Virgil Quick
Second Officer
Flight distance : 1074104 ft
United States
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I have been having trouble with video freezing and video transmission link problems on 5.8 G whenever I was flying my Spark (using the RC) and an obstical avoidance warning was received. Fly Spark up near an object, get the usual warning and the video would freeze until the warning was not present (moved Spark away from the object). If I went to 2.4 G, the problem went away and video continued normally when avoidance warnings appeared.
I hunted and hunted to try and find the reason. Surely the problem would go away with the latest firmware updates to Spark, batteries, controller and software update to Go 4. Got everything updated and sadly the problem continued. I had always been careful to turn off Bluetooth on my iPhone 7 but the problem continued.
Today, I knew I would be at home alone so I did not take time to put in my hearing aids (Oticon). These are the newer type of hearing aids that have Bluetooth to sinc to a smart phone. Started up the Spark, left it on 5.8 G, flew it up to an object, received the usual warning and the video continue to work just fine. I went and got my hearing aids, turned them on and repeated the test and, sure enough, the video freeze reappeared.
Bottom line, to avoid video freeze and other potential interferance problems be sure to turn of all Bluetooth devices, including hearing aids, when flying your new Spark.
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