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Originally Posted by Harley613
Absolutely disagree. The body of the mini fits in the palm of my hand and is made of foam with a plastic shell and the battery pack is internal (surrounded by the foam body) and about the size and weight of a pair of AA batteries. I can't see it doing any damage to an aircraft or even a person unless you hit someone in the face at full throttle. It's the weight of a phone but made of foam. Regulators determined that under 250 grams is safe but I feel like DJI went out of their way to make sure it really is. If they change the regulations now they are debunking their own formula and that would just be fickle.
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I tend to agree that if the DJI Mini strikes something, say an aircraft windscreen, it would probably just bounce off. But being the same weight as a small pigeon, but with some metal internals, would it not do damage to an aircraft engine if it got ingested?
According to this article, engines must be able to withstand a strike from multiple medium-size flocking birds (such as gulls) weighing 0.7 to 1.3 kilograms.
https://www.americanscientist.org/ar...of-jet-engines
A DJI Mini is a third of the weight of a small gull. Ingesting it might not cripple an aircraft engine, but I'm guessing that it would still cause damage. Maybe that's a risk that Transport Canada is willing to take?