It's hard to imagine this thing not having the same GEO-zone lockouts as all the others.
I have a DJI Mavic Mini and the lockouts are very, very strict. I can't fly it at ALL at my house outside.
I wish there was a little more compromise.. in some cases it would be a heck of a lot useful if you could fly even with some draconian restriction like a 25ft max altitude. My house is in a restricted zone due to being on the flight path for an airport. But the airplanes come over my house around 150ft AGL. There are 75ft trees all the way around my property. I would have plenty of fun never going above 50ft in my yard, but DJI won't let me fly at all.
Given it's speed this FPV model would have the largest capacity for mayhem of almost any DJI model, and since it's FPV you know there will be lots of people flying it without a spotter in violation of FAA regulations.. so it makes sense for it to be at least as locked down as the other models.
I flew my drone over salt marshes near another airport that didn't have a tower over the weekend. Because it didn't have a tower it didn't have a "Red" zone near it and I could fly after acknowledging the risks. I was able to fly and keep my altitude < 20ft and it was still a ton of fun and I got some great pictures. I only flew for about 10 minutes, I saw one airplane, but it was ~100ft AGL and I was ~15ft AGL and had some horizontal separation from the plane, no harm done.
This model looks insanely fun and I'd love to have one but realistically I bet I'd be in that situation a lot where I didn't have a spotter and couldn't fly it without knowingly breaking the rules. I didn't see anything in the material yet in terms of whether or not you can fly it line of sight without the goggles.
Check out the faq/start. I haven't looked into minis, but the larger mavics are well supported.
If you want to really have some fun with your current drone, check out a program called Litchi. It costs lunch to get a copy but it gives you a full ground station with mission planning capabilities, a Google Cardboard compatible FPV function (a bit laggy for precision flying but if you pick you lines through obstacles you will be fine), limited head tracking that moves the camera gimbal as you look around and a heads up display / audio feedback.
All in all, modified dji + litchi + google cardboard headset + burner android phone is a surprisingly capable package that can be repaired, tweaked and has a very low price point if you can navigate the used goods market.
I have a DJI Mavic Mini and the lockouts are very, very strict. I can't fly it at ALL at my house outside.
I wish there was a little more compromise.. in some cases it would be a heck of a lot useful if you could fly even with some draconian restriction like a 25ft max altitude. My house is in a restricted zone due to being on the flight path for an airport. But the airplanes come over my house around 150ft AGL. There are 75ft trees all the way around my property. I would have plenty of fun never going above 50ft in my yard, but DJI won't let me fly at all.
Given it's speed this FPV model would have the largest capacity for mayhem of almost any DJI model, and since it's FPV you know there will be lots of people flying it without a spotter in violation of FAA regulations.. so it makes sense for it to be at least as locked down as the other models.
I flew my drone over salt marshes near another airport that didn't have a tower over the weekend. Because it didn't have a tower it didn't have a "Red" zone near it and I could fly after acknowledging the risks. I was able to fly and keep my altitude < 20ft and it was still a ton of fun and I got some great pictures. I only flew for about 10 minutes, I saw one airplane, but it was ~100ft AGL and I was ~15ft AGL and had some horizontal separation from the plane, no harm done.
This model looks insanely fun and I'd love to have one but realistically I bet I'd be in that situation a lot where I didn't have a spotter and couldn't fly it without knowingly breaking the rules. I didn't see anything in the material yet in terms of whether or not you can fly it line of sight without the goggles.