My first Litchi mission test

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My first planned mission with Litchi, as some of you will know the card issues I had, well here is the video that I managed to get back from it.
It was shot with the Mavic Pro at Twmbarlwm Hill Fort, I plan on going back soon to do another with the Phantom 4 Pro.
I will be making some alterations to the mission for the next visit now I know what to expect.
I have added bars to the top and bottom, upped the speed by 10% as well as boosting the colour by 10%.
I have left the video uncut for those that were interested in the mission.
This was a rushed third attempt as Resolve crashed as I was finishing off the first, I chose yes to altering the frame rate when I started the second, I can never remember if I should or not and always seem to make the mistake, the third one I’m not happy with the title but it’s only a test so no big deal.

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Litchi does a really smooth job, eh?

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Yes it does, I was really impressed after I had seen it make the first few turns and miss flying into the hillside :laughing:
I knew I could stop worrying and enjoy the flight then.

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Great job with Litchi.

It hardly needs cut at all. Would look great sped up I think.

Great footage, bet your glad you managed to save it.

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Yes, I was a bit relieved Callum, I was disappointed when I got home and thought I had lost it, I thought it’s not going to beat me :laughing:

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I’m definately going to have to start using Litchi more.

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Great work Richard and glad you got it of the memory card
so my next flight will be the area i did last week i have the plan of my route for litchi and checked in google earth
Wish me luck…

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Thank you Jeff and good luck.

Did you see the post from @TimD in my Card problems thread, he mentioned that you can fly the mission in Google Earth with the extension for Chrome here.

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thats what i have been using easy peasy (still growing them balls though)

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I’ve not used the “Fly the mission” Chrome extension before - but I’ve been looking at it this evening.

It does have flaws! So use carefully.

  • It tends to over-fly altitude changes.
  • It doesn’t maintain POI focus as well as the MP does.

The altitude over-fly, obviously, is the more important one. One of my missions starts with about 10 waypoints at 25m, and then finishes with 6 at 50m.

At the transistion, it dips to 21m and then rises to 78m. THAT’s a big error!

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As you can see - the higher WPs are at 50m … and it was over WP13 it hit 78m.

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Edit - I’ve posted about the height issue on the Mavic Pilots thread.

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Yes I noticed the POI was off on my already flown route, it’s not something I’m going to rely on to be honest, it’s a good idea if they can get it right though.

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The developer has asked for an export of my mission that demonstrates both rather well. I’ll be sending it to him later.

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I wonder if the original VLM exhibits the same issue. The original is windows based so I can’t test it. I’ve not seen any reports of such anomalies using VLM I’ve only used the chrome plugin and so far only for scouting locations

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Nope - fine in VLM.