Turbulent Weather Litchi Mission

shawnski451 · Dec 22, 2024

We had some pretty odd weather here in West Seneca yesterday morning. I looked out my front window and it was snowing big old lake effect snowflakes... but the sun was also shinning too. The Airdata app showed 10°F (-12°C) with some stiff wind gusting to 25MPH (40KPH). The Dark cloudy sky's and the sun light really created this strange hue, I just had to get one of my drones up. My Mavic Air would've been the obvious 1st choice, but the Spark was ready to go and had a fresh battery in it... I've flown the Spark in those kinds of winds before and never had an issue, but not a litchi waypoint mission. I rushed out to my garage, jumped on my computer and opened the Litchi mission Hub. I whipped up a quick waypoint mission and sent the Spark on its way. I have to say that there are some moments where the spark was fighting the wind pretty hard ( you can see the snowflakes hit the camera), and the battery power was dropping pretty fast, but I have to say that the 7 year old Little Spark really pushed through and ran the complete waypoint mission without any major issues. If you haven't bought the Litchi app yet, do it. Its worth every penny. Please watch and enjoy!
(BTW, Crank the Quality up on the video.)

SoccerRef12 · Dec 24, 2024

Very well done. The weather certainly made for some dramatic footage.

shawnski451 · Dec 26, 2024

SoccerRef12 said:
Very well done. The weather certainly made for some dramatic footage.

I thank you for the kind words. Is it always this dry around here when it comes to feed back?

SoccerRef12 · Dec 27, 2024

shawnski451 said:
I thank you for the kind words. Is it always this dry around here when it comes to feed back?

I think there are very few Spark pilots left

Chrislaf · Dec 27, 2024

@shawnski451, nice video! I used to fly my Spark in weather just like that. I loved my Spark - it was a great drone, but here in Canada the rules for drones above 250g are significantly different. That fact and the difficulty in finding batteries at a reasonable price led me to sell my Spark a few years ago.

Chris

shawnski451 · Dec 30, 2024

Chrislaf said:
@shawnski451, nice video! I used to fly my Spark in weather just like that. I loved my Spark - it was a great drone, but here in Canada the rules for drones above 250g are significantly different. That fact and the difficulty in finding batteries at a reasonable price led me to sell my Spark a few years ago.

Chrislaf, I also have a Mavic Air. Its amazing how quickly outdated these became. I still love both drones. I didn't get the fly more combo back when I purchased my Spark, so I bought 3 extra batteries and the controller. I charge mine regularly after they discharge just to keep them in good working order. I follow the batter/drone maint schedule on Airdata too which seems to work. What rules are different up in Canada?

Sparksrster · Jan 4, 2025

shawnski451 said:
We had some pretty odd weather here in West Seneca yesterday morning. I looked out my front window and it was snowing big old lake effect snowflakes... but the sun was also shinning too. The Airdata app showed 10°F (-12°C) with some stiff wind gusting to 25MPH (40KPH). The Dark cloudy sky's and the sun light really created this strange hue, I just had to get one of my drones up. My Mavic Air would've been the obvious 1st choice, but the Spark was ready to go and had a fresh battery in it... I've flown the Spark in those kinds of winds before and never had an issue, but not a litchi waypoint mission. I rushed out to my garage, jumped on my computer and opened the Litchi mission Hub. I whipped up a quick waypoint mission and sent the Spark on its way. I have to say that there are some moments where the spark was fighting the wind pretty hard ( you can see the snowflakes hit the camera), and the battery power was dropping pretty fast, but I have to say that the 7 year old Little Spark really pushed through and ran the complete waypoint mission without any major issues. If you haven't bought the Litchi app yet, do it. Its worth every penny. Please watch and enjoy!
(BTW, Crank the Quality up on the video.)

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Enjoyed the video, the spark is a awesome little drone. I have two of them. Take care and fly safe and remember trees are not your friend.