I don't think he's misleading at all. And the lack of restrictions built into Autel drones is what drove me to sell my Mavic and get an Evo. Best drone move I ever made. Autel will warn you that you are in restricted air space. You have to acknowledge that through the app.
After that Autel leaves the responsibility for the flight where it belongs, on the pilot. DJI is the only company that is more controlling of the product that YOU OWN than Apple is.
I own a
Phantom 4 Pro and use that for certain jobs where I can't use the EVO. Here's a fairly typical experience:
I had a job to fly in Class C airspace.
I filed for a waiver with the FAA and got the waiver.
I arrived on site and contacted the tower. They reviewed my flight plan, verified my waiver, and gave me the go ahead.
(This is where, had I been using my EVO I would have put the sticks in and down and started my mission).
The
P4P would not take off because I was in class C airspace.
The app would not accept my information to unlock MY drone.
I spent the next 45 minutes on the phone with DJI customer service to get them to unlock MY drone. To be clear, I spent 45 minutes trying to get a chinese company to unlock MY drone so I could fly in United States airspace because DJI wouldn't authorize ME to fly MY drone after the FAA AND the team in the tower gave me authorization to be in that air space. The airspace that the Chinese do not have jurisdiction or control over.
That is where DJI oversteps their bounds. They do not control the airspace, and should not control the drone that I OWN.