Recent content by Sabotage

Thanks for the reminder. As a new pilots it's hard to remember all the rules of flight. But again, that's one purpose of these forums so the new pilot can get educated and hopefully learn so everyone can enjoy the hobby.

I was in sport mode and lost signal at 72% battery. I just sent it until the screen went black and was told signal lost. I did not initiate return home, it did that on it's own. After losing signal I just went inside my house to tell my wife how far I went. Not that she cared but I had to tell...

Thank you for the information. Is there somewhere I can go to research what the class air space are and what they mean? I just currently listen to what the app tells me

I have no idea what that is. When I fly around my neighborhood the App does not notify me of any airspace alert but when I try to fly by my parents I get all these alerts so I just don't fly. Seems like i still have a lot to learn. The more I fly the more people keep educating me on the dog's...

I'm very excited about my range test results. Usually I only get around 2800 feet. Idk what was going on but my spark went all the way out to 6163 feet heading south. I just "sent it" and long and behold a new record. My set up is stock, I only use the cable to connect my phone to the remote and...

Sorry to hear about your loss. Well the good news is I just got my new Spark. She never leaving my sight again... ok maybe that's a lie but that's what statement I'm going with...

And I know many suggest that I contact dji about the loss but i prefer not to because i feel like i did too many things wrong and don't want to identify myself due to that. I did not fly VLOS, I never registered it, and even though I tried to fly over brushes and stuff on my panic return I went...

Thanks everyone, purchased a new one from Ebay. $300 with shipping. I may sell my old remote to diminish the financial impact to around $200. I thought about babying this new one but I know I'll probably send that sucker off again with fingers crossed.

Thanks for the support everyone. I'm looking into sourcing another spark. I hope to find a used on with just the drone and a battery. I feel the spark is perfect for my needs so no reason to upgrade from the spark.

SMH, I feel like I made so much mistake in a matter of seconds. I was kicking myself most for not following the VLOS...

The more I think about it, this is what I think happened. On my way back, I lost gps. I'm used to using the map to get back so I continued to use it, when in actuality, it was not accurate and I got off path and just went in another direction until I lost signal and the screen went black.

Well the screen went black and to me that was losing communication since I could not see what was going on but I do beleive that the reception with the control was still connected because I was pushing the control to continue in the direction of home but the trajectory changed and it went 45...

So I just got my spark and she's already gone. Today was my third flight. I took her out to take some pictures of a park near where I live. During the flight I get a notification that I had magnetic interference and GPS was lost. I said cool, I'll just follow the map back home. I'm returning...