Recent content by NoBozos

I don’t know for certain a quick check would have caught the issue. Maybe. Maybe not. It did occur within 40 seconds. So, at least maybe. And it could have stopped responding during the check at the home point and flown on its own to the exact same spot and sank. Anything’s possible. To my...

Yeah. For the record I hope and expect DJI to take care of this. That’s the warranty side. It’s separate from the safety issue, even though they’re related. As for warranty, feels like a “fly away” to me. And the OP and I are the same in the sense that — believe me — I too am susceptible to...

Yes. Theses issues MAY have been discovered on inspection, checking inputs and responses at the home point. My goal here isn’t to put salt in the wound. It’s to learn and recognize dangerous attitudes. The pilot displayed impulsivity. To what extent that caused the accident, is open to debate...

Sorry for the loss of the drone. Pilot error, specifically impulsivity, is the dangerous attitude causing contributing to the crash. Understand the feeling of excitement to get such a stunning shot.

Forgive the answer peripheral to your actual question. I will be curious to see how this moves forward. My guess is the documentation is not for recreational purposes, obviously. So in that sense I would think about the outputs (video and images) and how they will be potentially used. Could be...

Good luck working it out with DJI. Thanks for sharing your experience.

Staying close to the drone with the RC while you go long distance. That’s worked for me.

I wouldn’t suggest purposefully doing this. However, what should happen, is from the drone’s perspective, it will see it as a loss of connection to the RC unit and it should then initiate whatever response you’ve chosen for a loss of connection, return to home, hover. etc. And yes, the caveat is...

I generally concur with Meta 4's responses. Regulatory agencies lack nuanced understanding. This is taking procedures designed for manned aircraft and trying to apply them to UAS. For example, many of these questions are redundant. But that's irrelevant to the task at hand and your explicit...

https://www.casa.gov.au/drones/registration-and-flight-authorisations/flying-night#Therequirements

It takes me forever to get that thing on. I don't have one for the m4p, but I do have a Sunnylife for my Air 2s, and would guess Sunnylife's would be nice. The Air 2s one is well designed and takes 1/2 a second. The DJI Mini 4 one takes me what feels like 5 minutes. Mini 4 Pro Prop Holder...

Congratulations on the M4P. Sorry to hear about your crash. It happens. Learn. A few thoughts and observations. Starting with battery. I’d say a real time endurance for the plus batteries is under 30 minutes, if you are capturing video and using obstacle avoidance. More like 25, but depends...

You’re not alone, or, “who has two thumbs and crashed their drone relying on OA? This guy!” Sorry for the crash.

In addition to keeping VLOS for safety’s sake, in particular monitoring the airspace around the drone and, scanning more broadly, another simple reason is that the link to the drone is LOS dependent. Even a few trees can affect it. So if it’s an obstruction that affects the LOS, and not just...