ArduPilot / ArduPilot/MissionPlanner
Flight Data: display of mission is losing precision?
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Description
This issue comes from this discussion: https://discuss.ardupilot.org/t/integrity-of-waypoint-is-poor-after-writing-to-pixhawk-2-1-cube
When the Flight Data screen displays the mission it seems to be losing some precision as shown below when a very small 2m circular mission with 32 waypoints was created:
Flight Plan looks ok:

Flight Data looks odd:

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Research direction
Start with the Flight Data screen and reproduce the reported case using a very small 2 m circular mission with 32 waypoints. Compare its displayed mission with the Flight Plan view and the linked discussion; done means Flight Data preserves the waypoint precision visible in Flight Plan.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- csharp
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100