I'm an American Expat living near Bangkok. I waited two months for a Mavic Pro to become available here. I am loving every minute with it! I've watched just about every YouTube video posted and read all sorts of guides. This forum really helps too!
I am planning a few trips to some nearby historical sites, Wats and beaches! Wish I could fly along Soi Cowboy! (Google it)
FYI. I noticed an update for DJI GO 4 dated 23 Jan 2017. I installed it and all my previous problems with my Samsung S7 Edge (Android 7) and the app disappeared! I was using Litchi because the previous version crashed every time! Fingers crossed DJO GO 4 works.
Hi mate i am in BKK mostly and you can fly over soi cowboy you just need the right take off spot. Lumpini park is a no go at the boating lake but the guard told me if he cant see me he wont be looking for me. So i moved to the other side where some works are going on and flew for an hour without a single problem i got some great if very amateur stuff of the skyscrapers..
now the river all the hotels on the asiatique side have asked that you dont fly drones which is a shame as they have the ultimate in launch sites for the bridges etc. But on the opposite bank where there are very few hotels mainly condos there are some very secluded and easily accesible sites with floating jettys of concrete that are perfect.
Asiatique at night ok so i used the car park opposite where the whole of asiatique paarks. i stopped my car next to a 5 meter sqaure area with barriers for the police and security to sit.
perfect i walked in as it was empty with no police or security and launched straight from the car park. it is then 300 m to Asiatique. Be very careful if you do this as there are some circa 700 feet tall buildings ahead of you from the car park, and at night if you lose sight of the drone you will have problems if you don't fly the exact same route back as you went from.
Asiatique at night was the best flight so far for me.
I would suggest though that to get the perfect Asiatique flight you travel to the opposite bank and find a quiet spot. This way you are flying only over the river no buildings etc and are actually going to get great footage of the front side of Asiatique. i never got that from the car park as i did not want to take any risk i did not think acceptable for me. I wanted to keep well away from the BKK wheel. also i made sure i was flying over the covered buidings of asaitique. not over open crowds down there as it gets very busy at weekends..
Bangkok is still quite drone friendly as it happens, if you are asked not to fly then don;t i was asked twice not to fly once at the hotel and once at Lumpini as i said i even took off from the Polices own security area. (that was awesome ha ha ). they could see me but no one really took any notice except to watch the drone go up and way. As soon as she was in the air and flying everyone carried on as normal.
that was all done on Sunday
Aprili will be filming in Rayong on Koh Samed i have a month off work will go drive to Rayong then maybe to Issan then down to Cambodian border. i will just do a one week road trip purely for fun i will not worry too much about video quality etc i will concentrate on the massive wide open areas that go for miles and have some fun pushing her out a little further than you can normally.
You can take a look at my crap video skills here but it gives you an idea of what you face in BKK
