The DJI app does not have a compass heading to follow, so I had to use a hand-held compass to find an old World War II tank buried in the desert. The scenery is not beautiful. It is pure open desert.
You know, I love my desert. Don't get me wrong, I love the forest and trees too. But right now there are so many forest fires burning in this state that I'm glad I don't have anything to burn around me. The state, California, is pretty dry from the drought we are in the middle of. And the accumulation of decaying foliage has not burned in decades. In the county next to mine, San Bernadino county, 85,000 people had to be evacuated, and 200 homes have been burned. I can see the smoke from 90 miles away. It looks like an Atomic Bomb went off over there. There are about 6 major fires burning in the state right now. I love being able to go out of my back door, more of less, and ride my Quad (4 wheeled off road vehicle) for 40 miles in any direction without hitting a fence. You and I live in different kinds of desert.Love it. Great video. Grandpa, believe me you don't want a desert. I live in Dubai and there is nothing to film but sand.
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Nice video. I also have some of the older Garmin GPS handheld units. I have 3 of the GPs 5 units. Not color and small screen but very versatile units. They were mainly built for hikers etc but could have some street data also. Only drawback was the 19 mb download for street map data. The 5 had auto routing. Not sure the 3+ had that. You could just enter gps coordinates and it would take you there plus it did many other great things.The DJI app does not have a compass heading to follow, so I had to use a hand-held cversatile ss to find an old World War II tank buried in the desert. The scenery is not beautiful. It is pure open desert.
I really wished I would have had one of these when I was flying my 150. I think they had Loran then but not in my budget. I love these things.Monte55
I got my first GPS, which was a Garmin GPS 38, back in bout 1998 or 9. It did not work very well. Lost signal in trees and deep canyons. Ended up mounting it on my boat. Mainly used it for tracking. I finally got the Garmin GPS 3 plus at WalMart for about $350.00. Fell in love with it. My son and I go fishing a lot up on the San Joaquin Delta in California. Hundreds of small channels and tiny island to navigate around. You can easily get lost on the water out there. The last time we went I it was foggy as Hell. Could not see more than 50 feet in front of you. Fortunately I had created a route through the water ways by using my TOPO Map program. I created a waypoint for every turn we had to make. We followed the GPS route on the Garmin. Making turn after turn without ever seeing land or sky. It reminded me of flying on instrument in actual IMC. There were 24 different waypoints to follow. We finally reached the last one and dropped anchor. When the fog finally lifted and we could see where we were, we were right in the middle of Frank's Track fishing spot exactly where we wanted to be. Later in the day, the fog came back in as we were heading for the dock. We just reversed the route and headed in. Soon, we had 4 other boats following in our wake. They were lost. We signaled to them to follow us, and they did. It was so cool.
The only bad thing was, that there were no **** fish in Frank's Track that day.
Two years ago, I lost my precious Garmin GPS 3 plus in the desert somewhere. Never did find it. So I went on eBay and found a ton of them for under $50.00. I bought three! Now I have one in my truck and one mounted on my Quad. The other is just a spare.
I also used my when I was flying cross county in my C-210. It wasn't aviation legal, but I sure could hold a track well. It gave me altitude, heading, track, and ground speed. I loved it.
I think AutoFlight AutoPilot retails for about $40 USD. It is very robust, but the main difference between the 2 of them and it is a considerable one in my opinion is:I've been considering buying Litchi. Have to think about it a little more. What does Autopilot cost?