I was out today trying out some drone mapping with my Mavic Pro. I went over to an area that I fly regularly, went through my normal setup (checklist) and got hit with a Dji geofencing update again. I didn't think much as I have not used this drone since the Pasadena job (last month). Did the update, then WAM! hit with "Cannot Take Off" re-checked everything. When I saw the NFZ I was sure it was an error as I have been flying in this spot, even over it from my house for over a year. Drove down the road a little to see if it was just the Solar farm that I wanted to map. Went through my setup again same results, I then drove about 2 miles away, same results. After all of this I'm a bit baffled and t'd-off. I break out my Phantom 4 that I used about a month ago and made sure I would not do the update if it came up. Fired it up, no update needed, but same result "NFZ" I check both Airmap and Kittyhawk, nothing had changed in accordance with Airspace, stills shows class G uncontrolled airspace. Now I'm wondering if Dji has screwed the pooch on this one and NFZ the wrong area. If I was just going out for fun I could take my Phantom 2 out, but the Dronedeploy app doesn't work with the older Phantom, so now I wondering again how far dose this NFZ reach in my city. I have 3 Parks to go map today and I don't want to go out wasting time and not be able to get the work done.
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