DRONE TALK EP #12 - These are the Drones I'm excited for in 2021

but hey everyone welcome to my channel well in this episode of drone talk i'm going to tell you which drones i am looking forward to in the year 2021 but first let me show you this neat little book that i received recently so this is a book on the fpv hobby by christian mulika now before this book was published christian contacted me and told me about it and i was asking him are you in university are you doing a thesis or something because that seems pretty detailed i've never heard of anybody writing a book on the fpv hobby as in depth as he was but no he wrote this because he loves the fbv hobby and if you are a beginner or someone not even in the hobby this is the book for you it's going to tell you everything you need to know about the fpv hobby and if you're a pro someone who's been flying an awfully long time you're gonna love it even more because it's like a novel written just for you so i'm gonna put links below to where you can find this book it's only on a few sites right now but check it out i'm sure you'll love it and with that said let's get into episode number 12 of drone talk [Music] now the first drone i'm looking forward to in the year 2021 is by x dynamics yes i have a hat they sent me a hat a while ago and you'll see me wear it in a lot of videos so x-dynamics is a company that has made a drone proof of concept here this is the evolve one and i did a review on it and it's pretty darn sweet it's not for everybody but it's pretty darn sweet so now they're making the evolve too let me tell you about it all right the first thing pretty cool about the evolv 2 is that it's made out of carbon fiber well not the whole thing but just like the evolved one it's got a beautiful carbon fiber shell all on it and the evolv 2 is exactly the same it's very expensive to do that it takes a lot of technology and x dynamics has perfected it and they'll be the only guys on the market with a carbon fiber molded type frame next thing i'm stoked about is probably the biggest thing and the whole reason i can't wait to get my hands on and evolve too is that it has a micro four thirds camera sensor not only that it also has removable lenses i have a pile of lenses that will fit on it so i'm looking forward to trying some different things in photography and videography and the lenses i use are very similar to the ones on the inspire 2 so i just take the lenses from the inspire 2 and i can use them on the evolve at least i think i can but but even though i do own the dji inspire 2 and i do film with it now and then it has some limitations that cause me not to use it too much but the evolve 2 has overcome those limitations for instance on the evolve 2 it can record at 4k 120 frames per second i can't do that on the dji inspired too and it actually records that footage in apple pro res format and not only that it records it to a cfast 2.0 card that you can stick the card in the side of the drone just like you can on a professional camera and then when you get home you take your cfast card stick it in your cfast reader you'll have to buy one because i don't think it comes with one and then you can download the footage onto your computer and you better have a fast computer because it's going to be a lot of data but man you're finally getting into the real videography world but the best thing about the evolve 2 is pretty much a carryover from the evolved one and that is the controller so basically it comes with a dual screen controller you can see one here this is from the evolve one and up here you have a eight inch and down here you have a five point five inch and basically with both of them together they're both running they're both touch screen on the evolv one it was not touch screen for this one only this one but on the evolv two they're both touch screen and with that they're high res and super bright 1000 nits that you can see them outdoors that is a bonus anybody who says that's not a bonus is living in a fantasy world i fly the dji inspire 2 and it does not come with a screen i have to buy an aftermarket screen or i buy the dji crystal sky and if you ever put a crystal sky on the dji remote for the inspire 2 it's like oh my god i'm lifting weights whereas everything is in one on the evolv 2. so you can see why i'm pretty excited about the evolve too and did i mention it has over 30 minutes of flight time you know my inspire 2 has 15 minutes and did i also mention it has a range of like 11 kilometers if you put the aftermarket antennas on the back did i mention my dji inspire to can just get over a kilometer and finally did i mention it can go like 60 miles per hour at top speed so then you're asking who's the evolv 2 for then well i would say the evolv 2 fits between the dji phantom 4 and the dji inspired 2. it's not a replacement for the inspire 2 and it's not a replacement for the phantom 4. it fits in between so if you're somebody who owns either of those drones you might be interested like me in the evolves too because it's almost as if they took the phantom 4 and sent it to switzerland and had those technicians who make the swiss watches work on the phantom 4 and turn it into a high piece of technology and then send it back and that's basically what you get you get you get a phantom 4 that is now like super over engineered super technical best of everything yeah so i'm looking forward to it and it's coming out in the month of april or may i believe so watch for a review of it on this channel all right let's go on to my next hopeful drone for the year 2021 all right the next drone i'm looking forward to i have my little dji hat here what do you think it could be am i giving any hints away anyplace let me put on my little dji hat here there we go i'm a dji fanboy