Drone Missions

Drone Missions turns the farm map into a flight planner: waypoint routes that launch from a drone base, do useful work at each waypoint (photos, video, hover, orbit), and land back at the base. Flights are simulated today; a dock integration flies the same missions and lands its media in the same library.

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The map

Saved missions draw as dashed routes with numbered waypoints; click a mission name in the table to focus the map on just that route. Drone bases show as 🛸 markers. During a live flight you’ll see the drone itself moving along the route — phase, current waypoint, altitude, battery and ETA in its popup — and for alert-response flights, a 🎯 marker on the animal’s last known location.

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Missions

Every mission has a kind — Flock check, Recon, Alert response (plus the system-managed Drone Response mission used by alert rules) — a base, and a route summary (waypoints · distance · altitude). Anyone on the farm team can:

• Fly — queue the mission now. The button reads In flight until it’s done.
• Download KML (Google Earth, Litchi) or DJI KMZ (Pilot 2 wayline) from the row’s ⋯ menu — so the same route can be flown by a real aircraft.

Planning is an Admin job: Locate drone base first (missions need somewhere to take off and land), then New mission — name, kind, base, altitude and speed — then click waypoints onto the map and set per-waypoint actions (take photo, start / stop video, hover, orbit) with hold times and altitudes.

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Flight Log

The Flight Log records every run: status (queued, in progress, completed, aborted, failed), what triggered it (manual or alert #N — red badge for automated response flights), live progress while airborne, and duration. Expand a row for the per-stage breakdown (↑ takeoff, → legs, ↓ landing, with battery draw per stage) and thumbnails of anything captured. Any user can Abort a queued or in-progress run. Flight performance over time — completion rates, trouble spots, battery per km — lives in Drone Ops and Flight Reliability.