Went for a Sunday ride out in the beautiful Arizona desert with my son and neighbors and could not resist taking the Spark with me. We made a pit stop to wait for some others and I decided to take up the Spark. I did notice high power lines close to us but figured I would TRY to not get close to them. I told my son to go for a little ride and I would follow him with me staying put and manually fly to stay with him. At about 1600 feet out lost site of him and shortly lost connection then quickly came back. Then I noticed I was to close to the power lines and was very hard to see them on my phone so quickly decided to turn back and go up. I thought at the time I did fine until I came home and reviewed the video and could not believe how stinking close I was to Sparking out the Spark. Made it back safely. These were high power transmission lines which can carry between 155,000 to 765,000 volts. Goes to show that you can fly close to high power lines but would not recommend it.
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Went for a Sunday ride out in the beautiful Arizona desert with my son and neighbors and could not resist taking the Spark with me. We made a pit stop to wait for some others and I decided to take up the Spark. I did notice high power lines close to us but figured I would TRY to not get close to them. I told my son to go for a little ride and I would follow him with me staying put and manually fly to stay with him. At about 1600 feet out lost site of him and shortly lost connection then quickly came back. Then I noticed I was to close to the power lines and was very hard to see them on my phone so quickly decided to turn back and go up. I thought at the time I did fine until I came home and reviewed the video and could not believe how stinking close I was to Sparking out the Spark. Made it back safely. These were high power transmission lines which can carry between 155,000 to 765,000 volts. Goes to show that you can fly close to high power lines but would not recommend it.
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