Manual orientation during GS flight?

Steve_in_DE · Aug 23, 2014

I am a newbie to the GS (just installed it; haven't flown a mission yet).

Question: While flying from one waypoint to another, is it possible for me to manually orient the quad? If for instance I want to video something that is alongside the direction of travel, can I turn to shoot it while the GS follows it's path? I would use ONLY the yaw control on my radio.

4wd · Aug 23, 2014

No, but it would be a nice feature.
It always faces forwards, however you can pause the mission, take control and pan around - then start again.

Timsytanker · Aug 23, 2014

Or do a stop and turn and set a heading to film something at that waypoint. Tried it this evening.

Morgon · Aug 25, 2014

4wd said:
No, but it would be a nice feature.
It always faces forwards, however you can pause the mission, take control and pan around - then start again.

Even in Course Lock? (in other words, has it been specifically tried in CL?)

4wd · Aug 25, 2014

No you are locked out of that feature during a groundstation flight, unless you pause it.

Buckaye · Aug 25, 2014

I have broken it out of it's pattern but never tried restarting the pattern after that... does that work?

stevet · Aug 25, 2014

Morgon said:
4wd said:

No, but it would be a nice feature.
It always faces forwards, however you can pause the mission, take control and pan around - then start again.

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Even in Course Lock? (in other words, has it been specifically tried in CL?)

Actually having Course lock and the ability to rotate the phantom to point to specific things for doing video would be awesome..

They really need a look at feature which I posted about in the forms here and did a mock up.. :?

Steve_in_DE · Aug 28, 2014

It seems that until DJI re-writes the rules for a mission, I will need a 3-axis gimbal and retractable legs if I want to video stuff that's NOT right in front, as the quad is following the mission. Ugh.

What I want to do is - set up a mission parallel to a road and video a car as it moves down the road, from the side.

OI Photography · Aug 28, 2014

Steve_in_NJ said:
It seems that until DJI re-writes the rules for a mission, I will need a 3-axis gimbal and retractable legs if I want to video stuff that's NOT right in front, as the quad is following the mission. Ugh.

What I want to do is - set up a mission parallel to a road and video a car as it moves down the road, from the side.

That's exactly the kind of thing Course Lock is useful for, airborne dolly shots. It's already built in to all Phantoms, though for P2's you'll need to go in to NAZA mode to enable that.