Flutterby™! : DJI lowers geofencing restrictions

Very interesting: I've got a friend who's got a drone, he'd love to be able to inspect his roof and solar panels with it, but he's a few miles north of an (uncontrolled) airport, and the drone won't let him fly in his back yard.

I've also looked at the FAA regs for RC model airplanes recently, and if I'm reading it right it's become super complex to fly anything larger than 1lb anywhere around me, even below 400'.

DJI will no longer stop drones from flying over airports, wildfires, and the White House, they provide a warning, but don't stop the platform from flying. And, today I learned:

But it turns out the DJI drone that damaged a Super Scooper airplane fighting the Los Angeles wildfires was a sub-250-gram model that may not require Remote ID to operate, and the FBI expects it will have to “work backwards through investigative means” to figure out who flew it there.