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flights required this button becomes a drop-down list, and you can upload each
flight individually.
Caution: Clicking ‘Upload’ will directly modify the waypoints re-
quired for the flight plan in the eBee. If the drone is flying towards
or around one of these waypoints, its navigation will be affected to
reflect the new waypoint parameters.
Clicking the ‘More’ button reveals several more options:
• Load mission area...: Click to load a previously-saved mission area and
parameters from an Auto Flight Planner (.afp) file.
• Save mission area...: Click to save the current mission area and parame-
ters to an Auto Flight Planner (.afp) file. This can be useful for example to
map the same area with different image and mission parameters, or to save
and restore a large mapping mission that requires multiple flights. Note
that this saves only the mission area shape and location along with the as-
sociated mission and image parameters, not the actual list of waypoints
that is then generated or the camera payload model used to calculate the
mission plan.
• Load last used mission area: Clicking will load the last mission area that
wassuccessfully uploaded toan eBee autopilot, whether it was a realor sim-
ulated one. This option is useful when you want to repeat your last mission
and did not explicitly use the ‘Save mission area...’ button.
• Load mission area from KML file: Use this option to load a polygonal mis-
sion area directly from a KML file (produced in Google Earth
TM
for example).
• Load mission area from map object: Use this option to load a polygonal
mission area from a previously-imported map object (see section ‘Toolbar’
on page 84).
• Reset mission area: Clicking will reset the mission area to the default rect-
angular size and reposition it in the centre of the Map Area. It will also reset
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