I forgot I had used tripod mode, which had forced obstacle avoidance on and left it there.As a result of the OA, I could have hit a bicycle.

The scenario was:
Looking back. The path is clear.
Flying in my direction, intending to look for people again when is passes me.
But the spark stops when it reaches me.
I move it to the side to look behind my back.

A bicycle is coming. The spark will not move.
I turn left. It will not move.
I ascend a little. Now unstuck.
Flying to the my side of the path, it sees me and stops in the middle of the path.
It escaped in time, but I won't fly there again unless I'm sure OA is off.

What I should have done is either grab it out of the air or go to sports mode to disable OA.
Here is the video:

Heliman, please post the link of video again. It can not be seen.

DJI Elektra Posted at 2017-10-15 00:34
Heliman, please post the link of video again. It can not be seen.

Oops! I’m sorry. It has been corrected now

Heliman, I think OA is good for flying in the forest or protect your spark from hitting objects. You can turn off OA in the visual navigation setting. If you want to fly without OA, you should be more careful.

Turn it off if you don't need it

If you just moved out of its way you still could have flown it.

When the OA identifies an object it is flying towards within 5M of the drone it will stop and hover to prevent crashing - if you fly a little in the opposing direction of the obstacle from it's hover it will disconnect the lock and you can resume flight straight away providing you don't fly in the same direction of the obstacle of course or it will stop again. I would be careful flying down a tight, public road like that at 31MPH+ in Sport mode - the slightest roll or gust of wind and your Spark will hit one of those trees - catching a drone mid flight is not a good idea too... Alternatively, you can switch off OA in the app but also be mindful that this will double the air speed from around 6.5 to 13MPH. The fact the drone stopped and didn't fly into you is a good thing right?!

The dangerous situation came because the spark refused to obey the rc sticks.
I was not aware that OA was enabled. I have disabled OA hundreds of times,
but quickshot modes keep turning it on and leaves it on afterwards. I have to
remember to turn if off every time.

Quickshot should not interfere with user preferences. If it absolutely wants to enforce OA
it could do that during quickshot without messing with the OA slider.
Later I tried to go to tripod mode and back. It had not killed my OA off setting. Strange.
What did it the other day?
Tapfly sure did. But I did not use it then.

Flying the spark is much more relaxed than what I am used to fly.
The small rc helicopter I use below is faster and can do much more. But don’t watch. It’s boring!
I used the spark as a fixed camera. That did not work well. Use HD to se anything at all.

heliman Posted at 2017-10-15 15:40
The dangerous situation came because the spark refused to obey the rc sticks.
I was not aware that OA was enabled. I have disabled OA hundreds of times,
but quickshot modes keep turning it on and leaves it on afterwards. I have to

all over the place! that thing looks like a rodeo bull compared to quad! Good flying capt.