ok so this is partly a cautionary tale and partly just me venting. flew into Morocco last week and the customs guy pulled me aside when he saw the drone on the xray. spent about 45 minutes going back and forth while he called someone and i just stood there sweating. eventually they let me through but apparently Morocco has some pretty strict rules about bringing drones in and i had no idea you were supposed to declare it or potentially get a permit before arriving.

ended up being fine but honestly i was terrified they were gonna keep it. anyone else had something like this happen, feels like every country is completely different and theres no easy way to know whats what until youre already standing at the border

yeah Morocco is one of those places that comes up a lot in these situations. the rules there are genuinely unclear even if you try to research ahead of time, ive seen people say they had no issues and others say they had it taken. think it comes down to the individual officer honestly which is the worst possible answer but there it is

i always research the destination country drone laws like a month before any trip now after a similar thing happend to me in Thailand a few years back. there are a couple sites that try to track this stuff country by country, DroneTraveller is one i check but even those can be out of date. the safest thing ive found is just looking for the actual civil aviation authority website for wherever youre going, takes longer but at least its from the source. glad you got through ok though, that sounds stressful