DJI Mavic 3 Waypoints Tutorial - The Best Flight Mode is Here!

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Hi, first of all, thanks for an amazing explanation, nevertheless I have a question. I wonder whether the Obstacle Avoidance function is working on the Waypoint mission or if I must turn it on manually whenever I fly with Waypoint?
Thanks in advance

Does the Florine have to be on for the waypoint creation

How do you make a subject a poi in waypoints?

Excellent video Russ, but honestly, wouldn't you rather save time and enjoy the comfort of pre-planning these missions in the comfort of your own home using Dronelink or Litchi, instead of standing out there in the cold and wasting battery time flying to the way points to set them?

I use waypoints as well and this video is great. Help! How do you video shoot a building or structure and have the Mavic 3 pro just auto fly in a circle around the structure? The owner's manual is very vague. Thanks!

My only complaint about this video is that it is geared to someone who is very familiar with their drone, not those who don't get to fly often with their hobby. I don't know how you got the satellite view on the map, and watching over and over, still didn't see what you did. I assume that you cannot name your missions, only locate by date.

Really Amazing video and really have learned a lot

Quick question: does Mavic Mini 4 pro have the exact same waypoint options as Mavic 3? In Mavic Mini 4 pro can you preset waypoints at home and then fly them on site? In other words, does Mavic Mini 4 pro have native waypoints or is it still virtual stick? If during waypoint mission you lose connection with Mini 4 Pro, is it going to complete the mission or return straight back to you?

Thanks bro for a video.
Was playing today with my pro 3...well...was practicing near a tree these way points...turned off obstacle avoidance...I did nice way points around a tree...wasn't following exactly same route I put on waypoints and stopped not going through some branches even having enough room to go through

Tks for the tutorial!

Okay🤬 You have created and saved your waypoint mission. you go to your launch site, load your mission....Now What??? where is the go button or how do you start the flight.
It is the same with camera function. You experts don't give the full instruction. Take active track. all sorts of vids telling you
how to use once the app is running but nobody tells you how to configure the camera to even start active track.

great video

So you can't pre plan a mission. You have to fly it first. Litchi is 7 years old and 1000% better than DJI.

I LOVE this. Thank u for making such an in-depth tutorial, gonna be using this information tomorrow at my shoot!

With the Air 3 now released yes it has waypoints and eager now to try it on mine ..been using litchi waypoint on my old mini 1

How many different waypoint missions can you save and how long can they be saved for? And how many waypoints can be saved within a mission? I need to cover a construction site with 7 different missions, once a week for a year

Great content. Is this level of granularity settings of Waypoints only available on Mavic 3. I don't see these option on my Air 2S ( not available on Air 2S ?

are waypoints supposed to be unavailable in the authorization zones?

Thank you. Very clear explaination

Thanks man. Great video. If I wanted to video a length of beach, looking for plastic, could I set waypoints at home and then have drone fly beach? Without actually walking there. I would be parked 1 mile inland I should think. From saftey point of view I am talking wilderness location. Thanks

does obstacle avoidance work when it travels in between waypoints?

Great video thanks. I want to video the main block of the main street in our small mountains town. However the top of the block on the main street is about 30 meters higher than the other end of the block on the lower end of the main street about 400 meters away. I want the drone to follow the contour of the street, not drop instantly at different weigh points. Weight Point1 & 2 could be either end of the street, but how to have the drone loose attitude smoothly and consistantly in the flight between WP1&2?

Really excellent video, thank you! One question: if for instance waypoint 1 is at 100 feet. Waypoint 2 is at 200. Will it smoothly move from 100 to 200 on the way between the 2 waypoints or will it reach waypoint 2 and then only move from 100 to 200 feet?

Thanks for this. Just upgraded to the M3 and was struggling to find a use case for this.

Essentially(what I'm gathering) is for hyperlapse video, or videos that require a seamless transition from day to night, for example?

I don't see myself integrating it as I only fly manually, but good to know!

Great video ! I tried the waypoints for a time-lapse video: at sunset I flew the same route 3 times , once in full light, once in the blue hour, once in darkness... I wanted to "morph" the three shot to start from liught and ending in dark where only the street lights give some light. And Mavic 3 failed miserably. ALthough I obviously saved the waypoints and it was a simple movement ( 8 waypoints in total ), the drone didn't find theexact starting point , so the shots were different in angle and couldn'T be layered.... Do you have any experience or advice in this topic ? Thanks !

