playing the recorded video. The camera remained in the horizontal position. Instead of pointing down at my POI. Setting there was 1M.
Ive been doing some searching on here, and google AI also directed me to a post on Phantom Pilots. Where a person flying had a similar result. One of the replies stated that when out of RC Control the Gimbal Pitch would not respond to the POI. And just remain horizontal as it was in previous waypoints. Is this correct. If so Im guessing that I will have to set the Gimbal Pitch to Manual. And achieve the angle I want (Look Down) prior to losing contact.
It has been a while since I flew my Phantom 3S on a Litchi waypoint mission, but my recollection is that for DJI Go drones such as the P3S, any gimbal tilt values assigned during the planning phase of Litchi waypoint missions will only be acted upon by the drone while it is within RC signal range.
Barring any recently implemented changes to DJI Go or to Litchi since my last Phantom 3 waypoint mission was flown, my expectation has been that the drone would stop reading and responding to new gimbal tilt angle specifications associated with all waypoints lying beyond the point at which the RC signal is lost during a flight.
This loss of gimbal control beyond RC signal reach is the reason that I got into the habit of using the controller thumb-wheel to manually tilting the gimbal down to a minus 20 degree setting as the Phantom 3 departed on longer waypoint missions. With that -20 degree tilt, a sliver of the horizon and sky was visible near the top of my iPad’s screen, so that I could maximize the view of the ground scenery. That -20 degree gimbal setting became my default value for all flights.
Thank you both for that very helpful advice. I’ll make some adjustments and learn a bit more. It’s all a learning curve to me. I only have Phantoms. Two 3 Standard. And one 4 Advanced. I primarily use them for fishing at the Ocean. But now doing a bit of videoing. Maybe I’ll even upgrade one of these days. Cheers Trevor