DJI FPV Drone In-Depth Review: 23 Things To Know

Hey folks, it's Ray with DCRAINMAKER.com here and  I've got 23 things to know about the new DJI FPV   drone. Now this video is not sponsored by DJI or  anyone else - I'm going to tell you the good, the   bad, and the ugly about the new DJI FPV system. You  can go ahead and use the YouTube chapters option   on the bottom near the video to skip around the  chapters and chunks that you want to know more   about. Now before we get into all those new things  a very short 10 second primer on the difference   between an FPV drone and a regular drone. Now FPV  stands for First Person View, which means that   you're controlling the aircraft where the goggles  there as opposed to a screen on your controller.   Beyond that, the differences mostly have to do with  the aircraft itself, and it really comes down to   maneuverability and agility. An FPV drone tends to  be way more maneuverable it can go upside down and   usually turn much faster and sharper and do all  sorts of more interesting aerobatic type maneuvers   than a regular drone can. Inversely though, it's  also much harder to fly typically kind of like   learning a different language. Now historically  you're probably thinking of FPV drones more like   the racing realm but that's really not what DJI  is going for this one is way too heavy for that   sort of thing. Instead of targeting more of the  cinematic FPV market which is what's pretty much   like proliferated YouTube over the last year  or two and it's really what I'm gonna focus the   majority of this review on as opposed to sort of  the acrobatic flying now the kit comes with three   core parts you've got the drone itself you've  got the goggles and then you have the controller   the motion controller is not part of the stock kit  that's extra within the kit though you do have the   drone battery there as well as the goggle battery  and that's the first item under new things list   is probably the craziest one that you're going to  see when you witness in real life which is the new   emergency brake and hover option what this means  that you're flying along at full speed and you can   one tap a button on the controller to go and stop  the drone virtually instantly within like a couple   meters here look at this video right here i'm  going 100 kilometers an hour and i hit that button   and it stops in just a handful meters not very  far at all and it hovers there by itself now the   real goal for this feature is actually going to go  ahead and just simply get yourself out of a sticky   situation so you can see here i put the aircraft  into a bit of a spin i just simply tap that button   and boom it's leveled back out again and anytime  you use that emergency brake it puts it back in   the normal mode and not the manual fpv mode and  we'll talk about that in just a second the idea   here being that you can take a breather mentally  reset without having to pick up all the pieces   of the aircraft on the ground and that sort of  feature is pretty important when you consider the   top speeds of the fpv system so the very top speed  is 140 kilometers an hour or 87 miles per hour   in full manual mode then from there you drop down  to sport mode with a wii 97 kilometers an hour or   60 miles per hour and then below that there is  normal mode which is 50 kilometers an hour or   31 miles per hour within that it can accelerate  to 100 kilometers an hour in two seconds flat oh   hey in a quick note if you find this video useful  or interesting simply whack that like button the   bottom there it really helps out this video in the  channel quite a bit now as i just mentioned there   are three modes to this drone you've got your  normal mode which is similar to what you have   on a dji mavic air 2 or something like that you've  got your sport mode which is also most of the dji   drones it increases the speed it allows more angle  odds from the churns and then you have manual mode   in manual mode on the fpv system is the full fpv  mode you can toggle between these three modes   using the little switch on the back right there  very simple however out of the box the manual mode   is actually not enabled so even when you go into  manual mode like this it won't actually enable it   instead you have to go into the goggles into the  menu system and enable it there but even more than   that every time you toggle the manual mode on the  controller you have to do this little controller   quiz if you will to go ahead and confirm that you  actually mean to be in manual mode it's a bit of   a safety check against accidentally hitting  that button and instantly crashing your drone   however within the manual mode there are  actually two fpv modes the first mode is   the default which is the attitude mode enabled  which means you can't flip over your drone so   it's like a protection scheme again to keep you  from killing your drone in the very first flight   you can then disable that and that allows  you to invert your drone and do flips and   rolls and whatever else you want no matter which  mode you have though you always have auto land   and auto take off which means you can go ahead  and use the automatic buttons on the controller   itself to get the aircraft up into the air as well  as to land the aircraft in fpv drones landing an   aircraft can often be the most complicated thing  so this is just another step dji has taken to keep   you from killing a drone on the very first flight  and as part of auto land is return to home or