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<blockquote data-quote="Virtual1" data-source="post: 90366" data-attributes="member: 4084"><p>I flew my spark for the first week in a park with the prop guards on to protect the prop and a lens glare shield on to protect the camera/gimbal.</p><p></p><p>The <em>very first</em> time I removed those, my spark got behind me (and I wasn't quite fully mentally programmed yet to handle it not facing the same way I was facing) and it got close to a tree so I stopped, and it stopped within maybe 6" of the tree. I then carefully nudged it to get it away from the tree, but was facing the wrong way so I slowly went INTO the tree, and down it came, only about a 15ft drop though.</p><p></p><p>Cracked the vane on one of my props, and somehow managed to put a scuff on the LENS of the camera. Fortunately it was on the area not in front of the optics (the lens is oval/rectangular) so it doesn't mess with my camera shots. Had to reboot it to clear a gimbal servo error, but thankfully doesn't appear to have suffered any permanent issues. That's been over a year ago and it's extremely rare that I have any issues. I DID brush a guy wire at a ham event this spring though, somehow not taking me out of the air.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Virtual1, post: 90366, member: 4084"] I flew my spark for the first week in a park with the prop guards on to protect the prop and a lens glare shield on to protect the camera/gimbal. The [I]very first[/I] time I removed those, my spark got behind me (and I wasn't quite fully mentally programmed yet to handle it not facing the same way I was facing) and it got close to a tree so I stopped, and it stopped within maybe 6" of the tree. I then carefully nudged it to get it away from the tree, but was facing the wrong way so I slowly went INTO the tree, and down it came, only about a 15ft drop though. Cracked the vane on one of my props, and somehow managed to put a scuff on the LENS of the camera. Fortunately it was on the area not in front of the optics (the lens is oval/rectangular) so it doesn't mess with my camera shots. Had to reboot it to clear a gimbal servo error, but thankfully doesn't appear to have suffered any permanent issues. That's been over a year ago and it's extremely rare that I have any issues. I DID brush a guy wire at a ham event this spring though, somehow not taking me out of the air. [/QUOTE]
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