New Mini 5 Pro owner with concerns

[sarahb]

Welcome!

 

[Talldiver]

Welcome to the forum heimao988, from Northwest New Jersey.

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[Felix le Chat]

Yeah just checked out dronescene and there's a few vast NOTAMs around the place at the moment - I am lucky to be just outside one, but you have to wonder how safe I am - it's not like the jamming completely stops at the border is it ?!

Surprised they can get away with whole weeks worth of periodic jamming when so many other GPS devices surely depend on that not happening - sat nav / phones / cameras etc...

Ah well - guess they are expecting terrorism to be more drone-based in the future, so can't blame them for wanting to know GPS denial of service systems work in advance... all well and good of course, unless your bombers are FPV pilots relatively close by to target who presumably wouldn't give a rat's bottom if GPS was there or not...

For that reason at some point presumably they will have to test control signal blocking stuff as well, which is rather more of a worry, and presumably results in RED NOTAMS rather than yellow ones ?!

Since they've become active: they're standard yellow 'warnings', not full-on red TFR's. Reading through the NOTAM text: it shows they're active between 08.00hrs and 16.00hrs.

I'm just about a mile and a bit outside one of their borders myself and I find I'm thinking along similar lines - does the outer circumference factor in drop off?

 

[AeroJ]

I would much prefer it if our DJI machines still let us manually choose not to use GPS, and start, and finish flights in Atti / self-levelling modes. I hate that it the only way to get to this mode is through GPS failure, because I hear increasingly often that this jamming doesn't necessarily just remove satellites from visibility but can lead to the craft thinking it is somewhere else in the sky, or even in a different country, which would be a huge hazard for everyone that uses RTH functions, or who have that set as the default option in case of signal loss, or low pack voltage.

 

[wjkrysak]

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