Can the DJI Avata Fly Safely Inside a Nightclub? Let's Find Out! #avata #nightclub

It's nice to have friends who own a nightclub, so last night we took our DJI Avata drone over to his nightclub on a night that it wasn't open to the public. We wanted to find out if the drone could be safely flown inside the nightclub and over the dance floor with the strobe lights & fog machine turned on. It was fairly easy to fly with the daytime lights turned on because it was nice and bright, but with it being dark and with the lights strobing? That's a whole other challenge.Show more

First of all, you won't get many GPS satellites locked while inside a building, if any. We started out with 6-8 locked satellites, but quickly lost even those as we flew further away from the outside wall. It was almost like flying in purely manual mode, but with some stabilization help still being there. The drone tended to drift and move in directions that we didn't want it to, or change altitude if we weren't vigilant at all times.

We did successfully fly around the nightclub, as you will see in the video, but the question remains, would it be safe to fly when there were people inside the area? It's not against FAA regulations to fly over people inside a building, but is it against common sense?

The jury is still out on this experiment. Perhaps we'll try again on a night when it hasn't (yet) gotten crowded and everybody inside has been alerted / warned on how to behave properly if the drone is nearby.

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