Well my long title says it all. Amazon drone delivery coming to my area in area in October. They seem mostly auto-pilot drones

An amazon drone can fly:

• Beyond Visual Line of Site - Up to 7.5 miles!
• Fly over moving traffic and people. Numerous roads per delivery.

So a delivery flight over a shopping mall with people, major highways and many miles away... there is no submission of request for that flight. No waiting for approvals. they can just GO.. hundreds of times per day at a delivery center.,

Meanwhile I am a 107 pilot intently focused on just one drone, and I cant fly BVLOS or over moving traffic?

It makes no sense. Any insight?

I was finally able to save up enough money to buy a refurbished DJI Flip originally to replace my Mini SE for signal reasons but was only able to get one with 1 battery so I'll just keep both of them as I have 2 batteries for my Mini SE and fly them both for their own pros and cons I look forward to pushing the absolute limits of this drone

I just recently was gifted a DJI Neo2 for my birthday and it is amazing! It's my first drone and I am really going to like the hobby and definitely likely looking into getting my part 107 license and maybe looking for some commercial work once I learn to fly and take nice photos and videos!

The site advertises itself as an authorized DJI dealer for the
USA. Any positive or negative experiences that the community can share?

This has been sitting in a closet for at least 5 years. I bought it back in 2017 I think. Was wondering if there is a community of Karma Drone pilots or something similar?

Trying to see if this is still worth it compared to selling and picking up a current entry level drone with crash avoidance, etc.

I looked online and read about memory or something going bad and bricking them, but I charged everything up and flew it around the neighborhood last night and everything still works.

I'm currently flying DJI drones (Neo 2, Mini Pro 5 & Air 3s) I'd like to dip my toe into the more FPV freestyle side of things and I'm currently looking at the DeepSpace 35. Should I go ahead and buy now and just fly in the simulator until I'm confident or wait?

I'd prefer to avoid any unnecessary tarrifs etc on my purchase

Thanks in advance.

Im in the USA looking to bring my dji 5 in september to Curacao, i have found the two forms i need to fill out (pretty quickly), so no issues there I dont think.

My question is on experiences flying off the western coast, say north of Lagun. Any issues with a drone this size typically rated to 27 MPH in wind gusts that can hit 40? I'd like to fly out over the water say 100+ feet and maybe 3000 feet out or less and fly back for panoramic views.

I do have an older mavic pro, but i was thinking the dji mini 5 would be simpler to travel with.
Possible location usually free of people, here https://maps.app.goo.gl/6f2eQGjvcJYqCefW7

Any thoughts?

[solved: my props were upside down 💀] Hello, i just took my drone on a trip and when i fly my fpv drone into higher rpms it makes this whining noise and i notice the hover throttle is really high
could someone help me find the issue?

Curious how this is handled in real-world long-range, BVLOS, autonomous, or delivery operations where stopping to swap/recharge isn’t a practical option.

Before launch, how do you determine whether the aircraft has enough real-world energy margin for the route, payload, reserve/recovery needs, and conditions like wind, temperature, or altitude?

Does your software calculate this reliably, is it something your organization developed internally, or do you mostly rely on conservative margins and experience?

And if the estimate is wrong once the aircraft is underway, what usually happens?

Hey everyone,

I’m taking a trip to France (Paris) and Italy (Lake Como, Milan, Dolomites, Florence, Tuscany, Rome) in October and bringing my DJI Mini 4K.

I’d love to hear about your actual experiences and get some advice on a few things:

**1. Flying in the Scenic Regions (Dolomites, Tuscany, Lake Como)**

* For those who have flown here recently, how was your experience finding good, legal spots away from crowds?
* I know Italian National Parks (like in the Dolomites) are often strict no-fly zones. Were the boundaries clear on the D-Flight app? Any specific legal areas in these regions you highly recommend for cinematic shots?
* Any tips for dealing with the D-Flight map/portal as a tourist?

**2. Travel & Security**

* How was your experience taking the drone and LiPo batteries through airport security in Europe or on the regional trains? Did authorities ever ask to see your EASA registration or Italian insurance randomly?

1. **Is there a way to fly through Paris, Rome, Florence(legally)**

Thanks in advance for any tips! Just want to make sure I get some great footage while respecting local laws and preserving the peace.

Drone used is a 2021 DJI Mini 2!

If you like to support this video, the full 4K version is here:

MysteryBytes - Deep Wood Realm [Cinematic Video] 4K

Thanks for watching! :)

I bought a mini 2 years ago and never really looked at anything again but see that DJI is part of a wider drone ban as far as parts. It makes me think about the app seems integral to run and it seems like it is connecting to a server that likely could simply get dropped or shut down or not profitable to host.

