Terrain Awareness

[MichaelL]

It’s finally here. I posted on another thread to close it out, but let’s start talking about experiences whether they are good or more importantly bad.

Set Flight Altitude from first waypoint

I tried the Terrain Awareness this morning and it worked well. I tried it on a site that had moderate elevation change to be safe, but I was at the high point and could tell that the drone was raising and lowering accordingly. One suggestion would be to make sure that you have at least a 20ft buffer as this is the deviation that you could get with the combined accuracies of the drone and the DEM that was used for the terrain. This is mostly important for those of you that like to fly at very low…

[RockingP]

Were you able to see a terrain awareness dialogue in your drone deploy app, I can see it to create the flight plan on the desktop but I don’t see anything in the app itself yet?

[MichaelL]

Yes, but this only works in iOS as of now.

[RockingP]

OK thank you, I looked around the fact page to see if that was the case and didn’t see that tid bit.

[MichaelL]

@Andrew_Fraser, fyi in case this is supposed to work on Android. I am assuming not yet, but it may need to be documented for those that actually go look. It doesn’t appear to be on support.

Terrain Awareness

[Andrew_Fraser]

@MichaelL You are correct - Terrain Awareness can only be flown with the iOS app at this time. Thanks for surfacing the support article - we will update to reflect.

The DroneDeploy Android app will get this and other upgrades this year.

[Forestia]

I’m hurry for it to be on androïd