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TechVoyager, not to gang up on you in any way but Charissa makes an excellent point...you need more experience just flying. This is not in any way meant to be a dig or an insult toward you, I used to completely panic while flying my P2V+ and the Spark, only time in the air building trust in whatever you are flying will take off that edge. I finally got past it after 4 months (105 flights) with the Spark and flying it every chance I had. Accept that you are going to crash, accept that you may have just trashed that $1,000.00 or so that you will never get back...and then look at the screen, orient yourself, switch it to sport mode, and figure out how to get your drone back home. Do some tests for your own sanity, take flight with a fresh battery, go way out where you just barely have visual and shut off the controller to see what it does when it loses signal. Ok, maybe do some closer in tests with shutting off the controller initially to build your confidence.
I would hang on to your MA for travel, I just took mine to Greece and it was the perfect travel drone. Buy a cheaper Spark and fly it with an iPad mini 4...I had problems with the Spark on the Android platform that went away once I got the mini 4. Pay attention to wind conditions, be aware of your signal strength and initially don't push it until you are more trusting of what to expect. Don't be afraid to crash it, I cannot tell you how many times I ran into stuff with the spark and I never broke anything but a few props. Not to say that you should intentionally run it into things but I have put it in trees several times, ran into a dock once (got lucky it landed on the dock and not in the water), totally freaked out when it went to return to home while I was videoing someone surfing behind a boat (all I had to do was look at the screen to cancel RTH, but I could do nothing but panic in that moment), and I lost it in the wind after getting past the leeward side of an islands protection from a 20-22 mph wind (just had to put it in sport mode and trust the screen). After you build up confidence in just flying, then get something bigger or better. |
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