Charles Adams
Second Officer
Flight distance : 3821312 ft
United States
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TexasAerials Posted at 2017-10-1 15:42
by fly away i'm going to assume you mean that the spark encountered an error and exited GPS mode, which i have had happen once. luckily it happened to me right after takeoff and the spark was close by, so i was able to fly it LOS back and land quickly.
there apparently has been some issues with remotes having problems with the sticks malfunctioning, where the remote will just "lock" a stick signal in in one of the corners. my friend recently bought a spark and had that happen to him. he was flying in a hover and the spark just took off and flew into a rock and crashed. afterward he tried to calibrate the remote and the right stick was stuck in the top right corner and could not be calibrated, and when he turned the remote on it beeped an alarm for sticks not being centered. he ended up swapping it out with another one where he bought it and has been happy since.
I think different people have different definitions of "fly away". I have a different take than your definition. I personally don't consider exiting GPS mode a fly away all by itself, because in ATTI mode the pilot still has control of the craft. As you say, LOS is critical as eyes become the navigation system. If one flies out of LOS and loses GPS, that's not a fly away in my mind, that's pilot error.
My definition of a fly away is when the craft exits GPS (goes to ATTI mode) simultaneously with a loss of connection between craft and RC. Under these circumstances, the user has no control of the craft, the craft has no means of knowing how to RTH (no GPS), and the elements own the craft. Of all the cases reported in the forums, I think I've seen two such instances. |
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