Swathwise Sample — flight plan
November 2, 2026 · 1 area, 1 route
Settings
- Job type
- General topographic mapping (USGS QL1)
- Aircraft
- Matrice 350 RTK
- LiDAR
- Zenmuse L2
- Ground cover
- Open — bare, grass, crops
- Height above ground
- 115 m (377 ft)
- Speed
- 12 m/s
- Side overlap
- 50 %
- Scanning
- Repetitive (linear)
- Pulse rate
- 240 kHz
- Returns
- Triple
- Grids
- 1
- Site elevation
- 4,000 ft
- Land at
- 25 % battery
- Battery swap
- 10 min
- Launch point
- 42.534192, -118.461463
Ridge Block
area- Size
- 0.904 sq mi · 578.4 acres
- Flight lines
- 18 · 33.5 km (20.8 mi) · 70.5 m apart
- Raw point density
- about 269 pts/m²
- Battery sets
- 3
- Farthest point from launch
- 2,529 m (8,296 ft)
- Starts
- the south-west side, first leg heading 86°
- Ends
- the north side · 1,714 m (5,624 ft) back to the launch point
Route files
| # | File | Grid | Heading | Lines | Line km |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | RidgeBlock.kmz | main grid | 86° | 18 | 33.5 |
These are the waypoints written into the route file.
- Estimated 57 min exceeds one battery set (~35 min usable) — plan 2 battery sets; the aircraft will RTH mid-route and resume after a swap.
The route files follow the ground when they are exported with terrain: the height above is a height above the ground under the aircraft, from USGS 3DEP bare-earth elevation at about 30 m. Trees, buildings, towers and wires are not in that data. Before a route is flown, open it on the controller and check that its height profile follows the ground; a flat profile means the terrain did not load, and the aircraft would hold its height above the takeoff point. A route exported without terrain — no connection, or a site outside the United States — always does that. Times and battery sets are planning estimates from published aircraft figures at the stated site elevation and landing reserve; wind, temperature and battery age change them. The satellite pictures are USDA NAIP aerial imagery, public domain, as recent as the imagery on the map. The pilot in command is responsible for the flight, the airspace and the law that applies to it.