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I'm highly annoyed that the RC2 does not support Quicktransfer downloading of full-resolution media from the drone to an inserted SD card. Or does it? If so, someone tell me how :D

??? Cables are not involved with wifi. Also, we're talking about an RC2, which doesn't involve a smartphone.

@DJ Wes does the SDK for the Mini 4P and therefore Litchi Pilot support native autonomous waypoints with the option for a mission to continue if the connection to the RC is lost? If so, I'm delighted to learn this, and may take another look at Litchi Pilot (it's been a few years). I thought DJI...

Not going to happen. Two reasons: Most important, there is no margin in FAA regs to allow for manufacturing variation in weight, like in the European regs. As the M5P has no way to measure its weight, DJI simply cannot allow for an M5P with the standard battery that weighs a hair over 250g to...

Yup, well aware of this, completely ignoring it as it will never happen. It would be far too big a "taking" under the constitution, and the headache and cost for the US government would be enormous. Matter of days after such a decision before a court puts a stay on the it, requiring the FCC to...

I'd have to look at your actual waypoint route to answer definitively, but a reasonable guess us you're simply seeing the fact that the WP algorithm creates a path between waypoints using a bspline curve, so you can't have a 180deg turn in place from one waypoint to another (at the end of your...

With RC the left stick up/down behavior goes all the way back to that being an actual throttle on the gas-powered fixed-wing model plane. It was natural for "up" to be more power and "down" less. In a real plane the "throttle" control works roughly the same, but is not a stick like on an RC...

Got a Neo 2 through an ebay seller, took 5 days. The biggest problem so far is simply finding manuals and such on line in the US -- DJI has blocked US access to these parts of their website, resulting in 404 errors. They can be found but require a bit of googling. Seems a little spiteful to...

Separate from DJI, the Uyghur slave labor issue is real.

Just to set expectations... Don't count on an SDK for the mini 5P (or mini 4P, mini 3P, Air 3/3S, Mavic 3 series, Mavic 4 series, and I'm sure a few others I've missed) EVER being released. This has been a sore point in the user community now for several years. DJI changed their product...

This isn't automatically true. Depends a great deal on the size and traffic at the airport. Back in the day when I was an active Private Pilot, I visited many small airports where I was the only plane to land and later take off the entire day (or at least, the 6 hours or so I was visiting). A...

That's nearly 100% my understanding. Shouldn't affect eBay sellers of currently approved DJI products.

Unless I'm mistaken, you can register any drone, including a home-built. There's no database of FCC approved drones connected to the FAA registry system. Keep in mind that you MUST register any home-built drone over 250g. A system checking drone models and only accepting those that have been...

Well yeah, but not 90% of course, and probably no more than 45-55%. Above that the portion going to lift falls off pretty fast 😉

Ah yes. The Department of Redundancy Department. I've got one of those in my head too 😁