Is Autel also being blacklisted?

@Zhen
Skydio knee-capped themselves by pushing everything aside to make nice with the Federal government. Their commercial drones are pretty amazing at inspections and SAR but that’s about it. One of their reps jumped on LinkedIn touting mapping so I publicly asked him for the reports & data and guess what, he ghosted.

The whole other conversation about phones, laptops and etc just make this all the more laughable.

I jumped on the freefly train. Oh well.

Luca said:
I jumped on the freefly train. Oh well.

Isn’t their stuff in the 5 figures?

@Luca
Lol love the meme. Well that precludes like 98% of us peons that fly for recreation or light-commercial/prosumer

Is Ruko in that list?

Caden said:
Is Ruko in that list?

Not yet. They’re not big enough to pose a financial thre…ahem, excuse me…a “national security” threat

Zhen said:

Caden said:
Is Ruko in that list?

Not yet. They’re not big enough to pose a financial thre…ahem, excuse me…a “national security” threat

Good

Big question: Why is there actually no Western direct equivalent to DJI? I mean, respect to DJI for what they’ve achieved but surely it can’t be that hard for an American or European companies?

Clove said:
Big question: Why is there actually no Western direct equivalent to DJI? I mean, respect to DJI for what they’ve achieved but surely it can’t be that hard for an American or European companies?

I actually just read this article and it addresses some of it with plenty of commenters adding details