Autel EVO 2 Flight Test Review IN-DEPTH - How good is it...REALLY!?

hey guys thanks for tuning in check it out it's the autel evo we are going to be setting this up today now if you missed the um unboxing go ahead and check it out on my channel i'll have it up there on the right hand side up there uh and also down in the description as well as where you can get the autel evo 2. so this is going to be a full in-depth uh review flight review now this is the ruggedized case if you guys missed that unboxing go ahead and check everything that comes with it i got this version because it has um the case of course and it came with an extra battery for just like another hundred dollars so anyway i'm going to be recording my phone we're gonna record the 4k in there and also the 4k on the hat cam so you can see everything there is to know really about this thing and how it flies initially so anyway let's get started with the autel evo 2 flight test okay so this is going to be kind of a setup and flight in real time i just want to show you guys how long it takes to set up now remember guys the evo 2 is competing directly with like the mavic 2 line mavic pro 2 possibly even the skydio too because this one has all those cameras on it for obstacle avoidance and tracking right so this one is just the 8k version let's go ahead and take this gimbal cover off there we go they also have that pro version with the 6k more professional camera with a larger sensor and they also have that like infrared version um the thermal version that you can get you can swap out the camera if you wanted to get those extra cameras but we're going to start with this one see how this one flies and everything so first things first let's go ahead and just undo the legs so this one you want to do the front first then the rear here beautiful day by the way it's only about i want to say a couple miles per hour coming from this direction so i'm just going to grab one of these these are two fully charged batteries so if we run out of time for the first battery and we didn't finish all the functions we'll go ahead and throw in that second battery and make sure we go through everything there's cameras all around this thing so just want to make sure they're kind of clean that one's already clean on the front we're gonna set this guy down and let's boot it up getting out the controller here get the antennas up this is kind of like those mavic controllers where it's mini and then it has the handles that come out although you're mounting your phone right here i have mounted my ipad large ipad on here and you just need to get like one of those 3d printed extenders anyway so my phone is in android this is the android 6t phone and this one uses that usbc type connection so i'm getting the usbc type of cable out of the case and then all we do is we plug it in to the bottom here and that was one of the things that was a little bit disappointing to me in the unboxing was this seems like exactly the same controller as the autel evo one i didn't see any difference whatsoever as far as uh the form and function of it okay so i think that's all we need from this um rugged box here so even though these uh propellers will self-expand i always like to just go ahead and undo the propellers just to make it a little easier for the motors simple little spring bracket there put your phone in now this controller is kind of cool because you can uh move the antennas all the way down so for this flight i'm gonna move them all the way down like that see how it doesn't really interfere with the phone and stuff we'll turn on the controller so i'm just gonna press and hold you don't have to press press and hold with this one just press it till you hear a beep the screen starts booting up and then we'll power up the drone so we're looking over at the back of the battery here just pressing and holding oh you see the lights and i'm just gonna cruise over here in the front and let's just watch what the camera does here see how it's going back and forth up and down just starting up its camera and gimbal and that's it i felt some vibration on the controller so the controller just connected and now we can connect up our phone i'm going to record my phone i'm also going to turn off my wi-fi and all that stuff i'm also going to put the do not disturb on my phone too so we don't get all these messages and stuff then all we do is we just plug in of course to this connection on the bottom of the phone i'll have this recording on the phone as you can see it just auto launched the app and it already has an update wow so there's already a new firmware update um i'm gonna go ahead and do that guys because there we go so i did the update initially when i got this a couple weeks ago here's all gps coordinate bug okay so you can see all these things that's the reason you want to update is because it also has some bug fixes so i'm going to go ahead and do this i mean i do have two batteries so you know i want this thing to be as good as it can be for this initial flight test so if you do want to see how this thing updates go ahead and watch that unboxing video i go through all of this in that video i'll have it linked up here also in the description i'm just gonna let this thing do its update and i'll get back with you and we'll be ready to fly it took exactly 20 minutes guys let's just go through a compass calibration as you can see in the menu and the flight control uh let's just do start calibration okay so here's what it says to do i'm going to set the controller down a little bit away from it so i can kind of see the screen we're going to pick this guy up and we're going to rotate it counterclockwise in a level plane like it's saying and then we want to lift it so the camera's up to the sky and do another counter-clockwise rotation i'm looking at the screen and i'm holding the craft and there we go compass success restarted one more time since we did that compass cal and that's something you're going to want to do is just make sure you run all through all those things go in the camera recording the screen again and let's get started pull the sticks down and in yeah so see how that starts the propellers up let's just really quickly go ahead and see if they um turn off automatically i always like to just test this see if they turn off if you decide not to launch something happens power dies on your controller who knows what i usually like them to turn off like within 10 seconds this one looks like they're just gonna keep going so we'll just take off not gonna auto shut off so recording again in that 4k and this is where you can press this um take off button so let's just press and hold and take off on the controller is showing there it goes it's gonna launch that was a really nice and slow launch pretty solid looks like it's only launching to what's our