bcharleson
lvl.4
Flight distance : 521811 ft
United States
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Took the Spark out for 30 min (3 batteries worth) and got to play with the new firmware. I used the RC with iPad Pro 10.5 on iOS 11 beta 4. Initially, I had some issues with Bluetooth interference and did a series of rebooting the Spark, RC and iPad to make sure I had a good connection. After about 10 min, I was finally able to establish a good connection and take flight.
The first time, the RC lost connection while the Spark was hovering 4 feet in the air and that is when I reset all connections. After then, I was able to fly regularly and take some great footage. In Sport Mode, the FPV is drastically better and a blast to fly around.
I switched to Gesture Mode and was able to see the Record Method work with the RC and iPad screen in the background. One thing that users need to know, is that you can only start and stop recording video with the Spark is close to you. It will only start/stop video recording and not follow you. You cannot start/stop recording when the Spark is in “away and follow”. Only then, you can start recording, then summon the Spark to “away and follow” and it will follow you during active track while recording all within Gesture Mode.
Overall, this upgrade is great and happy to finally see video recording in Gesture Mode so we can know that this features is able to be used without any sort of controller. |
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