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<blockquote data-quote="monty.roman" data-source="post: 70621" data-attributes="member: 12865"><p>been talking about this once more with an experienced guy from our group. quoting his words: "there's no way to disable bottom facing sensors on Spark like it's possible with Mavic Air or others. For example - you're flying in the clouds 400ft above the ground and you decide to go down. Bottom sensors will report an obstacle and the Spark will stop. If you push the throttle down for 3 more seconds, the drone will determine that it's above solid surface like ground or hand, resets altimeter to zero and begins to autoland with fixed vertical speed of 1 ft/s. You can cancel it and go back up but when you try to go down again, the situation repeats. Let's say you have like 25% of battery (equals 4 minutes of flight roughly) and the descent with 1 ft/s will take no less than 6 minutes. Drone will still come down to you but in freefall. The second thing that can happen is that the drone will descend in standard speed of 10 ft/s but instead of braking at 60-65 feet above ground, it will smash the ground without braking."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="monty.roman, post: 70621, member: 12865"] been talking about this once more with an experienced guy from our group. quoting his words: "there's no way to disable bottom facing sensors on Spark like it's possible with Mavic Air or others. For example - you're flying in the clouds 400ft above the ground and you decide to go down. Bottom sensors will report an obstacle and the Spark will stop. If you push the throttle down for 3 more seconds, the drone will determine that it's above solid surface like ground or hand, resets altimeter to zero and begins to autoland with fixed vertical speed of 1 ft/s. You can cancel it and go back up but when you try to go down again, the situation repeats. Let's say you have like 25% of battery (equals 4 minutes of flight roughly) and the descent with 1 ft/s will take no less than 6 minutes. Drone will still come down to you but in freefall. The second thing that can happen is that the drone will descend in standard speed of 10 ft/s but instead of braking at 60-65 feet above ground, it will smash the ground without braking." [/QUOTE]
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