Hmm.. I thought I knew how to use this bit but I’m not sure how to use it to check on wind. Think I’m missing something - can you explain? Thanks
Sure - if you get the drone up reasonably high, the ‘horizontal line’ (it’s a lighter shade of green than the background) around the middle of the radar, will ‘tilt’ either sideways (lower left higher right or vice versa) and/or above and below the midpoint of the ‘radar’. This will give you an indication of the relative wind strength the drone is flying in. If you hand hold the drone when it’s on, and change its’ orientation, you’ll see the line move. If it gets to 45° for example, the drone is in some serious head or tailwind!! It’s a bit like the artificial horizon indicator on an airplane. Hope this helps a bit
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@Andy401C beat me to it but I thought I’d post this anyway as I had already written it.
The line separating the lower blue area and the upper grey area (indicated below by the two red arrows) is a “horizon” line so it shows to what degree the drone is tilted.
If the drone is just hovering and there is no wind, you would expect the drone to be flat and level so you would expect the dividing line between the blue and grey areas to be level and sitting exactly on the dotted horizontal line in the centre of the “radar”.
When the drone is hovering, the degree to which the dividing line between the blue and grey areas is tilted and/or is above or below the dotted horizontal line in the centre of the “radar” indicates the strength of the wind (and its direction) as the drone is having to tilt into the wind to maintain its position.
In the example above, the drone is tilting to the left (the line is lower on the left, higher on the right) and backwards (the line is below the dotted horizontal centre line) to counter the wind.
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Thank you - I’ll pay attention to it next time
Thanks for the illustration - I get it now.
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Another box ticked off on my (impressive) list of things I didn’t know I didn’t know about! Useful, too, as an indicator of wind strength and direction; tx, gentlemen!
Great to include the picture above - good shout!! It is really useful generally but especially when you’re flying say, abroad around cliffs / rock faces / islands etc where you’re not familiar with the likelyhood of unexpected gusts etc and want to manage battery depletion / RTH safely
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