Great tips! Thanks!! FAA Part 107 states that the drone must always be in line of sight so this is good advice anyway. For the Spark, I would also add one more tip that I learned the hard way: be careful when enabling the backward flying and tracking mode. I was flying in an underground mine for commercial reasons and forgot to disable the backwards flying capability and flew it right into the side of a cave which clipped one of the props and caused it to fall 30 feet which ultimately totaled it. (The Spark has no rear collision avoidance sensor)
thank you for great tips. I just got my drone myself so before I unpack it I want to know as much as I can and your tips are definitely amazing... thank you
I would add, for the Spark at least, keep monitoring the number of satellites you have. Make a habit of doing this when you check your battery, which you should do about every two minutes. One thing I would also mention - check the K index.
Yup, miss understanding here. I thought that you suggested us to calibrate every single time we fly the drone. But the fact is you suggested us "to not calibrate it" every single time we fly it, just once, which is the proper calibration. Honestly, I calibrate my drone (Mavic) every single time before fly it, even in the same point of location. I ever flow my Mavic on the top of the mountain which is lots of magnetic field. It's very hard to calibrate the drone. I tried so many times before finally it succed. The flight was not smooth, but yeah I tried my best. Anyway, nice sharing, thanks! 👍☺
Hi Mike, catching you here on this video. Just got a good deal on a Spark and a bunch of accessories and am learning to trust it. Had it out about eleven times in the last week. Right now I am sticking with my Mavic Air. My Mavic Air is getting ready to get some cliff footage of Northern Ireland next week. I do not dare take the Spark over the ocean in another country but your tips in this video are the basics to common sense for flying any GPS drone and your contribution to educating folks on this is appreciated. I am going to see what else you have on the Spark to get all the tips I can. I hope others do as well. Doing the OTG cable and your tips as habit already. Keep up the good work and let's see more beautiful footage. M2
Thanks for another great and helpful video. Good to know how to avoid the fly away issue as know a number of people who have had drones that does just this.....!
Only recalibrate if your drone asks you to. No need to re-calibrate every single time you move, even if it's 30km away. I've flown 1000 km away from my last calibration and it was just fine :)
Thanks for the great tip but it is not really flyaway situation. I will like to see real flyaway concerns like will drone fly away if near power line or near some kind of TV dishes. Good video though.
Hi Mike. Your videos are really nice. I am a documentary maker from India and I recently bought a Phantom Spark. Can you please give me tips for flying my drone inside big monuments and in the mountains.
Here is a couple of tips. 1. Keep the DRONE in sight, NOT 5,000ft out. 2. Make sure you have at least 18 satellites connected at takeoff. 3. Use common sense. 4. Have fun flying. Remember the spark drone has limitations, it's not a phantom drone.
Very good information.. I would just like to add to things that you may have forgotten, you should always download a good app like UAV forecast it is in the iOS and the Android market free and it gives you another user interface that you can look at one important thing on that user interface is the KP index, it's a scale from 1 to 5 and it shows the electromagnetic solar flares that are thrown by the Sun at different times during the year if the KP index is above let's say at 3 there is a greater chance that your drone may lose GPS and go into the dreaded.....Atti mode! With the yellow flashing leds....😡
I experienced a fly away the other day on a walmart gps drone. How panic I was not knowing what the drone might hit! So I then frantically go out looking for it and lucky I found it. It ended up crash landing on a business sidewalk area
My Soark is so little that keeping it in sight, say when it's out 200 m, is impossible - I simply can't see it (nor hear it). I hard-wire my controller to my iphone, watch the iphone video to see what's ahead of it and, use RTH to bring it back. I like my RTH altitude to be set at 60 m - out in the rural areas where I fly, nothing is up that high. I prefer not to bring my battery lower than 60 % if I'm flying it on a straight line away from me - I like to have enough battery to RTH. Of course, if I'm flying it close around me, I can ake the battery down farther
Question: I’ve lost 3 drones from them just falling out of sky. What’s up with that? I let Home Point get set, latest firmware, then they randomly just fall out. Not the battery as good crash footage on SIM card? I’ve recovered two. Glad DJI replaces for $40 but still is like to know.
DJI increased risk of fly away recoveries when they chose to not include atti mode option on mavic and spark. A flip into atti can save a gps/compass fly away.
