Drone News: Mavic 3E gets CAT 2, Serious Drone Injury, Aloft LAANC Onboarding, & DJI Neo Specs Leak

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Welcome to your weekly UAS news update we have 4 stories for you, Mavic 3 Enterprise gets Category 2 Approval, Part 107 Serious Injury, Aloft Completes LAANC Onboarding, and DJI Neo Specs leaked.

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00:00 Introduction
00:19 Mavic 3E Gets Category 2 Approval
01:02 Serious Drone Injury
02:39 Aloft LAANC Onboarding
03:51 DJI Neo Specs Leaked

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First up, AVSS seems to just be getting started!
The Mavic 3 Enterprise and Enterprise thermal are now Category 2 when equipped with AVSS’s PRS-M3E parachute system!
This allows the drones equipped with the parachutes to legally operate over people and moving vehicles under Part 107 and without a waiver!
Awesome to see someone else working on categorizing drones and hopefully we’ll have more to share soon!

Next up, the NTSB has released a preliminary report on an accident that occurred in February of this year.
A small drone was involved in an accident on Feb. 20th, 2024 in Orlando, FL.
The RPIC stated to investigators that the purpose of the flight was to power wash a hospital and that the RPIC and Aircraft had operated multiple time throughout the day.
On the final flight the remote pilot took off and noted the drone began to lose directional control 2-3 feet off the ground.
The RPIC attempted to control the aircraft but the aircraft did not respond.
The RPIC then attempted to disarm the aircraft, where it once again did not respond.
The RPIC realized the drone would not respond to commands and decided to manually unplug the batteries of the drone, resulting in severe lacerations on his arms, hands, and legs, partially severing a finger.
The aircraft in question was an Apellix B1 Washing Drone, which is a coaxial octocopter.
We’ll keep you updated when we see more about this accident.

Third up, Aloft has completed the FAA’s onboarding process introducing new features!
New features for Aloft are primarily around improved further coordination requests.
Two new features aim to help remote pilots who submit requests for “Further Coordination”.
The first, is a reduction in expiration time from 24 hours before the operation to 3 hours before the operation.
The second is enhanced feedback, allowing ATC to send feedback on why a request was denied.
Hopefully these two improvement save operators time and money with scheduling and requesting airspace approval!

Last up, more DJI Neo Leaks!
Most of the specs appear to have been leaked for the new DJI Neo.
The drone appears to come in at 135 grams with an 18 minute flight time, max flight distance of 4 miles using O4, and 22GB of internal storage.
The Neo’s camera is rumored to be a 12MP 1/2” sensor, f/2.8 Iso 100-6400, and a max video resolution of 4K/30.
Leaks suggest that the Neo does NOT have any SD card compatibility and shoots only JPEG/MP4.
Pricing is rumored to be $329 for the fly more combo and may release as soon as August 20th.
This might be a good, though limited solution for category 1 operations!

Have a great week, and we’ll see you on Monday for the Live!