Njw83
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Flight distance : 89767 ft
United Kingdom
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Im sick of having my mavic and always being too scared to use it. I've just come back from a week snowboarding in Chamonix, France and didnt take it off once.
I'm not an idiot, I'm not going to fly it high into the path of a helicopter or into a chair lift, I would have only used it away from people and off piste... but I was a good boy and obeyed the rules (which ban the use of them in the ski resorts)
Anyway I'm off to Sri Lanka via India on March 5th and I want to take it with me to get some nice video clips.
It seems India is also against them so although I wont fly it in India, will I have a problem even bringing it into the country? I dont want to get it confiscated.
Thanks in advance.
Seeing as DJI are pumping more and more models out aimed at the casual user, its a shame they aren't doing more to lobby governments into easing rules for the use of them!
UPDATE
So lots of people ask this question before they travel but not many seem to update once they have travelled.
I've just got to Delhi and it was fine. I actually sold my Mavic and bought a Spark but I presume the result would have been the same with either drone.
I put the spark in my checked luggage, just wrapped in-between clothes along with the controller. The batteries and propellers were split between my checked luggage and my hand luggage so I had a spare set in each bag just in case one bag got searched.
NONE of our bags got searched or scanned coming into Delhi.
We have to fly out of Jaipur on Saturday into Kochi and then out of Kochi to Sri Lanka so I'll update again after we have been through those airports.
another UPDATE.
flew from Jaipur to Kochi and no issues. little Spark still safe and sound in my bag. The bag was scanned at Jaipur as you enter the airport but either they didn't see it or didn't care. No scans as you exit the domestic terminal at Kochi.
another UPDATE.
Kochi to Colombo (Sri Lanka) without issue.
And since being in Sri Lanka I've used the little spark twice. The local kids love it.
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