White Ox
lvl.3
Flight distance : 98281 ft
United States
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Well, new to the forum, but have been lurking a while. I have 2 Sparks, one for myself, one for my son. I bought them so we could enjoy flying together... and as with my other hobbies, get pretty immersed into it. Having 2 makes me twice as worried about having a fly-away any day now. We've not gotten many hours as I just gave my son his for his birthday earlier this week (but has flown mine with me a few times over the past month). I've read many a post about fly-aways and want to do all I can to try and keep it from happening to either of us. I've even read that some users have had more than 1 fly away.... seriously?
I think a collection point of as much data as possible could be helpful for each AC at the time of loss:
DJI Go or DJI Go 4
Android or IOS
Flying via phone /.tablet only, RC Only, or RC & tablet/phone combination
AC firmware version
RC Firmware version
DJI Go or Go 4 version
At this point, I'm not afraid to backtrack on firmware versions to try and head off a fly-away - but I'm not really sure what version to step back to. I do know that on my Android Pixel 2, the lower left hand radar North was off by over 30 degrees due to the RC throwing the compass on my phone way off when I would put the phone in the RC's holder. I've recently started doing a phone compass re-cal every time before a flight after coupling the two. Oddly my son's RC has zero affect on his IPhone 6s when he puts it in the holder.
I was all excited to do this together with him - but for that to happen, we'll need to keep both birds, not one or even both birds lost due to a fly-away. At this point, I"m almost scared to fly - lots of money in the air to lose.
Thanks for your help ahead of time.
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