I can't guarantee that it will fly without a 'phone' but I suspect it will, my
m2p,
mini 1 & 2 and P3 do.
Rather than type it all out again, have a look at
I bought a
AIR2S from a shop in skegness after seeing flying so i bought it took me a while to get sorted went back to shop and thet downloaded DIJ Fly on to my phone after a while my BIL and I got it flying all the time almost every day ,and almost lost it was that high on the screen of...
mavicpilots.com
especially the bits about,
a) in some circumstances having to at least acknowledge warnings etc.
b) range and height limits and the 'dangers' thereof.
Of course there will be no flight logs.
You would also probably be in violation of your RID rules, the controller's location would be 'guess work' since that comes from the phone and possibly grounded because of incomplete RID etc. etc..
Thanks! I did read the recommended thread, but I'm not finding much useful there. The quote from the manual that you entered in your post on that thread also appears in my
Air 2 manual, but I've never known what it means.
"...flight is restricted
when not connected or logged into the app during flight."
Do they really mean "when not connected
and logged into the app during flight?
Anyhow my own observations remain:
1) When I get the dreaded "You are not logged in" warning, the drone is in indeed restricted and altitude and range. (
DJI Fly: "You are not logged In") Fortunately this doesn't happen when I fly with Airplane Mode
on. In any case it wouldn't matter to me here because all I want to do this time is to fly inside my own home (in a no-fly zone) for test purposes.
2) Without a mobile device connected my
Air 2 and RC231 will connect -- see above -- but will not do anything else. (Perhaps the "combination-stick" commands are not even defined without the app?)
3) DJI Fly 1.12.0 lets me take off as indoors long as the GPS antenna on the drone is screened, whereas Fly 1.12.3 refuses because it (actually the phone) is in a "Restricted zone." (
Which GPS Location Controls Restricted Area? Drone or Mobile Device?)
I suspect all of this has to do with the new RID software, as you mentioned, which (at least in the latest version) wants to verify that the mobile device is not in a restricted zone. If there is no mobile device, this might prevent flight for that reason. This new software has not been around very long (at least for the
Air 2), so nobody may really know how it works yet.
If I understand your post correctly, however, you said that your "
m2p,
mini 1 & 2 and P3" can fly without a mobile device. This raises some questions for you:
A) What kind of controller(s) do you use with them?
B) How do you tell them to take off, or even to start their motors?
C) Do they have RID functionality (yet)?
Best Regards -- jclarkw