height four feet see on the top of the screen there recording my phone screen only launching the four feet so i'm going to pick it up a little bit and listen to this guy it's really quiet wow this is a really um low toned quiet drone guys it is heavy remember but look listen how quiet that is let's go a little bit over here now you can see the sensors i have the sensor stayed on the screen on the controller getting a little bit of jittery this one's kind of interesting you see that fpv how it's jittery watch as we fly with this one it got better when i was doing my unboxing in the house as kind of time went on but hey guys anyway thanks for tuning in i really appreciate you guys watching my videos we're going to do a super in-depth one here so stay tuned it's going to be long but it's also going to be very very in-depth so let's do a walk around so we can see how the drone looks just hovering there how solid it is i'm loving how quiet it is it's just this really low air tone not this loud buzzing sound i'm loving that so we'll just walk around to see how it holds this position remember it's only a couple miles per hour variable winds right now it's doing phenomenally well sensors are watching the ground and all that stuff so it's just doing excellent so remember we're just in standard flight mode let's just see what happens how fast it kind of turns [Music] so i'm gonna just kind of turn it slowly yeah that fpv is definitely a lot to be desired there do you see that how it's really choppy in my phone now the video on the drone should be nice and smooth here's full stick to the left that's how fast it's turning there see it on the hat cam so that's our yaw rate let's do a punch up so you guys can see this view real quick punching up and see how fast it gets going 10 miles per hour i'm looking at the phone screen on the top right about 11 going up now check that video out guys look at that up there so i'm on uh the island of maui here i live in hawaii and this is a view from kula just looking phenomenal this is just a beautiful day today fantastic day so i'm kind of tilting the gimbal up and down so it went about 11 miles per hour going up let's just see how it is coming down so full stick down see how fast it goes down about seven miles per hour six and a half seven and looking at that video stability remember i'll have that 4k up on the screen so you guys can see that and let's just do a throttle off right now it seemed to want to slow down right about 10 feet and then i just let off and you could see how quick that just stopped and it's just holding itself so as far as the um you know locked in feeling and everything this thing is just phenomenal and that's kind of how the original evo was so in this mode let's just fly around we're gonna do some fast flying and see if it drops altitude make sure the park's kind of clear here let's do full speed forward oh that was weird okay yeah it saw me did you see that so we'll we'll do an obstacle avoidance test after we do this but first what we'll do is we'll just do some quick flying that's full stick forward it looks like it's maybe seeing the ground and trying to go slow because this is full stick four guys and we're only going three four miles per hour you see that so this is definitely not ludicrous mode let's do a turn here and let's come back at us that's the maximum i can go at three and a half feet up wow let's see if i stand in the way look at that i am still pushing full stick forward on the stick and it just decided to stop so great sensors are working let's turn it sideways and let me try to uh ram into me sideways so we'll go back a little bit again and then we'll get right in its way and we'll come to the side right into me see what it does seem to want to kind of go forward there but it did stop i'm pushing full to the right and the drone just will not come any closer let's see if i walk towards it it's not gonna go away okay let's try reversing into the uh person or pilot whatever you want to call it so i'm gonna get it right out there in front of me and full stick back it almost wants to try to go around me it kind of like moved to the right a little but then it's just fully stopped i'm just holding the stick all the way back so that's great you have that full obstacle avoidance let's see if i put my hand above it what happens with my hands directly above it oh that's going to go into my hand i don't want to do that that wasn't very smart so we'll try some more stuff when we track with that later let's pick it up guys um because this is kind of going slow let me see if i can go faster in this mode i'm going to go straight out this way towards the ocean full speed forward there we go now we're getting some speed okay now we're going 20. that's as fast as it wants to go okay all the while check out that camera let's do a turn boy that fpv is just staying choppy okay so definitely a negative in my mind is this choppy fpv here i don't know what's going on with it but i'll have my screen up on my phone guys and well it just stopped right there on its own i guess it maybe it saw that tree that was weird saw the tree from way out there come on back down okay so that's what we can expect i'm pulling down oh it stopped and it was gonna try to land so it's kind of like the mavic where if you if you hold down it'll eventually try to land but once it gets kind of close to the ground watch it'll just stop pulling down holding down it's kind of stopping right there and you see my thumb on the controller it's not going down unless i try to land it and hold down if you watch this then it will start to land but i don't want to land so i'm going to push up so it has that great landing cancel so remember if you're close to the ground it's only going to go pretty slow all those sensors are keeping it from getting anywhere near near the ground or any objects flying into myself again and it's just stopping right there awesome so let's see what our power is like uh we got 12 volts 82 percent so let's keep going you can see how you can press that bar on the top and if you look at my phone screen how it drops down and you can see all your satellites and all of your information there we want to go into maybe ludicrous mode you can see here i went into the options we got standard it's at 22. if we click on standard again we can choose these right 11 or 22. i'm going to go into ludicrous okay so just like sport mode on dji stuff guys the visual is turning off so let's get out of here and here we go so we aren't limited now wow yeah this is gonna be quick make sure nobody's in the park here so it's seeing the ground though i can tell on the bottom sensors but watch as we go forward this slow now this is remember we're about four three and a half feet full stick forward yeah it doesn't care what's in front of it now look at that