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Lost Spark due to GPS connection, never saw it again (happened 1-2 hours ago)
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<blockquote data-quote="jimlips" data-source="post: 85926" data-attributes="member: 15968"><p>Hello OwYeah:</p><p></p><p>I'm sorry to hear about the loss of your Spark. While this message probably won't be any help in recovering your drone, I can give you some pointers that may help you not lose another drone:</p><p></p><p> 1 - I noticed your battery was at 63% when you took off. While this works fine most of the time, I would only take off with a battery that was 90% or more. You just never know what is going to happen. I took off yesterday with a Phantom Advanced that showed 53% left on the battery, but after hovering for only 30 seconds, I got the message "Critically low battery, landing", and it landed in the grass.</p><p></p><p> 2 - I also noticed your speed was pretty high when the errors started showing up. Were you in Sports mode? All of the problems I've had with my Spark showed up when I was in sports mode. This is probably just me, but my Spark has done some really goofy things when I made the switch to Sports mode.</p><p> </p><p> 3 - You were flying in a forest - this is never a good idea unless you are "overlooking" the forest from above. If your Spark was on the 5.8 GHz band, trees with leaves attenuate the signal to/from your RC terribly. 2.4 GHz is a better choice (especially in remote areas like where you were, and there aren't likely to be many competing 2.4 GHz Wifi signals) for remote control. I know you said you could see the drone and readings show it was only 319 feet away when you started getting Yaw errors. </p><p></p><p>And finally, follow this thread, the errors look identical to what happened to you: <a href="https://forum.dji.com/thread-103989-1-1.html" target="_blank">Spark Yaw error and loss of control</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jimlips, post: 85926, member: 15968"] Hello OwYeah: I'm sorry to hear about the loss of your Spark. While this message probably won't be any help in recovering your drone, I can give you some pointers that may help you not lose another drone: 1 - I noticed your battery was at 63% when you took off. While this works fine most of the time, I would only take off with a battery that was 90% or more. You just never know what is going to happen. I took off yesterday with a Phantom Advanced that showed 53% left on the battery, but after hovering for only 30 seconds, I got the message "Critically low battery, landing", and it landed in the grass. 2 - I also noticed your speed was pretty high when the errors started showing up. Were you in Sports mode? All of the problems I've had with my Spark showed up when I was in sports mode. This is probably just me, but my Spark has done some really goofy things when I made the switch to Sports mode. 3 - You were flying in a forest - this is never a good idea unless you are "overlooking" the forest from above. If your Spark was on the 5.8 GHz band, trees with leaves attenuate the signal to/from your RC terribly. 2.4 GHz is a better choice (especially in remote areas like where you were, and there aren't likely to be many competing 2.4 GHz Wifi signals) for remote control. I know you said you could see the drone and readings show it was only 319 feet away when you started getting Yaw errors. And finally, follow this thread, the errors look identical to what happened to you: [URL="https://forum.dji.com/thread-103989-1-1.html"]Spark Yaw error and loss of control[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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Lost Spark due to GPS connection, never saw it again (happened 1-2 hours ago)