Hello,
I am flying a Phantom 4 Pro V2 drone with the latest Map Pilot Pro software(5.12.8) on IOS. I am having an issue when flying a planned project mission that requires a multiple battery flight and abandonment point resumption. After flying the first leg, Map Pilot Pro clearly shows the abandonment point in blue. However, after landing and changing the battery and resuming the second leg, the drone sometimes continues from a skipped position of where the abandonment point is located anywhere from 3 photos to 10 photos ahead of the abandonment point. This results in a gap of photos. Can you please let me know what may be causing this to happen?
3 would be landing manually. Once you take over and use the sticks Map Pilot Pro is no longer getting the flight mode updates so things get out of sync.
You don't have to start at one of the ORANGE corner points. You can click on ANY corner waypoint at the beginning or end of any pass. It shouldn't cause more than 10s of seconds of difference.
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If you are landing manually it will get out of sync. When you check the blue verification line and see that it isn't doing what you want you would then have to use the manual restarting point selection by tapping a corner waypoint for it to restart on.
If that is not the issue could you please provide screenshots so we can see what is going on?
Zane, can you clarify what you mean by "landing manually"? Do you mean 1) hitting the "Return to home" button in Map Pilot Pro, 2) hitting the "Return to home" button on the controller, or 3) using manual controls while the drone is returning after a flight? I have had the same problem as the OP, and restarting at one of the orange corner points usually means wasting a few batteries and an hour.
Hi Zane, I'm still running into issues with this. I went to fly a larger multi-battery project today. After the first flight was finished, I let it automatically do its thing and land. After switching the batteries, starting the drone, it shows the abandonment point line correctly. However, when uploading the next flight, I got the Over maximum flight radius error. In order to bypass the error I have to completely exit Map Pilot and reload the flight. However, after reloading the flight, it knows I have to resume the abandonment point, but it does not show the blue line of where its going to resume. This is were it ends up going to the wrong location. I have checked the max distance setting in the DJI app and I have tried to both disable max distance and enable max distance and set it to 8000m, yet I continue to get this error? Not sure what is going on? Also, when you mentioned tapping the corner waypoint to restart on, when try this if gives me a message that the current flight is locked and wont let me pick a start point?
The blue verification line is the final answer as to where the aircraft is going to fly. If it isn't right you need to tap on any corner waypoint to move the restarting point to that location. You can hit the unlock button to adjust the point if you get a message about it not letting you pick the starting point.
What is probably going on is that the aircraft doesn't actually have a solid location yet and thinks it is somewhere else. Then when you give it the flight path it is further away than it possibly could fly and throws that error. Maybe try giving it a bit more time after the reset before moving on to let it really find its brains.
Hi Zane. Another question. Does Map Pilot Pro for Android work with the DJI Phantom 4 Pro V2? If so is there any benefit using this version vs the IOS version?
Yes, the P4P works well on the Android version of the app. The SHOULD technically be the same but since iOS has been around so much longer it is slightly more stable and cleaner.
We found a couple issues that might be causing this and have released a version to address it. Look for 5.12.10.
