My Spark fell out of the sky today. The kp index was 6, so I guess I lost signal from electromagnetic interference. I’m new to flying so I was thankful that no damage was incurred.
Spark Crash
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Hi there mate... Hectic video, lucky you flew it in a favorable environment, that's one of my biggest fears flying this thing- it crashing or the drone just flying away.
Did it fall or just fly to the ground out of control.? Always scary to hear when my favorite flight is over the bay to a lighthouse 5000 feet out and I don’t own a boat. Lol haven’t made the trip yet with sparky.. but I did fly 5000 feet away yesterday over a lake with very little signal loss.
It fell to the ground out of control. I could not get the signal back when I lost it. Fortunately I haven’t “graduated” from the football field, although I am getting more ambitious and confident.
When say dell to the ground... were the motors turning seemed like it flew to the ground which is odd. Did you get a compass error?
If it fell you may have pulled both sticks down and in which I think cuts off power in the spark...not sure though.. there might have to be some kind of error first before the remote will let you cut off not sure.
The spark does get effected by wireless interference as does my phantom 3 flying around right where I live but when I have gone out the country side or out over the bay I have had no problems. Phantom went 9000 plus feet out with plenty signal and I’m going to try the 5000 foot trip to the lighthouse with sparky.
The Mavic 2 has no interference so far unless trees start blocking you then it doesn’t matter what you are flying.
Give us more info about how your went down.
If the motors turned off and it just fell I would be sending mine back to DJI.
The spark does get effected by wireless interference as does my phantom 3 flying around right where I live but when I have gone out the country side or out over the bay I have had no problems. Phantom went 9000 plus feet out with plenty signal and I’m going to try the 5000 foot trip to the lighthouse with sparky.
The Mavic 2 has no interference so far unless trees start blocking you then it doesn’t matter what you are flying.
Give us more info about how your went down.
If the motors turned off and it just fell I would be sending mine back to DJI.
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Have you uploaded your flight files for analysis? I'm reaaaaally new to this, but when I uploaded mine, I could figure out what was going on. Found an error msg. that led to a crash. I'm still looking into the error msg. but at least I know "something" occurred.
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I believe the kill function of the sticks is gone... Steve Couts has a video on that. I'd like to see the log file too.... like Pearson suggested.
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Seems like the gimble calibration has gone as well in the Sparks gimble settings.
It's important to do a background check or have some knowledge in the surrounding or area you're about to fly in, these are huge factors to consider before taking flight, I also suggest you pre-download a map of the area just to be familiar with it, and try getting a tracker for your drone just in-case you can't locate your drone next time it crashes. Try the trackimo tracker it's pretty good.
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