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<blockquote data-quote="mimixtz" data-source="post: 39365" data-attributes="member: 7144"><p>I haven't crashed my Spark yet.</p><p>But the most stupid thing I did was with non DJI drone.</p><p>I was flying it on our RC park. My son was wearing FPV googles, I was flying it via VLOS and FPV sreen on my RC.</p><p>While flying I haven't realized that because of keeping LOS I went app. 40 meters away from my take off point.</p><p>After 10 minutes I had my drone in my proximity (VLOS) and low as I know that soon 1st battery warning will appear. I was flying very slowly from one group of people to another and recording, then my son said to aproach to him as close as I dare. Sure, why not? <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></p><p>In that moment 1st battery warning appeared and drone was flying up to gain RTH altitude. I said to myself, wth, we are at take off point, I will fly a little bit more and then land. But the drone went up, of course it didn't respond to the sticks.</p><p>This drone has 2 hardware switches to initiate RTH or change flight modes (similar as Phantom 1). My intention was to switch it into Altitude hold mode and see if this will stop gaining altitude and give me back sticks control. But by accident I switched it to balance mode, which alows very high tilt angles, it doesn't hold altitude and it reacts very sharp to each control - much sharper than in Altitude mode. Yes, I had controls again but I tilted it too much and experienced motors shut off. It was on about 25 m altitude when this happened. I was running towards it to catch it but I was too slow (or drone was to far away <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" />). After 10 minutes cursing and swering I calmed down and realized that it was 100% my stupidity.</p><p>Result was broken arm, broken LED cover and broken LEDs on 1 ESC. Because of ''Phantom'' shape I had to replaced complete chasis / housing and LEDs and it flies again.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mimixtz, post: 39365, member: 7144"] I haven't crashed my Spark yet. But the most stupid thing I did was with non DJI drone. I was flying it on our RC park. My son was wearing FPV googles, I was flying it via VLOS and FPV sreen on my RC. While flying I haven't realized that because of keeping LOS I went app. 40 meters away from my take off point. After 10 minutes I had my drone in my proximity (VLOS) and low as I know that soon 1st battery warning will appear. I was flying very slowly from one group of people to another and recording, then my son said to aproach to him as close as I dare. Sure, why not? :D In that moment 1st battery warning appeared and drone was flying up to gain RTH altitude. I said to myself, wth, we are at take off point, I will fly a little bit more and then land. But the drone went up, of course it didn't respond to the sticks. This drone has 2 hardware switches to initiate RTH or change flight modes (similar as Phantom 1). My intention was to switch it into Altitude hold mode and see if this will stop gaining altitude and give me back sticks control. But by accident I switched it to balance mode, which alows very high tilt angles, it doesn't hold altitude and it reacts very sharp to each control - much sharper than in Altitude mode. Yes, I had controls again but I tilted it too much and experienced motors shut off. It was on about 25 m altitude when this happened. I was running towards it to catch it but I was too slow (or drone was to far away :D). After 10 minutes cursing and swering I calmed down and realized that it was 100% my stupidity. Result was broken arm, broken LED cover and broken LEDs on 1 ESC. Because of ''Phantom'' shape I had to replaced complete chasis / housing and LEDs and it flies again. [/QUOTE]
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