rth   and that'll fly the drone back to the same exact  point it took off at keep in mind though that   while it has obstacle avoidance sensors it will  not avoid obstacles in the rth mode but you can   go hit the stop button anytime you want if you're  watching the goggles and it's about to hit a tree   or whatever the case may be the next new feature  is cruise control and this is something that just   recently introduced to the mavic air 2 and it's  pretty sweet for fpv in particular what it allows   you to do is as you're flying along you can go and  hit this button to start and stop and it maintains   that exact speed the entire time no matter  what else you're doing from a flying standpoint   i found this super useful when i'm trying to  repeat the same maneuver over and over again   especially high speed passes where i really want  to maintain that high speed and focus purely on   flying the aircraft as opposed to dealing with the  throttle side of things so you can see that here   in this passage under the bridge there while  it controls things at 100 kilometers an hour   underneath this bridge and i can just focus on  flying so sometimes i probably should have focused   just a wee bit more because this one attempt right  here i actually clipped the bridge listen to this   the kickers i didn't even notice it equipped  the bridge until later on where i looked at the   footage and heard the ting in the audio recordings  from both the drone as well as the fpv goggles   okay so let's talk about some of that camera jazz  right now so 4k at up to 60 frames per second or   1080p at up to 120 frames per second you can  control this from within the goggles you can   also go ahead and set either h264 or h265 as well  as having a decent-like mode too for going ahead   and doing the color correction afterwards now  it's worthy to note this camera and the gimbal   are designed to be flown at speed so if you're  flying level just hovering there you'll see the   props in the camera view once you tilt forward and  give it some speed then the props drop out of you   on the photo side though it's just jpeg photos  and only 8 megapixel photos it's just using the   same 4k image crop the real key though is the  stabilization aspects of it so this one here   has a single access gimbal compared to most of the  dji drones that have three access cables this only   goes up and down you can see that it's like this  there instead what they use is dji's osmo action   stabilization so this is their action camera right  here they basically stuff this inside of that   now in the drone they call it eis or electronic  image stabilization versus on the action camera   they call it rocksteady same concept though you  can turn this on and off if you want to here is   a quick side by side showing on and off in case  you did want to turn it off and stabilize outside   of the drone itself later on still i found the  stabilization very very good here one minor note   though is that the feed that's sent to your  goggles that's recorded on your goggles on   the sd card there is not image stabilized so they  just send that across at low latency as opposed   to applying any image stabilization to it the  next little feature i'm loving is auto record on   takeoff this is really simple the second aircraft  goes in the air starts recording and the second   it lands and stops recording you can choose  to record just the drone footage or the drone   and the goggles sd card as well as a backup which  is what i choose by default but this is the first   time we've seen it on a dji drone despite being  out in the market on other companies drones for   quite a while now the next thing to note is the  sensors so in the fpv drone there are two forward   sensors and then there are two downwards facing  imaging sensors plus two depth of field sensors   however these sensors will not stop the aircraft  from running into something instead they give   you warnings so as you're flying along the  goggles you'll first see a yellow warning   when you're approaching something and then a red  warning when it thinks something is dangerous   however i found that the system is pretty wimpy  like it's it's way wimpier than i am which   is saying something because i'm a little bit wimpy  when it comes to this kind of stuff uh and so it   was i pretty much had to ignore it most the time  and what's a little bit more disappointing about   the obstacle avoidance here is that there is no  option to toggle to simply stop when you get to   red like there is on the rest of dji's product  suite and if their goal is to be able to bridge   those two worlds of fpv and non-fpv for beginners  this would seem like something that would be   logical to at least have as an option to enable  to again keep you from killing a really expensive   drone speaking of things that are not on this  drone it's any of dji's intelligent flight modes   or any special modes whatsoever there is nothing  like active track or hyperlapse or waypoints or   tripod or anything like that anything that tracks  things or follows things or just automated moves   orbiting around something doesn't exist  here at all so if you value those things   you're still going to need to take another  drone with you or just fly manual and i think   that's a bit of a lost opportunity because  those are some of the dji's strongest assets   and hopefully we'll see them incorporated into  this drone or maybe a future drone down the road   so that if people are traveling they can go and  take