so what do i think about the new dji fpv drone coming out in the year 2021 well i am super excited about it and you know what i've been trying to rack my brain around what they're gonna call this drone at this time early february when i'm making this video i have no idea does anybody have any idea what you think they're gonna call this drone if you do just post it below so now if you live under a rock you probably have not heard of the dji fpv drone coming out dji is very popular in the fpv world because they came out with this beautiful digital system that uses these goggles back here you can see them over here with the red those are the dji fpv goggles so the fpv hobby is extremely popular and they made a digital goggle system that connects with a small digital camera on a drone that has the ability to send you a beautiful digital signal back with very low latency in your goggles everybody said when they came out with that why don't they just make a drone and that's what they've done so now they're gonna have an all-in-one system where you buy a box just like a camera drone you go to your local best buy you buy a box you get the goggles you get the controller and you get the drone and you go fly fpv of course you're gonna crash the hell out of it if you don't know what you're doing but since it's a dji product they made it beginner proof because all dji drones are made for beginners they're all made you can buy them off the shelf charge up the batteries and go fly the drone does all the work for you you do next to no work if you want to crash the drone totally up to you so this new fpv drone is not really an fpv drone you know the this is the fpv hobby there's a small one there's a bigger one here that's the real fpv hobby this new fpv drone that dji is making is a hybrid drone so it's like a mavic and an fpv drone stuck together so for the purposes of this video i'm just gonna say it has newbie mode like beginner like i know nothing about fpv and pro mode i know everything about fpv if you fly in newbie mode it's gonna fly sort of like a mavic in other words it's gonna have obstacle avoidance so you don't bang into things it's gonna have a lot of the same flight features it has sensors on the bottom so that it can return to home and land nicely it will have you know don't take off here don't fly here because there's an airport nearby or anything else in pro mode some of those restrictions will be gone so if you look at a phantom or a dji inspire you can turn the gps off on those and fly them a little bit more erratically you can't do that with most dji drones because they try to keep it in beginner mode all the time but on models like the phantom and the inspire if you turn off the gps it doesn't mean you're flying in fpv mode because you don't usually have goggles on but the drone doesn't really respond like an fpv drone it's still pretty restrictive because the motors are very weak on an inspire and very weak on a phantom in other words the power to weight ratio on those drones is very insignificant you know they don't have the ability to go into a dive and then take themselves out of a dive without crashing into the ground whereas on an fpv drone you can go 100 miles straight at the ground and at the last second just pull up you can't do that on a camera drum impossible not enough power so the dji fpv drone coming out apparently can so that's where they're crossing over into the fpv system now everything i'm about to tell you about this drone all comes from my sources who are my sources well my sources are viewers pretty much like yourself but there's some of you who have a lot of information that you get from contacts who have some inside information doesn't mean it's all correct but when i get it all and put it all together well then i turn it into something that kind of makes sense and that's what i'm going to pass on to you here so for this video i'm going to focus on the one that we saw all the leaks on which is the 5 inch it looks like a 5 inch it looks like this five inch drone coming out and if i show you a picture it looks like this right here that's the one we're gonna talk about in this video so the specs on the five inch i am told that it will have a speed of 150 kilometers per hour in pro mode and i don't know i'm calling a pro mode i don't know what they're going to call it which is 90 miles per hour so that's getting pretty close to fpv territory now the range on the drone i am told the range is like 10 kilometers or more but that doesn't make sense that doesn't make sense why would they make an fpv drone go 10 kilometers or more keep it the same as the mavic i don't know i would say the range is probably six kilometers but ah we'll have to wait and see for sensors you can see in the photos that it looks like it has obstacle avoidance in the front that will be for newbie mode and it has sensors on the bottom for landing because unlike fpv drones fpv drones have difficulty to hover in place and they have much difficulty in coming back to you and doing a nice hover and landing you have to control them so dji has overcome that by putting sensors on the bottom so when the drone comes back you probably just flick a switch auto land and it just comes down and auto lands that would be also true if you flew out of range or the battery was low the drone will just return to you and auto land just like just like a mavic just like a dji drone now this battery here is a 6s lipo battery so a lot of drones on the market are 6s i mean 6 cells and it's quite large in size and it has a lot of weight and this one is at uh 1800 milliamp hours the one for the new fpv drone that dji is coming out with is actually a six cell as well which is pretty darn decent and it's at 2000 milliamp hour so a little bit larger than this