I Can See Sideways now! Huge Mavic 3 Pro UPDATE! 

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It is about seeing something before the sensor detects it. Like a road that you don't want to be flying near or over. Could be pedestrians. You can't rely on a sensor to stop you flying into a pedestrian or even worse there could be moving vehicles on the road. Having this will let you see the road and stop well before any of the sensors detect an obstacle

But yes having VLOS would help but if you/your spotter is in line with the drone and the obstacle, they might be able to see the drone but not guage the distance between the drone and obstacle

first of all, one good real world use, which could come handy, was already presented in video, why not watch, before commenting? but in general, it could be a help doing something in manual, when usually you put avoidance etc off. and in general would be helpful, when you for ex. not have direct vlos and drone in stuck in some tricky situation, you cab also see, what is happening with props etc. camera sensors are there and active all the time anyway, why not just give a pilot option to see that? good idea would be also, ta make a video stream from sensor cameras active on external video feed, so you can hook up phone or tab additionally.

@@ClarkDroneFilms thanks for responding. It§s always interesting is someone bothers to argue (at least partly) agains you. To start, just to be clear, you write about sensors "detecting" obstacles, but I interpret that as "reacting" at obstacles, simply because I do believe the sensor detect everything it sees and I'm told the sensor system constantly reads the surroundings up to 150 meter away. And as I argued, I don't think you will be able to see anything in the sensor cameras, that the drone hasn't already detected. I do, however, agree that one can't rely on the sensor to calculate a the speed of a moving car or understanding that we shouldn't even getting close to a pedestrian. But we might disagree on how to achieve necessary control. I wouldn't rely on the the sensor camera to achieve necessary control - and I'm actually not allowed bu law to rely on sensor camera. I understand you live int the UK, and I'm nor familiar with drone rules there, but in the EU VLOS means not only seeing the drone, but also to have a good enough overview over the flying area and potensial risk situations (like a moving car or a kindergarten group out walking). In other words it might seem as we want to achieve the same goal of good control, but when you argue the sensor camera will be of great assistance I argue that VLOS is a much more reliable way to gt that necessary control. But that being said, I do understand better now, why a lot of people are pretty enthusiastic about this new feature. 😊😊