Most of my mapping work to date has been done in calm’ish conditions and when there is wind, I always try setup my legs cross-wind to get consistent ground speed and thereby make sure the camera can keep up with the triggering.
My question is: How does wind impact the task/mapping speed when it is fairly strong and I’m required to fly legs up and down wind? Since TRIM_ARSPD_CM controls airspeed, what happens in an extreme scenario when wind speed is same or near that value? Will the drone actually make any progress? Should one just use throttle nudge on the upwind legs?
You should configure a minimum ground speed as well, to ensure progress in strong headwind.
Strong tailwind may exceed camera speed, or cause motion blur. So in hard wind conditions it’s common to use only upwind part for data gathering, and fly downwind as transport only.
Cross wind pattern in strong winds , where there are 45 or more degree yaw, will also degrade overlap, so special planning is needed.
I was also facing the same issue and solved It by setting up Min_Gndspd_cm.
But I would also like to know which parameters should be tuned to achieve yaw alignment perfectly aligned to the waypoint path/line.
in my case there is almost 25 degree of yaw angle in target heading and current heading
The only “parameters” you should be able to change to make the aircraft both follow the desired path over the ground (course) and align the heading with the ground course would be wind direction and wind speed.
Every crosswind will create trajectory slip. In order to maintain the course, the aircraft must change the heading (yaw) by a correction angle from the desired course.
