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What happens when whatever version doesn't have support any more? Nothing. It will still work just as well as it did before it became unsupported.

Changes to the direction of the earth's magnetic field aren't enough to cause compass warnings. It requires a significant change in the magnetic field strength to set off a compass warning. That's fine for navigating with a map and compass, but it shouldn't have much effect on drone flying.

Or you just encountered DJI's stupid fake compass warning that several flyers have experienced when launching in the dark. It's happened to me six times in places I've flown from several times before without issue. You could be excused for thinking this indicates magnetic interference close to...

Your example relies on kindergarten level non-reasoning. Every time someone reports a flyaway or a crash with a drone using GNSS for positioning, the cause could be geomagnetic interference. That makes as much sense as suggesting that every time someone reports a drone flying incident, the cause...

Two forum posts where uninformed flyers suggest that the cause of an incident might have been a high Kp index does not prove anything. That's an extremely unscientific approach, and it's proved to be wrong.

There's a long history of people claiming that high Kp index events will cause havoc to drones. But despite all the claims, there has never been a single drone flying incident that could be attributed to the high Kp index. There are only so many cut and paste the-sky-is-falling warnings you can...

Again, not enough information to tell what you might have experienced. It sounds like some fliers may have been scared into imagining that their drones are going to be acting up.

Solar activity won't ever cause a compass warning. The compass warning you got was either related to magnetic interference in the area you placed the drone or it was a common false alarm that DJI inflicts on drone users launching in the dark. Whichever it was, calibrating the compass wouldn't...

The effect will be the same as it's been for every other high Kp event. Zilch

Even if it showed 8, you could fly without any worry.

OA sensors don't do anything to hold the drone steady. Maybe you are thinking of the VPS sensors, but they can only assist if the drone is low enough for their limited range and the ground texture is suitable, so there aren't going to be many situations where they would be any use anyway.

"Tripod" mode is misnames and confuses people. It does nothing at all to hold the drone or camera steady, like a tripod would. Tripod mode just slows down the speed that the drone flies at and slows the joystick response to allow smooth, slow flying. To achieve what you want, forget Tripod...

Nothing abnormal. You would be able to reset the homepoint as usual, because the homepoint is unrelated to the compass. All it needs is the GPS location.

For me, being a photographer, the Mavic 3 pro is a fantastic tool. I understand that it takes a lot more than the biggest sensor to create the best images. Finally I am able to escape the same tired old wideangle-only perspective of drone shots. Now I can have background elements that are part...

For someone who is apparently an experienced photographer, I'm surprised to see you saying this. The issue you are going on about is not the lenses. The Mavic 3 pro has three separate and completely different cameras, with three completely different sensors which are all of different sizes...