just one drone as opposed to up and take   two drones because i think a lot of people still  find value in all those things from tracking to   automated shots and whatnot they may want to  get to fill in the rest of their entire sequence   now despite not having special modes it does have  dji's air sense this is something introduced a   year or two ago and it allows you to go ahead and  see air traffic around you like real world planes   around you so as a plane approaches you'll see on  the goggles a warning first that there's a plane   in the general of cindy i think it's a couple  kilometers out and then once it gets really   close to you uh it'll go ahead and give you a red  warning as well that that aircraft is even closer   now keep in mind though this is only the  lateral distance and not the vertical distance   so even when i was sitting there uh thousands of  feet below aircraft that were passing way above me   uh you know more than a dozen miles from the  airport it was triggering those aircraft next   let's briefly talk about the goggles this is the  dji fpv version 2 goggles these came out a couple   months ago so by themselves they aren't very new  they have two latency levels within them the first   is 120 frames per second at 28 milliseconds and  they have a lower latency higher quality option   at 60 frames per second at 40 milliseconds uh in  my testing and all of my scenarios i never lost   connectivity now i wasn't trying to fly like five  kilometers away because that's against the rules   here of course every environment will be different  depending on what's going on out there so i   wouldn't necessarily convert my area to your area  you're just gonna have to kind of see for yourself   uh the transmission system between all this stuff  is using ocusync 3.0 which is the first time dji's   used that platform in their drones they've  also renamed it now to o3 because it sounds   cooler i don't know why they just did so it's  called o3 it's got stronger anti-interference   tech it's got more antennas inside of it and it's  reduced to latency now if you do lose connection   it's not a huge deal there's three options you  can do a return to home a hover or a land by   default it'll go ahead and hover and it'll also  hover into normal mode and not manual mode also   notable that if you hit your safety limits that  you've defined for example for distance and   altitude it'll toggle into normal mode so taking  you out of manual or sport mode on the flip side   this is the new dji fpv remote here it's quite  different than the original fpv remote obviously   it's much much smaller uh you've got an entire  antenna bar up here like this t-bar if you will at   the top but what you won't notice is any sort of  phone holder on this which will sound obvious to   fpv people but not so obvious to non-fpv people  you've solely used the goggles to control the   drone that's it i think that's also a bit of a  lost opportunity though because there are many   scenarios where for legal reasons you may not have  a spotter nearby and just need to get some quick   shots and you don't necessarily need the goggles  to be able to put a phone on this and just use it   in a conventional setting would make a lot more  sense you will be able to connect a phone to this   uh using the app but then you don't have like  a place to put it so you're it's a little bit   awkward on the flip side literally by the way you  can open up these flaps right here and adjust the   controller sensitivity uh the idea being that  you can go ahead and remove the tension so it   acts like a normal fpv controller next we got the  new motion controller that's this little joystick   looking thing right here uh it costs an extra  200 bucks that's not included in the kit itself   and the idea is that you use the motion as the  name applies to control the drone so you can see   me rotating left and right right there uh and if  i tilt it up and down it tilts it up and down and   as i press this throttle button the bottom there  it goes then it controls the drone's throttle and   sends me flying forward now in my testing i was  pleasantly surprised i expected this to be like   giant dumpster fire and it wasn't and  i keep in mind i come from the realm   of like a decade's worth of drone flying some  real world flying all that kind of stuff so   and i expect this to be like a toy and it  wasn't bad at least in normal mode i have not   been able to try sport mode or manual mode because  they're not enabling the firmware up until today   hopefully by time this video launches it'll be  enabled but it's not yet there today and that to   me is probably the biggest opportunity here is  to be able to use this to control the drone as   opposed to the joysticks for people that may not  have familiarity with typical fpv joystick control   next a quickie the goggles do have audience mode  just like the previous goggles do this allows you   to have multiple people with goggles link up to  this goggle to see what you're seeing you can   also then pipe it out from the goggles to a phone  as well if you want to go ahead and just see it   on the phone or tablet or something like that in  addition like before you can record osd data as   well which is what you're seeing right now on the  screen so you can look at speed and latency all   that kind of stuff later on if you want to the  one thing there isn't at least as of this very   moment i'm filming the video is the ability to  go ahead and record the entire screen including   