Recent content by Marko9219

When my Mavic Pro was still pretty new to me, I tested the RTH failsafe. I went to a very empty, remote location in northern Utah, USA. Antelope Island State Park if you know of that. I launched the drone and confirmed it's home point was set. I flew directly west, which took the drone out over...

I use a flourescent lime green color with prisim reflective tape on the top surfaces. Not to help with me seeing it though. Simply to help make it look like nothing a flying raptor might mistake as food.

That is absolutely TERRIBLE advice! Anyone reading that and even considering it at all, PLEASE DISREGARD IT NOW! RTH is a valuable tool and important safety feature that every single pilot needs to be familiar with and know how and when to employ it. It has saved untold drones from being lost...

I've flown over Saguaro many times. On both east and west sides of it, you can park and launch from outside the park and fly into the park. Totally legal to do that. There are public roads adjacent to the park to pull over and fly.

Absolutely no way I want my drone to reverse its flight path to do a RTH. I might be low on battery. I want a direct path home. Not a repeat of everywhere its been.

3 years and never. Inspect every flight. But then, they have NEVER contacted anything while spinning.

I've never understood using the "set to hover" option during LOS. Why on Earth would I want my drone to park in one place waiting for a battery depletion to force a landing where it is. I want that baby on its way back home! Early in my Mavic Pro days, I flew the Mavic out about a mile and a...

Dang, the whole bottom corner of my state is blue circles! There isn't a fire close to me any more. Some of these expire Oct 8th!

Would the maps update on their own when it all launches and is connected to my wifi?

Dropped pin Near 2093-2075 N Reserve Pkwy, Washington, UT 84780 https://maps.app.goo.gl/qHFJWsDQWPwYUo9E7

I still can't launch, over a month since the fire has been put out.

There is nothing whatsoever about using a telephoto lens that makes it even close to Illegal. As long as the photographer is on public ground, he's legal. Period. Case in point: Huge lenses being pointed into Groom Lake Nevada, probably America's most secret air base. Totally legal from the BLM...

"... And ‘pausing’ your flight, or hovering so that you can talk to them, even for a couple of seconds is taking your eye off the ball and the most likely time when a Heli will fly by or something."... So you never take your eyes off the drone? Interesting. I'm glued to my iPad screen quite...

Always someone looking to blame someone or something else for their misfortunes. Sometimes it's legit. Usually not. I've flown the same drone (MP) for 2 1/2 years now, never a crash, never a fly-away.

Are you suggesting it was the drones failure to keep signal lock or did you fly beyond safe parameters? A pilot error doesn't require any customer courtesy at all from DJI. But, if your flight logs prove otherwise then yes, they should take care it. Most reported "fly-away" incidents turn out to...