looking at the video guys full stick forward watch this thing will not avoid me see that it's like no well i would have hit that fence if i didn't push it up a little bit that's in reverse let's see how fast it goes in ludicrous straight into the countryside there ready set full stick forward go looking at our miles per hour up on the top right really looking at the camera we're getting up to looks like 32 33 okay and that's it let's go turn around still looking at that choppy fpv gosh i really hope the 4k video is much better because that choppy fpv is very um very choppy and that's a lot to be desired there okay going back around towards me i'm at this park above straight overhead there we are okay so ludacris can go about 32 to 34. full stick forward i'm getting some wind now from this direction probably about five okay and let's just test these punch-up speeds in ludicrous real quick get it back over towards us here we go so full stick up let's just rotate that gimbal all the way down i'm pressing this left roller to the left i do want to just see how it looks even though this fpv screen is so choppy gosh what's up with that full throttle up seemed like it was going slow for a second going about 11 that's about the same right guys remember that as the gps mode so about 11 and let's see how it is coming down full stick down six and a half yeah so same up and down speed it's just a faster lateral speed i'm gonna rotate this camera back up as we're coming down go ahead and keep an eye on that 4k guys i'll have it popping in and out so you can see you know how stable it is i am on the side of a mountain so that's not the gimbal that's the side of the mountain is sloping down gimbal's not crooked okay here let me turn it into this fence this fence should be perfectly level so you can see how the gimbal is level on that fence there so remember ludacris turned all the sensors off and if we press on ludicrous again oh there it is okay you see that mileage below ludacris i can actually go up to 45 miles per hour let's try that should have done that initially so i don't have any sensors remember in this mode so we want to go up full stick forward let's see how fast it gets going now here we go still only going 32. okay i'm not sure why it's not going the 45 they claim it can i'll turn and come back seems like see look at that the fpv got a little bit smoother now that's what's weird about this one is it's just now it's smoother now we're going 45 see that on the top right with the wind we're moving now let off it's right above me i'm going to bring it down let's see if this 45 mile per hour okay now we're coming down faster at like eight sees the ground coming down a little slower whew that ludicrous is funky it's crazy fast okay before we do these advanced functions i just want to do one more ludicrous uh flyby here see how stable it is and how it stops so here's going [Music] right over the ground we're gonna let off turn we're gonna come straight at us do a flyby wow yeah that's fast it's like you gotta have a lot of room to stop i let off right when i was at my face and it didn't stop all the way to that fence like 50 feet away so need a lot of room guys if you're gonna go fast with this thing so let's go back into standard mode we'll just leave it in the 22 mile per hour so we have all our sensors on get back out of there and let's try to do some of these uh advanced tracking functions okay guys so what we want to do is come on up here we were in manual flight you see over there uh on this left top of the screen let's do a dynamic track okay so we're gonna have to press continue and it will cancel the recording when it goes in i guess the camera will keep the target in camera frame finish all right so let's try this of course i'm the only one here and i'm gonna have to track myself okay cool we got a little reticle on me already kinda like what other drones i had to say it but they're very similar i just pressed right on me there and you saw how it stopped recording automatically on the right it's not recording anymore but it had a countdown and now it's tracking so i'm gonna have to remember start recording again see that so don't forget to start recording now let's just do our track so this is kind of a close-up track and you remember it it's remembering the distance it was from me and it's height so it's just going to lock in there unless you do something else let's try to walk at it of course we want to test all this stuff walking towards it jogging towards it wow really good and let's see if we can put it where we want to put it with the controller i want it to go over there we go yeah so i'm holding full stick right it's doing a slow orbit what if i wanted to coming back go up still tracking me good i want to do an orbit so i'm holding full stick right i want it to orbit while it's kind of tracking me and i'm walking so this is another one of course where you're going to have that infinity tracking ability and this is just kind of a manual orbit but you can do this like say you're piloting and you're trying to track an object or a person riding a bike there you go let's see if i let go and just walk right under it i just kind of let go and it started to move on its own a little more cool so it's a little bit overcast but this is how it's dealing with uh just being overcast at this moment in time it's doing pretty good man cool so what do we do uh we can stop it you know what let's see how low and stuff we can go i like always like to just push those limits say you want to get some super low shots aircraft has reached the minimum tracking altitude okay remember the mavic air 2 i was able to bring it down like just a couple feet off the ground this one needs to be five feet up see it's giving me that warning to the left and it won't go any lower than that for safety precaution that's because that's just over it seems like people's head that's definitely higher than four five feet because i'm six and it's above my head so a little bit strange on the sensors there i guess anyway um let's see how close we can get minimum tracking distance all right i just it stopped i let go and now it's doing its own thing by going back and forth so let's see how it is at the maximum close and lowest distance it can possibly be and if it can track something and if it loses it just at least me just jogging let's see what it does i like to just kind of do these little weird tests just so you guys can see what's up juke to the right wow not bad for being that close to me right back at it right under it so there you go it'll lose you i always like to do that just to test it but totally lost me and it went out of its tracking so remember if you want a fast speed tracking drone get that skydio2 because that has the beacon and it will not lose track of you if it if it can't see you