I'm considering buying a P4. I like what the "promo" video shows regarding new capabilities. I have a few scenarios in mind that I would want it for but wonder if it will work like I imagine..
Scenario 1 - I take my motorcycle out to a Road Racing Course. I put the bird in Sport mode, I use active track to "select" my motorcycle, I set the P4 free to video.. Around the slower sections of the track and at a given altitude I can see it keeping up, but what happens when I hit that huge straight where I hit 165 mph? I know it can't do that speed and even at a bit of altitude it won't keep up (same principle as tracking an object in the sky at a distance). If it loses sight of me what will it do? Will it hover? RTH? I guess that might be one of the "settings"? If I come back into view because the track double backs on itself and its within "x" number of seconds before RTH or Hover kicks in, but now I'm facing the P4 instead of having my back to it, will it recognize me and continue to follow/track?
And if I'm on tighter section of the course, where say at 40' feet you can see a couple of the corners, will it "follow me" into and out of each corner or basically draw a straight line and fly and film that?
Scenario 2 - Same basic set-up but I'm in a canyon setting. The P4 is following me at my 4 o'clock about 50' feet away, the road makes a blind 90 degree turn to the left. Blind because the mountain side is there and you can't really see around the turn. How will the P4 navigate around it once it sees it as an obstacle? Since it doesn't have "look up" sonar, I can't imagine it would go in that direction cause there may be a hanging ledge. how does it determine whether going left or right is the correct way to go to get around the object? In my example the correct way would be to the right...
Interested to hear your thoughts
Scenario 1 - I take my motorcycle out to a Road Racing Course. I put the bird in Sport mode, I use active track to "select" my motorcycle, I set the P4 free to video.. Around the slower sections of the track and at a given altitude I can see it keeping up, but what happens when I hit that huge straight where I hit 165 mph? I know it can't do that speed and even at a bit of altitude it won't keep up (same principle as tracking an object in the sky at a distance). If it loses sight of me what will it do? Will it hover? RTH? I guess that might be one of the "settings"? If I come back into view because the track double backs on itself and its within "x" number of seconds before RTH or Hover kicks in, but now I'm facing the P4 instead of having my back to it, will it recognize me and continue to follow/track?
And if I'm on tighter section of the course, where say at 40' feet you can see a couple of the corners, will it "follow me" into and out of each corner or basically draw a straight line and fly and film that?
Scenario 2 - Same basic set-up but I'm in a canyon setting. The P4 is following me at my 4 o'clock about 50' feet away, the road makes a blind 90 degree turn to the left. Blind because the mountain side is there and you can't really see around the turn. How will the P4 navigate around it once it sees it as an obstacle? Since it doesn't have "look up" sonar, I can't imagine it would go in that direction cause there may be a hanging ledge. how does it determine whether going left or right is the correct way to go to get around the object? In my example the correct way would be to the right...
Interested to hear your thoughts
