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Check out 'the dronalist' on Youtube. He is always asked in the comments how he gets permission to fly in such exotic/iconic locations. He never answers the question of course. We all know why.

Hurry up and release this thing DJI and take my money!!!!! Lol

Already got the Air 3 and I'll be getting the Air 3s the day it comes out! Take my money DJI!!!!! 🤣 Love youse all!

A bad move by you guys to update firmware when there is no real 'need' to do so. Unless there is some real benefit, or new feature released in the firmware upgrade, I don't understand why some users are compelled to immediately 'upgrade'. Just for the sake of it? You had a prefectly functioning...

Thank you Meta4, hopefully just one of those things that happened. Will definitely be steering clear to avoid getting too close to any transmission/powerlines in the future though, just in case. It does sort of seem like there could be a link possibly in that the gimbal went haywire and the...

Very true Tony. Would have been nobody's silly fault but my own if I did get tangled up! Will be much more aware in the future of any such risks/obstacles.

Thanks so much Meta4 for that detailed explanation. Everything you say makes sense to a layman such as myself. Just a question though, do you think the drone being quite close to those transmission lines could have had any negative impact on the gimbal to make it glitch so erratically? Such as...

Thanks mate for your thoughts. A google search shows the Air 3 operates on 2.4, 5.1 and 5.8 frequencies. The 5.8 is the new one I think. I have no idea if this may be related to what happened, but you raise a valid possibilty I think. Looking at the video, I think it is a bit of an optical...

T Thanks Steven for your input. The drone hasn't had any crashes or anything like a hard landing etc. Hopefully will be the same situation as yours and just a one-off incident. Does make you a bit concerned though sending it up again and something similar or worse was to occur.

H Hello msinger. When you say the area of interest missing (when the drone was disconnected from the RC) is important. I would have thought the moment the gimbal/drone started to move erratically would be the critical point in time to look at? I am very likely incorrect though and thats why I...

Hi Rod The flight log is definitely the correct one that matches the flight video. According to AirData, at 2.51 seconds into the flight, the image transmission signal was lost. This happened very shortly after I noticed the gimbal/drone acting all weird on the RC screen. At that time I thought...

Thanks a lot for your response Cafguy. I hope you and Vic are correct and it was just the powerlines/RF being the culprit. The drone has been flawless since I got it in November and as I mentioned, the 20 minute flight directly after in a different spot was incident free. I had heard/read about...

Hello GDadd, yes it seems a strange one doesn't it and your incident seems very very similar to mine. Being so close to the high voltage powerlines as I was, you would think that could possibly be the cause. After checking the details on Air Data (warnings etc), there was nothing that looked...

Thank you Vic for that response, you may very well be right. At first glance it looks like the drone is flipping around at all angles but may just be the gimbal moving abruptly creating that effect. I completed a subsequent flight in a park a short time later for 20 mins and no strange behaviour...

Hey mate, thanks for your reply. Yep those are definitely the props you can see I think. I thought for sure I must have hit those powerlines too after initially looking at the video but upon zooming in on the map, it looks like the incident happens a bit before where the big powerlines are...