Air 3S - Wondering why I upgraded.

[Droning on and on...]

Even 2.5 km is BVLOS.

Why are people talking about 6 or 7 km?

Because they have an interest in flying that far?

Report them to the FAA if you'd like and have nothing happen (other than chuckles). Very much like reporting a jaywalker to the local PD crime hotline.

But please don't pollute a friendly community with scolding about the rules. We all know them.

 

[parkgt]

For me best camera I ever used was the Phantom 4 Pro.

Did you ever use one of the drones with a 4/3s sensor?

 

[Rchawks]

Because they have an interest in flying that far?

Report them to the FAA if you'd like and have nothing happen (other than chuckles). Very much like reporting a jaywalker to the local PD crime hotline.

But please don't pollute a friendly community with scolding about the rules. We all know them.

I would agree. It's easy to go down that rabbit hole as we've seen in other threads on that subject that get closed. I think they are simply saying the greater the range that a Drone is capable of actually doing then the stronger the reception will be in bad environments which makes the drone that much safer for operation. Whew I'm out of breath.

 

[mavic3usa]

I would agree. It's easy to go down that rabbit hole as we've seen in other threads on that subject that get closed. I think they are simply saying the greater the range that a Drone is capable of actually doing then the stronger the reception will be in bad environments which makes the drone that much safer for operation. Whew I'm out of breath.

I'm starting to hear that about O4 more and more and it's disappointing because I had hoped for better range....I mean, better penetration for the O4 Mavic 4 over the Mavic 3 but if that's not the case, that's one less reason to upgrade. Maybe with all the chaos, this might be a good "skip" year and just waiting for the Mavic 5.

 

[swoermck]

I'm starting to hear that about O4 more and more and it's disappointing because I had hoped for better

reading this, it just reminds me of something I noticed already a few months back with my Dji Air3: live feed on the controller/signal strength (DJI RC 2) seems to be worse compared to when I purchased my Air 3 last year. First I blamed weather conditions, antenna arrangement and/or positioning of the controller. But looking back now (honestly) range has degraded over the last months, possibly via one of the last firmware upgrades (stupid me I always upgraded to the latest firmware).

And out of interest I just checked my flights from last weekend from Air3 and Air3S at „Airdata“ : to compare video quality between both drones, I created a waypoint mission (created via Litchi and then uploaded identical KMZ files to both controllers) to have identical flight paths:

And what did I discover? Signal score always 100%, but signal score drop (from 100% to around 88%) for Air 3 as well for Air 3S at the exact same location!!

Having said this I believe this is not an Air3S issue, but more a general issue with DJI Air3/Air3S in combination with the RC2 controller, as it is clearly visible from Airdata‘s signal map, that both birds have issues at the exact same location.

.. and maybe „introduced“ by DJI via firmware upgrade (for what reason ever)