anymore the beacon it flat the drone flies up it goes to the beacon's coordinates and it retracts you cool whoops i just pressed this bottom right a button you want to be careful with those buttons so it went on a dynamic track but it's still in the mode to track something so remember guys you can do that let's try a tripod track sorry if i'm out of breath looks like this one will not move it'll just move its head recording again don't forget to record press the subject three two one getting ready to track tracking let's see what it does guys i think it's just gonna be stationary it's not gonna come towards me or move around it's just gonna track with its head okay let's see how low we can go with this one same thing we have a minimum altitude okay so for some reason you want to say you're in the middle of a who knows what a frisbee match and you have a cordoned off area for the drone you could use this as a tripod just make sure nobody ran into it and it would just track but it would just stay there so that's kind of cool let's walk right under it i'll lift it up a little bit a little bit give it the benefit of the doubt so let's see oh great so i can position it wherever i want with this controller but i cannot turn the head you see this with my left and right thumb stick going left and right my left thumb stick so let's try to go right under it and just see how good it is at tracking an object if it'll spin this is something that a lot of them have trouble with i'm just going to walk at a normal pace no you can see it turned around but it still lost me so same kind of problems these drones have you know of course if it's in moving tracking it's not going to do that said fail on the bottom over there and now the the gimbal is totally downwards so i got to pull it up myself with this little roller let's do that one more time just give it the benefit of doubt still recording i got to see what how much power i have left i have no okay 11 minutes of flight time you see that if you don't want to press this and look at your percentage you know what that's my controller percent i think yeah so you want that middle time uh 11 minutes right there to know how long you can fly let's do another one really slow what's it gonna do real slow man it can't even retract okay that's it it fails at tripod going under let's stop that get back up and let's do some other modes we're burning flight time okay so that's what you can expect guys of course we're still kind of recording but we want to go through all these functions parallel track now this is a good one where it won't turn the head but it will just track you at a set distance and height and it will just keep going and following you sideways going to parallel track continue finish pressing on myself there you see how it stops recording so you really got to remember to start again and let's just try recording with this button on the controller yeah so you can do that too so you're following either yourself riding a bike or somebody else or doing anything let's walk this way you see what it does it just stays in this parallel motion and it should keep the distance if i turn away you see how it's coming at me and trying to maintain that distance back let's try to go forward towards it yeah see this is what drones are supposed to do in this parallel um i was having trouble with the mavic air 2 had issues with this it's supposed to back up and maintain its distance but the mavic air 2 is having trouble this one does it very well walk towards it it maintains its distance walking left and right it's doing really good at just tracking the subject so if you're trying to track sports or whatever somebody running a boat car whatever excellent so that's working really good we're gonna stop this go back into these intelligent photo functions let's try a viewpoint i have no idea what this is okay this is just kind of a um press where you want it to fly on the screen so if you look at my phone screen i'm just going to press to the left of me over there and you see how that's where it's going to fly to so let's just go start and it's defaulting at two miles per hour so there you go if you wanted to fly like that you could just i think dji calls this tap fly but this also does it so it's trying to triangulate where that is let's see if it stops it's going down now it's going back up uh looks like it's having a little bit of trouble determining where to stop there we go so it went up and down which is kind of strange okay you can always press pause on the screen if you're kind of panicking out and it's still going forward let's see what happens guys since this is remember it has these sensors on it let's see what happens if we fly right into this tree here sorry not much to look at but i'm just going to tap right on that tree and continue this one's still recording i didn't have to re-record remember looks like this one's fine so let's see what happens when it gets to that tree if we're using this tap fly all the sensors should be on so i'll have that 4k up it's a little far away from me so my hat cam's not really going to do it justice but let's just see if it hits this tree all right i have all the functions on wow it's going over the tree on its own look at this oh my gosh okay stop i don't want to get into the traffic you see how there's cars over there that's really cool that's kind of like an a pass guys so it won't really avoid obstacles and keep going forward if you're if you're controlling it with your sticks you see how it'll just stop because i'm behind it okay but watch this use case i'm gonna go right into myself and watch it go around me i'm a subject in the way of its path right staying here continue so this is the one let's see if it goes flies okay on the side of me see that guy he went around me and he went back on his track after he went around me so that works really well really happy with that so it looks like it just kind of wants to keep continuing on but i love how it just avoids obstacles that's fantastic okay so that was viewpoint we're going to cancel viewpoint mode let's do an orbit circle patterns around a center point we are getting low um so maybe we don't want to do this let's try just a return to home real quick so let's get out of this and we'll we'll do all the other stuff on the next battery all right let's just fly out here see what it does see if it tells us we need to return to home we're getting a low battery warning oh there we go so you see up on the screen it's saying aircraft will return to home i'm just still flying forward i'm still pushing forward there we go so it's turning automatically oops wasn't uh recording i'm gonna start recording again on that 4k just so you know what's up let's see where it's lan where it lands on its return to home like to just see where these things will try to