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    Flying in Madeira?

    Do you mean Pico do Aereiro, a mountain peak north of Funchal? I see that it has a small town Curral das Freiras to the SW and an observatory to the SE. That's too bad if you can't fly up there, looks spectacular. Did you contact the Madeira agencies separately from AAN?
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    Flying in Madeira?

    How was your trip? Did you get all your approvals, first with e-AAN and then with the local authorities in Madeira? Did you fly only along the coast or in the mountains, where there are some ecological and national parks? I'm looking at this map, which contains some links to emails for the...
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    DJI Air 3 Charging Question

    Thanks, interesting option but looks too big and heavy to carry around. Especially if one is traveling overseas or has to take a flight across the country
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    DJI Air 3 Charging Question

    Do you mean power banks?
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    An Air 3 clone, rebrand, or a DJI manufacturer "pirated" it? The mysterious new Specta Air Drone!

    The main sponsor of that bill may be a potential VP to a very old presidential candidate. So she may even become president within the next 4 years.
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    An Air 3 clone, rebrand, or a DJI manufacturer "pirated" it? The mysterious new Specta Air Drone!

    How would rebranding work to get around potential bans? They could sell to a separate American company but the suspicion would be that the devices would secretly send data to China.
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    Has any American been able to get the EU C1 label?

    I actually looked into buying a compliant drone in Europe. For instance I’m going to Malta in a couple of weeks and contacted a DJI dealer there. They said labels may or may not come in the box for drone they sell. So you’d still have to go through the app and have DJI ship labels and DJI...
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    I just realized ...

    So I'm trying to get this working with my iPhone again. I have a bunch of USB-A to USB-C cables. They're longer than optimal so I'm trying those. First thing is my iPhone will periodically disconnect and then reconnect, so the battery charging indicator of the iPhone flashes on and off. I...
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    Strategy for EU Open Category from 2024 on

    I'm going to visit Malta next month and happened to find a store there that sells DJI drones. They even have a FAQ on their site about flying drones in Malta. So I emailed them, asked if the drones they got in included the Class labels in the box. I asked specifically about Air 3 and Mavic 3...
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    Mavic 3 Battery Cycle Count

    I didn't think you were allowed to fly over sporting events.
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    DJI or Third-Party chargers?

    Right but this thing is supposedly rated at 200W so I wondered about whether they were starting to put out much higher-power chargers.
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    DJI or Third-Party chargers?

    Is that simultaneously or using only one of the ports at a time?
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    Question about Flying in Winds

    Is the Air 3 less able to fly in windy conditions than the Mavic 3 because it's lighter?
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    Drones as a tourist in Malta?

    Thanks for the report. Yeah I've held off on registering because it's €25 a year or €10 for 2 months. I'm going in the first half of April but it's one of the sunniest, warmest place in the EU. Yeah I see a lot of drone panos in Google Maps over the water, from the coast of Silema looking...
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    Drones as a tourist in Malta?

    Thanks for the report! So did you submit applications to get permissions for each flight, like specifying time, date, GPS and then getting approvals for each location you wanted to fly? Or just flew in those areas indicated by the map as being okay to fly? The third shot appears to be in the...