Who calibrates compass before every flight?
Yet to calibrate my MP after 2 yrs 8 mnths. Not even when I got it.
Never found a need.
I donât want to but Iâd have to say that on the majority of flights I make I get âforcedâ to do so. With my little Mavic Air, it seems that it wonât take off unless it is calibrated.
When I had the P3SE I calibrated it once in the 6mths I had it right at the start and it never asked for it again and neither did I try.
Not really an answer to your question I guess.
just wondered as during my PFCO exam, examiner said he calibrates his before every flight,
I did for a while but only now if there is an obvious reason, cliffs or similar
More in depth thoughts and reasoning that Iâve expressed previously on this ⌠Tale of woe - #12 by OzoneVibe
I only ever did it once with my MP. But now I find Iâm forced to do it almost every flight with the MP2 due to âcompass errorâ showing on the screen. There doesnât seem to be any pattern to it except that if I donât fly for a week or so, it needs doing.
doesnât sound right, thatâs never (touch wood) come up on mine.
have you updated/reset settings or looked into why itâs doing it
To be honest I havenât updated or reset the settings. Itâs a minor inconvenience, but thanks for the heads up, Iâll update it tonight. It does seem to coincide with the message that the fly data needs updatingâŚI think!!!
Once (I think) out of the box for my MP.
370km and 5 countries later never bothered.
Did my Mavic when I first bought it, and the second-hand Inspire when I got that too (along with IMU, Gimbal, RC etc calibrations).
Not touched any of them since
I recalibrate both my drones at every new location just to be safe
Im pretty sure as long as it gets a home lock all is good.
Iâve seen lots of chaps dancing with their Phantoms on the beach, makes for an amusing sight ;o)
Back in the Phantom 2 days, when âfly awaysâ were âŚ. the thing, I made one simple note about each one where that info was available.
Had they done a compass recal before the flight. 94% had done so.
I still maintain itâs easier to introduce an âissueâ if you change anything in a system thatâs working perfectly well. Mine (both P2 and MP) fly ⌠âperfectly wellâ. Therefore I leave well alone.
So I donât need to calibrate my pantom or spark everytime I go to different locations as I was told if I didnât my drones wouldnât no where to come back to if I lost connection guess I was miss informed
As above as long as you hear âThe home point has been recordedâ you is ok
But listen when she says check it on the map
Ok thanks for that
The calibration would have to be dramatically wayward for it not to be able to find its way back to the home point.
On the rare occasions Iâve had a re-calibrate compass message, Iâve moved 20ft and tried again and itâs been fine.
I maintain that if a location has a magnetic anomaly, and you recalibrate, once itâs flown 20ft or so itâs no longer influenced by the anomaly to which youâve just calibrated it. Your drone is now flying with a compass with a bad calibration.
Another thing that is confusing, to say the least, is starting up / taking off from metal objects.
One would expect the drone to throw either a ârecalibrateâ message, or just refuse (which can happen).
This came up in a conversation over a year ago, so I tested taking off from a very thick manhole cover.
There was no issue.
My posts that relate to this are here and seven posts below - and the general conversation thereabouts.
Agreed, thatâs really important.
And that, is even more important
Except - I rarely have maps loaded. I just make sure itâs near where the âblank mapâ says I am.
Gawd! Litchi scared the bejezus out of me once, when I first started using it⌠It auto-zoomed the map in so far I thought everything had vanished! LOL!