I have always liked Marco's fast long distance circle, something I am afraid of because I am a poor pilot and am good at losing orientation at a distance. When I noticed that Jason now does not slow down at waypoints under 60 degrees, I thought an 8 point circle might be fun-
Here are two runs-
I really wish I had a decent video camera cause this is a fun flight to watch - it in fact does the circle without slowing and snap yaws precisely around the circle. I attached the log that can be played in Dan's Visualizer and you can watch it yaw and go like a member of a drill team.
This is getting awesome - so much for those DJI guys and 'all you need are a few waypoints'. We can now do 100 point choreography!
TIPS FROM THE TRENCHES-
The best landings are with a waypoint over the landing spot at a few meters with a 10 second loiter, then LAND command. It is very pretty and controlled.
The APPROACH_ALT in 'Standard Parameters' will not let you enter 0, do it in 'Parameter List' if you want it to land all the way.
I have had mixed results with TAKEOFF as first command - it would often rise slowly and take a long time finding the first waypoint and starting the mission. Lately my first command is a waypoint. IF you fly about 30 seconds with alt hold after the LAST time you armed it it will be ready to go. Land (don't let it disarm or you will need to rearm and fly another 30 sec) and then set xmitter to AUTO mode and bring up the throttle halfway and it will take off aggressively determined to do its business.
The default for switch 7 is set waypoint, but is is good to change it to something else if you are loading missions. More than once I have loaded a mission and gotten to the field and found some spurious ch7 set a bad waypoint. Now I set it for simple mode and never have a corrupted mission.
When I load the attached log intp Visualizer it complains about a bunch of CTUN lines, but the program works fine and now the mag headings are there so I really don't care.
This is so cool, now the fun begins!
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One minor bug I noticed with logs is they send me to the ocean instead of the field when I load them in Google Earth. You can search back to the field and the data is there.