Thank you! Well put and in a "makes sense to me" manner. And an extra "thank you" for keeping the background audio under control. I prefer listening to your words :-)
Wayne Rumambi i had that problem i had my drone 3 days and i had a fly away. It went up and it went in to atti mode, i saw that it was not doing what i was doing with the remote and i saw it fly away, i was 92 meters high. Living in Europe my remote only works for 200 maybe 300 meters. So i started to run behind the fly away drone and pushing the remote trying to lower the drone.. it came down to 60 meters. I kept on running behind the spark. And about 900 meters, i got cotrol over it again. It also found the gps again. I could not see what was happening on my phone because there was text that i did not know how to take away from phone screen. I think when gps came back it would have gone back to RTH, when battery was low. But not sure. I did not know what atti mode was. I calibrated compas and IMU and have no problems anymore. So i did the right thing, running after it and trying to be near drone and trying to bring it lower. I think i was near to an iron bench when it went up and the compas was not working well, stay away from iron. My drone went with the wind. If you can see on your screen where you are try to find yourself and try to fly to yourself. Maybe you can see my fly away here ruclips.net/video/ztgoeLh36F0/видео.html
This is how I lost my first Spark. I was in a clearing and I could only see a small patch of sky. It went from Tripod mode to Atti mode and it went haywire. I tried to make it go up to avoid a crash. WRONG. I should have brought it down. Crashing into the treetops would be better than flying away never to be seen again. Did you know that a Spark can fly at 20 metres per second? It can't. But my flight data said that the lost Spark did. I assume it changed its mind about where the Spark was and deduced that it must have flown 20 metres in a second. If you are flying in the clear and it goes into Atti mode just don't panic. Let go of the controls. Wait. It will usually go back to GPS mode in a second or two. Exit Tripod mode if you were in it because the difference between Atti mode and tripod mode is so severe it really messes up your reflexes. Recently I was flying with the Spark about a kilometre away and it went into Atti mode and stayed in it (I think it was in the path of a beam from an antenna mast). I didn't panic. I just looked at the screen and started to work out which direction to head back in manual flight. I started back in the right direction and it returned to GPS mode so I engaged RTH until it came much closer again. Try to work out which direction is home, find a landmark nearer to home and fly towards it hoping to get all your GPS functions back. In another occasion, I was flying over some private gardens and it went crazy. The degree of control was very limited as the sensitivity to control movements was extreme so that I was lurching crazily across the sky. I could aim broadly away from the sensitive place I really didn't want to crash in. Fortunately, there was a large field nearby and I could aim at that as it was so big it was hard to miss. I just brought it down as fast as I could before it could go away across the fields and beyond the range of the controller. Fields are good. If it missed the field I would have tried to hit a tree (hopefully a gentle glancing blow), this is not as good as a field but is better than it just flying away never to be seen again.
Great Video. some good points given which most first time pilots take for granted. After auditing more than 500 telecommunications pilons id say interference is low to manageable on most Microwave dishes as well as RF antenna, this after flying (3-5m) away from active radio equipment. This goes for the DJI p4 and Mavic pro on the spark the interference cases connection issues basically every time if you get too close (+-10m) from the antenna. Id say if someone is continuously crashing newer drones they should really reconsider flying drones, there are so many safety features preventing crashes that you have to absolutely screw up to crash a newer Phantom or Mavic. Word of advice, listen to the warnings the drone is giving you it easier to land and reconfigure or check the drone rather than to crash and destroy a complete unit.
I had a flyaway with another GPS drone, the worst experience ever. I have a Spark and have my cell nr on it just incase. There is a guy here on YT that attached a fishing line to his Spark after a flyaway :-) I check the calibrations on the DJI Go app and if everything is in the green, I do not do the dance
Not thought out. How do you stay LOS if you fly and video a mile across a valley? Why even have RTH feature if you can see the drone? And the Spark is too tiny to see at even 100 meters. Why does DJI have FPV goggles and sport mode? Sorry but not realistic ideas here.
I live in Canada. Bought the spark fly more combo. Calibrated it once, and flown it 2x so far. Great unit. I’m off to Hawaii in March, do I need to calibrate it once I get there? Really necessary? Thx
Had an extremely close call yesterday with my spark, was 700 feet away from me over water, the compass failed mid air, so did the imu. I was somehow able to fly it back while it did a bunch of crazy stuff, but super close to failing. (Spark)
Too late man. You should post this video 3 weeks ago before I crashed my little spark :( hehe. It still works but one of the motor axis is slightly bent and the drone is making a lot more noise. It's been already send for repair. :) guys listen him carefully :D I realised too late when I was flying above high voltage power line as It was behind the trees and I wasn't able to see it.
Thanks an excellent video! I'm a pilot in training, RC plane pilot, and a photographer in the USA. I need this drone! Question- If I am flying in safe area away from Class B, C an D airspace and away from ALL airports what is the max altitude for Spark or mavic? I've seen some cloud surfing videos and that is something I would like to try with a drone.
