Recent content by mstevens

Up to a degree, people do have a right to bug you, just as you have a right to ignore them. Not everything annoying is a crime.

Is it? Not only do I doubt this applies to pilots who aren't located on the aircraft they're flying, but I also doubt any prosecutor or court is going to devote time to dealing with this unless you're actually threatened. Our flying drones annoys some people. Their annoying us isn't a crime...

I was flying the other day. A woman walked up to me (on my land) and asked "what is that". I got prepared to deal with some form of crap and to find a nice way to tell her to leave my property, but just said "it's a photography drone". Her response? "Yeah, obviously, but what kind?" "It's called...

I know somebody has developed a release device for the Mavic that uses a sensor mounted over one of the LED's so that turning off the LED releases the payload. edit: It turns out that "somebody" is the same Gimbal-Guard mentioned and linked above.

That doesn't matter. You can easily download a manual from the product page at DJI.com. I read my Mavic manual several times over before it was ever delivered and I got access to the printed manual. Good thing, too, since that thing is way too tiny for me to be able to read.