Wind Settings

Top directions — select one to apply

📐

The controller insets the first flight path from the boundary by the perimeter offset, applied equally on all four sides, then spaces passes one swath apart. Turns happen inside that offset band. All three boxes share one start corner, so the ferry leg is identical everywhere and cancels out of every comparison.

CD4 and CDE8 fly the leg length below. TURN8 flies 16 legs at half that length, which is the same total distance as CD4 with 8 more turns. Equal distance is what lets Step F measure the turn penalty without assuming a speed.

⬇ CD4 KML ⬇ CDE8 KML ⬇ TURN8 KML  (Step F)

Flight Information

🚁 REQUIRED

Launch, rise to approx 25' and move approx 50' away. Hover. Spray tank EMPTY. Charge to full if you can. Record the ACTUAL battery % at launch, the end battery % and the flight duration.

🛢️ REQUIRED

Launch, rise to approx 25' and move approx 50' away. Hover. Spray tank FULL. Charge to full if you can. Record the ACTUAL battery % at launch, the end battery % and the flight duration.

✈️ REQUIRED

Forward flight with EMPTY tank. Spray system OFF. Ferry out to the box start corner at ferry speed, then fly the circuits at application speed. Leg length comes from Mission Setup above (200 yards by default). Two runs at 4 and 8 circuits give cruise drain, fixed per-sortie cost and turn time.

⚠ Fly both runs back to back on the same battery pack, in the same hour. One duration cannot separate fixed launch cost from cruise drain — two can, but only if conditions hold between them.

🛢️✈️ REQUIRED

Forward flight with FULL tank. Spray system OFF. Ferry out to the box start corner at ferry speed, then fly the circuits at application speed. Leg length comes from Mission Setup above (200 yards by default). Combined with Step C, this calibrates the weight-dependent energy model across the full load range.

⚠ Fly both runs back to back on the same battery pack, in the same hour. One duration cannot separate fixed launch cost from cruise drain — two can, but only if conditions hold between them.

💧✈️ OPTIONAL

Spray flight with FULL tank. Spray system ON at your optimum spray speed and swath width at 12 ft AGL. Eight circuits of 75 yards each. This establishes actual spray battery drain rate, verified speed, and verified swath width — the most important numbers in the planner.

📋 Launch → Ascend to 12ft AGL → Fly 75 yards at optimum spray speed (spray ON) → Turn 180° → Return 75 yards (spray ON) → Repeat for 8 complete circuits (16 legs total) → Land → Record gallons remaining, actual speed flown, and actual swath width achieved

🔄 REQUIRED

Box TURN8 — FULL tank, spray OFF, same heading and same application speed as Step D. Sixteen legs at half the leg length, so it covers exactly the same ground as the Step D 8-leg run with 8 more turns.

🎯 Equal distance is the whole point. Every extra second and every extra percent belongs to those 8 turns, so turn cost comes out without assuming a speed. Pairing it against the Step D 16-leg run — same turn count, more distance — also measures your actual ground speed.

⚠ Fly this on the same battery pack and in the same conditions as Step D. Comparing across packs or across an hour of changing wind puts the drift straight into the turn number.

✓ Verification Results

1 · The page on kads.tech

The page lives at kads.tech/verify/, beside the field intake app at kads.tech/field/. Download index.html and upload it there whenever the page itself changes. Missions never need this — they arrive by link.

2 · Address override (rarely needed)

Leave this empty for KADS. It exists so another drone company can host its own copy. Stored on this workstation.

3 · Get this mission onto the tablet

📋 Copy link 🖨 Print the code

Point the tablet camera at the code above and tap the link that appears. No mail, no typing. Print the code makes a labelled sheet carrying the drone, the date and the mission figures, for when the tablet is not in the room.

Or mail the link to yourself and open it once on the tablet. The mission is stored there and stays put — close Safari, lose signal, reopen from the home screen and it is still loaded. The mission rides in the part of the address after the #, which browsers never send to the server. Each flight has a stopwatch on the page: it counts down 10 seconds before it starts, and on Landed it asks whether to take time off.