Kind of a question/ comment here. I use my apple I-Pad when flying my drone, which is much better to use then the small screen on the android phone. So my question, when flying my DJI Spark, I tried using the RTH button with remote icon, but says the mobile signal is to weak. Guess that would work if flying in a more wide open area? I live here in Washing state west of the Cascades and have lots of tall trees surrounding our house.
I am currently learning on several lower priced toy drones (don't even know how to fly yet) I hope to get one of these Hobby grade drones , if I can get to where I'm okay flying the cheapo's. I would hate to lose a 4 or 5 hundred dollar drone, and I think the music's fine!
Thanks for the tips. I had my first flyaway last week when I was filming a waving flag. Didn't realize the drone would lose the signal when it reached the other side of the pole!
You may want to calibrate each and every time. Reason if something happens DJI will look at the history and see if the drone was calibrated at the time of the incident. If it was not it’s pilot error and you’re responsible.
My Mavic pro flew away in March and I’m still in the process of getting a refund for it 😢 I had it for a few days and I get the feeling that they won’t refund it
It simply means you can set a new Home Point - if you choose the first option (the arrow) the new Home Point will be where the drone is located exactly at the moment, whereas if you select the other option (the person with the remote controller), then the Home Point will be stored as your current position - where you're standing with the remote controller. I hope that gets it more clear for you :)
No you got it wrong again, if you choose the option person with controller the Spark will follow the controller, this is useful if on a boat or car, bike or moving.
Hello from Brazil! I wonder if you have videos teaching flying in door with Spark. My concern would be the RTH or fly away and if it really is safe. Thank you!!
Hello Cesar! I have flown the Spark indoors a couple of times and it's really stable, one thing I can recommend is to put on the propeller guards, for more safety. And I wouldn't advise you to use RTH since that's GPS-based, it would be safer to fly it back to you manually.
Just from my own experience with DJI calibration is to NEVER take off or calibrate from the hood/top of your car or a closed laptop computer. NOT GOOD!
Hi Sir, just bought my dji spark. I had a hard time calibrating it since I did it indoors, thus it mean if I recalibrate it on future use it will become a problem since the initial calibration was bad. I just bought it and I crashed it inside the room.
No, just make sure you calibrate it once again outside on a large open field with no magnetic interference. that should give it a "clear" calibration, and then only re-calibrate when the app tells you to.
Looking up they are all dark grey, and it doesn't really matter because you see the shape rather than the colour against a bright sky, or you see the LEDs if it's dark. What matters is which is easier to see if it has crashed. Avoid the Meadow Green! The Lava Red will stand out against most horizontal surfaces you might make an unplanned landing on.
I think u said not to calibrate ever time but then said u might have a bad calibration once and may cause a problem, so for that reason I think calibrating ever time is good???
No, just make sure you make a good calibration once, then only re-calibrate if you travel too far away from the original calibration point (100+ miles). Personally I find this to be the best way of doing it
Drone Supremacy I didn’t calibrate my compass the second time and while the rth initiated. It went somewhere else and I lost it . So calibrating compass every time you fly is important. ?
great video and well edited. i have a little spark drone and have nearly lost it a couple of times. a friend owns a commercial drone co and his only tip to me was. always keep your eyes on it and if in trouble go up! thats it! your tips are also very good. thanks for making! i find the batteries a bit buggy too.
Having your drone in line of sight and setting the RTH altitude has nothing to do with fly aways. Furthermore, i think you mean ElecroMagnetig interference (EM) instead of magnetic interference. That a miscalibration of the compass is the cause of fly aways is highly unlikely. When it is really off, the app will warn you. The rest of your tips...well they are not spectaculair are they? You missed the most probable cause of fly aways and that is hard wind .Especially when you fly high (above 1000 meters ) the wind may surprise you. The app warns you, but it also does when there is no real risk. Or a cause can be a technical failure. No interference, but the bird just crashed. Just like your iPhone does.
drone diangelo dude you are a jackass and you’re just trying to act like you know what you’re talking about. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if you have ever actually flown a drone in your life!
it seems to me, sir, you don't like my tone of voice. well, at least it was a comment on the content, not at the person. yours however, did not contain any content, only a personal qualification. i wonder who is in need of adjusting his tone of voice. now let us go into your assumption of me flying a drone. it was easily to verify your assumption by clicking on "drone diangelo" and see if it any drone flying there. i checked your channel, and other then calling someone a jackass, your contribution to youtube is fairly limited, isn"t it? i will not discuss the content of my review here, because to understand it, it requires at least some basic form of education. however you can watch my drone video"s on my channel. don't forget to like them (it is the little black picture of the thumb up you have to press)!
