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Had my first fly-away scare...
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<blockquote data-quote="fredoman" data-source="post: 40974" data-attributes="member: 3774"><p>I am quite new to drone piloting and I also had already several scare situation. Most were in a mountain environment where you have often a bit less satellites visible. Last one: a bit windy conditions and ~10 satellites locked on take off. I was shooting an automatic panorama and in the middle of the acquisition the drone lost GPS fix and drifted away rapidly. When I tried to get back control of my Spark it was too far away to tell in which direction it was heading and my attempts to bring it back were unsuccessful. I should have tried to fly it by FPV but I did not think about this possibility in that stress situation (and I find it often quite difficult to know where to go from the camera image). Luckily GPS signal came back before I completely lost contact (or crashed it into the mountain) and I could initiate RTH. I learned from this experience to always closely watch the drone when it's its panoroma shots in order to always knowin which direction it is heading.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="fredoman, post: 40974, member: 3774"] I am quite new to drone piloting and I also had already several scare situation. Most were in a mountain environment where you have often a bit less satellites visible. Last one: a bit windy conditions and ~10 satellites locked on take off. I was shooting an automatic panorama and in the middle of the acquisition the drone lost GPS fix and drifted away rapidly. When I tried to get back control of my Spark it was too far away to tell in which direction it was heading and my attempts to bring it back were unsuccessful. I should have tried to fly it by FPV but I did not think about this possibility in that stress situation (and I find it often quite difficult to know where to go from the camera image). Luckily GPS signal came back before I completely lost contact (or crashed it into the mountain) and I could initiate RTH. I learned from this experience to always closely watch the drone when it's its panoroma shots in order to always knowin which direction it is heading. [/QUOTE]
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