Recent content by rjwmorrell

One giveaway might be the lack of an Irish stamp in a passport, were someone with some authority and knowledge check that.

When I used to run a dash cam channel (I don't bother anymore) that was how the news got in touch with me to use some footage of mine once. A forewarning, they're unlikely to pay and if they do it won't be much unless it's very notable footage and it's very important to the story. A ten person...

A personal visit with a business card left in door is more likely to elicit a response, rather than a random phone call ... "Hi this is the FBI calling" tends to result in a lot of "oh, yeah, sure buddy" responses. Source: I work for a Canadian federal agency, and I try to avoid cold calling...

On a side note, you never updated your home point the entire flight. Your battery being critically low could risk sending the drone back to the Home Point during a RTH. If you fail to notice the beeping on the controller, and fail to cancel thr RTH, your drone would start back towards the home...

This thread reminds me that I had my drone with me on my trip to the UK last April but didn't get it in the air (busy trip). We were staying just outside the Heathrow FRZ, however, the only scenery around was the town of Slough ... so can you blame me for not getting the drone up in the air...

Sudden loss of signal and drone falling from the sky without any attempt at a RTH, that seems a lot like a sudden battery disconnect issue (battery popped out of aircraft). It's rare, but it seems to have been reported before. The Mini 3 Pro battery clips in pretty securely though, the only way...

I don't know how property laws work in the US. But here where I am in Canada, in most places here anyway, an invited guest who has permission to be there from a tenant or owner who lawfully occupies a unit can also be in a common element. And certainly cannot be removed or asked to leave by...

Short answer is no. My reply to someone like that would be along the lines of, "thanks, but I have a permit." Then ignore them thereafter. It's not even untrue, I do. It's my pilot Certificate, and any airspace authorization I may have. If a law enforcement officer or regulator wants to calmly...

Do you have the drone set to save to the internal memory, or a Micro SD card? And, is there a Micro SD inserted (if there isn't, it will default save to the onboard memory). The drone saves photos on the aircraft. The DJI Fly app merely previews them, while connected to the aircraft. If you...

I see no one answered your question in the remaining posts in this thread, so I will. In Canada, any drone over 250g must be registered. That makes it fall under either Basic or Advanced categories of operation. Both require an appropriate pilot certificate. For basic you may not fly in...

Happy to help. The news shows the benefit of registering under-250g drones in Canada if you plan to use them over their factory weight (like with the longer flight battery for example). Once registered, you will get emails from TC if anything changes with the drone category of operation. In...

I'm glad to hear you were following it, that clears that up. I agree the default stick mode (Mode 2) is not intuitive. I play video games too, Mode 3 is what I use. By the way, now that you know you can manually turn off Obstacle Avoidance, in the future consider flying these missions in "Cine"...

Looks like DJI has provided Transport Canada with a manufacturer's declaration, and the Mini 3 (and presumably the Mini 3 Pro) are now approved for flight NEAR people (within 30m but not within 5m) and in Controlled Airspace to operate under Advanced small RPAS rules. Normally, this does not...

I have not analysed dozens of logs or incidents, but there does appear to be a pattern of pilot error here and some misunderstanding about the flight modes and capabilities of the aircraft. The forward stick movement is clear in the logs. Whether the pilot commanded those inputs or not isn't...

Fly away incidents are rare, and completely different than commanded flight movement (whether it was commanded by you or something else, it's all the same to the drone, the log indicates a forward command - I use stick mode 3 as well). Fly away is rare in GNSS drones because the onboard flight...