in capacity but what is interesting about the battery is it will be a smart battery since it comes from dji so you can't use batteries like this unless you manipulate something but it looks like they kept the same xt60 connector but just reversed it if you look at this photo here you can see the connector looks just like the connector on an xt60 and i'm told by my sources that if you fly in newbie mode in newbie mode that battery will get you 30 minutes of flight time if you fly in promo just suck up the power by flying erratically and super fast as we do in fpv mode then you're getting about 15 minutes of flight time once again all sources telling me this so it could be totally bang on or totally bang off now there is one thing that all the sources have agreed upon and that is the camera the camera will be a 4k camera shooting at 60 frames per second which makes sense because in the fpv hobby we need a fast frame rate because the drones move so fast so 60 frames per second at 4k makes sense also they all agree that there is no three axis gimbal it's a one axis gimbal the camera moves up and down so let me explain really quick on an fpv drone we always point our cameras at a 45 degree angle upwards now that's for the pilot camera in your goggles the reason we do that is because when a drone flies forward it has to tilt like this to move forward very fast so that means if the camera kept pointing straight down all i would get is video footage of the ground and i'd never see where i'm going so by having the camera point up 45 when it's sitting like this when my drone turns 45 it's now pointing straight forward the dji fpv drone has overcome this in other words when your drone is sitting at horizon the camera will point forward when you fly forward the camera will move up so it will always keep the horizon in sight and you will be able to fly at any speed you want because the camera's always going to keep your horizon inside will that mess up your freestyle tricks you bet it will because all us fpv pilots are used to having the camera one way and when we do flips and see the horizon we know exactly what that means what position the drone is in so if the camera is moving at the same time while you're flipping and doing rolls and everything that might mess things up so it might not be a good freestyle drone and to keep the image smooth it's just using the osmo 2 technology you know the rock steady i don't know if they'll call it rocksteady but uh it's like electronic image stabilization so it doesn't matter that it doesn't have a three axis gimbal you can bounce around and everything will look really good so now you're wondering when is it coming out and what is the price so when is it coming out my sources tell me it's coming out on march 2nd but then again i have other sources telling me that dji is releasing the osmo action 2 on march 2nd so is it the fpv drone coming out on march 2nd or the osmo action 2. i guess when we see the announcement for that event we'll know what it is if there even is an event second thing is the price for the fly more kit for the 5-inch i keep calling it a 5-inch because that's what everybody's calling it for the larger drone that the price for the goggles the drone two i think it's two or three batteries i'm not sure plus some extras that you'll need uh with the charger and everything it is 1449 u.s yes there will be less expensive versions but that's the price i'm given right now once again i'm putting a little little note down here this information is just from my sources it could be totally wrong so don't worry about it at this point but even with most of the stuff i just told you possibly being rumor and maybe only 50 of it is actually correct hey maybe i'll hit 75 but even with all that said i am so looking forward to this drone even if it turns out to be like an fpv that it's like you know it's nothing exciting for fpv pilots but it's exciting for people not into the fpv hobby it may cause people that aren't into the fbv hobby to slowly move over into it because now they get a taste of the thrill they go you know this is pretty decent this drone allowed me to transition from the camera drone hobby to the fpv hobby and now i want to really get into the fbv hobby so i think that's a good thing so i'm looking forward to this drone all right let's go on to the next topic now a lot of you are probably asking but what about the phantom 5 and the mavic 3 pro aren't you excited for those well i am excited for them but i don't know if they're coming out in the year 2021 let me explain why the simple reason is most manufacturers of drones are switching over to the commercial side of the house that's where the money is the consumer side not so much so what's going to entice dji to launch a phantom 5. is there any competition in the phantom line there used to be the unique typhoon h in that line of drones it still exists but it's not that popular anymore that used to be the competition for the phantom it's not really happening so why make a phantom 5 is there anybody out there who wants one how about the mavic you have the mavic 2 pro where's the mavic 3 pro is dji gonna launch it well if i was dji i wouldn't launch it why why why wouldn't you launch it if you were dji for the simple reason of remote id yes that is messed up an awful lot in the drone industry i know it only applies to certain countries and right now the usa is really tackling this whole remote id situation but honestly the us is a huge huge buyer of drones in the billions of dollars so drone manufacturers like dji sit back and they go well we could launch a phantom 5 and we could launch a mavic 3 pro but we haven't sorted out how the remote id system is going to affect such drones so we don't really have the technology because it's not