Recent content by shawnski451

I've been playing with the idea of stepping up to some newer equipment like a mini too. I do Have a Spark and a Gen I Mavic Air. I kind of put the Spark in harms way and save the more "Graceful" flying for the Mavic. I've seen the Mini up-close and it kind of feels flimsy... almost like one of...

WOW! Thats a very cool vid! I've never tried Hyperlapse with the Spark. How did you go about doing it?

I thank you for the kind words. Is it always this dry around here when it comes to feed back?

We had some pretty odd weather here in West Seneca yesterday morning. I looked out my front window and it was snowing big old lake effect snowflakes... but the sun was also shinning too. The Airdata app showed 10°F (-12°C) with some stiff wind gusting to 25MPH (40KPH). The Dark cloudy sky's...

Sorry for the late reply. The Spark really does a great job handling the wind. Now I haven't flow it in rain, but snow doesn't bother it. The battery duration on the other hand diminishes a bit. Probably give up around 20-30% of your regular flight time due to the wind. The other thing is that...

I decided to put the little Spark up above my house as a monstrous Lake Erie Lake Effect snow band marches it was into the Buffalo/Metro area. Flight was around 3:30pm, Temp was around 25°F (-4°C), Wind was gusting between 25-30MPH (40-48kph), and the altitude was roughly 365ft (112 meters)...

Have you tried a different charging cable? I vaguely remember something like this happening to me a few years back and I believe a different cable corrected it. I rarely charge my batteries like this anymore because I use a multi battery charger new.

Well, that's exactly what I was working on particular that day. I think I may have made some adj in the controller settings but I was really trying to get a good feel for how the Spark reacted to my controller inputs. If ya get a chance, I recommend finding a wide open area and practice flying...

Yeah, Getting some free hand practice. I think I switched it back over to sport mode when It tipped down.

I went to Buffalo NY's Small Boat Harbor to sharpen some of my DJI Spark "Sport Mode" flying skills a couple of years ago and forgot that I had this cached footage still on my old phone. I have no idea what I did with the original video... I just went with what I had and threw this together with...

Indeed, same Satellite count usingDJIGO4... But it doesn't interfere with the manual operation of the drone. It flies just fine with the 8-10 Satellites using the DJI GO4 it seems like once it drops to 10 or below, the waypoint mission just stops. Here is airdata screen shots from the latest...

Okay so I took both my mavic air and my spark to a different location. The mavic 2 different Litchi missions multiple times with out any issues. So I put the spark up and it made it around 200 ft away and stopped dead in it's tracks. Looks like it's not finding enough satellites. Took off with...

Indeed. That was the 1st thing I tried. I'm going to give it another try at a different location today. Maybe it was just a GPS issue.

Ok so I was attempting to fly a proven Litchi Mission with my Spark but ran into a couple of issues... This is a mission that I devised a couple of years ago and have flown many times with both my Spark and Mavic Air. However, this time the Litchi app began throwing these alerts at me every time...