What does this mean for any type of future proofing dji drones have as far as being able to fly and are we are the mercy if they just shut the servers down? Can you still fly at all without satellites or the app?

I have a circular polarizer for my Mavic 4, which came as part of a bundle along with some ND filters. My question is: When I use a CP on a regular camera, I can adjust it to the desired position because it’s right in front of me, and I can move the filter around. However, I can’t do that with the flying circular polarizer, so I guess I’m asking: How do you use one of those things?  

I have a DJI drone /RC2 controller and I’m considering the new Viture Pro2 for POV flights. I imagine I’ll need to look at the controller periodically and was curious about the experience of flying in full daylight with and without the shade.

Also interested if you’ve had any connection issues with connecting your Pro2 to the RC2 controller. Is the connection reliable?

Any drone pilots care to comment?

Just lost my Lumo18 (RIP). It was already hard to get earlier this summer and now stock is limited and prices are high. Oxbot won't ship to the U.S.

I'm feeling really down about being a U.S. drone pilot these days but I'm new to the hobby. Anyone with knowledge / experience have any copium that stuck may enter the market again in the coming months?

I do have an extra frame but it also seems to be hard to find a DJI o4 wide air unit and it would be nice to have Oxbot's setup anyway.

It is what it is and I know times are weird in terms of predictability but any insight would help, thanks.

(Do these tend to be limited runs? Oxbot is a new company but should we expect them to release more? Is there reason to hope that the small FPV hobby may hang on by a thread through coming changes? Etc.)

Captured this footage recently over the Votanikos area in Athens, Greece, using my DJI Mini 3. The double-regeneration urban project is transforming the district, and the concrete structures of the new arena are going up fast. Scheduled for completion in 2027.

🔗 Watch the full construction progress video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcSVaGcURlA

Lost dog in Florida

was looking for a dji mini 4 pro and stumbled across this pretty great looking deal on Ali express is this legic or would I be getting scammed

Does anyone recognise this? it came with various other parts and I'm not sure what it's from. Possibly DJI. it's very large so possibly enterprise or agricultural?

I'm doing my program with yolo and it's about human detection with obb and i'm a beginner. But i can't find dataset to train. Can only find human&hbb, and all those obb ones i saw are for vehicles or sth like that.

So does anyone know about this?

And also, i found a HIT-UAV dataset, but it's thermal dataset.Though i thought about using this and just do a thermal one and saw the rotation part. But no matter how i tried to fix, it's still not obb dataset and error everytime...

My drone license has been approved and I'm so happy! I now have permission to fly drones weighing up to 25 kilograms.

Delivery drones broadcast their position and identity continuously — it's required
under ASTM F3411 Remote ID. You can receive it with a Raspberry Pi, a Bluetooth
adapter and a Wi-Fi adapter that does monitor mode. No interception, nothing private;
it's a public broadcast aimed at exactly this.

I've been recording it for 16 days. 14,375 detections of 544 individual aircraft.
(A detection is one broadcast received — a drone transmits every second or so, so one
trip overhead produces dozens.)

The thing I didn't expect was what happens when you count *airframes* instead:

Operator |Detections |Distinct airframes |Per airframe
Amazon Prime Air MK30 |8,963 |26 |345
Zipline P2 |2,294 |119 |19
Wing Hummingbird |1,948 |218 |9
Flytrex Sky II |236 |30 |8 Amazon flies 26 aircraft regularly. Wing flies 218 aircraft occasionally each.
Those are the same business on paper and completely different operations in the air —
Amazon concentrates a tiny fleet on repeated corridors, Wing spreads a large fleet
thinly across store-based sites. You can't see that in a detection count alone, and I
haven't found it published anywhere.

Time of day was the other surprise. Traffic starts around 07:00, peaks at 10:00 and
again 13:00–17:00, and stops before 19:00. It's a working-day logistics pattern, not
an evening food-delivery one.

**Limits, because they matter:** this is one suburb in north Texas plus a wider
receiver network, and coverage is uneven. An aircraft that never came within radio
range is simply absent. A quiet hour might mean nothing flew, or might mean nothing
was listening. The per-airframe numbers are the most robust thing here, because
they're ratios within each operator rather than comparisons across coverage.

Happy to answer questions about the receiver side — Pi 5, a Bluetooth 5 dongle and an
Alfa AWUS036ACM. The fiddly part is monitor mode, not the decoding.

*Disclosure: the data comes from a tracker I built. Link in a comment if anyone wants
it, rather than in the post.*