Line of sight for a drone the size of the spark is crazy. You can't even see it at a half mile and it will go over a mile. Line of sight might work for a beginner but once you venture further no one can see it.
I'm wondering whether the spark is right for me... I'm thirteen and have good piloting skills, and want a drone that has a relatively good camera that doesn't break the bank. I would definitely get the controller.😀 I'm just concerned about the reviews that so many people are giving it. Also looking into mavic air but not cheap as spark, well obviously... Also dji's customer service is supposed to be garbage. So help me decide please! 🤔😀
From what you have listed avove, the Spark would be ideal for you! I think it's a great drone, i haven't had any issues with it ever since i bought it 1 year ago!
Drone Supremacy, thanks for the help but I think that the phantom 3 standard is more for me since I want it for the camera. For the same price I get a 2.7k camera. Since photography and videography are my passion, I think that the phantom 3 is a better choice for my wants.
I finally found a tip for keeping mine from flying away. I leave it sit on my dresser and just show it off to my friends ha ha
Best way to prevent flyaways is to tie a very long string to the tail of the body of the spark
I've almost done that!
@@whatsup7202 I also thought of that after watching all the drone fly away posts...never did and now my spark is gone.😟😢
Well maybe fishing line. Much stronger.
Great tips! Thanks!! FAA Part 107 states that the drone must always be in line of sight so this is good advice anyway. For the Spark, I would also add one more tip that I learned the hard way: be careful when enabling the backward flying and tracking mode. I was flying in an underground mine for commercial reasons and forgot to disable the backwards flying capability and flew it right into the side of a cave which clipped one of the props and caused it to fall 30 feet which ultimately totaled it. (The Spark has no rear collision avoidance sensor)
thank you for great tips. I just got my drone myself so before I unpack it I want to know as much as I can and your tips are definitely amazing... thank you
Always remember the find my drone option in app, it helps when you loose sight of drone and it crashes into n tree or some obstacles.
I would add, for the Spark at least, keep monitoring the number of satellites you have. Make a habit of doing this when you check your battery, which you should do about every two minutes. One thing I would also mention - check the K index.
Yup, miss understanding here. I thought that you suggested us to calibrate every single time we fly the drone. But the fact is you suggested us "to not calibrate it" every single time we fly it, just once, which is the proper calibration.
Honestly, I calibrate my drone (Mavic) every single time before fly it, even in the same point of location.
I ever flow my Mavic on the top of the mountain which is lots of magnetic field. It's very hard to calibrate the drone. I tried so many times before finally it succed. The flight was not smooth, but yeah I tried my best.
Anyway, nice sharing, thanks! 👍☺
Thank you
Great video! I just picked up a spark today. Unfortunately one of the batteries is junk but it’s so much fun!
Hi Mike, catching you here on this video. Just got a good deal on a Spark and a bunch of accessories and am learning to trust it. Had it out about eleven times in the last week. Right now I am sticking with my Mavic Air.
My Mavic Air is getting ready to get some cliff footage of Northern Ireland next week. I do not dare take the Spark over the ocean in another country but your tips in this video are the basics to common sense for flying any GPS drone and your contribution to educating folks on this is appreciated. I am going to see what else you have on the Spark to get all the tips I can. I hope others do as well. Doing the OTG cable and your tips as habit already. Keep up the good work and let's see more beautiful footage. M2
Yeah I recently ran into magnetic interference when trying to shoot for a customer. I noticed this happens in a lot of downtown areas of cities
"The drone itself will be a bit more, lets say confused" LOL, just the
idea of a bunch of confused drones flying around is hilarious haha.
Keeping your drone in sight is now law.
Very good tips!
#6: Don't fly it out faster than it can come back (like I did).
very helpfull! thank you for posting this
Thanks for another great and helpful video. Good to know how to avoid the fly away issue as know a number of people who have had drones that does just this.....!
Regarding calibration, my friend lives about 30 km from me. If I take the drone to his place I should recalibrate, right?
Only recalibrate if your drone asks you to. No need to re-calibrate every single time you move, even if it's 30km away. I've flown 1000 km away from my last calibration and it was just fine :)
Thanks for the great tip but it is not really flyaway situation. I will like to see real flyaway concerns like will drone fly away if near power line or near some kind of TV dishes. Good video though.
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Hi Mike. Your videos are really nice. I am a documentary maker from India and I recently bought a Phantom Spark. Can you please give me tips for flying my drone inside big monuments and in the mountains.
