Recent content by LeighD

Look Up DJI customer service and call them, give them the serial number and ask them to contact the registered owner. Believe me, they know how to reach him, they can see every landing location and takeoff location the drone has ever made! He may have registered it with DJI for warranty and tech...

You’re right about RC clubs. They think they are better than drone enthusiasts, not just in skill but overall. When I flew there, a friend with an RC Jet was in that club and he was always nice to me but if I went there by myself a couple guys came up to me and asked if I was an AMA member (a...

What don’t you construe as law when they tell you the fine for endangering airspace (and they said it is considered to be dangerous) is 27,000 Civil and up to 250,000 and 3YEARS PRISON TIME ? Prisons are where you go when you are convicted of a crime. You’re going to do it anyway, you’re just...

Micro maybe, but mitt macro, and even micro dimensions would need to be defined before I’d agree. For example, macro might be an entire river from the area downstream of a drone splashing into it. No effect measurably, whatsoever in your example of one incident. Micro would be perhaps the five...

Oh come on. A 2 stroke jet ski puts more emissions into a reservoir in 8 HOURS, than a car driven 100,000 miles. That’s a measured fact. There is more trash on a 5 miles stretch of freeway than that drone would ever create. It’s expensive to litter the landscape with drones. Most are...

It is absolutely about registering a drone! You have to put its registration number ON THE DRONE, and your AMA Number on it also, since I have one. It is just one more step in making it more difficult to fly.

You cannot fly in any National Park unless you took off outside it’s boundary and landed outside it’s boundary. All National Parks are off limits to take off and landing in the National Parks. They know it too and they are quick to stop it. Lost drone in the famous hot spring initiated it all in...

I had the same issue returning into the sun. Got obstacle warning at over 200 ft. No birds, nothing. Drone froze. Turned around to fly backwards...no luck. Signal strength 4 bars! Sideways no luck. Frozen hovering. Tried camera movement downward.. moved and showed clear flat fields below. No...

I had sort of blurry vision in them and strained to see better too. Bought reading glasses at 3.0 diopter and it’s no issue for me now. I have great vision but need reading glasses for up close when reading (1.50 diopter) but for the drone screen because it’s cliser than a book, I bought the 3.0...

In addition, even at 2.3 miles downrange my signal strength was excellent due to the crisp morning and altitude and absence of obstacles. The mountain range was beyond the drone by two miles and probably acted like a parabolic dish aiding in signal transmission from my clonter to the drone...

And by the way, I got an obstacle avoidance warning at 200+ feet and there was nothing anywhere within 5 miles that was taller than a telephone pole. No airspace warnings out there either. No private airstrips warning or anything.

I had the same problem in Colorado at a long distance attempt. Ground was flat, with a mountain range at 4.5 miles away. 8:30 am clear day at 7000 ft ranches near Westcliffe. Took off, strong signal and at 2.3 miles away the warning telling me that battery power is only sufficient for returning...

I apologize for my dictation being butchered by Siri folks. "Softly" is to be substituted for "Saufley" that Siri chose lol. One additional important point. On my iPhone screen I did get a warning that there was an obstacle in the path at an altitude of 286 ft and there were no poles or towers...

I was flying in Colorado out in the middle of nowhere on a cattle ranch. There was a 14,000 foot mountain range about 4 miles away. Nothing interfered with my signal so I decided to fly as far as I could while carefully watching the signal strength. All was going well and it flew approximately...

The Mavic should record its position on the google map in the lower left even if the controller is not communicating. Not looking at the flight log at all, just the DJIGO4 screen. Somehow my map continues to show the last position at battery shutoff. In fact it even keeps that location after...