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Re: DJI Mavic 3 Pro

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Awesome new cameras, but how do you land these things safely on a sailboat? It's always tricky and scary.

I've done it on a motorboat and that's freaky enough. At least with my DJI the "home point" is the trick. As the boat moves you move, but the home point is/was fixed at a GPS location, not a radio location. So you have to stay on top of updating the home point (which requires menu digging) or the drone eventually freaks out and tries to fly away back to where the boat's route started, which could be a great way to lo…

> Being able to completely disable RTH (maybe you can?)

I believe so.

I've not flown a DJI "seriously" in a couple of years, but my Autels can be set to stop and hover at a given altitude if connection is lost. I'm pretty sure I remember DJI having the same option.

Re: DJI Mavic 3 Pro

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$2200 ... welp.

Not out of line with comparable airframes.

Here's what I fly: https://amzn.to/41F7wnL

It's been out a while, but is roughly comparable in every way except the camera. The Autel camera has a slightly larger sensor, but only one lens: with the DJI you get a telephoto and medium telephoto lens as well. The DJI will also do Apple ProRes RAW output while the Autel doesn't.

There are other differences, but I'd argue they're relatively minor, and mostly boil down to personal preference.

Autel Evo 2 Pro v3: $2,500 DJI Mavic 3 Pro Cine: $2,999

Re: DJI Mavic 3 Pro

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we gutted most of our manufacturing and outsourced it to china decades ago. we Let our entire non military manufacturing industry die on the vine so there isn't much of a culture of supply chain left. blame harvard business school. The cumulative damage of their Alum to the american economy is astronomical

Meh, there's been fears of imports damaging the home country's manufacturing/economy for hundreds of years. It's why tariffs have existed for ages. If the government valued manufacturing at home, they've had the tools for years to make it happen. Of course, are citizens ready to pay more than double in some cases? Not sure.

> If the government valued manufacturing at home, they've had the tools for years to make it happen

Well as long as we are “green washing” everything manufacturing will never return to the US.

Americans would rather offshore and pollute in other countries instead of attempting to manufacture in the US while be suffocated by regulations.

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When will these compact drones become less noisy? I know there are new propeller designs being researched to be much less like a swarm of bees is flying around near you, but don't know how far off they are to retail commercialization. It just makes it hard to stomach flying a drone in a pristine environment knowing you are disturbing all human and non-human animals nearby.

Few deer I saw did not seem to care at all about the drone. Neither have raccoons, beavers, squirrels, chipmunks and birds.

This strikes me as a rather callous lack of empathy. Personally, I find the mosquito whine of drones to be really annoying - especially when I am trying to enjoy the peace and serenity of a natural environment. There is nothing more obnoxious than going surfing only to have some creep buzz you with a drone. It's really intrusive and the sound is plain just obnoxious. I'm trying to enjoy the ocean like people have done for eons and someone else can't seem to enjoy it without flying a high pitched squealing camera over my head? It's a shame too because as a camera enthusiast I would love to be able to take shots like the ones DJI features on its website. They are spectacular views. But the obtrusive rudeness of the technology is the one thing holding me back.

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Zipline is using a rather strange propeller design that is apparently effective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOWDNBu9DkU&t=831s

I saw that! I’m sure they will patent it and consumers will be stuck with more traditional designs. Sigh, the patent law really needs a refresh, considering how rapid research and market response became.

Do patents work when competing with a chinese company?

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Awesome new cameras, but how do you land these things safely on a sailboat? It's always tricky and scary.

Practice makes perfect- I’ve launched and landed while sitting in a floating touring kayak at sea dozens of times with the Mini 3 Pro. I’ve only knicked myself once so far!

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I saw that! I’m sure they will patent it and consumers will be stuck with more traditional designs. Sigh, the patent law really needs a refresh, considering how rapid research and market response became.

Do patents work when competing with a chinese company?

Lol! I suppose they work if that Chinese company wants to sell in the US.

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"Your Favorite Chinese multi-sensor distributed spying platform".

I doubt they care much about you taking some videos on holiday! Probably don’t use it to fly over military sites and there is zero risk. I worry that some of the worlds great companies get caught in the power wars of the US and China. Both countries working together has been so good for the world - nobody will be as prosperous without the other - but who cares as long as the powerful people in the US and China get to…

With the apps the issue isn’t the ability of China to harvest data on someone at a kids sports events or what not or what basketball team they like.

The issue is that for example with TikTok the American citizen/national with relatives has been watching videos on and now their relative back in China had a visit from the authorities, or this info gained from the app on this politician or journalists or their family could be used for leverage, or a number of scenarios like that.

The chinese authorities already illegally sets up “police” stations abroad in various countries. The authorities already do apply pressure to relatives still in China.

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Exactly. All this focus on improved image quality, battery life and whatnot, but no mention about noise levels, or even R&D into the area. Currently, only the video is usable from drone footage, which is a huge limitation. All drone footage either has music or an audio track from an external source overlaid on top of it. I wonder if the propeller and wind noise could be cancelled or removed with some fancy algorithms…

> Currently, only the video is usable from drone footage, which is a huge limitation. For what use cases? Outdoor concerts? The acoustics at 100ft in the air are unlikely to be great anyways. I wouldn't call it a huge limitation.

I just want to watch Ukranian drone videos with glorious full sound Russian explosions without the annoying Ukranian techno.

Re: DJI Mavic 3 Pro

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I'll probably keep my Mini 2 until someone has the semi-legal cojones to put a 4G transceiver in a drone. Now that would be some great fun.

It's done in the long range FPV community. Not super common - it's expensive, and you aren't allowed to fly farther than you can see the drone (and safely fly it by sight alone, and monitor the airspace around it) but it's done.

I've not specifically kept up with the long range community, but I want to say I've recently seen videos of test flights out to 100km using an independent radio link (i.e., 5.8GHz analog video + 9xx MHz control link).

That said, power density is going to be your first limiting factor. You're either going to have to seriously tune your airframe for long-range flight (and greatly compromise performance), or you're going to have to move to a fixed-wing design.

Multirotors must maintain thrust (and therefore, expend power) to provide lift; fixed-wing designs provide lift as long as they are moving forward. The flight time of a fixed-wing design that's light enough and has a long enough glide profile is unlimited in practice. You can catch thermals and updrafts to gain speed, altitude, or both.

I have a 1m foam glider that I've flown for well over an hour. The vast majority of that time was with the motor turned completely off and the prop folded flat against the fuselage. I'd soar out over the field where I was flying. There was a creek at the edge of the field and a small hill on the other side of it, creating a "barrel" of air. Flying in low, I'd catch the bottom of that current, ride it up the hill side, then pick up speed as I crested the hill and gently turned back toward the field. That particular location is great on chilly spring and fall mornings, because the temperature gradient between the creek and wind coming over the hillside is so great.

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