mavlink / qgroundcontrol

Cross-platform ground control station for drones (Android, iOS, Mac OS, Linux, Windows)
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Feature Request: Add loiter direction option to mission planning wizard #8439

Open kosakwayne opened 4 years ago

kosakwayne commented 4 years ago

When using the mission planning wizard, after placing the landing location the "loiter clockwise" option should be present. This is the only setting that needs to be consistently changed with a standard default landing procedure. I have sketched up a mockup below of what it could look like:

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DonLakeFlyer commented 4 years ago

My concern here is that this is creating a parallel ui to the normal ui. Which wasn't the original intent of this wizard mode stuff. It was just meant to handle completely missing information like no polygon. I understand why this is being asked for. But I think it possibly point to a larger problem which is the the auto-move to the next item when you click done may not be a good idea. I think it may be better to stay on the item so you can tweak as you need before finishing up the rest of the incomplete items.

M-Skelton commented 4 years ago

I've used the planning wizard a bunch now. I think this is a key feature that is missing. I think most users won't touch any of the rest of the landing parameters when working with commercial solutions. However, flipping the loiter direction will be used.