OAB
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Flight distance : 4551722 ft
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OAB Posted at 2017-12-31 10:54
Thank you for the response S-e-ven. I am aware of the limitations of various battery technologies and environmental temperature. Also, phones, especially iPhones seems to shut down very quickly.
I agree that launching the drone with the phone, then enter gesture mode and keep the phone in a pocket can be a solution, but suboptimale. Sometimes, the app crashes as well, and if it disconnects or goes to sleep, the flight is not logged. So the phone must then be on with sleep / screen saver turned off, burning excessive battery to no avail.
Just a short heads-up on this one:
talked to a very nice guy at DJI support today, and it was concluded that it is not possible to update the flight records after a flight has been executed unless the aircraft has been connected to DJI GO4 app all the time.
So for the Spark, flying in gesture mode, the flight log will become incomplete. If the app or phone crashes, it the flight records will be incomplete.
However, this is a feature that should not be to hard to implement, as it has already been done by other brands in the sports industry, such as Garmin with their new heart rate belts with built-in memory and Stryd Running Power meter.
So the DJI support guy said he would pass on the idea to the development team. Hopefully we'll see this feature in a not too distant future. I guess a feature like this would be useful for all parties, in an event where the flight records / log is important, especially for the DJI Spark and to understand scenarios such as "fly aways" etc., if the drone is recovered afterwards. Then it can be connected to the DJI GO4 app, and "offline" flight records synced post flight to better learn and understand.
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