Recent content by AdvRider

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    Law Enforcement Contacted Me Regarding My Drone

    It's certainly commercial operators who have the very most to lose....their livelihood. As a hobbyist I can move on to a "State Approved Hobby" like stamp collecting or perhaps something more exciting.... like building a ship in a bottle or something really dangerous like bicycling. After...
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    Law Enforcement Contacted Me Regarding My Drone

    I often wondered why DJI spent so much effort to perfect "flying indoors." Now I clearly understand why......for many people, sooner than later, indoors might be the only place you can operate without getting harassed by what my flying friends call the "phobics".........but even then, indoors...
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    Is it legal for a US community to ban drone use

    Sounds Just tell law enforcement its part of your religion. Your Mavic is a cerimonial symbol of resurrection, ascension, flight of the sacred bumble bee, closeness to your God. I am sure the ALCU will come to your rescue if you've got something akin to a bible to explain your religion. Don't...
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    Law Enforcement Contacted Me Regarding My Drone

    Yep....where I live (coastal south) they have not yet passed such a law but it is coming. If you are charged or sued consult an attorney. These days I have pretty much quit flying due to legal worries, and when I do fly, I only fly from the 3rd floor roof deck of my house to avoid calling...
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    Arrested today

    Even though this seizure incident was not in the USA, if you fly in areas with people and homes, count on harrasment at some point. My bigger concern is that the DJI software will simply wrest control from me decide to land the aircraft in the middle of a road or freeway if it decides I am in a...
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    Tried and True Litchi Missions No Longer Load

    What's you opinion of the statemnt below? True/Untrue, partially true...? DJI created one of the most impressive UAV hardware platforms and then depreciated it with inconceivable firmware/software. Unfortunately, and as of recent, DJI whilst trying to placate the FAA, in attempt to accomodate...
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    Tried and True Litchi Missions No Longer Load

    I want to bench test this a bit more to see if I can iron it out. Might have something to do with the geo system or collision avoidance system which limits speed... to below my maximum cruise profile in Litchi of 30mph. I noticed my collision avoidance system is mysteriously turned back...
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    Tried and True Litchi Missions No Longer Load

    Spooked me since I mostly fly over water. The other thing that spooked me was one of the missions I routinely fly showed an outrageous time estimate. I am going to try turning off collision avoidance since that has an airspeed limitation below my normal mission cruise of 30 mph.
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    Tried and True Litchi Missions No Longer Load

    I have flown hundreds of Litchi missions with my P3 & P4. Today, I tried to fly a P4 mission I have flown many times and as soon as I hit the play button I got an error message immediately saying it was unable to load the missions. Tried another routine mission, got the same...
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    Landing troubles

    I never land my P4 anymore. I always hand catch it, then pull the left stick to six o'clock until it shuts down the props. That being said, I might be reporting back here one day saying, "I never hand catch my P4 any more since the gruesome finger injuries sustainted whilst hand catching"...but...
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    Phantom 4 Pro Battery Compatibility

    Battery Compatibility- can the standard P4 use the high capacity P4P battery? YES indeed!! Got my new P4 Pro Battery in today. Charged it up and flew a previous 14 minute Litchi mission and it performed flawlessly in my regular non-pro P4. Although not flown down to 10%, I can see that this...
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    Phantom 4 Pro Battery Compatibility

    I am figuring the Pro Battery will give an honest 2-3 minutes of extra flight time.....probably more like 2 minutes. That is a mile or better of extra safety margin depending on winds. Significant in my book.
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    Phantom 4 Pro Battery Compatibility

    Thanks for the clarifications....been out of the flying loop lately, these P4 improvements are big....glad they did not sacrifice battery compatibility. That little extra battery capacity is going add some safety margin for me...just got some on order with DJI.