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Please do me a favor and weigh your Anafi.

It looks as if the good old approval trick, sometimes used by the ultra-light aircraft manufacturer, of increasing or decreasing the MTOW appropriately, is also possible with the Anafi.


With the original battery, my Anafi has, according to my kitchen scales, a mass of less than 320g, unfortunately not less 250g, but still flies in the test bench, when I load it up to a total mass of over 550g.


It could therefore be possible for Parrot to qualify the same Anafi specimen either for

* MTOW<250g (using a more lightweight Accumulator) (for the genius European C0 Drone-Class),

* 250g<MTOW<500g (as it is now) or

* MTOW>500g (for example as an A2-Pilot Licence Trainer, in the C1 or C2 Drone-Class),

* NO AIRCRAFT (by using a short enough umbilical (Ground based Power-Supply) instead of the Accumulator).


Of course, with <250g it can brace itself much better against the wind than brought by Payload to a total Mass of >500g.


MTOW<250g results in: You can film almost everywhere (remind safety),

NO AIRCRAFT means safety, the legal length of the umbilical and the rights of other people are almost the only filming restrictions left.