China-based drone manufacturer DJI announced Monday that the latest firmware update to its “GEO” geofencing system reclassifies Restricted Zones (aka No Fly Zones) as Enhanced Warning Zones. The change means that drone operators are now responsible for monitoring their aircraft to ensure they do not encroach on FAA-designated flight restriction areas, as opposed to the automatic GPS-derived “fencing” that would not allow the drone to enter the restricted airspace.
How long do yall think it’ll take for us to see a major drone incident due to this change?
A major incident is what caused the change, in my opinion. As I understand it, a DJI drone took out a water bomber working to put out some California fires. DJI changed their software to put the onus on pilots so they authorities couldn’t claim it was due to faulty software
It’s likely to lead to more incidents though, since just about anybody can operate them and will do dumb things with them. The geofencing at least limited the acts of stupidity, imo.
Most other drone manufacturers didn’t even do this at all.
Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg are supposed to be sitting together on Monday, that’d be nice …
Trump inauguration, because they all gave him
inauguration moneybribes and because they want the new administration to side with them.Oh so this is why they just moved it indoors.
Lol, I just saw that and thought the same thing!
Not very long, I wouldn’t be surprised if there are plans and secret rooms to make drones illegal or for military and farm use only
People have being flying RC Airplanes for 40 years… I don’t see why this is an issue now…
That requires skill
Ubiquity and easier to fly?