Saw this advert on Facebook, anyone know if this works at all?
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You try and then let us know if it works 
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@LloydRey My Missus bought some so called waterproof boots once and was wringing her socks out 30 mins into a walk after it started to rain. I’m pretty confident this is a similar load of crap claim and saying No!
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Snake oil
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It might work to some extent to be fair. But it will most likely need re-application. Would probably be ok for light showers etc. But if you want to waterproof your drone you’d be best off stripping it apart and applying some conformal coating. But even then, it wont help the gimble much.
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I mean, flying a drone like a mini 4 pro in the rain is pretty pointless any way, though right?.. I mean if anybody watched the opening ceremony for the Olympics last night having water on the lens of a camera makes for pretty horrendous viewing…
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Waterproofing a camera drone is a big ask. The camera and the gimbal are out in the fresh air at the front, and are delicate and need to move freely, and the interior of the drone where all the electronics are is ventilated; blocking the vents will cause overheating. Then there’s the battery and it’s connections, and the motors which have to be sealed against water ingress.
So, an effective spray-on proofing would have to be applied to the inner gubbins and the gimbal without gumming them up, and with the body of the drone removed so you can get at them to spray. That’s probably fairly easy, couple of screws, but not sure how you’d access inside the arms, or how vulnerable they are.
Of course, it’s daft to fly in the rain; you’ll get wet and so will the drone, but it’s not impossible to be caught out in a sudden cloudburst or even hosepipe or sea spray, not to mention landing in wet grass. None of this will do the gubbins any good at all…
So potentially this could be a useful product, but I would want to know a lot more before I relied on it to keep my drone dry. How often would I need to respray if the drone got wet? Is it affected by temperature? It seems to be a moisture repellent rather than a sealant, which might affect the way it affects the gubbins.
I would suggest trying it out on a cheap sacrificial Amazon/Temu drone, no tears if it doesn’t end well, before applying it to your Mavic 3 Pro!
Even if this did work, would it not seriously mess with the heat dissipation?
Possibly not (in the short term, think WD40), if it works as a moisture repellent which dries off any water it comes into contact with and then evaporates off itself. If there is a sealant component to the action, I would worry about heat dissappation. Drones have vents in the bodyshell and upper limits to operating temperatures for a reason…
Fell asleep! The French might do fine food but there’re shite at producing a decent spectacle.
I wouldn’t bother, a complete waste of time and effort IMO for the reasons you’ve already covered. 
Phantom Rain have been selling options for a few years. Mainly in the USA.
They seem to have a decent reputation.
Not tried a wetsuit for the drone myself.
I tend to just fly…
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No way in this life would I trust the deceptive picture. or the product ,not for me anyway, I would use upsatairs for thinking and downstairs for dancing methodology ,and fly when its not raining and not fly outdoors whe it is raining