markc620
lvl.3
Flight distance : 25269 ft
France
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Hi all, a little background about me. I’ve owned a handful of “toy” drones so up until spark I’ve only flown atti. After doing some research I decided to go with spark for my first “real” drone. I’ve owned them now for about 2 months. Now onto my concerns. This may be a little long so please bare with me.
My first spark did what I believed at the time a “flyaway” however after reading, watching and learning, it was more pilot error than flyaway. It lost compass signal, went into atti mode and I panicked after only having it for a week or so and spent valuable time hitting the rth rather than taking over and bringing it back home myself. That being said, DJI stepped up to the plate and replaced it almost immediately. Thank you DJI!
My second one came shortly after that incident and by then I had poured over all of DJI videos and user videos, read tons of threads on these forums and got myself a little education on the spark. After all of that here’s why I posted. It seems every time I fly my spark it will post “weak GPS signal” then I get a warning weak gps signal, in flight, working IMU encounters heading exception, please switch to atti mode if craft behaves erratically. Then the next warning was weak gps signal accuracy may be compromised please fly with caution, then I received compass error exit P-GPS Mode, it then switched to atti mode and I started flying it back home it then found its gps again and was fine. By this time it’s so annoying I just brought it back. During this flight I received 3 compass errors in a 7 minute flight. I never launch with less than 11 satellites, I had 12 on this launch and 17 in flight. I was in a wide open Farm field in the middle of no where.
This is just my last flight. This happens almost every time I fly spark. 9-10 for sure. I’ve made it through 1 battery pack once since receiving my second one with 0 errors.
Every flight before I fly I go through the steps of bringing it up to 8’ flying forward, backward side to side and yawing 2 feet just like the avoid flyaways states I should. I never launch without 11 or more satellites, I use an otg cable in airplane mode my controller antenna are set per DJI video.
So am I doing something wrong? Is this normal for spark? Do others have this problem every flight?
Please help, I’m ready to sell this thing. I don’t read about these problems in the Mavic forums.
Thanks so much for your time, I know this was long.
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