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DJI RC Track... Look what's coming with the Air 3S!

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This is very interesting... provides voice control, and an easy to use dial interface to modify tracking behavior while tracking.

Basically a fancy tether, works up to 300 feet from drone. And this will come as finally a long-wanted feature: RTH can be set to stop and hover over the location of the RC Track remote!

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DJI-Air-3S-DJI-RC-Track-beacon-feature.jpg
 
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Reminds me of the Skydio beacon in a lot of way but I'm sure DJI will eventually improve on it in so many ways.
 
Not sure how I ever managed without that!

Still, looking forward to the Air 3S (and apologies for the snarky comment).
 
Not sure how I ever managed without that!

Still, looking forward to the Air 3S (and apologies for the snarky comment).

No problem... I was up all night wondering how how you managed too! 🤣🤣
 
Wonder if there will be firmware updates to make it compatible with any other drones.
 
I don't have the Air 3 and I have no plans to get the Air 3S so my opinion doesn't count for much but this situation reminds me a lot of the Mavic 3 vs. Mavic 3 Pro especially if you bought the Air 3 in the last 6 months. Perhaps there will be some but it is doubtful the 3 will get all the updates available to the 3S anytime soon. From history, you're taking risks on the Air series particularly when you focus on the estimated pricing.
 
I'm a fan of the RC Track controller even though there are only rumors to date but we'll probably know for sure soon if it's coming to Mini 4 Pro:

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This is very interesting... provides voice control, and an easy to use dial interface to modify tracking behavior while tracking.

Basically a fancy tether, works up to 300 feet from drone. And this will come as finally a long-wanted feature: RTH can be set to stop and hover over the location of the RC Track remote!

Check it out

DJI-Air-3S-DJI-RC-Track-beacon-feature.jpg
Of course in true DJI Fashion not available yet,.
 
If the Air 3S with beacon can do this, I would seriously think about getting one:

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Love to see how it handles a turn at a distance, for instance turn around a building where suddenly a tree or building are in the path. Assuming obstacle avoidance will help there. Also, if using the beacon allows you to follow at the full speed of the drone.
 
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Love to see how it handles a turn at a distance, for instance turn around a building where suddenly a tree or building are in the path. Assuming obstacle avoidance will help there. Also, if using the beacon allows you to follow at the full speed of the drone.
As soon as DJI can master this feat (because it comes with a number of other benefits) then the Skydio name in the consumer space will evaporate. I'm not bragging on Skydio (I still have my Skydio 2+) but you could fly with confidence because of it's superior OA. You could simply push the sticks forward and close your eyes and the drone would just go and go around or over if it needed to but it would search and hunt until it found a way. Sometimes it would give up but what it did not hardly do was crash.

I love the cable function where you could plant a start point A and an end point B, press go and the drone would go from A to B automatically while you orientate the drone and the camera in any direction you wanted....with OA which means you didn't have to look out where you were going. A to B and then B to A because OA is 360. No more reverse video. No more fear when flying "backwards."

Even if the 3S eventually gets there, I think we are on the right track but we must have a beacon. A couple of my favorites sorry if they are reposts:

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It's now almost 2025 and there has been NOTHING about the RC track since the Air3S release . It was a big push as part of the 3S promos but now not mentioned any where.
None of the DJI promoters/youtubers are talking about it either. It must rank with the New Jersey night drones as the biggest 2024 mystery ?
 
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This is very interesting... provides voice control, and an easy to use dial interface to modify tracking behavior while tracking.

Basically a fancy tether, works up to 300 feet from drone. And this will come as finally a long-wanted feature: RTH can be set to stop and hover over the location of the RC Track remote!

Check it out

DJI-Air-3S-DJI-RC-Track-beacon-feature.jpg
I just hung up the phone with Dji and they pretty much denied the existence or planned existence of the rc track remote 😒
Very disappointing 😞
 
I just hung up the phone with Dji and they pretty much denied the existence or planned existence of the rc track remote 😒
Very disappointing 😞
Yep the folks from Skydio have also been calling daily to find out when the DJI beacon is going to launch so DJI won't give out that information over the phone! ;)
 
Yep the folks from Skydio have also been calling daily to find out when the DJI beacon is going to launch so DJI won't give out that information over the phone! ;)
Skydio pulled out of the private sector, they don't care what Dji is doing, unless Dji starts doing military stuff.
I got the impression that Dji isn't going to release it anytime soon.
I'd like to know because I'm ready to get a knew drone and if they are going to release it I'm getting the Air 3s, if they aren't I'm getting the pro 4 mini.
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As my grandma used to say, "either go or get off the pot". 🤣
 
Skydio pulled out of the private sector, they don't care what Dji is doing, unless Dji starts doing military stuff.
I got the impression that Dji isn't going to release it anytime soon.
I'd like to know because I'm ready to get a knew drone and if they are going to release it I'm getting the Air 3s, if they aren't I'm getting the pro 4 mini.
@DJI Fly App Team
As my grandma used to say, "either go or get off the pot". 🤣
I realize skydio is out, my quote was half-way joking....meaning, dji doesn't know if you are a customer or a competitor trying to get into their business and since skydio has the beacon, they'll want to know if they should improve on their beacon to stay ahead of the upcoming competition or should they let it languish because it's still the superior option on the market. they would be calling over to hover as well trying to find out if hover will simply tell them over the phone....which they won't. skydio might be out of the consumer market but they haven't given up on the tech and the beacon is *by far* the best thing that could happen to a drone....we just don't know it yet. ;)

anyway, nothing dji currently has will benefit fully from a beacon since dji drones still have a ways to go when it comes to oa. my guess is the mini4pro can't make full use of it so why launch it? if I were skydio, anyone that comes out with a beacon close to theirs will probably get sued. btw, love my s2+ nothing comes close to it. :)
 
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