Great tutorial. I just bought a Mavic 3 to replace my Phantom 4 so I have subscribed to your channel and look forward to more great information. Thank you!

Thank you for these incredibly useful tutorials. They're helping me gain confidence!

Hi there, thank you for another fantastic and instructional video. Can I ask you: why you don’t start from point 3? So you’re already there, saving battery.

The POI on waypoint it’s genius! Love that feature

Very interesting. Can't wait until I get my Mavic 3 Pro. Have a great day! 😀

Do you think they will make waypoints available on the DJI Mini 3 Pro?

Can you make it just fly while you control the camera manually, similar to the Inspire 3 “3D Dolly”?

Hi! When a waypoint mission is saved is it possible to transfer it over to a different controller?

I have never used DJI WP until today. I used to use Litchi all the time.

Can I adjust the speed of the drone while it is flying the waypoint?
Can I adjust the yaw that the drone is flying during the mission. I want to be able to adjust where the camera is pointing at during the mission.
Can I adjust the zoom levels during the mission?

I want to do this because I want to set a waypoint along a road and then while it is flying the waypoint I want to follow the car. Using waypoints I can be assured that I will not hit a tree or power line because I can have the drone ascend when those obstacles approach and then descend.

I don't use Active Track because, well, I don't trust it and I would need to lock onto the car when it is moving which active track cannot do.

I think that the reason are the local restrictions and flight with sight contact. In the early drone Version, the most have the Waypoint Option. I‘m from Germany. For the Tourism itˋs the point, to make Waypoint Routes for POI. Like gpx files for walking. I‘ll hope they push ist. We have here a lot of restrictions in Nature Area with POI. I give this Ideas to the government, so I’ll hope it changes anything in the future. But they need for all laws al long time.

Taking the shortest route to go to way point one to start the mission can be an issue if you are running this on the evening with low visibility and no obstetrical avoidance.

Waypoints.... Using waypoints and losing the radio contact made You pull back. I just saw a video where the guy turned obstacle avoiding off, and tested RTH. The system turned on (!) obstacle avoiding and went back, regardless of cine, normal or sports mode. This was verified by the symbol on the control. Very clever.
I think about waypoints beyond the radio range. You know a lot about the system. This ought to be possible to test in a drone safe manner. Being a newbie I got this idea: Set up waypoints in a near area, circle, rectangle, whatever feels safe and start the waypointing flight. Then turn of the controller...... Will the drone continue its waypoint flying like requested? Will it return at the end of the list?
It ought to be possible to test in a safe manner.
Any thoughts from knowing guys?

Do you think it is possible to include a lens change as part of a waypoint mission on the Mavic 3 Pro?

Is there a limit on how low of altitude you can set a waypoint. I set a waypoint at about 6 ft high (above ground) and the Mavic 3 had a problem with that. I even tried it with obstacle avoidance off and same problem. When I changed the altitude of the waypoint to around 15 feet, it was ok with that. 6 feet? I can’t do a waypoint at 6 feet high? What!?

Thanks Russ. In the field working on a Waypoint mission. I’m looking to edit a mission by adding a WP in between two WPs. Thanks for all your hard work and videos.

I don't want to support channels that have favorable stances in implementing laws take the fun out of flying drones.

Flying responsible, & flying w/ laws that invade privacies are two completely different stances.

Why in the world would you show an ad and not the mission

Hi Russ!
Is it safe to using waypoints at night time around bridge & towers? Thanks

Looks like Minot ND.

One thing I just noticed is that you can’t set the drone to take a photo at the waypoint and then apply to all. I was able to apply to all speed and elevation but not take a photo.

So, basically Litchi. I cant believe they havent already done that years ago. Thanks for the video.

super helpful video thanks for sharing!

Can the longer waypoint mission be done with multiple batteries on Mavic 3?
Example:- After planning the mission it starts shooting, midway it gets below 20% so I do RTH, then swap battery then can it go to resume from where it returned from & continue shooting the mission further?

Unfortunately, I have no access to the maps on my controller.
Unless I have wifi connection?