Welcome to IMGING Flight Training.

IMGING Flight gives you automated drone flight, IMGING AI, measurements, and data analytics directly integrated into your Mavice 3 Enterprise or Thermal.

Flight Inspection Process

 

  1. Preflight / Setup – the setup, assignment of the inspection, and task selection.
  2. In-Flight – the execution of the inspection. 
  3. Post-Flight – this includes transfering, uploading, photo reviewing and annotating, AI Damage Detection, measurements, and Xactimate integration. 

 

Reminder, IMGING Flight works only on the DJI Mavic 3 Enterprise (M3E specs here) or Thermal.

Preflight / Setup

Job setup is essential to ensuring your inspections is successful. 

IMPORTANT
For the best IMGING Flight experience, FORCE STOP the DJI Pilot 2 app in the RC settings BEFORE starting the IMGING Flight app.

Note
If IMGING Flight was already open, close and FORCE STOP IMGING Flight and any other flight apps before opening IMGING Flight again.

To do this, on your RC Pro Enterprise, select:

1. Settings
2. Apps & Notifications
3. See All Apps -or- App Info
4. DJI Pilot 2 or any other flight app
5. Force Stop

Visit flight.lovelandinnovations.com and follow the instructions for downloading Flight to your RC Pro.

Instructions on how to set Flight as your default app:

1. Open “Settings App” on RC

2. Click on “Apps & Notifications”

3. Click “Auto start application selection”

4.Select “IMGING Flight”

Using IMGING Web or IMGING iOS

You cannot create jobs on the IMGING Flight app, they must be created either on Web or from the iOS app.

1. Create a job.

  

2. Select from one of the supported tasks for IMGING Flight:

  • Model Only
  • Manual Scan

3. Assign the job to yourself or the pilot that will be flying the job.

All the fields need to have a green checkmark to enable the “Build Flight Plan” button.

  • LAANC Authorization
    • Info button will display a window where you can read and “Acknowledge” that you have receive LAANC approval

  • Drone Vitals
    • o Automatically approved for you if drone is ready to fly

  • Battery Percentage
    •  Automatically approved for you if battery is above 90%
    •  Pilot must approve below 80%

  • Weather
    • Automatically approved for you if you have internet connection and the weather is safe to fly
    • Pilot must approve if bad weather or no internet connection is found

GPS Signal

    • Automatically approved when the drone connects to enough satellites and has a “Strong” to “Very Strong” signal

 

Manual Flight Page

Automate Flight Page

Setup and Launch Process

 

 

  1. Review the Safe Heights and Scan Altitudes on the pre-flight page.
    1. If you would like to adjust these values, click “View” under Flight Plan.

  2. To get a better overview of the flight path from the Flight Plan page, click on the map to view it in the larger window.

  3. Make any adjustments to the flight plan and click “Save” at the top right.

  4. Verify the Return to Home Safe Height and the Max Altitude values.

  5. Prepare drone for flight:
    1. Find a clear place to launch your drone, free of obstructions and obstacles
    2. Remove the gimbal clamp
    3. Unfold the arms and propellers
    4. Power on the drone

  6. Once the drone is on, make sure all pre-flight actions are ready and show a green checkmark.
    1. Waiting for the GPS to connect to sufficient satellites takes the most time

  7. Click the “Build Flight Plan” button.

  8. Click the “Launch Drone” button.

 

 

 

When LAANC approval is needed, you will need to obtain that through a third-party.

Once you have approval you can authorize from the preflight checks page by clicking the green check mark on the LAANC card.

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The FAA UAS Data Exchange is an innovative, collaborative approach between government and private industry facilitating the sharing of airspace data between the two parties.

Under the FAA UAS Data Exchange umbrella, the agency will support multiple partnerships, the first of which is the Low Altitude Authorization and Notification Capability (LAANC).

Click here to find out more about LAANC.

Manual Flight

Edits to the RTH altitude and max altitude can be made from the pre-flight checks page for manual flight task types.

Automated Flight

  • Edits to automated flight plan heights can be made by clicking the “View” button on under the “Flight Plan” section of the pre-flight checks page for automated task types.
  • If you need to make an update to the perimeter of the building, you must do so either on IMGING Web or iOS applications.

You can perform a Supplemental Flight on any completed drone task on a job, even on tasks where the automated portions are not yet supported.

  1. Navigate to any job that has a complete drone task.

  2. Click on the supplemental icon.

  3. Read the modal and click continue (you can check the box to not see the modal again – until the app is updated or re-installed).



  4. Review your safe height and launch the drone.

  5. When you are done capturing photos, land the drone and photos will automatically begin transferring.

 

In-Flight

This section deals with the heads-up display (HUD) and executing the inspection while the drone is flying. 

Manual Flight Task (Manual Flight)

 

  1. After clicking “Launch” the drone will take off and you will be taken to the Heads-Up Display (HUD).

  2. The drone will hover at about 4 feet, and you will be in Pilot Override mode.

  3. Manually fly the drone and capture photos.

  4. Finish the flight by either manually landing or using either the Return to Home or Return to Pilot buttons on screen.

  5. You will be presented with a modal giving you the options to:
    1. Abort
    2. Resume
    3. Complete

  6. Clicking “Complete” will take you back to the Job Details page and automatically start transferring photos.
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Automated Flight Tasks (Model Scan)

NOTE: The drone may fly sideways or backward as it ascends or descends during the flight.

  1. After clicking “Launch” the drone will climb to the safe height, then diagonally climb to the Full Subject Photo (FSP) location and altitude.

  2. The drone will take the FSP and then diagonally descend to the Lawnmower starting point and altitude.

  3. The lawnmower will execute, and once completed the drone will Return to Home (RTH).

  4. Feel free to press the “Pause” button at any point in the flight.
    1. This will put you directly into Pilot Override, where you can take additional photos. When finished, click the “Play” button to resume the flight.
    2. Resuming the flight from above the safe height, the drone will fly back to where the flight plan was paused.
    3. Resuming the flight more than 5 feet below safe height, the flight plan will rebuild to ensure the drone will climb back up to Safe Height before making any horizontal movements.

  5. Sticks are live once the drone arrives over the home point to allow you to safely avoid any obstacles if needed.

  6. Once the drone lands, you will be returned to the Job Details page where the task will move to the “Complete” section and display a “Transfer” button.
    1. This will be updated in the future to automatically start the transfer when the scan is complete, and the drone is in the process of returning home.

  7. You can now launch a Supplemental Flight on that completed task if required.

  1. Turn on the controller and drone
    1. Get into the flight HUD within DJI Pilot 2
  2. Open the camera settings
  3. Click on the 3-dot menu
  4. Enable “Mechanical Shutter”

If RTH action fails and the drone just hangs in place:

  • Cancel RTH and either manually fly the drone home or fly it beyond 65 feet from the home point (you can see the horizontal distance on the left side of the screen).
  • This is a known DJI bug that affects the RTH function when a user tries to trigger that action while the drone is within 65 feet of the home point.

Using IMGING Web, iOS, or Flight

  • You can only add Model Scan tasks from the Web or iOS app.
  • You can add Manual Scan tasks from any app, including IMGING Flight.

Report Creation and More

Finished with your flight? Are photos transferred and uploaded? You’re now ready to analyze and report in the IMGING Web experience. Visit this webpage to learn more.

IMGING Web Training

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