land i'm going to try to stay far away from it critically low battery warning man give it let it give it to me to just always like push it to the last critical so hopefully it will still do its precision landing let's just see i'm not touching anything at all i'm just going to let it land and we'll see how close it is and then we'll pop in that next battery looks pretty good i'm just hoping that critically low battery isn't throwing off its precision wow very nice don't want to get too close to it and throw it off okay now if that is not a precision i don't know what is that is better than any recent drone i've really done honestly only about an inch off you see that i launched right in the middle of that hexagon and it's just barely touching the side on that side so excellent it stopped recording we don't have to worry about stopping recording and losing our file if we turn it off it just automatically stops when it lands cool guys so that was awesome we want to do some more functions we want to do the rest of these smart functions and then i'm going to have it follow me through the woods here and let's see if it hits any trees so pop in that new battery and let's do that and that'll be the end of it we'll do a pros and cons after that see how this thing all did okay guys new battery and we are ready to go again we're gonna do those finishing touches we're gonna go up take some pictures and then we're gonna track it through the woods as the last thing we do just in case it crashes you know we don't mess it up and can't do anything else remember not only do you have your phone screen here which i'm recording but you also have this other screen in here i'm not sure how easy it is for you guys to see it's very easy for me to see very bright and i hold totally forgot you got the percentage of your drone down here on the bottom left of this controller screen as well as the controller battery power so we used about 30 percent on all that we did with the updating and that first flight on the controller and this is the second battery which was remember the first battery i had in when i did that update and this is already down 93 so we used up about six to seven percent doing that update in the beginning remember this one also does uh mission planning so check it out you can do waypoint rectangular or polygonal this would be great for like mapping if you wanted to just map out a section so say i'm just going ahead and pushing on create project and see that there on the screen you can actually move this around see how i'm stretching it and you can do this whole project and snap pictures and all kinds of stuff if you ever wanted to do that guys and use this for mapping you see how i'm just grab grabbing the bottom right too and i'm expanding it or moving it around you can always do that so i'm just going to trash this and go back but you see how you can do that there you can also do polygon just want to show you this real fast um okay so i just basically pressed on the middle of the x and you see how you can stretch all this out so if you have a farming field or an area that you just want to do a project on you can do this and it does all this automatically you see that so up on the top right you see how we have our square footage it's going to take 128 pictures so you can do this for aerial mapping photography or aerial imagery so isn't that awesome i think that's really amazing that you can do this straight from the autel app dji and stuff you can't do it directly from their app on their consumer drones you have to get an aftermarket app or they're more high-end commercial drones so pretty cool i just wanted to show that to you we're not going to really go into that today here's the regular waypoint flight though if you wanted to do waypoint flight you can do this if i'm just clicking on it there you see how you have all this information here you can go you can have your altitude confirm you can plot all these points you see how i'm just plotting points and then each point if i click on that point you see how you can adjust this i'm clicking on the flight altitude the mile per hour so you can adjust each point however you want here's an action fly flyover hover payload action wow what's that there you go gimbal pitch at a certain point and it will take a photo remember the parrot does this too anafi and para bebop even the parrot disco do this kind of functioning so that is really great heading route manual custom so really cool features to have if you didn't already know you can do all this stuff waypoints and automatic picture taking etc with this drone not going to go into that today maybe we'll do another video on that just that but today is just all about the initial first flight this time let's just push up on the throttle there we go so you can also do that to take off just like other drones let it sit there just for a second we'll see how accurate it is with this manual push up take off compared to that um automatic takeoff we did last time when we did the return to home so let's get up here it's a little overcast where i'm at let's see if we can get out here to over these trees and take a few photos of this immaculate west maui view here just kind of want to get up out of um really kind of out of audio range a little bit from everybody and let's just take some of these photos so i am recording and you see me touching the screen so that's doing an exposure value adjustment on its own you see how it's kind of changing the exposure on the screen a bit so what we're going to do is we're going to stop recording up here i just pressed it that's taking a while to stop okay and now let's take some photos so just right here i'm just going to click this photo button on the right top of my controller okay that's taking it puts it in photo mode and it starts taking a photo okay i'm gonna tilt the camera down a bit so you guys get a feel for how this lighting is what a beautiful day wow oh yeah guys i totally forgot this thing does zoom remember when you have this menu up if i'm pressing it on the screen remember you can do all of these adjustments check it out there's digital zoom you see that so i just pushed on it and now what i can do is just with my right roller check this out i can adjust my gimbal i will have my um screen recording so you guys can see this up on my phone screen just make sure that's recording yeah but check this out with my right roller i'm zooming in now i think after four times it starts to go into like a digital zoom so you're going to lose resolution but let's see how far we can really zoom in guys to uh the west maui this is going to be malaya bay eight times so you see that seven to eight times so that's the maximum zoom we can do but check it out we can still move the gimbal around while we're zoomed in and even the drone you see that there