I'm fairly excited about this.<p>I took the FAA training courses and only fly a < 250g DJI drone but the current geofencing restrictions end up being far stricter than the FAA rules and greatly restrict or almost eliminate being able to fly anywhere near where I live.<p>I also had extremely bad luck with going through the unlock process in a lot of areas where DJI required an unlock but the FAA did not. If the unlock process fails you are not flying even in an area where the FAA is fine with you flying.<p>In my case there are a lot of use cases I like that would have me flying at no higher than 50-75 feet and I create basically no risk to aviation but right now I'm completely locked out. E.x flying at 25 feet to take a picture of a car or someone on a skateboard ramp or riding a mountain bike.<p>I've looked at the US manufactured alternatives.. they have none of the DJI restrictions.. but they accomplish making sure users are responsible by charging 10x more for the drone and not even offering small drones. There is no way I'm buying a $5,000-10,000 drone for hobby use.