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<blockquote data-quote="gisdowntime" data-source="post: 123737" data-attributes="member: 23183"><p>HI, guys chiming in here as I experienced my 1st flyaway last week with a Spark. I certainly am not immune to pilot error as we can all make mistakes. On that note, I'd like to learn from my mishap so I can avoid this again if possible. Here's my story...I was flying a 3D mapping mission using a 3rd party iOS App called 3D Survey Pilot which I had successfully used on at least 10 occasions without issue. I was flying a construction site with a preplanned flight that had been used multiple times over the span of a few months never with an issue. The day I flew it was clear, sunny, and calm. Before taking off I ensured I had a GPS lock with at least 11 satellites to my memory. The home point had been recorded and I had the settings enabled to return to home on low battery or when the drone hit a threshold distance from the home point. All was normal...battery at 96% etc. The drone launched and did its autonomous mission and was beeping to return to home as normal. I watched as the drone returned to the home point XY where I was standing. The Spark briefly paused to begin descending, however instead of descending it just beelined at speed away from my mission area and would not respond to the RC controller pause and RTH commands or iOS pause and RTH commands! On the screen, an error popped up that said "Abnormal compass function or GPS signal detected. The aircraft is switched to ATTI mode". I was able to see the camera feed for about another 5 minutes until the feed dropped despite the drone not responding to commands from the RC or the 3D Survey Pilot app or the DJI GO App. Further frustrating is that due to the error the map dropped so I could not see the location of the Spark other than the camera feed. At that point, VLOS was gone...This is a huge mystery to me as to what happened and concerns me for future flights. I've purchased a Mavic Pro but feel apprehensive to perform autonomous flights after this mishap. Does anyone else on this thread have ideas or have experienced a similar flyaway? I never found the Spark...Rest in peace old bird <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gisdowntime, post: 123737, member: 23183"] HI, guys chiming in here as I experienced my 1st flyaway last week with a Spark. I certainly am not immune to pilot error as we can all make mistakes. On that note, I'd like to learn from my mishap so I can avoid this again if possible. Here's my story...I was flying a 3D mapping mission using a 3rd party iOS App called 3D Survey Pilot which I had successfully used on at least 10 occasions without issue. I was flying a construction site with a preplanned flight that had been used multiple times over the span of a few months never with an issue. The day I flew it was clear, sunny, and calm. Before taking off I ensured I had a GPS lock with at least 11 satellites to my memory. The home point had been recorded and I had the settings enabled to return to home on low battery or when the drone hit a threshold distance from the home point. All was normal...battery at 96% etc. The drone launched and did its autonomous mission and was beeping to return to home as normal. I watched as the drone returned to the home point XY where I was standing. The Spark briefly paused to begin descending, however instead of descending it just beelined at speed away from my mission area and would not respond to the RC controller pause and RTH commands or iOS pause and RTH commands! On the screen, an error popped up that said "Abnormal compass function or GPS signal detected. The aircraft is switched to ATTI mode". I was able to see the camera feed for about another 5 minutes until the feed dropped despite the drone not responding to commands from the RC or the 3D Survey Pilot app or the DJI GO App. Further frustrating is that due to the error the map dropped so I could not see the location of the Spark other than the camera feed. At that point, VLOS was gone...This is a huge mystery to me as to what happened and concerns me for future flights. I've purchased a Mavic Pro but feel apprehensive to perform autonomous flights after this mishap. Does anyone else on this thread have ideas or have experienced a similar flyaway? I never found the Spark...Rest in peace old bird :( [/QUOTE]
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