are some windmills up on the ridge of that west maui mountain let's see if we move the head of the drone to the left yeah so you can still move the drone all around while you are zoomed in to eight times zoom let's zoom back out and so you get a feel for how far we zoomed in there look at that so that's another feature and you don't only have to be in picture mode we can go back into video we can be recording our video and we can go back into our digital zoom so now we're recording in video and say we want to get some zooming in while we're in video let's zoom into the kahalui area there we go using our right roller again and you can see it on the screen adjusting look at this so we can do all this let's see if we tap the screen yeah we can automatically do some exposure on the screen on the bottom of the screen i can move this reticle around and once you're on your function you just pull push the roller in and it clicks makes that sound and then i can go back into my zoom cool huh let's go back to our one percent zoom we're going to stop and we definitely want to have uh see we have 26 minutes left remaining let's go back in the photo guys so now i'm rolling the photo here so there's our sizes if i click in the right trigger you see our sizes so i like 16 by nine this is the maximum whoa yeah right there this one's kind of off the screen can't even see that one that we gotta drag it actually with our finger so i like the 16 by nine so let's try this i'm just pressing on that roller and let's try some photos like this so i'm just gonna be pressing the photo button on the right top of the controller i'll have these popping up on the screen as i'm getting them remember this gimbal you can also adjust it to go higher than level elevation if you wanted to in the settings i'm not going to do that right now but you can so if you want to get some pointed up shots there's uh west maui and then that's um molokai over there or is that lanai no that's lanai over there there's kaho olave over ulupala cool we'll get some pictures let's get a photo of haleakala you see how the mountain just goes way up and you see how those let's take a picture of this you see how those clouds are all washed out if i click in the clouds you see how it clicked in the crowd the clouds and everything got dark eventually it kind of auto exposes in the center say i wanted to brighten up the ground i can either tilt the camera down or i'm pressing on the ground another photo let's do a more of a downward shot like this now remember this is auto exposure and you can adjust all of your aperture your iso settings all that stuff guys this is a very in-depth adjustable camera let's get like a straight down shot see if these jacarandas i think they're pretty much done blooming yeah there's a new um playground area yeah the jacarandas are all done blooming so no more purple but i'm just taking some photos so you guys can see those when they pop up okay all right well enough of this let's get back to recording here's the map i wanted to show you guys this i totally forgot but this has that map that it pulls in with your data connection so if you wanted to like you're flying up at distance and you want to see we're going to use this on a range test which is coming up next see you got your map there press on the screen again and you can also close that little map there on the top left so lots of stuff you can do just like other drones let's bring this thing on back and come down this is full stick back and down keep an eye on that camera now let's look in should be pretty stable even though we're flying around a little crazy just turn to the left turn to the right yeah it stops really good i'm not seeing any like wavy in the picture you know you guys let me know sorry the sun kind of went away um but you know what we want to do guys we want to before we run out of too much power let's go into our flight modes here we never did an orbit um or gesture control so let's just try those real quick before we do this tracking in the woods so finish okay fly above center point all right i guess i'm just going to use myself as a center point again like i normally do so this is where you might want to tilt your camera all the way down and you can ex you can adjust the speed of your camera too guys in the settings your tilt speed that's too float slow for you so i want to get get myself right in there you can either press set on the screen there or i can press this button on the bottom of the remote i'm just going to press the remote wow and it just glitched out okay um something they want to work on there that was weird it just like reset the whole app so maybe don't do that let's try this again leave it to me to find problems okay let's try that again so i'm above myself good don't need to really touch the screen but i did let's set a okay adjust the radius so i'll tell you what we'll do guys is we'll adjust the radius low and far and let's see if it runs into a tree how's that sound remember how i like to test these things let's get the camera back up so it's 69 feet away we're having that choppy camera glitchy issue again which is kind of funny so it should know where i am because we already set it let's set a again and let's just start see if these sensors oh i gotta increase to 33 feet okay let's go up boy okay so you need to go to 33 feet another little con here and let's start let's see if the camera does anything on its own or if we're gonna have to move the camera yeah so we need to move the camera down you see that i'm pulling down on the camera to tilt it let's just let it do one revolution and see if it hits those trees over there um could we speed it up if we wanted to by pressing the right controller button you can see it's going five miles per hour i'm not going to speed it up yet can we pull it back yes we can i want to see if it's going to hit that tree over there see what it does is it going to get close to that yep wow it stopped i don't know if you guys can see that on my hat cam but it's seeing that tree with its side sensors and it's stopped and look at it it sees it on the left-hand side and the back you can see the sensors on the screen so that's great it's not going to avoid it like that remember that tap fly feature and fly around it but it just stops so that's cool and then i can press pause and at least it won't hit that remember we tried that with the mavic air 2 and it just hit the tree because the mavic air 2 doesn't have any side sensors remember so that was awesome we're still recording so that kept it recording gesture control let's just try this real quick so hands up to do gestures hands flat take photo or one hand so why hands flat one hand up let's just try that okay so it's kind of waiting for me to do something see how it's not doing anything so let me do both of my hands up