Thank god I bought a backup drone. Too bad my backup is a standard. Oh well. Litchi decided to go to waypoint at 25 ft into a tree crashing into my car ripping gimbal completely off breaking props even though I had guards. The attitude I set was 390ft. I was doing autotake out then auto go to waypoint.
Litchi destroyed my PS3
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Sorry to hear about your loss. That is not a pleasant thing to experience, but yeah, you need plenty of space to begin these auto maneuvers.
RedHotPoker
RedHotPoker
Let me guess- you thought auto takeoff would rise to 390ft then head to WP1?
Instead, it rose to 25ft then rose at an angle towards 390 hitting the tree?
Litchi probably should have described the auto takeoff behavior more precisely in the manual. I would never trust auto takeoff without specifically know how it handled the 1st wp.
Instead, it rose to 25ft then rose at an angle towards 390 hitting the tree?
Litchi probably should have described the auto takeoff behavior more precisely in the manual. I would never trust auto takeoff without specifically know how it handled the 1st wp.
I didn't realize it was doing that when I did a similar auto take off from about the same spot. Stupid app should tell me stuff like that.
Yea being a new flier I thought the developer of Litchi would know that newbs like me would think it would go to set attitude first.
dirkclod
Premium Pilot
No offense, but when you have something over $1k in the air, instructions for anything 3rd party software should be read and read again so issues like this wont happen. Even the instructions for the official dji app should be read a few times.
How did they used to refer to that suggestion, in the olden days of RCing? Oh yeah, "RTFM". . . ;-)
RedHotPoker
RedHotPoker
I'm in a happy mood now. Able to spy on the intersection from bed with the standard. I wish DJI would just hurry up and make this thing fool proof. Seriously autotakeoff and do waypoints = awesome
If you read as you should the instructions this wouldn't happen. It not certainly litchi fault
If it had just got to attitude first like for return to home this would not be an issue.
Waypoint on p2v+ with stock DJI app work in the same way. It has been written and re written to place the first waypoint over phantom take off point if you would like to auto take off or first manually fly at altitude then start the mission. Sorry for what happened but before use apps or new feature pay attention to read how they work.
You can still come a cropper if you're not careful. GO waypoints will still fly a straight line from activation to waypoint 1, so if you flew the test route by flying up then out above an obstacle, you can still smack into it on the third side of the triangle when flying on auto. Same thing flying horizontal around an obstacle. If you don't set a waypoint at each course change it will end in tears [emoji24]
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