What happens if you set the return to home altitude to 500 meters? As the spark can only go up to 120?
Vry good thanks
Here is a couple of tips. 1. Keep the DRONE in sight, NOT 5,000ft out. 2. Make sure you have at least 18 satellites connected at takeoff. 3. Use common sense. 4. Have fun flying. Remember the spark drone has limitations, it's not a phantom drone.
Very good information.. I would just like to add to things that you may have forgotten, you should always download a good app like UAV forecast it is in the iOS and the Android market free and it gives you another user interface that you can look at one important thing on that user interface is the KP index, it's a scale from 1 to 5 and it shows the electromagnetic solar flares that are thrown by the Sun at different times during the year if the KP index is above let's say at 3 there is a greater chance that your drone may lose GPS and go into the dreaded.....Atti mode! With the yellow flashing leds....😡
I experienced a fly away the other day on a walmart gps drone. How panic I was not knowing what the drone might hit! So I then frantically go out looking for it and lucky I found it. It ended up crash landing on a business sidewalk area
My Soark is so little that keeping it in sight, say when it's out 200 m, is impossible - I simply can't see it (nor hear it). I hard-wire my controller to my iphone, watch the iphone video to see what's ahead of it and, use RTH to bring it back. I like my RTH altitude to be set at 60 m - out in the rural areas where I fly, nothing is up that high. I prefer not to bring my battery lower than 60 % if I'm flying it on a straight line away from me - I like to have enough battery to RTH. Of course, if I'm flying it close around me, I can ake the battery down farther
bltefft you can actually wait for it to reach around 30% and it'll return to home with no problems
Hi - would you recommend a Spark as a first drone, or is it wise to get a cheaper one first? If so, can you suggest a cheap one? Many thanks...
The Spark is perfect for a first drone! I can definitely recommend it as your 1st.
Try the Tello by dji. Only 100$. Ridiculously stable drone. It was my first drone. Now im moving onto the Spark
Good tips!
Thanks man! :)
Thanks For the tips Drone supremacy
Welcome! :)
Drone Supremacy just about to watch the full set up as the DJI video is crap, for starters what do you do if the QR code doesn’t read
Question: I’ve lost 3 drones from them just falling out of sky. What’s up with that? I let Home Point get set, latest firmware, then they randomly just fall out. Not the battery as good crash footage on SIM card? I’ve recovered two. Glad DJI replaces for $40 but still is like to know.
5 Tips ??? there is one more tip, Leave it in the box!! Sooner or later you are going to lose or crash your drone, wat ever make it is
DJI increased risk of fly away recoveries when they chose to not include atti mode option on mavic and spark. A flip into atti can save a gps/compass fly away.
this is new. So they basically don't have full manual even if you try to disable all the safeguards?
I have a question, how do you get 14 minutes of fly time on your spark? or you were using mavic ? thanks!
It really depends on the flying conditions, but I normally get 12-13 minutes, sometimes more, sometime less.
Thank you! Well put and in a "makes sense to me" manner. And an extra "thank you" for keeping the background audio under control. I prefer listening to your words :-)
Music is way too loud compared to your voice. I see this problem constantly. - Music Producer
What if you drone ape says it needs calibration even though you done it already?
Question for you Drone Supremacy, what do you do while it's flying and all of the sudden it turned into atti mode? Thank you
Wayne Rumambi i had that problem i had my drone 3 days and i had a fly away. It went up and it went in to atti mode, i saw that it was not doing what i was doing with the remote and i saw it fly away, i was 92 meters high. Living in Europe my remote only works for 200 maybe 300 meters. So i started to run behind the fly away drone and pushing the remote trying to lower the drone.. it came down to 60 meters. I kept on running behind the spark. And about 900 meters, i got cotrol over it again. It also found the gps again.
I could not see what was happening on my phone because there was text that i did not know how to take away from phone screen.
I think when gps came back it would have gone back to RTH, when battery was low. But not sure.
I did not know what atti mode was. I calibrated compas and IMU and have no problems anymore.
So i did the right thing, running after it and trying to be near drone and trying to bring it lower.
I think i was near to an iron bench when it went up and the compas was not working well, stay away from iron.
My drone went with the wind. If you can see on your screen where you are try to find yourself and try to fly to yourself.
Maybe you can see my fly away here ruclips.net/video/ztgoeLh36F0/видео.html
This is how I lost my first Spark. I was in a clearing and I could only see a small patch of sky. It went from Tripod mode to Atti mode and it went haywire. I tried to make it go up to avoid a crash. WRONG. I should have brought it down. Crashing into the treetops would be better than flying away never to be seen again.
