Authorized Zone Limitations for Intelligent Flight Modes

[Erix]

Reposted from Mavic Air 1 Help: I had many phone calls with DJI support, emails and videos to describe and show what's going on with Tap Fly. Some of these support emails were sent on to their engineers. The last suggestion was to set my max flight altitude to over 100 meters. I looked on my controller and it had been set to 300 meters for the whole time already anyway. When I fly it here at home, I have a notice saying that I can't fly over 197 feet, due to my proximity to the airport that is near and I have to get authorized first. This got me thinking, maybe I should set it to 196 feet and see what happens? BAM! That's what it took to get Tap Fly to work! When the max flight altitude is set above your max allowed altitude (in this restricted zone at my house), that's as high as it will let you go under normal flying, stopping your drone when you get to that height. But with Tap Fly, it won't even stop you at 197 feet, it'll just not even operate at all, whatever your altitude is when you try. Support and the engineers probably didn't realize this until I put it together when they said to try at over 100 meters. I wrote back to them with my findings. Hope this helps anyone in the future, not only with Tap Fly on the Mavic Air, but maybe in other models of Mavic with Intelligent Flight Modes where they might be flying in an Authorized Zone.