Over the past several months of being on here i have read many threads. The one here
NFZ ?
indicates that in an NFZ you cannot take off and you cannot even fly into it from a safe space takeoff. Many threads I’ve read where pilots are frustrated because they get an error and they cannot take off. They were looking for a hack or something since they were outside the NFZ but DJI incorrectly had it labeled. Other times they are just on the edge.
So, anyhow, I was out driving the other day and I stopped and turned my Mavic2 Pro on and it said NFZ on the remote. I do know that I was not all that far from an airport (The jets were about 5000’ up in the air by the time they were over me on their way to 30,000). I had checked the map and I do know that I was in an NFZ. The airmap app showed several helicopter and an airport sites not too far. I was in a metro area. So, I thought “I’ll try it to see the error, and what it does.”
Surprising to me was it let me take off. “Hmm.” I thought. “Was I not really in an NFZ? Why did it let me take off?”
Then I thought well maybe it’s just it will only go only very short distances like in ATTI mode. I went up about 250’ and it went up just fine. The buildings are just a little close to that so I knew I wouldn’t run into anything - not to mention kept a close eye on anything in the sky. There were a few copters here and there but nothing here. I dropped it back down after a couple minutes.
Why did it let me launch when so many people and threads are saying it doesn’t allow it? Is there something wrong with mine?
NFZ ?
indicates that in an NFZ you cannot take off and you cannot even fly into it from a safe space takeoff. Many threads I’ve read where pilots are frustrated because they get an error and they cannot take off. They were looking for a hack or something since they were outside the NFZ but DJI incorrectly had it labeled. Other times they are just on the edge.
So, anyhow, I was out driving the other day and I stopped and turned my Mavic2 Pro on and it said NFZ on the remote. I do know that I was not all that far from an airport (The jets were about 5000’ up in the air by the time they were over me on their way to 30,000). I had checked the map and I do know that I was in an NFZ. The airmap app showed several helicopter and an airport sites not too far. I was in a metro area. So, I thought “I’ll try it to see the error, and what it does.”
Surprising to me was it let me take off. “Hmm.” I thought. “Was I not really in an NFZ? Why did it let me take off?”
Then I thought well maybe it’s just it will only go only very short distances like in ATTI mode. I went up about 250’ and it went up just fine. The buildings are just a little close to that so I knew I wouldn’t run into anything - not to mention kept a close eye on anything in the sky. There were a few copters here and there but nothing here. I dropped it back down after a couple minutes.
Why did it let me launch when so many people and threads are saying it doesn’t allow it? Is there something wrong with mine?