I went to a lake last weekend and wanted to take a vertical shot from above, so I ascended to 160m and took some pictures. I started to descend at around 20% battery level but the Spark wouldn’t go faster than ~0.7m/s so I had a hard time landing before the battery would die. It landed safely in my hand with 0% battery but I almost got a heart attack. I tried to switch to sport mode to get it down more quickly but that didn‘t help. Any ideas?
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RedneckMechanic
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I thought exceeding 150m height in Austria was strictly against the law and incurs a €22,000 fine or imprisonment?
Additionally, starting to descend from high altitude when only indicated 20% battery remaining is just asking for trouble.
Anyone should be safe on deck at 3.4v per cell or if you want to use the daft and inaccurate percentage gauge - you should be landed at 20%
Actually, I was descending from 153m so I guess that's within the tolerance. Maybe I underestimated the battery runtime, but I thought 20% would be enough as for 3m/s I would be landed in less than a minute. With 0.7m/s it took me almost 4min to land. It was a bit windy so maybe the wind slowed down the descend as well. Lesson learned!
Not for me, unfortunately... Does sport mode work in the "forced landing" mode? In the Go4 app it said "landing" and I couldn't abort it to land manually in sport mode.
RedneckMechanic
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It does go that slow that when it meets clouds or fog on the way down.
Because it thinks it can land on it.
Because it thinks it can land on it.
It was a bright, clear day so clouds weren't an issue. Maybe it's because of what "RedneckMechanic" mentioned before.
