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It’s a little different here because municipalities are specifically prohibited from enacting or enforcing any drone laws stricter than those of the state. Police officers are explicitly prohibited from trying to enforce local drone ordinances. It’s legal to fly in every state and local...

Update: I ended up sending the aircraft back to dji in California. Received an update today. No charge, replaced under warranty: Main Controller Module Quantity: 1 Net Price : 1,376.00

Interesting thoughts. While we test rth functionality in two of the three modes, our school of thought is that we found it irresponsible to purposely create a scenario where a rpic has no control over the aircraft during a flight.

I’m with you! I’ve been flying DJI drones for a couple years now. I even teach police and firefighters how to safely fly drones. Part of our training involves the three types of RTH, but we never actually shut off a controller to initiate rth because we consider it an unacceptable risk to...

The lesson I learned in all this is that if flying over water, one needs to make certain the home point is at least 20 meters from the waterline. While I thought I knew how rth worked, I did not understand at the time that if failsafe rth is initiated within 20 meters of the homepoint, the...

Yes. I posted the .dat file elsewhere which seems to show that there is a really strong link between rc and ac, which streams video and telemetry data to the rc but the aircraft is unable to receive input from the rc. The general thought is that there may be a firmware issue with the rc...

We were flying an m210 today and intermittently the aircraft appeared to stop in mid air and no longer accept stick inputs from the remote controller. We thought it was the vision positioning system putting the brakes on. We were flying over a lake that was frozen and we’re almost back to...

Police handcuff, detain and ticket Part 107 Pilot under aircraft ordinance that does not apply - Hire a Drone Law Attorney - Fly Under FAA Part 107

We can click a “button” on the screen in the pilot app to make the drop system work, but in the version of the app we have there does not appear to be an option to assign a button on the cendance remote to perform this task. Can you show me how it works with skyzimer? I am Admittedly not...

Ice rescue training is very limited because of a newer standard that requires a dive team be present....and most departments including ours does not have a dive team, which requires coordination with other departments that do. We have ice rescue training scheduled later this month, so the...

Fses It appears very robust. My only complaint is that we cannot assign a button on cendance remote to the drop system....but this is a dji issue. Maybe someday the developers will finish building the pilot app and it will bring this functionality.

Anyone else using matrice for ice rescue?

We live in an imperfect world. What will happen is that the park system will change their approach to uas flights. It’s up to administration to decide how much pressure needs to be applied before they change their ways and decide to comply with state law. The next meeting is this Thursday...

I weighed the legs. Combined they are 145 grams (5oz) according to our scale. I also measured the distance on center, with a big fat ruler, of the fasteners on the bottom of the aircraft and they appear to be approximately 1 inch on center. A caliper or more accurate measuring device was...

Nothing. On Jan 2, I received word that the prosecutor failed to authorize the charge. Case dismissed. I imagine my attorney’s demand for a jury trial was a factor. Also, the fact this case was impossible for the prosecution to win. On Jan 11, I recieved the remainder of my property...