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<blockquote data-quote="CaryTheLabelGuy" data-source="post: 24650" data-attributes="member: 5098"><p>I take off from a high-rise balcony all the time with my Spark and my Mavic Pro Platinum. You need to understand and work within the aircrafts limitations, especially concerning RTH. </p><p></p><p>For the Spark, I lift off, set out over a close field nearby my balcony and manually hover in ATTI mode until I get full GPS lock. At this point, I check and make sure I have at least 14 sats for good GPS health - it can take a few seconds to get them up and over 12 sats acquired. Once I’m done with this, I move to my failsafe RTH spot in the field and manually set the new home point using the DJI Go4 app and then check and double check my home point location on the big map. I then check my compass by checking my orientation on the map. After those procedures are done, off I go.</p><p></p><p>When it’s time to come home, I always back the Spark (and Mavic) in to my location and will stop and reset the RTH location in the parking lot when the Spark is less than 20m from my balcony, so that if RC signal is lost, the Spark will not ascend to RTH altitude and will RTH at current altitude (needs to be enabled in the GO4 app). This allows me to continue backing my Spark into my balcony area and at this point I usually hand-catch the Spark. </p><p></p><p>The main settings differences between the Spark and Mavic is that when flying around, I always switch RTH behavior to “RTH” on RC disconnect and immediately switch the Mavic to “hover” when it’s time to bring it in. The Spark obviously doesn’t have this ability so I have to reset the RTH home point to within 20m of my balcony and enable the “Return To Home and Current Altitude”. </p><p></p><p>The biggest caveat here is that you need to be really good at manually flying in ATTI mode because as soon as you take off from the balcony with obstructions over you and when you bring it in, GPS signal is lost and you’re flying 100% in ATTI mode.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CaryTheLabelGuy, post: 24650, member: 5098"] I take off from a high-rise balcony all the time with my Spark and my Mavic Pro Platinum. You need to understand and work within the aircrafts limitations, especially concerning RTH. For the Spark, I lift off, set out over a close field nearby my balcony and manually hover in ATTI mode until I get full GPS lock. At this point, I check and make sure I have at least 14 sats for good GPS health - it can take a few seconds to get them up and over 12 sats acquired. Once I’m done with this, I move to my failsafe RTH spot in the field and manually set the new home point using the DJI Go4 app and then check and double check my home point location on the big map. I then check my compass by checking my orientation on the map. After those procedures are done, off I go. When it’s time to come home, I always back the Spark (and Mavic) in to my location and will stop and reset the RTH location in the parking lot when the Spark is less than 20m from my balcony, so that if RC signal is lost, the Spark will not ascend to RTH altitude and will RTH at current altitude (needs to be enabled in the GO4 app). This allows me to continue backing my Spark into my balcony area and at this point I usually hand-catch the Spark. The main settings differences between the Spark and Mavic is that when flying around, I always switch RTH behavior to “RTH” on RC disconnect and immediately switch the Mavic to “hover” when it’s time to bring it in. The Spark obviously doesn’t have this ability so I have to reset the RTH home point to within 20m of my balcony and enable the “Return To Home and Current Altitude”. The biggest caveat here is that you need to be really good at manually flying in ATTI mode because as soon as you take off from the balcony with obstructions over you and when you bring it in, GPS signal is lost and you’re flying 100% in ATTI mode. [/QUOTE]
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