boydusmaczoidus
lvl.3
Slovenia
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Hi Guys,
Sad to say that I lost my little sparkie a couple of days ago. Here is the sequence of events...
A week ago, I had to return my phone for repair, and (i know i know) flew with just the RC - actually that was fine for a while, but I had
a fly away - it was very close to me, then it suddently launched into the air up very high, and flew off - I finally managed to control it
and recover - but very scary moment! OK OK no more flying without a phone!!
Fair enough, so I ordered an iPad mini 4 which arrived on Friday, and it was off to a very nice location near Ljublajna for a test flight. I am very careful and
take a list of things to do prior to and following take-off. Cleaning the sensors, making sure the home point is set, being well away from powerlines, and of course BIRDS!! The spark took off, GPS all fine, everything looked good. So i placed it into Tripod mode and slowly went up to the max 120m to get a nice overview (in fact I had mistakenly not updated that max altitude due to this being a brand new iOs device, so I believe that it was 150m - anyway, it only got up to 120m or so).
Now i started to get some errors. I did manage to get the flight log off the iPad (note to users of iTunes 12.7 or above - the apps cannot be accessed the 'old' way but instead you need to go to the file sharing option and access the app from there - took yonks to find that out!) - and uploaded it to airdata.com, which provides a nice view of all the errors and other data). I got various compass errors, GPS errors and an ATTI mode switch. The RC then disconnected, and due to the drone being so high, I completely lost sight of it. And of course no connection to the drone at all, so I had no idea where it was or what it was doing. Must admit that I really sortof panicked and just hoped it would return to home, as it is supposed to do. But no cigars.
Im not sure how to upload my flight log to this sight, so would appreciate someone telling me how to do that.
Of course I wandered around the fields looking for the poor sparkie, but to no avail. No internet connection on my phone so the find my drone option was not helping - anyway there was no connection to the RC so not much help there.
I was thinking perhaps that it may have been due to having placed a small white drone strobe on the bottom of the battery, as I did that just prior to the first fly away last week - its the only thing i can think that has changed. Perhaps some sort of interference from that small strobe? Unlikely I know.
I have already ordered a new Spark due to reading here that without the drone, very little chance of receiving a replacement. All I really need is some analysis of this problem in order to avoid such issues in the future. Perhaps aspects such as calibrating the compass more regularly (although I only got the warning when the drone was up high). I suppose the other issue is the line-of-sight rule, in that, Is that rule applicable for height as well as distance from yourself? I suppose logically it should be because I really cant see it when it gets up to 100m in height or so (but the view is so damm good up there!!) - the drone was lost when only 2 m horizontal distance from myself. Ironically, I had bought the strobe to improve this issue! There certainly were no big power lines around, so I cant see how the loss could have been due to significant signal interference from other sources.
Anyway, any advice about this and of course how to upload the flight log greatly appreciated
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