Telemetry Recording

Continuous Telemetry Recording captures all real-time MQTT telemetry received during a flight session and stores it for later analysis, export, and Flight Story playback.


Overview

Telemetry Recording starts automatically when an aircraft begins transmitting and stops when the session ends. The recorded data is linked to the flight record and accessible from the Analytics and Flight Story views.


What Is Recorded

Every telemetry message received via MQTT is stored, including:

Data Type Fields
Position Latitude, longitude, altitude (relative and absolute)
Orientation Roll, pitch, yaw, heading
Velocity Horizontal speed, vertical speed
Battery Voltage, percentage, remaining capacity
Signal RC link quality, video link quality
Gimbal Pitch, roll, yaw of the camera gimbal
Flight mode Current mode (hover, mission, manual, etc.)

Screenshots and detail coming soon.


Recording Resolution

Telemetry is recorded at the rate it is received from the aircraft, which varies by model. Typical rates are between 1 Hz and 10 Hz. The exact rate is shown in the flight record metadata.


Accessing Recorded Telemetry

Recorded telemetry is available in two places:

  • Flight Story — Replay the flight visually on the map with telemetry scrubbing
  • Analytics > Telemetry Table — View raw time-series data and export as CSV

See Flight Story and Analytics for details.


Telemetry Export

  1. Open the flight record in Analytics.
  2. Click Export > Telemetry CSV.
  3. Select the data fields to include.
  4. Download the file.

The export is a timestamped CSV with one row per telemetry snapshot.


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