Did you know that a Spark can fly at 20 metres per second? It can't. But my flight data said that the lost Spark did. I assume it changed its mind about where the Spark was and deduced that it must have flown 20 metres in a second.
If you are flying in the clear and it goes into Atti mode just don't panic. Let go of the controls. Wait. It will usually go back to GPS mode in a second or two. Exit Tripod mode if you were in it because the difference between Atti mode and tripod mode is so severe it really messes up your reflexes. Recently I was flying with the Spark about a kilometre away and it went into Atti mode and stayed in it (I think it was in the path of a beam from an antenna mast). I didn't panic. I just looked at the screen and started to work out which direction to head back in manual flight. I started back in the right direction and it returned to GPS mode so I engaged RTH until it came much closer again.
Try to work out which direction is home, find a landmark nearer to home and fly towards it hoping to get all your GPS functions back.
In another occasion, I was flying over some private gardens and it went crazy. The degree of control was very limited as the sensitivity to control movements was extreme so that I was lurching crazily across the sky. I could aim broadly away from the sensitive place I really didn't want to crash in. Fortunately, there was a large field nearby and I could aim at that as it was so big it was hard to miss. I just brought it down as fast as I could before it could go away across the fields and beyond the range of the controller. Fields are good. If it missed the field I would have tried to hit a tree (hopefully a gentle glancing blow), this is not as good as a field but is better than it just flying away never to be seen again.
you did not show how to set a home point altitude
Great Video. some good points given which most first time pilots take for granted.
After auditing more than 500 telecommunications pilons id say interference is low to manageable on most Microwave dishes as well as RF antenna, this after flying (3-5m) away from active radio equipment.
This goes for the DJI p4 and Mavic pro on the spark the interference cases connection issues basically every time if you get too close (+-10m) from the antenna.
Id say if someone is continuously crashing newer drones they should really reconsider flying drones, there are so many safety features preventing crashes that you have to absolutely screw up to crash a newer Phantom or Mavic.
Word of advice, listen to the warnings the drone is giving you it easier to land and reconfigure or check the drone rather than to crash and destroy a complete unit.
Very well said Rory, i hope more people can learn that and avoid these mistakes!
Here's a tip: reduce your intro music by 75%. 😬
Great video, please correct that volumen of the intro music. My ears are still bleeding. Regardless how awful it is.
Thanks for the comment, I've improved my audio in my recent videos :)
Drone Supremacy I saw that. Keep up the good work
I had a flyaway with another GPS drone, the worst experience ever. I have a Spark and have my cell nr on it just incase. There is a guy here on YT that attached a fishing line to his Spark after a flyaway :-) I check the calibrations on the DJI Go app and if everything is in the green, I do not do the dance
thanks man .. great tips.. !!!!
Not thought out. How do you stay LOS if you fly and video a mile across a valley? Why even have RTH feature if you can see the drone? And the Spark is too tiny to see at even 100 meters. Why does DJI have FPV goggles and sport mode? Sorry but not realistic ideas here.
Colin Bruner Actually the second you put on FPV goggles outdoors you are no longer in VLOS and in violation of FAA rules.
I live in Canada. Bought the spark fly more combo. Calibrated it once, and flown it 2x so far. Great unit. I’m off to Hawaii in March, do I need to calibrate it once I get there? Really necessary? Thx
I'd say YES, calibrate it once you get there for a peace of mind.
Had an extremely close call yesterday with my spark, was 700 feet away from me over water, the compass failed mid air, so did the imu. I was somehow able to fly it back while it did a bunch of crazy stuff, but super close to failing. (Spark)
Too late man. You should post this video 3 weeks ago before I crashed my little spark :( hehe. It still works but one of the motor axis is slightly bent and the drone is making a lot more noise. It's been already send for repair. :) guys listen him carefully :D I realised too late when I was flying above high voltage power line as It was behind the trees and I wasn't able to see it.
The video is from 9 November! Lol
Sorry to hear mate, but hope when the Spark is repaired it will fly just as fine as it was new! Best of luck :)
Thanks an excellent video! I'm a pilot in training, RC plane pilot, and a photographer in the USA. I need this drone! Question- If I am flying in safe area away from Class B, C an D airspace and away from ALL airports what is the max altitude for Spark or mavic? I've seen some cloud surfing videos and that is something I would like to try with a drone.
I think 400 feet is the max. 500 feet for GA over sparsely populated areas. That gives a 100 hundred foot separation.
