DJI drone has inaccurate airspace map

[mackeral]

I am a few miles from an RAF base and have investigated airspace maps online and I am outside their airspace near home where I want to fly but the drone's internal map thinks otherwise and won't let me fly. Can I force it to let me fly, or change the map somehow? Thanks!

 

[slup]

...Can I force it to let me fly

Not without modding the drone firmware... weather you can mod & what you can mod depends on what drone you have & which stock firmware you are on. Drone-Hacks can be one of several possibilities ---> https://drone-hacks.com/

...or change the map somehow?

In general, the restrictions shown in the DJI map is coming from each countries official air space regulator (in your case, CAA, here their drone site--> Drones | Civil Aviation Authority & here the official flight restriction map --> NATS UK | UAS Restriction Zones )... so nothing DJI invent them selves. Differences can occur between the DJI map & the official due to several reasons, imagine that it can be delays in transferring changes, but also how frequent info exchange occur... & also if the official air space regulator actually have notified DJI about a change.

Your possibility to "change the map" depends on what kind of GEO zone it is... some is possible to unlock & others aren't.

Here you find the same material on the web as you see in your controller, just dial in country & drone model in the drop downs in the top --> DJI FlySafe

 

[Felix le Chat]

I am a few miles from an RAF base and have investigated airspace maps online and I am outside their airspace near home where I want to fly but the drone's internal map thinks otherwise and won't let me fly. Can I force it to let me fly, or change the map somehow? Thanks!

Have you consulted the NATS UK airspace map? Link below. This is current and definitive.

NATS UK | UAS Restriction Zones

Frequentis OpenCMS

nats-uk.ead-it.com

You can also contact RAF ATC and apply for permission to fly a drone - see screenshot as an example.