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Flight modes: Course Lock and Home Lock

Flight modes: Course Lock and Home Lock - Mavic Tutorial

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Flight modes: Course Lock and Home Lock

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- Next, we're going to check out the course lock and home lock intelligent flight modes. Both are useful for a lot of video shooting tasks, especially course lock. Let's check them out. Course lock is a set of railroad tracks in the sky. It lets you lock the direction of the drone while being able to change its yaw. Normally when you make a yaw adjustment with the left stick, the drone changes course accordingly, curving to the left or the right for example. Course lock changes that. When it's active, the drone continues straight even when you make a yaw adjustment. This makes it easier to do camera moves where the drone is doing a slow rotate as it flies past something. We're airborne now and first, let's just do a yaw movement to show that yes, the drone changes course accordingly. You can see this on the map and in the little compass radar. Now, I'll activate course lock and do a similar yaw move. There's that railroad track in the sky. The drone is yawing. It's rotating but it's…

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