It’s strange how some peoples seemed to have updated or downloaded something in the background to limit it and others haven’t I have no idea what’s going on 
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I do understand the legislation, but it makes no sense.
Can you see your drone from 120m?
Can you fly in restricted areas like airports?
I just can not wait when they will limit the speed of my car.
I guess that’s it for Mini series. I never crashed my drone, I was always responsible but sometimes you need to get higher for the right picture. Plus, if flying in big cities like Manchester or London, I had my Safe return on 250m to not crash into any building. Now I can just pray.
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The drone itself is hi-tech piece of technology to avoid obstacles, having sensors, lidar, knowing its stable position through satellites, unable to fly in restricted zones, …
It feels like bullying and taking more space to breathe from us. I am no rebel, but just feeling fed up realising that my main hobby and my safe space from everyday reality is becoming ruined.
I guess I will have to start looking for an alternative which either doesn’t follow regulations blindly or an update to Mini series.
so the moral of the story is don’t do an update on your Drone and you will be fine ???
After further investigation and seeing other stuff online it seems that it’s nothing to do with an update it’s when it locks onto gps it knows what country it’s in ect and adjust accordingly.
Don’t quote me on that as that’s just what I have been reading and I did try everything yesterday from downgrading firmware ect and none of that was the issue so I kind of believe that it could well be gps.
Interestingly my mini 3 pro is not C0 marked (I got when they came out) and not limited to the 120m maximum height, that’s not changed so can be set to higher (if you awknowedge the prompt) exactly as before.
With the differing experiences, I wondered if this was maybe down to some hangover from folk who’d flown their drones in the EU, but checked mine and I’ve also got a 500m limit on my Air 3S which has never left the UK.
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Latest Air 3S firmware (v01.00.1400) installed since June , but latest update for the RC2 (08.01.0100) not installed. No GPS (zero satellites locked). Not in flight.
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Installed the RC2 update, and still 500m (no GPS, not in flight).
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Then with GPS lock and in flight, also 500m.
Personally, not going to lose any sleep over this. The actual use cases where you’d be climbing more than 500m, whilst keeping in VLOS, in a single flight are probably pretty limited and, personally, not something I’m ever likely to have a problem with… my drones always get set to 120m before their first flight and I’ve never had to increase that. But I do appreciate there will be a few who are impacted by this.
I thought DJI was clear that the 120m limit was above take off point. I asked them about this and the CAA regs regarding terrain following. Sadly mini 5 pro doesn’t have a barometer (inaccurate anyway) and doesn’t use the gps for altitude (again civilian systems have quite an error bar on vertical accuracy). So flying negative is fine for drone though against rules if below -120 / more than 120 over surface. Going up hill is the issue.
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I’ll do @ianinlondon’s advertising for him:
He seems to say what we wrote above, except, as always, probably a bit more clearly and succinctly.
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I just watched his video 
I have just commented on his video to ask if he know as to if uk0 will also be 120m limit or if that will be the 500m again and it’s just with it been c0,
The next thing is hopefully Dji will give us the option to re classify from c0/1/2 or whatever to uk0/1/2 ect…….
I did talk to Ian about that on one of his videos and he thinks they (might) but can’t guarantee it obviously.
As someone noted above, the 120m limit for C0 aircraft has been carried forward by the CAA to UK0 ones too. It’s here to stay I’m afraid
ahhhh I didn’t see that bit I must have missed that comment. thank you for pointing that out for me, At least I know now that’s it nothing we can do unfortunately.
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@SJPhotography, see this post above:
As a related but not massively critical point, has anyone checked the top speed on their Air 3S in the past day or so?
I don’t have one so I can’t test it out.
Per the C1 requirements, it should now be limited to 19 m/s. The legislation says this for C1-marked drones:
I did actually see this but I misread it as c0 honestly the whole thing had my mind boggled
I haven’t had a chance to try yet as it has been windy and raining all day here, I wouldn’t care I had it out last night but never even thought to try,
It’s however annoying and bugging me now I can go outside and try it because of the weather, now you have me wanting to know
I did contact Dji just half an hour ago about this and they said they have had other people bring it to there attention but don’t have an answer yet apparently the are going to email me in 1-2 days with an answer,
The fact they said people have brought it to there attention I am “guessing” it is probably limited and it’s been more people complaining than asking, However that’s just a guess and it might not be limited
It’s annoying if it has as I often do a top speed run to see what I can get out of it but I am more the cinematic style shooter so it’s not to much of an issue to me just more of an annoyance and it will bug me even tho I don’t need to do that speed……..
In all of these we need a few tests from different people as some people still don’t seem to have the altitude limit so the same could apply with the speed.
Was this restriction not banded about when the Mini 4 Pro was released, it then went quiet, I thought you were given a choice to opt in to the limit?
Not the end of the world, surely you can go up a mountain and fly down it, or have they stopped a negative height function?
I suppose we have to be happy a bit that DJI are working with the CAA, we could be where the Americans are with no new drones being allowed, seeing loads having to buy them from China and other places just to get the model they want 
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I thought the 120m high rule has always been in place
Same as the 70 MPH on a motorway, it’s the law and there to be bended, or artistically moulded
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As explained in @ianinlondon’s video and the earlier posts in this thread:
- The law has for a long time stated that you have to be under 120m from the closest point on the Earth’s surface.
- The application of the C0 requirements (as part of the new legislation that came into force on 1 January 2026) now means you are limited on C0-marked drones to a height of 120m from the take-off point.
The point is that these are not necessarily the same thing, especially in the hilly and mountainous countryside of certain parts of the UK.
It’s kinda like minibuses… …you’re allowed to drive them at 70mph on the motorway, but they have to be restricted to 62mph (100km/h) by the manufacturer 
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