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Things often look better when you're high. 😀

True, when you switch to Sport Mode, obstacle avoidance switches off. But when you return to Normal Mode, it switches on again. You can see it work to duck under the branches of the first tree encountered, then return to the set altitude before it gets to the deadly river birch.

@@jdthedjyt I didn't know if you turned it back to normal mode is why I was asking.

Apparently, I was a little overconfident in it.

The target doesn't have to be centered in the frame. If it's off to one side when you draw the box around it, it will remain in that position in the frame as you move the drone. It didn't ask for an aircraft compass calibration--only a controller compass calibration. I therefore calibrated the controller compass, but not the aircraft's. Next time, I'll calibrate the aircraft compass anyway. That may be what affected landing accuracy. Usually, it's spot-on.

Once they see this video, nobody else may want me flying their drone! 🙂

Thanks, Justin. Good luck with the new drone. So far, I'm really happy with the air 3, and with DJI's customer service.

Thanks, Tino. I edited with Cyberlink PowerDirector 365. I used its video masking tool to mask off all the FPV video from the controller screen recording except the map, and then a second time to mask off everything but the altitude and distance display. Each masked video was a separate track stacked and synced on top of the 4K recording from the SD card. Hope that explains it adequately. Most multi-track video editors will handle the job in a similar way.

Yes. When you set up a waypoint, for the Gimbal Tilt parameter, options are Face POI, Manual, and Custom. Just choose Manual. Then, If you want manual control of the gimbal at all waypoints, just click "Apply to All" on the upper right of the parameters screen. The same technique applies to the Heading parameter for each waypoint.

@@jdthedjyt Thanks. Yes, this would the way to achieve manual control but my problem is that the gimbal tilt options don’t appear on the app screen at present though, as I remember, they were visible when I was first using my drone. I think later firmware updates have messed things up. I am also unable access “ActiveTrack” with the options of tracking from different directions, though, at first this, too, was available. Do you know how to fix this? I have tried both reverting to factory settings and deleting and reinstalling the app but nothing has worked.

@@srilankavideos6105 Open the Waypoint Planner. Choose a waypoint from a mission you've already saved or click the map to create a waypoint in a new mission. At the bottom right of the screen, click the waypoint and you should see a strip of options for Camera Action, Altitude, Speed, etc.. You may have to drag the strip to the left to expose the Gimbal Tilt option. Click that option and a button should appear on the lowest part of the strip. Click that button and you should see options for Face POI, Manual, and Custom. Choose Manual to allow manual control of the gimbal as you fly the waypoint mission. For the Active Shots, get the aircraft in the air, yaw it to face you, then draw a box on the screen around you. Default of Spotlight should appear. Choose the Active Track option to its left and quickly click Go before it defaults back to Spotlight. The follow position dial should appear in the lower left. Start moving and then click somewhere on the dial to choose the location around you from which you want it to observe you (Back, Front, Left, Right, or in between). Hope this helps. Good luck!

@@jdthedjyt Thanks. I followed your instructions for setting the gimbal to manual control and it worked! But, unfortunately, I am still unable to access the feature for tracking in different directions. The follow position dial you referred to doesn't appear on my screen.

@@srilankavideos6105 I'm glad you got gimbal control on waypoints working. As for ActiveTrack, all I can suggest is that you have to be quick on the trigger to click Go after drawing the box on your target and clicking ActiveTrack. DJI doesn't give you much time to click Go before reverting to the default Spotlight mode. And make sure your click of the Go button is actually "taking." We're having severe thunderstorms at the moment here, so I can't put my Air 3 up to try it again. Good luck.

Not sure whether Autel ever called their waypoint missions "Cahle Cam," but Yuneec certainly did. Like DJI, Yuneec connected the waypoints with smooth Bezier curves. The Autel EVO waypoint missions always stopped at each waypoint, yawed to the new heading for the next segment, then continued. Autel may have issued a firmware update to make the stops optional, but if they did, they never offered it to me for download. I've posted waypoint missions from all 3 (DJI, Autel, and Yuneec), so you can check those out if you'd like. And thanks for subscribing!

Waypoints missions planned on the DJI Air 3 get connected by smooth Bezier curves. Not what you want for mapping or photogrammetry. The Air 3 might not be the best consumer-grade choice for that work. The Autel Robotics EVO II with its software for waypoints would be a better choice at the consumer level. Its Mission Planner has an option for automatic grid layouts of waypoints specifically for mapping. Or go with an Enterprise-level drone from DJI or Autel for mapping,

Ah! Test with gimbal mode set to FPV. Gotcha! Good idea. I'll try that. I haven't yet. Stay tuned.

Okay, here's your requested FPV Mode test: ua-cam.com/video/8U7sM0cy70M/v-deo.html Thanks for watching!

Thanks ​@@jdthedjyt

Can't say for sure. Didn't try using different altitudes at the waypoints. But give me a few days and I'll try running this mission again with some altitude changes. Or maybe somebody else can chime in with a definitive answer.

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@@jdthedjyt Thanks

Actually the Japanese didn't push threw and destroy the invasion fleet parked offshore . The Destroyers and US Cruisers did accomplish turning the Yamato around and saving the rest of the US Fleet .

@@haylocktransport6695 That's, uh, what I said.

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