I have had my Spark almost a month now and fly it a hour or two a day (I have lots of batteries).  However no matter what I try I can't seem to get the Helix quickshot option to actually work.  

  

  

After selecting the object to track and hit GO, it just starts and flies about 1/8 of the circle and stops and says it lost its tracking.  Some time it will fly a bit more, but in those cases it seems to be just flying backwards and up, but not actually circling.

  

  

Are there some issues or tricks to using this feature?

I do not know..

Do you try these options with a lot of light? In the dark, it is hard to see the spark.

Other I do not know what to say ...

I've only tried Rocket for the moment.

Quickshots work quite nice in firmware version 300, they seem to be buggy in 400 e.g. Dronie does not "climb"

Please try to update to the latest firmware and check the performance again. If no helps, please send us some videos for further analysis. Thank you in advance.