Kind of a question/ comment here. I use my apple I-Pad when flying my drone, which is much better to use then the small screen on the android phone. So my question, when flying my DJI Spark, I tried using the RTH button with remote icon, but says the mobile signal is to weak. Guess that would work if flying in a more wide open area? I live here in Washing state west of the Cascades and have lots of tall trees surrounding our house.
I am currently learning on several lower priced toy drones (don't even know how to fly yet) I hope to get one of these Hobby grade drones , if I can get to where I'm okay flying the cheapo's. I would hate to lose a 4 or 5 hundred dollar drone, and I think the music's fine!
Thanks for the tips. I had my first flyaway last week when I was filming a waving flag. Didn't realize the drone would lose the signal when it reached the other side of the pole!
Helpful tips.no more flyaway.thanks for sharing!!!
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You may want to calibrate each and every time. Reason if something happens DJI will look at the history and see if the drone was calibrated at the time of the incident. If it was not it’s pilot error and you’re responsible.
Really, where does dji say that?
No only do it when the APP says
I bought a used Spark from a guy in TN and I live in N GA. Finally did a compass calibration 6 flights later. No difference.
I fly 4 different countries 1600miles and no calibration needed
Have you ever had a flyaway?
Mine actually few away and crashed onto the side of the hotel, lucky its still working :(
mine too. cos i had used without remote controller :(
Drone Supremacy unfortunately on a parrot swat it went like really high and I couldn't manage to make it come back 😪
My Mavic pro flew away in March and I’m still in the process of getting a refund for it 😢 I had it for a few days and I get the feeling that they won’t refund it
Noo, never
Could you clarify 5:35 to 5:50 please? Many Thanks :-)
It simply means you can set a new Home Point - if you choose the first option (the arrow) the new Home Point will be where the drone is located exactly at the moment, whereas if you select the other option (the person with the remote controller), then the Home Point will be stored as your current position - where you're standing with the remote controller. I hope that gets it more clear for you :)
No you got it wrong again, if you choose the option person with controller the Spark will follow the controller, this is useful if on a boat or car, bike or moving.
Everytime I fly my Spark at a new location I need to compass calibrate?I am assuming you cannot fly unless you compass calibrate?
No, you can. I just advise most people to re-calibrate when they go 100+ miles further from their original calibration location, just to be sure.
at 4:53 Can you set Home Point while the drone is in flight? Like change it to that 2nd icon with the man symbol? Or do you just set that pre-flight?
Yes you can! You can change the home point at any given time, as long as your GPS signal is strong enough :)
Hello from Brazil! I wonder if you have videos teaching flying in door with Spark. My concern would be the RTH or fly away and if it really is safe. Thank you!!
Hello Cesar! I have flown the Spark indoors a couple of times and it's really stable, one thing I can recommend is to put on the propeller guards, for more safety. And I wouldn't advise you to use RTH since that's GPS-based, it would be safer to fly it back to you manually.
Tks! Can I calibrate the drone indoors or do I have to do it externally?
Like your video very helpful looking to buy the Dji spark soon.
Thanks dude, best of luck with the future purchase :)
Just from my own experience with DJI calibration is to NEVER take off or calibrate from the hood/top of your car or a closed laptop computer. NOT GOOD!
Absolutely, that would create a lot of interference and ultimately a bad calibration!
Awesome tips and video. My Spark comes this Friday, I am pumped. Thank you again, subscribed for sure :)
Thanks 🙏🏻 have fun with the Spark :)
When you say "calibrate the drone" do you mean, calibrate the compass?
Yes!
Drone Supremacy thanks for clarifying
I would add, calibrate the IMU also.
Hi Sir, just bought my dji spark. I had a hard time calibrating it since I did it indoors, thus it mean if I recalibrate it on future use it will become a problem since the initial calibration was bad. I just bought it and I crashed it inside the room.
No, just make sure you calibrate it once again outside on a large open field with no magnetic interference. that should give it a "clear" calibration, and then only re-calibrate when the app tells you to.
Dont you like remove the blades or something
Drone Supremacy thank you so much sir :)
I had a flyaway o man it was scary, , calabration was OK, RTH set,, it went on a flyway.
+Anthony Kenny did you recover it?
Last question! what colour Spark do you think shows up best in the sky? Thank you!
doesn't matter, they're all gray/black from the bottom so it's all the same. Just pick a colour you like! :)
Looking up they are all dark grey, and it doesn't really matter because you see the shape rather than the colour against a bright sky, or you see the LEDs if it's dark. What matters is which is easier to see if it has crashed. Avoid the Meadow Green! The Lava Red will stand out against most horizontal surfaces you might make an unplanned landing on.
Crashed my drone today. Wish i seen this yesterday.