the menu overlays and stuff i'd really appreciate  that i think other people find it valuable as well   for teaching on youtube how to fly fpv but i see  everything on the screen exactly what i'm seeing   from a goggle perspective next dj has released a  new simulator that allows you to fly this aircraft   virtually before you go and crash it and kill it  outside the idea being that you can even buy the   goggles if you wanted to and the controller ahead  of time practice a bunch dozens of hours and then   go outside and fly it without hopefully killing  on your first flight next a quickie here which   is swappable canopy covers this goes and swaps  out the clear one right there giving it this   beautiful chroma key green color i guess look  it's easy to see from far away but something   like this is obviously cheap plastic which is fine  it does mean though that probably see tons of cool   third-party options out on the interwebs once  they get a hold of this mold to do something   super creative on your drone itself so that brings  us to swapping aparts and fixability and that's   probably the core concern of most people here is  how fixable is this drone and dji says the answer   is yeah mostly fixable now toss on the screen  right now in incomplete parts and price list   there are some parts that will be coming but are  not yet available pricing wise an example being   the motors but so you can see on the list there  are things like the arms bars and the gimbal and   the shell and all that kind of stuff is available  albeit dji type prices now in line with fixability   is finding your drone when you crash it and dji's  got kind of a two-parter here uh as part of quote   find my drone within the goggles itself you can  go into find my drone and it'll replay the last   30 seconds of footage and you can pause and play  as many times as you want to go ahead and find the   exact moment that it crashed and where it crashed  which is useful and then if you have your phone   linked up to the goggles you can see an exact map  of the last known point of location itself next we   have battery life now the specs here on the screen  right there and i'd say that i'm seeing a little   bit less than that and that's probably because  it's winter here because i'm flying a heck of a   lot faster they're claiming 40 kilometers an hour  i'm doing like 60 to 100 kilometers an hour most   of the time so i'm seeing like 12-ish minutes  give or take i'm depleting the battery down to   eight percent on the goggle battery i'm also  seeing it lower than spec as well i'm seeing   like six to eight flights worth uh versus 110  minutes so they're saying which would be more   than that at their 20-minute specs so point being  that it's a little lower but it's also winter here   so it's probably impacting things as well there  and then for the controller inspect at nine hours   which is like way more than i'd ever really need  now for the last item before we get to my final   thoughts i'd be remiss if i did not discuss the  startups down because it's just special here let   me just go ahead and turn this on there there  we go one two three and give it a quick listen that is a sound of death that's the same sound  your drone will make when it hits a concrete   pillar at 140 kilometers an hour roughly so i  appreciate that they remind you that every single   time you start up your drone now bigger question  here though is whether or not it's worth buying   this or another drone and frankly that's going  to depend 100 of what you plan to do with it   if you're coming from the traditional  fpv world you'll probably look at this   with two thoughts damn and damn that price  and those are both 100 true and i think if   you have no fpv experience this is probably a  complete overkill poor choice to start off with   and the reason is simple you're gonna probably  kill it really quickly and it's gonna cost you   a lot of money you should start off with  small toy fpv drones and work your way up   uh things that cost you a couple hundred bucks at  most and then once you've got all that figured out   then jump over to this which still has a ton of  safety features to keep you from ideally killing   it as long as you understand the baseline stuff if  you're coming from the rest of the dji world where   you have all these advanced flight modes and stuff  like that again none of that's here so you've got   to kind of keep those compromises in mind as you  jump over this now if you're experiencing fpv and   doing a lot of cinematic fpv then you're probably  going to find a ton of value in a stabilization   in some of those aspects here including the  battery life that you wouldn't necessarily   find in a normal fpv drone out there undoubtedly  though this is dji's first fpv product and while   it's an impressive lot of things i suspect if we  fast forward even six months or a year from now   the firmware will look dramatically different  and if we fast for another year or two from now   the actual hardware and what they do with it and  all the capabilities will also look dramatically   different but it's super cool to see what  they've done capability wise with the first   gen product with that hopefully found this video  interesting if so whack that like button bottom   there or hit subscribe for plenty more sports  technology goodness with that have a good one you

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Length: 16min 56sec (1016 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 02 2021