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Or just press the RTH/II button and fly normally. But this is an emergency situation.

Elephant in the room, this whole thing is the result of crappy US drone manufacturers unable to compete with DJI and lobbying their congresswomen to help them by making DJI drones too hard to buy and use. It's corruption and BS to the utmost degree. Fortunately there are so many agencies using...

Filmed with Mini 3 Pro. Enjoy!

A flat area can be mapped at 150' but if there are buildings or trees you may find some stitching issues at that low height. 4x height of obstacles is a good rule of thumb.

Consider off-shore breezes and the associated battery / RTL impact.

I carry everything I need to prove I'm legal and permitted to fly, airspace and land owner permission wise. That might be a page printed from a web site that states drone flying is permitted.

I've tracked drones manually but never tried to have the drone lock on to another drone. I don't think it's possible (yet) but happy to be proven wrong!

The classic would be a poi orbit, where you point the drone at the center of the circle, then fly sideways around the circle keeping the drone pointed at the center. No danger of commanding a shutdown in that maneuver.

One way to describe a location on the earth is using latitude and longitude. Lines of longitude such as the Greenwich meridian are imaginary circles around the globe that go through the poles. Lines of latitude such as the equator are parallel lines that would look like circles of different...

Things might have changed since I was flying around the UK at low level in a Hawk and Jaguar, but my guess is that your information is not propagated to operators. I hope I'm wrong, but unless your data finds its way into the NOTAM database, it won't be seen.

I have flown a lot from home and not had any neighbors come by to complain, although I did once hear a neighbor yell to her partner, "is that a fu%^&g drone?" so I steer clear of their patch. I've had a few encounters with angry dronephobic people when flying in public areas, and I carry a...

Eagle Eye Innovations, Lincoln.

Filmed on Mini 3 Pro in Calico Basin, NV. Original music.

I rarely need the flight dynamics offered by sport mode but I often need to switch off obstacle avoidance quickly. So, I've set the gains and expos of sport mode to the same as normal mode. Now when I need to maneuver close to an object but the drone stops because of obstacle avoidance, I can...

Great question and a perfect example of how legislation is incredibly difficult to write in order to account for all possible interpretations and circumstances. By “device” they mean equipment such as binoculars or zoom cameras or FPV goggles or anything attached to the operator with the...