I have recently discovered the excitement of using FreeFlight 6 Flight Plans: Nothing more nerve wrecking than loosing the connection to your drone and then see it reappear with the footage you wanted on the memory card.
However, two things bug me:
1. I don't live in a particularly mountainous region, but even setting up my first few flight plans got me to the point where I needed topography information so I can set adequate altitudes for the drone's flight path. I find it really difficult to obtain this information. The "terrain" option in Google Maps adds a bit of shading to the map displayed but does not really show usable information in any explicit measurement: There are iso-lines visible, but they do not seem to be labelled with any proper data. I read that you are meant to drop a pin, right click and obtain that data, but for me Google Maps only displays longitude and latitude information, no altitude information that would allow me to calculate how much the drone needs to climb from the take off point along the flight path. Is there a better alternative available with this information that is easily accessible, especially on an iPhone while out and about?
2. There have been a number of discussions on this forum whether it is possible to build a flight plan where your take off point is higher than some of the altitudes you want the drone to fly to; for example from a cliff down to the sea or from a mountain peak down into a valley (and back up of course). My understanding is that this is not possible in FreeFlight 6 by default. Can somebody explicitly confirm or contradict this, please.
There were discussions where some people were talking about changing the code of the Android app in a text editor. While I would not want to do this myself, as I do not have the knowledge how to, I am wondering whether any such option does exist at all for FreeFlight 6 iOS users?
In some of the earlier discussions there was talk about Parrot having announced on their developer forum that they are working on an update to the FreeFlight App that would allow this. Has there been any progress on this? I can not find this on the Developer forum, but again, that might be because I am not knowledgeable enough about the development side of this hobby.
Thank you for your help!
However, two things bug me:
1. I don't live in a particularly mountainous region, but even setting up my first few flight plans got me to the point where I needed topography information so I can set adequate altitudes for the drone's flight path. I find it really difficult to obtain this information. The "terrain" option in Google Maps adds a bit of shading to the map displayed but does not really show usable information in any explicit measurement: There are iso-lines visible, but they do not seem to be labelled with any proper data. I read that you are meant to drop a pin, right click and obtain that data, but for me Google Maps only displays longitude and latitude information, no altitude information that would allow me to calculate how much the drone needs to climb from the take off point along the flight path. Is there a better alternative available with this information that is easily accessible, especially on an iPhone while out and about?
2. There have been a number of discussions on this forum whether it is possible to build a flight plan where your take off point is higher than some of the altitudes you want the drone to fly to; for example from a cliff down to the sea or from a mountain peak down into a valley (and back up of course). My understanding is that this is not possible in FreeFlight 6 by default. Can somebody explicitly confirm or contradict this, please.
There were discussions where some people were talking about changing the code of the Android app in a text editor. While I would not want to do this myself, as I do not have the knowledge how to, I am wondering whether any such option does exist at all for FreeFlight 6 iOS users?
In some of the earlier discussions there was talk about Parrot having announced on their developer forum that they are working on an update to the FreeFlight App that would allow this. Has there been any progress on this? I can not find this on the Developer forum, but again, that might be because I am not knowledgeable enough about the development side of this hobby.
Thank you for your help!