Haye Kesteloo

Haye Kesteloo is the Editor in Chief and Founder of DroneXL.co, where he covers all drone-related news, DJI rumors and writes drone reviews, and of EVXL.co, for all electric vehicle news. Haye can be reached at haye @ dronexl.co or @hayekesteloo. Also on LinkedIn, Muck Rack, Instagram and YouTube.

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DJI Power

DJI Power 2000 Now Plugs Into Your Wall Socket. Not in America

DJI put the Power 2000 on stage at IFA 2026 as a grid-tied home battery with its first balcony solar kit. US buyers get none of it.

Haye KestelooSep 4

A DJI Mavic 4 Pro hovering between pine trees, the kind of drone a service provider would fly under Part 108

BVLOS

TSA Plans Closed-Door Part 108 Security Talks After the Rule Lands

TSA is recruiting hand-picked operators for closed BVLOS security roundtables that run only after the Part 108 final rule publishes. Deadline October 19.

Haye KestelooSep 4

A DJI Osmo Pocket camera showing a Japanese device-information screen with camera firmware version 10.02.00.97 next to a handheld DJI remote held in one hand displaying its RC firmware version 01.00.02.10 and a firmware update option

DJI

DJI Fixes Pocket 4P FrameTap And Mic Conflict, Users Find It First

Pocket 4P owners in Japan discovered DJI's latest firmware lets the FrameTap remote and DJI Mic 3 connect at once. DJI's changelog never mentioned it.

Haye KestelooSep 4

Close-up of the DJI Osmo Pocket 4P gimbal head showing its dual-lens array with a 1-inch main sensor and 60mm telephoto lens

DJI

DJI Takes Pocket 4P to Venice Film Festival, US Still Shut Out

DJI has booked a September 7 Venice Film Festival panel for the Osmo Pocket 4P, its fourth European stage for a camera Americans still cannot buy.

Haye KestelooSep 4

First-person GoPro view of a skier dropping into a deep powder line above a forested valley, with snow-covered peaks on the horizon.

Industry

GoPro CEO Promises 'More Cameras' After Merger, Names None

Woodman's letter says GoPro will keep building cameras after the Starman merger. It names no product, and GoPro's filings say details wait for closing.

Haye KestelooSep 4

Aerial view of the Butler Farm Show grounds after the July 13, 2024 Trump rally, the vantage point Thomas Crooks had and the Secret Service did not

Department of Homeland Security

Secret Service Saw Drones Near Obama and Sanders, Then Came Butler

GAO finds the Secret Service logged drone incidents in 2015, 2016 and 2021, changed no civilian drone policy and never wrote down why. Then came Butler.

Haye KestelooSep 4

Three XTEND drones with different payloads hovering in formation above a green treeline under a clear blue sky

Department of Defense

XTEND CEO Signs $1.5B NYSE Deal Mid-Call, Pentagon Score Still Sealed

Aviv Shapira signed XTEND's JFB closing during a DroneXL interview. XTND trades on the NYSE Friday, Gauntlet II unscored. 'I think we did good,' he says.

Haye KestelooSep 3

A commercial drone pilot in a lime high-visibility vest holds a controller with both hands while a DJI Mavic 2 Enterprise Dual hovers directly above him against a deep blue sky.

DOCKET 26-189

FCC Drone Ban Comments Counted: 3,770 Against, 16 For

Pilot Institute read and coded all 3,824 filings in FCC docket 26-189. 98.6% oppose the military-grade drone ban as written. Sixteen support it.

Haye KestelooSep 3

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