I fly a P3 S, and have done well with it the last 3 months, but have a few questions about flying a waypoint mission.
I understand the concept. The bird flies a pre planned mission, but I'm confused about a few things.
-I can literally walk out my backyard yard to fields and meadows and fly to the top of a nearby hill and capture epic sunsets. Currently I manually fly to the top of the hill from the meadow in my backyard. The hill in question is 1000 ft away, with the crest 200 ft from above my home point. Flying Catbird to the crest I have to account for the increase in elevation. When I reach my spot, the metrics say I'm 250 ft vertical, but I can tell you the catbird is only about 90 feet off top of the hill.
MISSION
-I want to fly this mission from the waypoint menu. So I fly to my spot over the top of the hill, and create point #1.
-I'd like to leave there and fly to #2 over a nearby a golf course 900 ft away.
-the #3 spot is 700 ft away over a small pond to the west, and then home.
Questions
-With the catbird flying the mission on his own is he going to know to account for the increase in elevation to #1 or is he gonna fly into the side of the hill about halfway up? Flying manually I increase the vertical over the 1000 ft, I have to clear a bank of trees (50ft high) about halfway. Should I start catbird at a height that will (about 300 ft) will take him to the spot in direct line?
-arriving at each waypoint I'd like to hover about 5 minutes to check everything and grab a few pics before flying to the next point. Will he do that or is he just go fly to that spot, and then proceed to the next without checking up?
-I guess the short version of this is the catbird gonna fly this mission the way I flew it, or is he gonna do his own thing?
I understand the concept. The bird flies a pre planned mission, but I'm confused about a few things.
-I can literally walk out my backyard yard to fields and meadows and fly to the top of a nearby hill and capture epic sunsets. Currently I manually fly to the top of the hill from the meadow in my backyard. The hill in question is 1000 ft away, with the crest 200 ft from above my home point. Flying Catbird to the crest I have to account for the increase in elevation. When I reach my spot, the metrics say I'm 250 ft vertical, but I can tell you the catbird is only about 90 feet off top of the hill.
MISSION
-I want to fly this mission from the waypoint menu. So I fly to my spot over the top of the hill, and create point #1.
-I'd like to leave there and fly to #2 over a nearby a golf course 900 ft away.
-the #3 spot is 700 ft away over a small pond to the west, and then home.
Questions
-With the catbird flying the mission on his own is he going to know to account for the increase in elevation to #1 or is he gonna fly into the side of the hill about halfway up? Flying manually I increase the vertical over the 1000 ft, I have to clear a bank of trees (50ft high) about halfway. Should I start catbird at a height that will (about 300 ft) will take him to the spot in direct line?
-arriving at each waypoint I'd like to hover about 5 minutes to check everything and grab a few pics before flying to the next point. Will he do that or is he just go fly to that spot, and then proceed to the next without checking up?
-I guess the short version of this is the catbird gonna fly this mission the way I flew it, or is he gonna do his own thing?