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I generally check the 'Net after being notified that a firmware or Fly app update is available. If nobody online is bitching about it, I go ahead and update. My Air 3 is currently running aircraft firmware version 1.00.1500. The RC-2 is at 4.01.0000, and the Fly app is version 1.15.4. All seem to work for me as advertised.

Thanks! The car sure beats the '63 Chevy Bel Aire of my college days. I should use it more often to take my drone to some different places. I always seem to return to the same old nearby spots. The only NFZs I have to avoid is the TFR over LSU's Tiger Stadium during games.

@jdthedjyt Oh yes 🤣 I dislike we can't fly over certain stadiums. I want so badly to fly over Tampa Bay Bucs stadium. But it's in an NFZ 😢😭. The last Superbowl we had a guy said to hell with it and flew over the stadium during the game! Almost got away but the cops were able to find him before he could leave lmao 🤣. I hope the shot was worth it for him 🤣! Others around town you can fly over but only when it's NOT a game going on! Which is understandable!

@@Quis85 It's a bummer they built the Bucs stadium right off the end of a runway at Tampa International Airport. I imagine the Class B airspace goes down to the surface there.. I've flown over the Superdome in New Orleans (with no game in progress, of course). It's under the MSY Class B airspace, but the floor there is at 2,000 feet MSL, so no LAANC approval is needed.

@jdthedjyt I'm super jealous 😫 ! But yes, you're correct the airport is super close. I didn't know it was a runway that ran in the path of the stadium. But it does explain a lot now.

Thanks! You're right about pilots. I started with a few drones from Yuneec (a quadcopter and a couple of hexacopters). Then I moved to Autel Robotics (EVO 2), then the DJI Air 3. Except for the Yuneec quadcopter, I still fly them all. I was within an inch of buying a U.S.-made Skydio when they got out of the consumer drone business.

@jdthedjyt Skydio was my go-to as well. Then they jacked up the price and did what they did. Dji I said no because too many steps before you fly. Then a lot of times areas you can fly you can't fly simply because it's a DJI drone. Autel Evo Lite Plus was a winner. Beginner drones before i got the Autel was. Ruko F11 gim1 and 2 then I got the Flightelf Cinemaster 2pro. Once that acted up I was good enough. I spent the money on a good Autel! Been flying for two years just now recently last year posting on RUclips!

Thanks, Jim! As a U.S drone pilot, I must be able to physically see my drone at all times. But that does not mean that I have to look at it all the time. Otherwise, there'd be no point in having a controller screen with a drone camera view and a bunch of telemetry because the pilot couldn't take his eye off the drone to look at the screen. When I'm shooting drone video or photographs, much of my time is spent looking at the screen rather than the drone. But as long as I can look up at the sky and see the drone, that's fine. And I often move to a new vantage point if the drone will be flying behind another object for any significant length of time so that I can physically see the drone. In that case, unless I reset the home (takeoff) point to my new location, the telemetry doesn't necessarily indicate how far away from me the drone actually is. Some drones allow for connecting multiple controllers. The pilot uses one controller and physically watches the drone full time. A second crew member acts as camera operator and watches his screen full time. Or the second crew member can be a visual observer who watches the drone physically full time.

This firmware and app update is on my Air 3. I don't have a 3S (yet 🙂). The app update provides the one-touch enabling of "Focus Track," which used to be called "Subject Scanning" and required using the menu to turn it on and off.

Thank you

Things often look better when you're high. 😀

True, when you switch to Sport Mode, obstacle avoidance switches off. But when you return to Normal Mode, it switches on again. You can see it work to duck under the branches of the first tree encountered, then return to the set altitude before it gets to the deadly river birch.

@@jdthedjyt I didn't know if you turned it back to normal mode is why I was asking.

Apparently, I was a little overconfident in it.

The target doesn't have to be centered in the frame. If it's off to one side when you draw the box around it, it will remain in that position in the frame as you move the drone. It didn't ask for an aircraft compass calibration--only a controller compass calibration. I therefore calibrated the controller compass, but not the aircraft's. Next time, I'll calibrate the aircraft compass anyway. That may be what affected landing accuracy. Usually, it's spot-on.

