Offline flights scenario - more than 10 projects?

Flight - Discussion and Q&A
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We have 18 flights, 3 standard grids and 15 corridors, that we need to fly offline. The app has a 10 plan limit for ‘make available offline.’

Can a flight project be created (in the mobile app) when online and then flown when offline IF the project does NOT have make available offline set? … I know the basemap either won’t show or won’t have the high-res tiles. But can the flight still be executed and the data captured on the drone’s SD card for later copy to PC?

We’re using a DJI Phantom 4 and an iPad Pro. (I’d test this but it’s snowing in WY now…)

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You can ask DD to increase the number of offline flights you can save. We have recently done that as we are in a similar situation to you.

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Thanks, but you mean as an enhancement request to the product or as a configuration change within the account?

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I think the default should be upped. This like many cloud softwares limited the number of cached projects because of the mobile device hardware limitations. It’s still a concern as apps bloat but the newer devices are far better than what we had just 2 years ago.

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Couldn’t agree more. Given the chance, I’d ask for 100.

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:open_mouth: That would probably suffice. :slight_smile:

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This is confirmation that DD can increase your max number of offline flight plans. I contacted them through the contact form on the main page.

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yes, we need a lot more than 10 because multi-battery missions don’t work when using Android so that means may tiny missions with lots of lost photos due to overlapping flights.

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For offline applications (especially when needing terrain follow) we have switched to UgCS. It runs flawlessly for photogrammetry missions. You can even resume missions after battery swaps. It runs best with a laptop and an android device or smart controller. DD is best for when its flat or you have cell coverage. We mostly use it for Agriculture.

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This is a great point and has come up countless times. It doesn’t make sense that DroneDeploy doesn’t have offline surface referencing especially when something as generic as Litchi has the ability to reference the surface online and save it to the waypoint values which are cached for offline use.

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