I know there have been problems with this in the past. I was wondering if anyone has looked closely at this lately. I see the default when creating a corridor plan is set to max speed 34mph. The last time I tried to do a corridor (about a year) the flight speed crawled along well under 15mph regardless of the altitude. I realize slower is better, heck standing perfectly still would take a great photo, but for a corridor flight, the flight times are just way too slow. I have some corridors to do again, and I really hate to have to go to another app for what I spend on Drone Deploy.
What drone? And what are your flight settings?
Mavic pro 2. Default on all - 75% 65% etc.
350 feet alt 400 foot wide corridor.
Just flew a test and speed was 19.
Better than 14 mph but I’ve never been able to affect it at all no matter the setting.
It’s just so time consuming. I’d sacrifice a little bit of final quality to speed up the flight time.
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DroneDeploy purposefully limits the speed to mitigate the chances of motion blur with electronic shutters. It could possibly fly faster when there is a lot of light but better safe than sorry. In my experience those speeds sounds about right.
Ok, would a mechanical shutter allow faster speeds?
Yes. The Phantom 4 Pro was about the same generation and it could fly 20mph at 200ft with no problem. The Mavic 3 Enterprise will let you run at 30mph with a 0.7s shutter but I wouldn’t recommend it. I usually dial it to 25mph with a 2 second shutter, maybe 1sec.
Great to know. I was planning on Mav3E (w thermal). I don’t need 30mph but 25 would be awesome! And DD compensates for this by knowing which shutter each model has?
And I don’t mean in theory you can fly and capture faster etc., I mean what is the DD app going to allow. Because I don’t think the slider has any effect whatsoever.
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In my experience with the M3E DroneDeploy will pretty much match the calcs of DJI Pilot 2. Maybe just a little slower but in the past, it has gone way too far. I’ve been told that they create they capture waypoint by the GPS instead of a time interval so they’re probably slowing it down to give the GPS a chance to calculate a little more accurately so the spacing is good. Every other program I have used has done a time interval and in my opinion it is superior when using a non-RTK drone.