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<blockquote data-quote="RustyStainless" data-source="post: 17100" data-attributes="member: 2727"><p>Yes Rick, I know your pain, and I think a few of the people responding here haven't actually experienced a full GPS failure situation. Mine is heading back for repair/replace too as it is now permanently in ATTI mode. Further, it was also failing to send back info to the remote. For me, once the drone is more than about 50m away, I can no longer determine which way it is really pointed. Plus you are at the mercy of "blow-away" on a gusty day. On my final flight, to see it if the GPS would work, I made the fatal mistake of going too high and next thing it was behind a tree and gone. I was extremely lucky that a single last random image appeared on the screen and I recognised that it was another park nearby. I drove to that park and the Spark was sitting in the middle of the car park. By coincidence, I had not bothered charging the battery, so the Spark must have landed itself because of low battery. By the way, the compass is of little use in this situation since there is no map data. Its just an arrow on a blank screen, there is no way to know its position relative to yourself.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RustyStainless, post: 17100, member: 2727"] Yes Rick, I know your pain, and I think a few of the people responding here haven't actually experienced a full GPS failure situation. Mine is heading back for repair/replace too as it is now permanently in ATTI mode. Further, it was also failing to send back info to the remote. For me, once the drone is more than about 50m away, I can no longer determine which way it is really pointed. Plus you are at the mercy of "blow-away" on a gusty day. On my final flight, to see it if the GPS would work, I made the fatal mistake of going too high and next thing it was behind a tree and gone. I was extremely lucky that a single last random image appeared on the screen and I recognised that it was another park nearby. I drove to that park and the Spark was sitting in the middle of the car park. By coincidence, I had not bothered charging the battery, so the Spark must have landed itself because of low battery. By the way, the compass is of little use in this situation since there is no map data. Its just an arrow on a blank screen, there is no way to know its position relative to yourself. [/QUOTE]
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