commonplace amongst all the manufacturers and agreed upon standards are not there yet now if you're new to anything that flies in the sky remotely like a plane a helicopter a drone and you have not heard of remote id in its simplest of forms all it is it's just a system that will indicate to somebody with a need to know where the object is in the sky the drone the plane whatever and the pilot it's going to give the location of both and that's what the government is instituting that's that's the simple form but there's manufacturers out there who are say you know what this remote id we want it to come from the controller we want that to send the signal out where the drone is and the pilot others want the phone you know your or your tablet that you use to send out the signal of where the drone is and the pilot and others want just the drone they want the drone to have the technology built into it to send out the signal of where it is and where the controller is on the ground so it's not even agreed upon yet on what technology is going to be used and applicable in the year 2023 when all of this comes into play and the other unfortunate thing is that the government in usa you know the usa is pretty big so when they do something even though it seems kind of minut for the rest of us in the world but it really impacts industry so the government in the usa decided that dji has the potential because they're a chinese corporation they have the potential that if the chinese government wants to use the drones to spy on government establishments in the u.s that it could happen so for that reason the government of the usa says do not buy any more products from dji in the drone market and as a matter of fact do not sell any technology to dji so so dji is getting really beat up in the u.s and i think it's really really crippled a lot of their plans to launch new products but i know a lot of you are now saying well hang on a second i don't live in the usa so why is this impacting me you know why doesn't dji make drones for the rest of the world and just forget about the usa that's because the usa is a massive massive buyer of drones in the commercial market and the consumer market so it's a lot of money to be made in the usa and if the usa wants to make restrictions on drones and make drone manufacturers do certain things to sell drones in their country well then it's going to apply to much of the world as well i live in canada i don't have remote id but i swear remote idea is coming into effect in the usa in 2023 and i bet by the year 2024 or 2025 canada will adopt remote id as well but i think for 2021 you know like companies like autel right here who have their successful 6k and 8k evo 2 i think they are going to start producing a drone under 250 grams as will everybody else so you'll see companies like femi they're going to have a drone under 250 grams some of the other players out there that are in the budget drone category are going to start to pursue that entity right now if you want to buy a budget drone under 250 grams they are pretty much crap the cameras on them are no good because there's no gimbal no one has figured out other than dji how to make a drone under 250 grams and sell it for very little money but i bet you in 2021 that's coming but there are some strange companies out there like skydio skydio gets away with a lot in the drone industry because they they're kind of like apple they say you know this was designed in the us even though their drones parts of the drones are made in china they're assembled in the usa they employ people in the usa to assemble them the technology for the drone the software is in the usa so they get away with a lot and skydio skydio might just release a new drone in the year 2021 that might be a pro version of the skydio 2. so skydio 2 pro because the skydio 2 is lacking in many ways and there's a lot of things that can make it better so i think they might release a pro version that's just a guess on my behalf so with all of that said i can see that the year 2021 is going to be the year of drones under 250 grams we'll see a lot of the players playing in the market and getting their drones out all right let's get on to the next topic all right let me take a few minutes to pass on some points about the channel that will be applicable to you the viewer the first topic is emails a lot of you like to send me emails i get in the hundreds of emails per day the problem is you the viewer writes me and so does the manufacturer distributor of products everybody's writing to me through the same email account that means since i have a gmail account gmail tries to help me out by taking a lot of that email and just tossing it into spam or junk so if you write to me and i don't respond your email probably went into spam or junk and the same goes true with manufacturers who write to me about reviewing products i just don't have time to go into the spam or junk folder pull out the emails that probably make sense that weren't spammer junk i used to be able to but i don't have time anymore so if you don't get a response from me that's probably why second thing on the email topic is please keep your emails short because honestly i don't have a lot of time to read them so if you write 7 or 27 paragraphs i'm probably not going to read them all i'll probably jump to the last line where your name is and see if you ask the question down there that's just that's that's the reality of having a youtube channel so keep your emails short next topic is comments if you post a comment under this video or any of my videos on youtube do you ever notice that i always give a like and a heart the reason i do that is it lets me know that i've read your comment youtube doesn't have a way to show me that i've read your comment it only