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Had my first fly-away scare...
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<blockquote data-quote="Concorde" data-source="post: 40662" data-attributes="member: 5261"><p>Had my first fly-away scare... but it turned out well after all. I was flying over the construction site where my new home is being built, and about 30 seconds into the flight I got a "disconnect" notice... and it didn't reconnect automatically. The drone rotated and started flying away, or so I thought. What it was actually doing was heading back to the take-off/home point. I had been walking with the drone while filming, so it got back to the home point before I did. I have one of those "H" colorful take-off landing pads, and the Spark was just hovering above it. I still didn't have a connection and couldn't force it to land, so I grabbed the Spark out of the air and turned it sideways to force the motors to turn off.</p><p></p><p>It had me concerned at first, that's for sure! This is the first such incident I've had in about 4 months of flying the Spark. Interestingly enough, I never could reestablish a connection there, even after turning everything off and then back on. I've flown in this location at least a half-dozen times before on different days with no issue. Thinking it might be a hardware/warranty problem, I turned it all back on when I got to the house and voila, the phone saw the Spark's WIFI and all is well. Any ideas what might have caused this?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Concorde, post: 40662, member: 5261"] Had my first fly-away scare... but it turned out well after all. I was flying over the construction site where my new home is being built, and about 30 seconds into the flight I got a "disconnect" notice... and it didn't reconnect automatically. The drone rotated and started flying away, or so I thought. What it was actually doing was heading back to the take-off/home point. I had been walking with the drone while filming, so it got back to the home point before I did. I have one of those "H" colorful take-off landing pads, and the Spark was just hovering above it. I still didn't have a connection and couldn't force it to land, so I grabbed the Spark out of the air and turned it sideways to force the motors to turn off. It had me concerned at first, that's for sure! This is the first such incident I've had in about 4 months of flying the Spark. Interestingly enough, I never could reestablish a connection there, even after turning everything off and then back on. I've flown in this location at least a half-dozen times before on different days with no issue. Thinking it might be a hardware/warranty problem, I turned it all back on when I got to the house and voila, the phone saw the Spark's WIFI and all is well. Any ideas what might have caused this? [/QUOTE]
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