There are (at least) three different things you should consider carefully each time before you fly your drone.
Is it safe, is it legal, are you doing something you might come to regret?
The
Mavic 3 will
reliably fly waypoint missions, even beyond the range of your control signal. That does not necessarily equate to it being
safe.
Is it
legal to do what you're doing? I'm not familiar with Philippine regulations, but my gut feeling is this is almost certainly
not legal. But you don't seem to care about that.
Are you doing something you might regret? So far, evidently, you've been lucky. Your drone has reliably returned from those waypoint missions, so you have not yet experienced regret.
On September 21st, 2017, a mid-air collision occurred between a DJI
Phantom 4 Pro and a US Army UH60 Blackhawk helicopter. The NTSB investigation concluded the collision was caused by,
“the failure of the [drone] pilot to see and avoid the helicopter due to his intentional flight beyond visual line of sight. Contributing to the incident was the [drone] pilot's incomplete knowledge of the regulations and safe operating practices.”
In this incident, the drone was still within control signal range, but it was so far away that he could not see it. He had no idea that a collision had occurred. He only noticed the connection suddenly stopped. He just assumed the drone would then automatically return to home upon losing control signal. But it never did.
Here's a link describing this event:
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/12/drone-collides-with-us-army-helicopter-puts-1-5-dent-in-rotor/
And here's a link to the NTSB docket with more details:
data.ntsb.gov/Docket/?NTSBNumber=DCA17IA202AB
In this incident, the drone pilot was eventually tracked down and identified via a serial number stamped on one of the drone's motors, which was recovered from the air intake debris screen of the helicopter's engine.
Think about this carefully.
This could have been you. Except there are significant differences in your case.
The New York drone pilot flew his drone out over the ocean, where he thought it was
safe because it's just empty space. He flew his drone beyond the point where he could no longer see it, but he still had a good control signal, up until the point of collision which destroyed his drone.
You, on the other hand, are flying your drone over a densely populated area and into the controlled airspace of an International Airport and a Philippine Air Force Base and a smaller flight instruction airfield. You are similarly flying your drone
intentionally beyond visual line of sight, which means you cannot
see whether your drone is in danger of colliding with other aircraft. But not only that, even if you
could see an impending collision, you are unable to do anything to
avoid that collision because your drone is flying
beyond range of your control signal.
"intentional flight beyond visual line of sight", AND intentional beyond range of control.
You may be lucky so far. But, in the event of a regrettable disaster, the police won't need to search for serial numbers in the debris of your drone. They merely need to ask DJI for the identity of the responsible drone pilot. Remember that you have
already identified yourself to DJI when you
voluntarily AND intentionally chose to self-authorize your flight within a Blue Authorization Geozone.
DJI is certainly not going to accept any liability in the event of such a collision. They will be more than happy to pin that responsibility onto you.
So think about it carefully and ask yourself again. Is what you're doing safe, is it legal, are you doing something you might come to regret?
