I am a long-time user of Litchi Waypoints. My Litchi waypoints experience consists of close to 2000 km clocked in Waypoint mode.
Talking about FlyApp based DJI drones and Litchi waypoints missions, I was very disappointed when I understood what Joystick mission mode is.
However, I flew a curved turns mission with a Mini 2 in which I took footage of my moving car and again, I got very very disappointed with the outcome.
This time with the turns smoothness. I did the best I could at planning time in Hub, especially smooth large curves, and I previewed the mission in Google Earth. All looked great except that the actual flight panning is as rough as can be and the drone did very choppy direction adjustments. I have a video on YouTube with this flight, but all turns are edited out.
I flew at 35 km/h, which for a Phantom 3 is piece of cake. Is this speed too much for a drone with GPS + GLONASS + Galileo to keep doing smooth turns? Can I do something to get things better except lower the speed to a crawl?
Can this be caused by bad compass calibration or bad compass?
I am considering buying a Phantom 3 Standard because of this!
This is typical for “Virtual Stick Command” missions/drones which highly rely on a constant good control signal quality between the drone and remote contoller.
An interruption of even milliseconds means that some VSC’s and feedback to the controller don’t reach the drone/controller and therefore will not be executed.
The controller sends a VSC to the drone and the drone sends it’s 3D position, speed, etc. back to the controller/Litchi (feedback) so Litchi can work out the next appropriate VSC to the drone. When this gets interrupted ever so slightly, smoothness is gone.
Hello there and thank you for making light on this matter. The action plan is clear, I have to go back to a DJI Go or DJI Go4 based drone if I want to use Litchi for waypoint missions as I used to do in the past.
Cheers
