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We're going to repeat the same experiment
about the geo-fence range limits
that came with the firmware v4.00,
which didn't work
because it sticks if
you fly it straight forward or straight back
it sticks at the outer fence.
So I sent an email to DJI
and they sent me an
advanced version of firmware v4.02,
which is supposed to fix this.
So we're going to give that a test now.
I've done the compass dance,
we're calibrated, got a green light,
good to go.
First test, just fly straight out
it's going to hit the 25m range limit
at the edge of the football field
and hopefully it will come back by itself
until I can regain control.
I'll try that.
Ok, fly straight out
until it gets to the edge of the field
and it should stop there.
And there it did stop,
it still has its usual drift to the right
and I've immediately got control again.
It just bounced off the wall and came back.
Cool! So it works now.
Let's take a run at that wall
and see what happens.
Bingo. It comes back aggressively.
And right away I have control again.
Cool.
Can I push it through the wall?
No it just goes to the wall.
I've got full forward stick
it even lets me go right and left there
it comes back. Cool.
It won't go through the wall. Nice!
Ok, let's try the same thing out to the left,
the way we did it last time.
Turn this a little bit
so we can see the view out to the left.
It should stop before it gets to that goalpost.
Not quite so much.
I am going to give it full left-stick.
There. Now it hit the boundary at the right place too
[25m] long before it got to the goalposts.
And right away I have control.
It won't let me push out of the wall.
I've got full left-stick, it won't go there.
But I can come back again, that's cool.
And now I'm back in control.
Awesome.
Try that again.
I'll ram it in full speed into the wall
and, boom, very aggressively it stops there.
And the whole time it's outside...
no, right away I've got control again.
So it just stops AT the wall,
which is great!
That's exactly the way it's supposed to work.
Try it out to the right.
Straight out to the right this time.
Right about there it should be. Yup.
And it comes back hard and
I've still got control, which is cool.
There's no..., no there.
It won't let me go over that line.
But it'll let me bring it back.
So I've got forward and back,
right and left...
Let me go right again, into the wall there
and bingo, it fights that.
That's interesting, because
I have control over there too.
It just, it won't let me go further right.
It'll let me go back and forth
and to the left,
but it won't let me go right
until it comes back over the line,
the boundary line.
So that's a MUCH better method than
what it was doing before.
I'm going to try the ceiling as well.
The altitude ceiling is set to 30m.
We're going to go up.
Let me just send it out forward a bit further.
Ok I'm just going to go straight up
it's set to 30m.
Can see that still?
It's still climbing,
still climbing,
still climbing,
there.
Now it throttled back.
I've got full up, it won't go any higher.
While it's stuck up there,
ya, I can go left and right,
and forward and back,
but it just won't climb any higher,
and yaw.
Bring it back down.
So the altitude ceiling works fine.
Let's try one more thing.
We're going to back up this time
from where it's at.
Bring the camera around the other side.
Reversing into the sun,
it should stop before it gets to the bleachers over there.
Backing up...
Straight into the sun,
you're not even going to be able to see that,
are ya? [I couldn't see it.]
And right about there it should stop.
And it did.
It won't let me back up any further than that.
It WILL allow me to go right and left, and forward,
but it won't let me back up any further than that boundary.
Try it again, boom, there's the boundary.
I can still go left and right.
So it doesn't disable the stick anymore,
the way it did before [in v4.00].
It just refuses to go past that line.
I would say that's a success!
Awesome.