pepper
Well-Known Member
our firmware update policy is that the head of the drone team reviews the firmware update, looks for issues being reported and then tells everyone with that model to update their firmware. it has to be done before your next mission. we haven't had the go ahead for the latest m3 firmware update yet, but it's really weird that it fell out of the sky like that. the only other drone that's ever done that for us was the matrice.
we usually stick to the enterprise drones (or mavic 3t rather than the mavic 3e) that we tend to use come out well after the consumer model does. so firmware updates aren't as crazy. we jumped on the mavic 3 because rc pro controller cut down on the need for 2 ipads, and cause it was getting hard to get batteries and parts for some of our earliest drones. my work drone is a mavic 2e, i use the thermal camera a lot.
the survey guys might use the waypoints feature for the m3, but i don't think we will in operations. out of everyone in my state, probably fire will use it the most, they use a 3d modelling software that maps out their fire scenes. it involves flying a grid pattern over the scene. the software we use for crash investigations is more of surveying tool and doesn't require a grid pattern. you capture a frame at x altitude, increase the altitude and shoot again. we usually do a third and fourth, but the software is pretty accurate down to the inch. for special events, we don't really use fixed routes, we go where the action is and hover.
we usually stick to the enterprise drones (or mavic 3t rather than the mavic 3e) that we tend to use come out well after the consumer model does. so firmware updates aren't as crazy. we jumped on the mavic 3 because rc pro controller cut down on the need for 2 ipads, and cause it was getting hard to get batteries and parts for some of our earliest drones. my work drone is a mavic 2e, i use the thermal camera a lot.
the survey guys might use the waypoints feature for the m3, but i don't think we will in operations. out of everyone in my state, probably fire will use it the most, they use a 3d modelling software that maps out their fire scenes. it involves flying a grid pattern over the scene. the software we use for crash investigations is more of surveying tool and doesn't require a grid pattern. you capture a frame at x altitude, increase the altitude and shoot again. we usually do a third and fourth, but the software is pretty accurate down to the inch. for special events, we don't really use fixed routes, we go where the action is and hover.