has a way to show me if i've responded to your comment so if you get a heart or like it means i read it i may not respond to all the comments because i just don't have the time so a lot of times i just heart like heart like as i read them and i don't have time to respond especially if it requires that i go and grab some information from some place i just don't have the time to do it so just let it be known that a heart or a like is because i've read your comment now if i don't heart or like your comment it always means the same thing it means one of two things it means i didn't read your comment or it means i read your comment but i just goofed up i didn't hardly like it so yeah i don't know so 90 of the time i get it right next item is budget drones and reviewing them during the winter months a lot of you love it when i review bunch of drones and i don't mind reviewing them you know it's more of a cost to me because a budget drone you know a bunch of drones are drones i consider to be under like 300 u.s so i have to get the drone then i have to review it and it takes hours to review i have to create a video edit it publish it so it's a lot of work on my part for very little return with a budget drone but i don't mind doing it because not a lot of people do it on youtube or not a lot of people do it on youtube very well so i don't mind doing it but i won't won't won't review budget drones in the winter because budget drones fly like crap and film like crap in the winter time the cold affects them and many times i have in the past reviewed a budget drone in the cold weather and said right at the beginning of the video that the video is going to be crap the drone's going to fly like crap and yet you know i'll get 90 of comments saying oh that video is all full of jello or that drone is like shaking all over the place so it's not worth my time so that means when the weather warms up i'll start reviewing budget drones again now on another point a lot of you have asked me to review many more rc cars and trucks because you know i love rc cars and trucks but i'm keeping it to a minimum in the winter time i can review more because while it's winter and i can't get out and fly all the time so you'll see a few more rc cars and trucks happening over the winter time some of you have asked me to review helicopters because i never had a helicopter on the channel i've never flown a helicopter so i have no idea it would be funny to watch me making a video of me flying a helicopter because i'm sure i'll destroy that thing uh some have asked for me to review more rc planes i don't mind rc planes i've never found the thrill of rc planes flying them i love gliders i just love the way gliders just cruise through the air especially in the late evenings but as for planes just going around in a circle and a figure eight no excitement for me there and they take up a lot of space in my tiny little basement so so we'll see we'll see if i review more rc planes coming up in the future another item is some of you are going to post below this video and say hey tell us about these hoodies and i i know i'm going to see that because they've changed names on them in different design so around christmas time i started redesigning the hoodies i left the old hoodies on the teespring website i think you can access it below anyways i've left the old hoodies there plus i'm making new designs but i was making them more for me so i have a bunch of designs that are like this one you know i fly mavic so there's a whole series of mavic so i have a mavic pilot hoodie that i wear and i have one for phantom for the inspire uh for the evo uh you already saw for fpv so i'm gonna probably carry on making a series of these hoodies because a lot of people asked for them and if you'd like to buy yourself one the links are someplace below there look for the teespring thing and the last item would be these here captain drone stickers i don't know how many requests i've received for these captain drone stickers i cannot sell them on any store like teespring or whatever because they want a profit for themselves and it means if i sell a sticker like this it's going to go for like five dollars for one sticker which is ridiculous i'm not going to do that so i spoke to my wife and we came up with a plan that we are going to give away stickers yes well actually she's going to do all the administration side of writing out the envelopes and sending the stickers to you all you're going to have to do is send me some information watch for a future video on that and all the details will be explained all right so i think i'm starting to lose my voice a bit so i'm going to sum up and end this video now so basically for the year 2021 i'm excited for the x dynamics evolve 2 the dji fpv drone that's coming out if they come up with two i'll be even more excited that'd be pretty cool and any new really good drone under 250 grams any new drones that come out in the year 2021 that are worth their weight obviously will be on this channel reviewed by me because that's exactly what i do so uh just keep your eyes and ears open for future videos on anything new but for now if you enjoyed this video please give it a thumbs up and i will catch you in future videos with many more drone reviews take care [Music] lead me to your side

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Keywords: Drone, Quad, Drone Talk, Year 2021, DJI FPV Drone, Xdynamics Evolve 2, DJI Mavic 3 Pro, DJI Phantom 5, Inspire 3, Skydio 2 Pro, 250 grams, Autel Evo Mini, Predictions, New Drones, Consumer, Commercial, Remote ID, USA, Canada, Drone Regulations, Talk, Discussion, How To, Documentary

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Length: 28min 6sec (1686 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 04 2021