[mig39]

Ironically, the Mavic Mini seems to have been designed to not be subject to rules, especially in other countries.

Here in Canada, none of the drone rules and regulations apply to it, as it's too small to be considered a drone.

I have a drone ... addiction. I generally use my Mavic 2 for most of my flights, but when I want to fly somewhere I'm not allowed to fly, I switch to the Mavic Mini.

So yeah, all those rules the FAA has in the USA, we have similar rules in Canada and other countries. But they don't apply to the Mavic Mini.

[Sodman]

This is largely true in the US as well, the Mavic Mini is 249 grams intentionally because most of the FAA rules explicitly only apply to aircraft >= 250g. They know exactly what they're doing, it's literally the first question in their FAQ page - https://www.dji.com/mavic-mini/faq

I'm generally very pro-drone but this definitely makes it hard to defend the hobby against anti-drone arguments. Most of the things people complain about we can say "Well that's already illegal, and with RemoteID it will be much easier to report them and have consequences"... But these 249g drones with 30 mins battery life and 4k cameras don't have to follow a many of these laws, even though they cause a large proportion of the problems.