This morning, after waiting for days for fine weather, I finally decided to do a Litchi waypoint mission with my P3A even though it was very cloudy and misty - I thought 'at least it'll be atmospheric'.
Because these aren't the normal conditions I fly in, I decided to load a mission it had already flown successfully.
I was just about to start the mission when I noticed a message in tiny lettering: "Warning: one or more wapoints are very far away". So I chickened out. I loaded another mission, again one it had flown before, and I got the same message. So then I just chickened out completely - I just wound up flying around a bit under manual control.
Probably everything would have been OK - in all probability, I'd got that same message the first time I'd flown those two missions and not noticed it - but the terrible thing is, owning a quadcopter costing several hundred pounds can turn you into an awful coward. I'd gone to all the trouble of setting up my Phantom and wound up with a couple of boring manual flights that I deleted as soon as I'd watched them on my PC.
But here's the thing I'd like some opinions on: was I unduly timid to let that message scare me out of flying those missions, or was I foolhardy to have flown them in the first place? Each one was of 12mins duration (I try never to go higher than that figure) and each ended with the battery being about half full (I try never to go lower than that).
It's true that I usually lose signal for most of the mission, but that begins very soon after takeoff, due to the very tall trees around where I usually fly. You'd think that distance wasn't a problem in this respect, because Litchi loads the mission and follows it autonomously regardless of whether it has a signal or not.
To put my question in a nutshell: how cautious should you be about this 'waypoints a long way away' message?
Because these aren't the normal conditions I fly in, I decided to load a mission it had already flown successfully.
I was just about to start the mission when I noticed a message in tiny lettering: "Warning: one or more wapoints are very far away". So I chickened out. I loaded another mission, again one it had flown before, and I got the same message. So then I just chickened out completely - I just wound up flying around a bit under manual control.
Probably everything would have been OK - in all probability, I'd got that same message the first time I'd flown those two missions and not noticed it - but the terrible thing is, owning a quadcopter costing several hundred pounds can turn you into an awful coward. I'd gone to all the trouble of setting up my Phantom and wound up with a couple of boring manual flights that I deleted as soon as I'd watched them on my PC.
But here's the thing I'd like some opinions on: was I unduly timid to let that message scare me out of flying those missions, or was I foolhardy to have flown them in the first place? Each one was of 12mins duration (I try never to go higher than that figure) and each ended with the battery being about half full (I try never to go lower than that).
It's true that I usually lose signal for most of the mission, but that begins very soon after takeoff, due to the very tall trees around where I usually fly. You'd think that distance wasn't a problem in this respect, because Litchi loads the mission and follows it autonomously regardless of whether it has a signal or not.
To put my question in a nutshell: how cautious should you be about this 'waypoints a long way away' message?