Naive question: what prevents Americans from simply buying Dji products in Canada? It's a physical product, so banning it like TikTok or big vehicles is impossible, or am I missing something?
I can't imagine what it would take for them to enforce the ban, so people would highly likely continue using and buying DJI products.
Because if you choose to do this, and it's against the law, you open yourself up to sanctions and punishment?
Didn't they run Android, and you could root them to remove the no fly zones?
The drone would look it up through a connected cell phone using a web service like this:
https://tfr.faa.gov/tfr_map_ims/html/
I think (hope) it would be a hard sell to send different data from faa.gov to DJI drone lookups versus other brands, but on the other hand this complete brand ban is apparently politically possible.
I've got a DJI drone and I've always been worried of some OTA software update essentially making the device useless. I've got a separate iPhone 8 that I don't connect to WiFi any more that I use only to control the drone. Though honestly my fear was more that the FAA would add dumber regulations and push them on DJI to enforce, which they seem to have already done quite a bit.
Nope, it happens in the control app on your device.
> GPS is transmit-only location, it can't write no-fly zone data to a particular drone.
No one said it could.
Canada has significant regulations around purchasing and operation of drones [0]
[0] - https://www.gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p1/2017/2017-07-15/html/reg2...
They don't care if a drone here or there slips thought, it's irrelevant to the point of the law.
But Canada is a long long distance for many Americans. America is pretty big and Canadian cities are sparse along the border.