Mavic Air and Spark

Follow Settings

For Follow to work, the app needs to know the position of the subject in relation to the aircraft. The easiest way to set these relative values is to fly the aircraft at the relative position the aircraft should be in when the subject begins to move, and press the “Set from Aircraft Position.”
All settings except "Follow Terrain" can be altered in real-time.

• Set from Aircraft Position: Sets the relative altitude, distance and heading from the aircraft's current position.
• Altitude: The altitude from which the aircraft should follow the subject.
• Distance: The distance from which the aircraft should follow the subject.
• Heading Mode (North/Course - North by default): Heading mode “North” means that the aircraft will point its nose to the angle you set relative to North. For example if you set it to 0, the nose will point to North while keeping the subject in the center of the frame. Heading mode “Course” means that the aircraft will point its nose to the angle you set relative to the subject's course (only works if the subject is moving faster than 1m/s). For example if the heading is set to 0 (Leash), the aircraft will follow the subject from behind. Likewise if you set the heading to 180degree (Lead), the aircraft will follow the subject from the front.
• Heading: The angle from which the aircraft should follow the subject (the reference is defined by the Heading Mode).
• Gimbal Control (auto/manual - auto by default): When set to automatic (auto), causes the gimbal to point at the subject automatically. If the option is set to manual, the user will be required to control the gimbal manually.
• Subject Height: The height of the subject that the camera should point at.
• Subject Offset: Only change this setting in situations where you want the aircraft to follow the subject's movements while looking in another direction relative to the subject. The default 0 degrees causes the aircraft to face the subject. An offset of 180 degrees will cause the aircraft to face completely away from the subject.
• Follow Terrain (enabled/disabled - disabled by default): When on, the aircraft will follow the terrain and fly at the altitude set relative to the mobile device elevation which means it will continuously adjust its altitude as the subject moves up or down in altitude (for example if the subject moves up a hill).
• RC Joystick (enabled/disabled - disabled by default): When on, you are able to adjust the altitude using the left joystick up/down, the distance using the right joystick up/down, and the follow heading using the left joystick left/right. The follow heading is the heading of the aircraft relative to the subject, so moving the left joystick to the right and holding it there will result in the aircraft doing an orbit around the subject in a clockwise direction.
• Horizontal Movements (enabled/disabled - enabled by default): When set to off, horizontal movements will be disabled and only the aircraft's altitude, yaw and gimbal will be controlled by Litchi. This can be useful to simulate a fixed camera in the sky.