um supposed to be gesture control right how about both of my hands flat i'm waiting for it but it's not doing anything i don't see it doing anything i don't see any lights beeping on it or anything so maybe something they can work on because i thought i was seeing all those functions correctly yeah so i'm either doing it wrong as usual or i thought i'm in the mode it's just not doing it maybe we have to go in maybe into photo mode pressing on the photo let's try that again nope not doing anything okay i'm having trouble with that mode sorry about that guys my bad if it's my bad if it's not working they need to precision flight what's this this is kind of like the tripod mode of flying in dji you see how it's just going super slow whoops we forgot to start recording let's get back into video and let's record again so if you wanted to get this really cinematic stuff and fly super slow in precision there you go just go into precision mode let's see what it does here slowing down sees my head yeah so this one's really good all right decided to fly over my head because it was high enough see how i can adjust all these in precision mode speed vertical speed rotation speed so you can really adjust and tune those in if you wanted to right in this precision flight mode okay let's go back into manual flight i'm gonna do a quick return to home i'm gonna change the camera battery and then we're gonna track it through the trees and that will be enough for the day okay so this time i'll fly out there and i'm going to hold in return to home there we go i just held in that home button on the controller let's get it to return to home see how precise it is change this thing in my hat cam and then we'll go track it in the trees i know this is a super long review as usual but you guys will see how good this thing is at tracking in the trees at least walk tracking going to also do um vehicle tracking too with my forerunner over there remember where we did the skydio2 review up on the mountain up there going through the woods we'll do that with this one just to see how good the sensors are tracking the vehicle going a little faster so coming on down i'm just going to get away from it so it doesn't in any way affect its return to home looks like it's really good at adjusting and seeing that landing pad it really does give dji a run for its money on its precision it seems because look at this not touching anything coming on down 14 minutes of flight time and same thing just right on the edge of this hexagon fantastic just an inch or two off okay that time check this out guys it did not shut off the video not sure why not remember i was saying last time oh no it did there goes it just takes a second okay we're gonna launch again and we're gonna track it through these trees no joke let's do it all right looks like we have 13 minutes of flight time and i'm going to track myself through the trees so let's get at a pretty decent distance here kind of where the skydio likes to track just to give it a little bit comparison you know 20 feet away or so let's go right into our dynamic track okay and of course it's gonna stop recording so i'm gonna have to start recording again clicking on myself tracking start reading that recording again can't forget that and let's just walk over here oh good the sun's coming out again that's great i was worried about that to have like a really low light um tracking so i'm just walking around here around this fence and we're going to go on these trees all the meanwhile this drone is going to be just following us and i want to see if it's just going to stop if it's going to try to go around stuff what it does so here we go coming through these low hanging trees what's it gonna do all right it's coming down wow really that's great watch out for that tree trunk that was cool hey man that um you know what i had trouble with that was the member of the mavic pro 2 had trouble going under trees and tree branches look at this thing what's it gonna do i'm going around this tree awesome decided to go out that way it's using all of its sensors remember this thing has like 360 degree sensors it got close to the ground that time i'm not doing anything guys i'm just holding my controller up just like this without touching anything let's go around this tree and see what it decides to do what's it gonna do what's it gonna do ooh lost track will it retract oh it wants to ah okay there's a limitation remember right there was a limitation let's see if it'll keep recording yes see how it deals with this is it going to come under this tree good big giant branch it came under all right i'm going to run up through these trees right here let's see what it does ready see what this thing does total skydio comparison even right through here what's it gonna do oh nice okay well i'm impressed i thought it might have hit some branches or something but it's using that complete tracking nice man so that's pretty cool the only thing is can we do an orbit orbit while we're doing this right again i'm not touching anything it's doing all this on its own it's adjusting its altitude i'm going down the hill now and it is bringing itself lower all right well cool let's try this i'm going to use my right thumb stick and try to start to do an orbit to that way to the right so i'm just holding my right stick no see okay there's a limitation you can't do that once i let off the stick now it's coming closer again okay good to know i'm gonna stop it right here and real quick stop let's try this um parallel track and see if it has the same functions of course it's going to stop its recording i want to get it parallel where i want it to be okay so i'm going to have it grow right here so it's kind of in these trees and whatnot right there so it has to go like through these trees and we're gonna start recording now let's see what it does okay see this tree let's see what it how it deals with this tree wow nice okay it's gonna go right into that tree trunk what's it gonna do it's going low okay it totally avoided that tree trunk trying to maintain parallel let's see what it does with this tree not bad at all guys okay now check this out i'm gonna go this way still in parallel mode run straight through these trees see what it does yeah it's trying dude whoa whoa what you gonna do man it almost hit those little branches but it didn't awesome it's trying it's trying wow this thing is really doing pretty good behind this tree okay sticks and trees and whatnot would run kind of toward it okay it resorted to going behind me now let's see if it tries to get back to the right it sure is wow it's really trying to maintain this parallel so you see what it did is since i turned to the right it knew what position it was away from me even though i'm going in a different direction so it tried to get back to that locked in