Recent content by RustyStainless

And since true VLOS, meaning that you can tell the orientation of the craft just by sight, is so restrictive, it would never be more that 50m away.

No, it has said that for many months.

Note, Australia is not CE and our craft fly as far as any FCC country.

Absolutely wrong info, in Australia we can fly far and wide (the lucky country, lol). Watch this and then give it a go.

The LOS rule comes from a not too distant past, when all RC planes and copters flew without any FPV. I recently bought a RC plane with no FPV and a flight simulator package that works off the actual controller. Within about 1 minute on the flight Sim I realised that: a) flying a Spark is...

I've had both the Spark and (now) the Mavic, and my android phones that would not work the Spark remote work fine with the Mavic remote. I believe DJI always knew that the OTG would not be reliable across all devices for the Spark remote, and that's why it was never actively promoted.

I had the Spark and it is brilliant except the battery life began to disappoint me. Then one day the GPS packed it in and I had a flyaway moment. In the weeks it was away I got a Mavic. I really don't believe the optics are that much better and neither are Pro. The Mavic simply wins on battery...

Well the log says that an auto land was initiated by the drone at 17%, moments later you tried to do return to home, but by this time you would have been fighting the auto landing. Another user showed an example of their drone initiating auto landing at 18% a couple of days ago. The only time it...

The first part is correct, but the second "I'm assuming because I had been driving with the Spark and did NOT calibrate the compass before flying, the GPS system failed." How can you just assume this? What evidence do you have to support this notion. How many flights had you previously...

Actually, I have extreme difficulty seeing the Spark at 100m. But really, you need to be talking to DJI, and the other manufacturers, because they are promoting the capability of the Spark to travel at least 2km, the Mavic can travel up to 7km from the user, the Parrot Disco can travel 2km from...

Sweet. Thanks.

Yes, it is quite possible that there is a failure in the GPS/Compass department, but the self correcting department is still driving it madly off into the distance (or into the water in some cases). There are just so many possibilities for a glitch in such a complex machine.

So really the GPS and the Compass need checking in mine because either one not working could trigger the ATTI mode. Thanks

And if you don't have GPS sats, and the compass has just been calibrated?

It's a privacy setting issue. A job for tomorrow now. Update: changed it to public. Can you see it now?