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<blockquote data-quote="SlowSL" data-source="post: 88716" data-attributes="member: 17142"><p>Only problem I've had was when a low battery RTH was triggered, and heading home into the wind. I was doing a range test, and knew there was going to be a problem returning, so I just wanted to get it as far as possible and move it next to the road so I can hop out of my car and grab it. I was 400ft. up, and the spark was crawling back, like barely moving against the wind, even though it's supposed to return at 22mph. I thought that was strange, as the winds were blowing pretty good, but not THAT hard. I tried to cancel the RTH, flip into sports mode, and descend while traversing diagonally to get close to the road, and get under the gusts. I wanted to move out of the middle of a field. Had plenty of battery to make it to a good landing spot, but it re-enable auto RTH shortly after I canceled, changing trajectory toward the home point, which was away from where I was trying to go. I spent a good 30 seconds fighting with it, it kept yawing wildly left and right even though I was pushing the stick forward. I'd try to yaw to get it back on track then it'd just overshoot the opposite direction. I gave up and just let it do its thing as I was getting no headway. After a short while of watching crawl home the battery had depleted enough that it landed right where it was, in the middle of the field. So 20 minutes later I find the last GPS lock with find my drone, aaaand it's nowhere to be found. I click to make sounds, but it had powered off by the time I made it out there. I walk all around for another 20 minutes without finding it. I thought for sure the GPS location was off. I went back to the cached video to maybe verify that that is in fact the area it went down..... and for some reason 0kb on the cached video. Luckily, I did end up finding it about 50ft. away from the last GPS location. It was very hard to see, as if it had landed and cleverly pulled some plants over top of it in order to hide from me. This field was about 1/2 mile wide by 1 mile long, with ankle high leaved plants, so it was like a needle in a hay stack. I'm very lucky I found it. It works very well, and I trust it for the most part, but anything can happen. My refrigerator, washer, and coffee maker have all had strange software hickups, I fear the day it happens to the spark and it decides to go home in the wrong direction.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SlowSL, post: 88716, member: 17142"] Only problem I've had was when a low battery RTH was triggered, and heading home into the wind. I was doing a range test, and knew there was going to be a problem returning, so I just wanted to get it as far as possible and move it next to the road so I can hop out of my car and grab it. I was 400ft. up, and the spark was crawling back, like barely moving against the wind, even though it's supposed to return at 22mph. I thought that was strange, as the winds were blowing pretty good, but not THAT hard. I tried to cancel the RTH, flip into sports mode, and descend while traversing diagonally to get close to the road, and get under the gusts. I wanted to move out of the middle of a field. Had plenty of battery to make it to a good landing spot, but it re-enable auto RTH shortly after I canceled, changing trajectory toward the home point, which was away from where I was trying to go. I spent a good 30 seconds fighting with it, it kept yawing wildly left and right even though I was pushing the stick forward. I'd try to yaw to get it back on track then it'd just overshoot the opposite direction. I gave up and just let it do its thing as I was getting no headway. After a short while of watching crawl home the battery had depleted enough that it landed right where it was, in the middle of the field. So 20 minutes later I find the last GPS lock with find my drone, aaaand it's nowhere to be found. I click to make sounds, but it had powered off by the time I made it out there. I walk all around for another 20 minutes without finding it. I thought for sure the GPS location was off. I went back to the cached video to maybe verify that that is in fact the area it went down..... and for some reason 0kb on the cached video. Luckily, I did end up finding it about 50ft. away from the last GPS location. It was very hard to see, as if it had landed and cleverly pulled some plants over top of it in order to hide from me. This field was about 1/2 mile wide by 1 mile long, with ankle high leaved plants, so it was like a needle in a hay stack. I'm very lucky I found it. It works very well, and I trust it for the most part, but anything can happen. My refrigerator, washer, and coffee maker have all had strange software hickups, I fear the day it happens to the spark and it decides to go home in the wrong direction. [/QUOTE]
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