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<blockquote data-quote="Virtual1" data-source="post: 20134" data-attributes="member: 4084"><p>I've flown helis for years and last year started getting into quads. I've got two SYMA X10 and one C as well as a hexi and one other larger cheap mav lookalike. Anyway I decided recently I liked it enough to get a better unit, and bought the Spark Fly-More and some other accessories.</p><p></p><p>Weather's been poor, this was probably NOT a good time of year to buy this but owell. I did get it out yesterday in the park and was happy with its performance. But I've been spending a lot of time on youtube watching all the beginner tip videos and explanations so understand how some of the automatic behaviors work and I don't make a rookie mistake.</p><p></p><p>So here's my concern: I've ran into several people that have lost (or nearly lost, or damaged) their Spark because it suddenly lost GPS lock and did something both unpredictable and uncontrollable. I hate that idea, of it deciding to slowly commit suicide and there being *nothing* I can do to prevent it. One guy coasted off a bridge and found he didn't have (or just at that moment LOST) his gps lock and it went into OTI mode. Over water. As far as I can tell, if this happens, you are completely screwed unless you jump in the water to catch it because it's now going to try to drop down to 5 (or 30) meters in a place where the ground camera isn't working and can't give an elevation, so it's just going to slowly descend until it's in the water, and DJI is like "too bad!"</p><p></p><p>Alarmed by this, I looked around and found several other users that had basically the same thing happen... loss of gps and their Spark either accelerated off in some random direction or started to land, and there wasn't a thing they could do to stop it - and either ended up landing in water or crashing into something. The same kind of problems seem to occur for people that have triggered (manually or automatically) RTH. Numerous people are discussing "how to manually get control back" when it's taken over and is headed for disaster, but I wasn't able to find anyone that got a useful answer. (image in my head of Kahn yelling, "Manual override, WHERE IS THE MANUAL OVERRIDE?!" and then he also lost his ship!)</p><p></p><p>edit: I've also flown indoors a bit and have since read that if my unit suddenly finds a gps lock, and the LOSES it, I'm going to be picking up pieces of my Spark off the floor because again it's going to go full-auto on me and do something it shouldn't that I worry I may be powerless to interrupt. How do I prevent that from happening indoors?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Virtual1, post: 20134, member: 4084"] I've flown helis for years and last year started getting into quads. I've got two SYMA X10 and one C as well as a hexi and one other larger cheap mav lookalike. Anyway I decided recently I liked it enough to get a better unit, and bought the Spark Fly-More and some other accessories. Weather's been poor, this was probably NOT a good time of year to buy this but owell. I did get it out yesterday in the park and was happy with its performance. But I've been spending a lot of time on youtube watching all the beginner tip videos and explanations so understand how some of the automatic behaviors work and I don't make a rookie mistake. So here's my concern: I've ran into several people that have lost (or nearly lost, or damaged) their Spark because it suddenly lost GPS lock and did something both unpredictable and uncontrollable. I hate that idea, of it deciding to slowly commit suicide and there being *nothing* I can do to prevent it. One guy coasted off a bridge and found he didn't have (or just at that moment LOST) his gps lock and it went into OTI mode. Over water. As far as I can tell, if this happens, you are completely screwed unless you jump in the water to catch it because it's now going to try to drop down to 5 (or 30) meters in a place where the ground camera isn't working and can't give an elevation, so it's just going to slowly descend until it's in the water, and DJI is like "too bad!" Alarmed by this, I looked around and found several other users that had basically the same thing happen... loss of gps and their Spark either accelerated off in some random direction or started to land, and there wasn't a thing they could do to stop it - and either ended up landing in water or crashing into something. The same kind of problems seem to occur for people that have triggered (manually or automatically) RTH. Numerous people are discussing "how to manually get control back" when it's taken over and is headed for disaster, but I wasn't able to find anyone that got a useful answer. (image in my head of Kahn yelling, "Manual override, WHERE IS THE MANUAL OVERRIDE?!" and then he also lost his ship!) edit: I've also flown indoors a bit and have since read that if my unit suddenly finds a gps lock, and the LOSES it, I'm going to be picking up pieces of my Spark off the floor because again it's going to go full-auto on me and do something it shouldn't that I worry I may be powerless to interrupt. How do I prevent that from happening indoors? [/QUOTE]
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