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Seeking wisdom. I am trying to figure out the MP/tower work flow.
I have completed a few successful tower missions. This week I went out to fly on a mountainside at 5140' elevation. When trying to program a tower mission I had a really hard time finding my bearings based on the satellite map. I couldn't trust the gps dot, because it moved around slightly and I had no solid landmarks. Just tons of trees. Pretty unnerving standing on a damn near 45 degree slope. I was unaware of the terrain map option at that time. I'm not sure it would have helped that much, as its accuracy at close range is also hard to determine. I decided it best just to do a simple manual flight and call it a day.
I figured out how to connect to solo, pull the tlogs, locate the flight, play and export the flight graph to .kmz. Which is friggin awesome. Google earth shows the perfect mix of terrain modelling and sat mapping. Not to mention that I can trust the gps coordinates since solo has actually been there.
This leads me to my question. Is it possible to run a mission planer mission with solo? Or is there a way to use the data from my first flight to establish a good series of accurate waypoints in tower. I don't see a way to manualy input the gps coordinates into tower.
Ideally I could bring a macbook air with me, run mission planner, connect to solo wifi and execute the mission via MP. Is this possible? Would the fly button still take over? etc. Or should I just try to take the data from MP and improvise with tower.
MP seems to have some really nice features like the altitude compensation from map data. That would be perfect for where I am going to be flying, it is really steep.
Thanks.
I have completed a few successful tower missions. This week I went out to fly on a mountainside at 5140' elevation. When trying to program a tower mission I had a really hard time finding my bearings based on the satellite map. I couldn't trust the gps dot, because it moved around slightly and I had no solid landmarks. Just tons of trees. Pretty unnerving standing on a damn near 45 degree slope. I was unaware of the terrain map option at that time. I'm not sure it would have helped that much, as its accuracy at close range is also hard to determine. I decided it best just to do a simple manual flight and call it a day.
I figured out how to connect to solo, pull the tlogs, locate the flight, play and export the flight graph to .kmz. Which is friggin awesome. Google earth shows the perfect mix of terrain modelling and sat mapping. Not to mention that I can trust the gps coordinates since solo has actually been there.
This leads me to my question. Is it possible to run a mission planer mission with solo? Or is there a way to use the data from my first flight to establish a good series of accurate waypoints in tower. I don't see a way to manualy input the gps coordinates into tower.
Ideally I could bring a macbook air with me, run mission planner, connect to solo wifi and execute the mission via MP. Is this possible? Would the fly button still take over? etc. Or should I just try to take the data from MP and improvise with tower.
MP seems to have some really nice features like the altitude compensation from map data. That would be perfect for where I am going to be flying, it is really steep.
Thanks.