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Experienced a Spark fly away for the first time. crapped in my pants a little
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<blockquote data-quote="asaulo1" data-source="post: 9482" data-attributes="member: 1643"><p>So yesterday, I was in Solvang which is a small Danish type village here in California. I decided to get a birds eye view of the village so I launched the Spark in a parking lot by the antique motorcycle museum. It first told me that it's a low class NFZ due to a small dirt airport nearby. Nevertheless, it allowed me to launch which I did. By the way, I used the OTG cable and was enjoying the flight. I took it up about 10-0-150ft in altitude and the dreaded "No GPS mode" (or something to that effect0 came on as an alert. At that time, the Spark drifted away from me but I still had full connectivity to the craft. I could not for the life of me control the craft to get it back and a sinking feeling set in my gut. I decided to switch it to sport mode and then hit the RTH button. After a few helpless seconds, i couldn't have found relief in that annoying RTH beeping sound and finally saw the craft start coming back to me. I then just flied it above the parking lot looking to see if it's just a fluke and fortunately, it didn't do it again. However, it makes flying the Spark a bit more nerve wracking that this can actually happen. And mind you, the video never flickered or paused which meant I was solidly connected to the craft. Anyone else experience the same thing? is this something DJI might be addressing with a firmware update? Your thoughts. Cheers!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="asaulo1, post: 9482, member: 1643"] So yesterday, I was in Solvang which is a small Danish type village here in California. I decided to get a birds eye view of the village so I launched the Spark in a parking lot by the antique motorcycle museum. It first told me that it's a low class NFZ due to a small dirt airport nearby. Nevertheless, it allowed me to launch which I did. By the way, I used the OTG cable and was enjoying the flight. I took it up about 10-0-150ft in altitude and the dreaded "No GPS mode" (or something to that effect0 came on as an alert. At that time, the Spark drifted away from me but I still had full connectivity to the craft. I could not for the life of me control the craft to get it back and a sinking feeling set in my gut. I decided to switch it to sport mode and then hit the RTH button. After a few helpless seconds, i couldn't have found relief in that annoying RTH beeping sound and finally saw the craft start coming back to me. I then just flied it above the parking lot looking to see if it's just a fluke and fortunately, it didn't do it again. However, it makes flying the Spark a bit more nerve wracking that this can actually happen. And mind you, the video never flickered or paused which meant I was solidly connected to the craft. Anyone else experience the same thing? is this something DJI might be addressing with a firmware update? Your thoughts. Cheers! [/QUOTE]
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