Aaah sorry to hear dude. Did you manage to recover the drone? How serious is it?
I think u said not to calibrate ever time but then said u might have a bad calibration once and may cause a problem, so for that reason I think calibrating ever time is good???
No, just make sure you make a good calibration once, then only re-calibrate if you travel too far away from the original calibration point (100+ miles). Personally I find this to be the best way of doing it
Michael Millines he’s saying go some where clear of interference do a calibration check it and keep it
Drone Supremacy I didn’t calibrate my compass the second time and while the rth initiated. It went somewhere else and I lost it . So calibrating compass every time you fly is important. ?
@@ugennamgyal8946 did it go back to its last RTH setting?
great video and well edited. i have a little spark drone and have nearly lost it a couple of times. a friend owns a commercial drone co and his only tip to me was. always keep your eyes on it and if in trouble go up! thats it! your tips are also very good. thanks for making! i find the batteries a bit buggy too.
Nice video Men
almost had a flyaway
Glad you saved it!
Thanks for this good informative video.
Welcome, William!
Great vid, I just got a spark hope I dont have a fly away!
Thanks! I hope you don't! : )
Your onboard, you have great tips and advice....thx
Thanks a lot Rick :)
Great informative video. Thank you
Anytime! 🙌🏻
Thanks for the tips. I am waiting for my Spark to arrive, so I am learning all I can before even seeing mine. :)
Welcome, buddy! Have fun with the Spark when you get it : )
DougsterCanada1 same here
Most annoying intro music, ever...
You can't please everybody :)
True enough... But I do appreciate your videos
Thanks a lot!
Very nice dude!!!!! I need to get a Dji soon!
Indeed, you'll love it :)
I hope so! :)
Excellent!!
Thanks dude!
Having your drone in line of sight and setting the RTH altitude has nothing to do with fly aways. Furthermore, i think you mean ElecroMagnetig interference (EM) instead of magnetic interference. That a miscalibration of the compass is the cause of fly aways is highly unlikely. When it is really off, the app will warn you. The rest of your tips...well they are not spectaculair are they? You missed the most probable cause of fly aways and that is hard wind .Especially when you fly high (above 1000 meters ) the wind may surprise you. The app warns you, but it also does when there is no real risk. Or a cause can be a technical failure. No interference, but the bird just crashed. Just like your iPhone does.
wow what an arrogant reply, you sound like you think you know everything
DD when you've made a video with 70,000 views in a language that isn't your first, then please feel free to come back to us.
drone diangelo dude you are a jackass and you’re just trying to act like you know what you’re talking about. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if you have ever actually flown a drone in your life!
it seems to me, sir, you don't like my tone of voice. well, at least it was a comment on the content, not at the person. yours however, did not contain any content, only a personal qualification. i wonder who is in need of adjusting his tone of voice. now let us go into your assumption of me flying a drone. it was easily to verify your assumption by clicking on "drone diangelo" and see if it any drone flying there. i checked your channel, and other then calling someone a jackass, your contribution to youtube is fairly limited, isn"t it? i will not discuss the content of my review here, because to understand it, it requires at least some basic form of education. however you can watch my drone video"s on my channel. don't forget to like them (it is the little black picture of the thumb up you have to press)!
Those other guys are right. We are a bit of a douche, aren't we?
The music sucked, distracting to me.
Sorry to sound negative, needed the good tips. Thanks
That's alright buddy, I know I can't please everyone. Thanks for commenting though! :)
Line of sight for a drone the size of the spark is crazy. You can't even see it at a half mile and it will go over a mile. Line of sight might work for a beginner but once you venture further no one can see it.
He just means if you want to lower your chances of losing it.
You should not be flying this thing out of line of sight: direct unaided visual line of sight (DUVLOS). That is the law.
Great vid, valuable info, thank you.
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I'm wondering whether the spark is right for me... I'm thirteen and have good piloting skills, and want a drone that has a relatively good camera that doesn't break the bank. I would definitely get the controller.😀 I'm just concerned about the reviews that so many people are giving it. Also looking into mavic air but not cheap as spark, well obviously... Also dji's customer service is supposed to be garbage. So help me decide please! 🤔😀
From what you have listed avove, the Spark would be ideal for you! I think it's a great drone, i haven't had any issues with it ever since i bought it 1 year ago!
Drone Supremacy, thanks for the help but I think that the phantom 3 standard is more for me since I want it for the camera. For the same price I get a 2.7k camera. Since photography and videography are my passion, I think that the phantom 3 is a better choice for my wants.
Tip #6, a ball of string.
sick opening!
Thanks a lot :)