compass heading that i was and it did it see how it still just spits in that position and it's just gonna follow me this is the parallel talk about unreal that was great so definitely it does give skydio a hard rub except for its ability to retract if it loses you and that's what the skydeal is going to be great with with that beacon for the end of this we'll go up recording and i'm just gonna fly uh either gimbal back up i'm just gonna fly that straight that way as far as i can until it tells us to return home so this is a little nope there it goes i was gonna say a little mini range test but already wants to come back because we're low on power okay third return to home is the charm so boy sorry i'm out of breath but that was just fantastic uh testing through those trees through the leaves we had some little low hanging just leaves and tiny little branches it was able to see all that i didn't hear one little propeller nick on any of that stuff so last test we'll do for the day is a third return to home checking the accuracy but exactly what is it doing i thought it was going to return the home it seemed to have stopped up there let's press return to home again where in the world is it oh boy don't fail me now drone why is it freaking stuck cancel pardon my french but for some reason it's just cruising right over there above the road that was really weird let's try that again i just canceled out of it it should be coming up to that park up there let's try to press return to home one more time low battery warning okay there we go back in return to home okay that was kind of strange guys you might wanna think about that um remember it was just i was letting it do its automatic return to home and it was coming back and i just decided to cruise over there next to the road down there which is really worrisome because i do have it set to return the home on loss of connection or low battery percentage okay this one's a little strange why is it so far away from the home point maybe that tracking threw it off look at this it's way the heck over there so note to self when you do tracking and avoidance you may throw this thing off a little bit i'm not sure why it wants to land right there that's where it wants to land i'm going to push up and did that just cancel yeah so it's critically low so fail on the last return to home even though we do have critical low battery we'll just get it over this uh landing pad and manually land it there yeah so we only have a minute and 40 seconds anyway guys i hope you enjoyed that really long review and test flight of the autel evo 2. that was super fun for me let me turn this stuff off and let's go through a pros and cons okay guys well there you have it that was the my initial pretty in-depth maiden flight test of vatel evo2 i hope you enjoyed that again this is going to be the pros and cons we did have uh two batteries of flight we did even that update that took about seven percent of our second battery we still were able to do a bunch of flying and test out most of the functions the only ones i didn't really test remember those waypoint functions i did show them on the screen showed you guys what you could do really cool how you can adjust the camera do your flight routes tell the camera when you want to take pictures and at what level so really cool in-app flight functions one of the things that really impressed me was its ability to track the only downfall with these image only tracking drones is when it does lose you it's not going to really be able to retract you something that maybe even dji does better is if it does lose you behind a tree those are able to retract you this one seemed like if it did lose you behind a tree even though it saw you it wouldn't automatically retract so that's definitely a negative there but you can see how since it does have all these sensors all the way around it it did exceptionally well at going through the trees avoiding even the most minuscule little branches and leaves didn't even nick or hit one of those so very impressed with that the orbit function was very good orbiting if it does come in contact with a tree it will stop that kind of tap fly function that other drones have really cool how you could just tap the fly through a tree it will see it remember we tried it over here it will see the tree and it will actually go around it and it will continue on its route so pretty darn cool man um i will have had the 4k 30 footage up remember this one does 8k i'm not even really going to be using that at this point but that 8k does allow you if you're in that mode and you're recording video or pictures what that's going to be great for is zooming in you saw how we tested that zoom in we could do it eight times zoom in i've had that up on the screen so you guys could see the resolution on that now keep in mind i'm not doing any post processing on this this is all just how it comes out in the recording on the sd cards i don't do any post press processing especially on my reviews if i do some you know cinematic footage i might add a little color here or there some saturation but i do not do anything uh post-processing on when i do my reviews we didn't do a range test yet but that's going to be the next couple of videos we are going to probably from this park or the one below we are going to do my infamous range test where we just take it out towards wailea as far as we can go and just see how far we can fly it how the connection is while i record the screen you guys can see that high resolution video as we just fly miles out and i would assume that this one is going to get further than the original evo the original evo was pretty neck and neck with the mavic 1. so i'd imagine this is going to be very similar and possibly neck and neck with the mavic 2 so we're going to definitely see that and see how far it gets in the next couple of videos so stay tuned guys remember all the products i reviewed down in the description down below and then the video series is also down there in this the whole series of videos and it will also be popped up here so anyway really hope you guys enjoyed that i know it was a long review but we went through a lot of stuff and i think if you're going to buy a product like this and spend this much money this is up in the same price ballpark as the mavic 2 drones you're going to want to see how this thing flies and every aspect of it before you drop that much money on a product like this and that's what i'm here to do that's what my channel does mainly is just give you no frills honest reviews on this kind of stuff that you're going to be paying a lot of money for and trying to have fun while we're doing it anyways thanks for watching and 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Length: 68min 44sec (4124 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 13 2020