Think you misread me. The fact is that the drone community will always have those who do stupid things. DJI with their limitations on products are entitled to that too. The fact is that if an idiot wants to be an idiot they will be. No disrespect to you and I wasn't taking what you said as something directed to me. The fact is if you prohibit something then it has value and we will always have people who do not respect the law. Personally I never fly anywhere near a nfz but I could with any other of my Copter's. I live just 10 feet inside of an orange zone and behind me is a football stadium which I have no interest in flying anywhere near. It's irksome to have to take off from my neighbours garden to fly out to my spot on the beach which is 100 feet in front of me when I use my Mavic.
My point was why DJI would want to control nfz when the law of the land does? Hence not feeling like they treat us like adults.
I agree with you but unfortunately it won't be a tiny Mavic that takes a small plane down. It'll be a big rig that's not constrained.
The only reason there's a workaround for which people will pay 200 dollars for is because of prohibitive actions on behalf of DJI. That said as a producer of an out of the box anybody can fly product if one of their drones causes trouble they would have had to cover their butts.
Apologies if somehow the topic offends. [emoji1598]
I do despair at the fact that there are so many new drones in the air which will lead to one of my favourite pastimes being curtailed. I'm flying models 40 years now one way or another. Ten years ago people loved to see a model fly. Now they loathe them.
No offence taken i promise and i do agree that we should be able to decide for ourselves As i say i do not always fly within the constrains of the code/law/regulations myself. Although i do have my limits.
I also agree popularity can sometimes be a *****, and one that can bite you n the *** later as the people who had a mad few months then gave up flying a drone, moved on and left behind a wake of rules for the rest of us that are to be honest way over the top.
Also i have no problem with keeping my GEO firmly switched off and not updating the NFZ but keeping the basic database of international airports as a minimum. I have no idea what is added underneath all taht that i do not see.
DJI are protecting a future multi million pound buisness, Then again they could make every buyer register the drone with them and make you sign for that with an agreement that your information would be passed to the legal departments if your drone was found to be involved in any incident and give you that option alongside the database alone.
I would be ok with having my drone registered (which as a hobbyist where i am is not a requirement).
Only problem with that is they have to find the drone, although DJI has all our flight logs on its server, as if u delete DJI go and reinstall u can synch back all your flight records to the app when you sign back in to the account.
If that is the case then we are easily found if the DJI database of flight logging was a searchable feature for them to trace any flights at specific locations.
DJI are now admittedly bricking it from government control killing off their business
Innovation sometimes brings both good and bad, for me an Inspire is about as much as i would ever need or want to be flying (or another of similar capabillity and more reliable and customer focused company).
for most of us though DJI have no real competitors and they know it.