First trial of Skydio 2 KeyFrame in the dark forest

Downloaded the new update today, had to test the new features, I’ve done my first trial at the end of the day, in the forest, with many obstacles. Super impressed so far by the new feature. This will be super useful in areas with lots of obstacles, as long as we set enough Keyframes.

[@ninomendoza627]

Can’t wait to try this!

[@shawnpauleudy3423]

What a great spot to Ice skate! Some of the best times I had with my once little daughter were on skates.:) Will the Skydio software prevent the props from spinning up when you're in a Restricted zone? I was wondering if the software was like that used with the Mavic series.

[@batchboy999]

Nice. Can't wait for my repaired S2 to try it!
But I think for such tests I run play slow, "if you know what I mean", as saying goes, Lol.

[@ricoxxx1849]

#Skydio2NoSubstitute

[@Trailryder42]

Interesting to see it not bob and weave from point to point. I'm guessing that may be so because the cameras can't see anything to "avoid". And it's following the points as a breadcrumb trail via GPS.
Before, normally, the drone wouldn't even allow it to be flown when it detects it being too dark. I wonder if the new Keyframe feature bypasses that particular safety feature.

[@jfparent695]

No it doesn’t, initially it didn’t want to take off, I had to move to a place with a bit more light to take off. For the route, I kept it at a least 1 m from trees and branches to avoid the anti-collision system to kick in. In those lighting conditions, it probably doesn’t see the smaller branches.

[@batchboy999]

I seen one RUclips that demonstrates the keys are set relative to launch, not to gps. In otherwords, it wasn't working if you're setting keys as you're walking with S2. That seems to be what that RUclips demonstrated, what is y'alls assessment?

[@Trailryder42]

@@batchboy999 Skydio has since told us that keyframes are not recorded GPS positions. They're more like visual snapshots. That's one reason why a lot of folks are reporting the drone sometimes being way off when flying the route.

[@jfparent695]

@@batchboy999 The S2 was flying manually when I was setting the keyframes, my trial worked very good. I initially had issues for the take off because it was dark, thats all.

[@djf18m]

I can understand why you were stressed and felt the need to follow, but the video would’ve been much better without you shuffling along in it. Must’ve been very slippery 😉

[@jfparent695]

I know, I wanted a clean shot going in the other direction but unfortunately the S2 wanted to land due to low light so I couldn’t take another shot. It was just a test late on the same day of the update (4 Jan).

[@theufopilotfpv]

It let you take off at night?

[@jfparent695]

At first it didn’t want to take off, I had to move to a spot with a bit more light and it did, after this first trial, I wanted to do a second one without being in the footage but it wanted to land due to lightning conditions, so I was really at its set limit.