What are you doing with your
batteries? Mine do 15min each.. 13 with crazy winds or sportmode.
I preordered the first day and I was still running the original FW. I had some time to kill, so I flew her in a parking lot (empty) threw two
batteries.
I have to say, that
battery FW must have done something because I flew for about 30 minutes on those flights. Given the lack of scenery (used to nature vs. buildings and homes), it lasted longer than I really wanted. LOL.
I ended up flying around in sport mode and was practicing some aggressive flying between and around big trees. The wind was also crazy. So, I take back my
battery comment.
Now, I figured that I would also play with activetrack and gesture controls at the same time. Absolutely horrible.
1. Gesture control did not seem to work as stated in their manual and videos. I had previously used it (pre FW update and indoors) and it did work to some degree. However, in this case I had the RC connected, so maybe that is the issue. I was able to get it to bind to me, but that was it. Once it flew away and back, but it would not consistently accept the command(s).
2. Active Track is a lot worse than the MP version - or maybe this is a FW thing.
2: I know someone will hit me on this, but I never read the ActiveTrack section of the manual for the Spark. I was interested in this for my Mavic and that was almost a year ago - I used it once and never again. So, with that said:
a. It was soo slow that it would constantly lose me no a light jog
b. If you go behind a tree trunk/bush it loses you and rarely picked me back up
c. You cannot record a video when in this mode or maybe I messed up and you cannot start active track with a video already going. So, I will need to retest.
d. Even when walking in a strait line it sometimes just lost me. I will not even go into performing a slight turn.
Again, it could be user error, but I gave up after my 2nd
battery was shot: about 8 minutes of playing with AT.