Once they see this video, nobody else may want me flying their drone! 🙂

Thanks, Justin. Good luck with the new drone. So far, I'm really happy with the air 3, and with DJI's customer service.

Thanks, Tino. I edited with Cyberlink PowerDirector 365. I used its video masking tool to mask off all the FPV video from the controller screen recording except the map, and then a second time to mask off everything but the altitude and distance display. Each masked video was a separate track stacked and synced on top of the 4K recording from the SD card. Hope that explains it adequately. Most multi-track video editors will handle the job in a similar way.

Yes. When you set up a waypoint, for the Gimbal Tilt parameter, options are Face POI, Manual, and Custom. Just choose Manual. Then, If you want manual control of the gimbal at all waypoints, just click "Apply to All" on the upper right of the parameters screen. The same technique applies to the Heading parameter for each waypoint.

@@jdthedjyt Thanks. Yes, this would the way to achieve manual control but my problem is that the gimbal tilt options don’t appear on the app screen at present though, as I remember, they were visible when I was first using my drone. I think later firmware updates have messed things up. I am also unable access “ActiveTrack” with the options of tracking from different directions, though, at first this, too, was available. Do you know how to fix this? I have tried both reverting to factory settings and deleting and reinstalling the app but nothing has worked.

@@srilankavideos6105 Open the Waypoint Planner. Choose a waypoint from a mission you've already saved or click the map to create a waypoint in a new mission. At the bottom right of the screen, click the waypoint and you should see a strip of options for Camera Action, Altitude, Speed, etc.. You may have to drag the strip to the left to expose the Gimbal Tilt option. Click that option and a button should appear on the lowest part of the strip. Click that button and you should see options for Face POI, Manual, and Custom. Choose Manual to allow manual control of the gimbal as you fly the waypoint mission. For the Active Shots, get the aircraft in the air, yaw it to face you, then draw a box on the screen around you. Default of Spotlight should appear. Choose the Active Track option to its left and quickly click Go before it defaults back to Spotlight. The follow position dial should appear in the lower left. Start moving and then click somewhere on the dial to choose the location around you from which you want it to observe you (Back, Front, Left, Right, or in between). Hope this helps. Good luck!

@@jdthedjyt Thanks. I followed your instructions for setting the gimbal to manual control and it worked! But, unfortunately, I am still unable to access the feature for tracking in different directions. The follow position dial you referred to doesn't appear on my screen.

@@srilankavideos6105 I'm glad you got gimbal control on waypoints working. As for ActiveTrack, all I can suggest is that you have to be quick on the trigger to click Go after drawing the box on your target and clicking ActiveTrack. DJI doesn't give you much time to click Go before reverting to the default Spotlight mode. And make sure your click of the Go button is actually "taking." We're having severe thunderstorms at the moment here, so I can't put my Air 3 up to try it again. Good luck.

Not sure whether Autel ever called their waypoint missions "Cahle Cam," but Yuneec certainly did. Like DJI, Yuneec connected the waypoints with smooth Bezier curves. The Autel EVO waypoint missions always stopped at each waypoint, yawed to the new heading for the next segment, then continued. Autel may have issued a firmware update to make the stops optional, but if they did, they never offered it to me for download. I've posted waypoint missions from all 3 (DJI, Autel, and Yuneec), so you can check those out if you'd like. And thanks for subscribing!

Waypoints missions planned on the DJI Air 3 get connected by smooth Bezier curves. Not what you want for mapping or photogrammetry. The Air 3 might not be the best consumer-grade choice for that work. The Autel Robotics EVO II with its software for waypoints would be a better choice at the consumer level. Its Mission Planner has an option for automatic grid layouts of waypoints specifically for mapping. Or go with an Enterprise-level drone from DJI or Autel for mapping,

Ah! Test with gimbal mode set to FPV. Gotcha! Good idea. I'll try that. I haven't yet. Stay tuned.

Okay, here's your requested FPV Mode test: ruclips.net/video/8U7sM0cy70M/видео.html Thanks for watching!

Thanks ​@@jdthedjyt

Can't say for sure. Didn't try using different altitudes at the waypoints. But give me a few days and I'll try running this mission again with some altitude changes. Or maybe somebody else can chime in with a definitive answer.

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@@jdthedjyt Thanks