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DJI will no longer stop drones from flying over airports, wildfires, and the White House
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this post was submitted on 15 Jan 2025
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Bragging that you keep an version of the app around that allows you to fly your drone in areas that puts other people's lives in danger is not the gotcha moment you think it is.
The keep out databases are mostly nonsense, it's a big point of contention in the community. If you live near a random hospital helipad or municipal airport and try to fly in your backyard below the tree canopies with a drone with less mass than a bird you are still blocked.
Also, I never said I flew in any area that would put anyone in any sort of danger, nor do I ever intend to. I study ergonomic controllers and might rearrange the controls to be more intuitive, in an open public park, so what?
I'd appreciate if you didn't try to imply some nefarious activity without some sort of evidence. But fuck China, they don't need my goddamn GPS coordinates!
Bleh, I've only ever flown a drone a few days at a time out at our city park. Then I criticize their controls and rewire the controller to be more intuitive, which lets me fly it fairly easily even in 30mph winds, but always seems to burn one of the motors up within 3 days.
I ain't flying the things to spy on anyone, I'm just trying to improve their controls.
If you want to tinker with it, stay away from that DJI crap and build your own. Then you can get more than a flight or two without something burning up.
They were all 3 given to me, one originally intact and 2 more as scrap parts. I would have never bought them myself. Hell, it's so low on my priorities list, I haven't even bothered trying to fix one in the past 6 months or more.