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Volafly App: Flight mission execution

Volafly App: Flight mission execution

 

 

The Use of third party apps may affect DJI care refresh or liabilities. Please refer to the DJI Care Refresh Terms of Service for further information.

The Use of third party apps may affect DJI care refresh or liabilities. Please refer to the DJI Care Refresh Terms of Service for further information.

The Volafly app solves a bunch of problems:

  • There's only one app, you don't have to deal with both DJI Pilot and litchi app

  • A clean and simple interface

  • Setting for each mission and drone are written in the background

  • seamless integration with the flight plan management in the web app

Volafly can be currently used with the following drones:

App download: https://app.volateq.de/download-volafly (make sure to select the correct file, see below)

  • DJI Mavic 3 Enterprise Thermal (M3T)

    • no limitations, fully compatible with the Volafly

  • DJI Mavic 2 Enterprise Advanced

    • no limitations, fully compatible with the Volafly

  • DJI Mavic 2 Enterprise Dual

Flight execution with Volafly

Preparing the Drone and Smart Controller

Turn on the smart controller and the drone. Launch the Volafly app while the controller is connected to the internet to update the relevant flight missions. You do not need an internet connection to execute the flights once the missions are visible on the controller.

After the missions are updated, you can proceed to the starting point for your flights.

At the Starting Point

At the starting point of your plant, turn on the drone and the smart controller again. As soon as the Volafly app is launched and the drone is connected to the remote controller, the app performs several actions in the background:

1: Valid GPS signal for both the controller and the drone are expected

2: any warning from the DJI SDK are checked and displayed.

3: Battery level of drone are checked

4: check drone position, controller position and home point on the map

 

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Apply Volateq settings

Volafly automatically applies all required drone settings for the flight. If that fails (e. g. due to a bad health condition of the drone) it is possible to apply them them manually by clicking “Apply Volateq Settings”. It is not possible to take off, if the drone settings cannot be applied.

Selecting the Flight Route

On the left, select the flight route (1) corresponding the time slot on your schedule (route names are the same).

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Start flight

Once you have selected the flight route you want to execute by clicking on it, it will appear on the screen. By collapsing the mission details, the start button will become visible. Simply click the start button, and the drone will take off and follow the pre-programmed route.

1: clicking the start button in the lower left triggers the drone to lift off and execute the flight route.

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Warnings are issued if:

  • the flight route has been created for a different drone model

  • the distance between take of point and first waypoint is greater than 50m

  • the starting time is too early or too late for the selected flight route

  • the health status of your drone has serious warnings

The flight cannot be executed if:

  • the drone battery is below 60%

  • the drone has no SD card

  • there is less than 25GB storage capacity available

 

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You can switch between different views: flight mission screen and Camera views.

Abort Mission

If you need to abort the mission (e. g. for emergency situations) either click the RTH button on your controller or hold the “ABORT”-Button for 3 seconds. By click and hold the “ABORT”-Button the drone will interrupt the flight mission and hover. The “ABORT”-Button becomes a “HOME”-Button. Either fly home manually or click the “HOME”-Button to initiate RTH.

 

During the flight, it is important to avoid touching the joysticks and the zoom wheel. Any slight adjustments can unintentionally alter the flight settings, which could result in changes that may compromise the quality of the video footage, rendering it unusable for analysis.

During the flight, it is important to avoid touching the joysticks and the zoom wheel. Any slight adjustments can unintentionally alter the flight settings, which could result in changes that may compromise the quality of the video footage, rendering it unusable for analysis.

In case of unexpected behaviour or error warnings, please send us the log files!

Press the gear icon in the top right corner of the controller (when it's connected to the internet) and then select "Send Log Files” (2)

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