WATCH THIS Before you fly the DJI FPV | Setup + First Flight Reaction

[Music] good morning everyone welcome to this video and welcome to my channel so dji has officially released their fpv drone and one of my friends has really graciously smuggled it to mexico for me so i finally got a chance to try it yesterday morning i've been flying traditional fpv drones for about two and a half years right now and as a professional filmmaker it's completely changed the game for me i come from a different background than most fpv pilots because i was a filmmaker before i got into fpv and the reason that i got into fpv was just for filming purposes so i'm not super interested in doing freestyle or racing and that's why i'm so freaking excited that the dji one is finally out it's like my favorite cinematic drone company finally made a drone for my favorite type of drone flying like i said yesterday morning i took the drone out for its first flight so i wanted to take you guys along and not only walk you through the steps that you need to take to get the drone to work for your first flight but just give you my thoughts and initial reactions to flying it and then at the end of this video i'm going to give you my honest opinion about whether or not this drone i think is gonna change the game i'm not gonna get super technical into the setup because most of it is super self-explanatory but let's do it if you don't care about the setup and want to just hop straight into the first flight just go to this time code the dji fpv is pretty self-explanatory when you set it up but even for me as an experienced fpv pilot there were a couple little hang-ups that like prevented me from flying in full fpv so if you're having any issues setting up your fpv or anything this video is for you so when you get your drone there's a bunch of random parts and things in there put the sd card in put the battery in antennas on and then download the dji fly app then at this point you want to turn your drone on so take this cover off and then press tap once and then hold and it will turn on and it'll make this insanely badass noise um i think it's super dope but it also sounds somewhat scary and sounds like the drone's probably going to take over the world someday but once you do that same for the controller everything should be linked so tap hold same thing and then for the goggles you're gonna have a battery pack as well as a cord so plug the cord in to the goggles and then do the same process tap and hold once all that is powered on you're gonna need to plug your phone up to it so dji has provided this little connector so plug this in plug this into the other side of the goggles through the usbc port and then plug it into your phone and open up the dji fly app from there you're just gonna need to activate everything and get everything updated you should be good to go in normal and sport mode however if you want to fly full fpv mode there's a couple things that you need to do if you've never flown fpv mode before definitely stay in normal and sport mode dji released a simulator in their dji virtual flight app that you're gonna need to go in and practice in before you ever actually take your drone to the skies the reason for that is because if you don't know fpv is really hard it's completely different than traditional drones and if you take your drone out and just start flying randomly you're definitely going to crash and just like ruin this pretty expensive piece of equipment so if you've never flown before download the dji virtual fly app and put a bunch of hours in the simulator before you actually fly but if you're ready for fpv here's what you do so open the back right casing of your controller and then take the allen key that came with the drone and turn this little screw this direction until the controller doesn't center traditional fpv drones have the controller centered but for fpv you definitely want that to be stuck in the bottom and then turn the other one to adjust how smooth the controller moves after that you're ready to turn everything on so start with the drone so once your controller stick stays at the bottom now you need to go into the menu and follow these prompts so you're gonna go to settings control remote controller come all the way down and change this setting from sport mode to manual mode okay and then one quick thing that you will see i forgot to do in my first test flight is go here so come back up to the very top of the screen go over to gain an expo come down and turn off the m mode attitude limit so once that's off you're pretty much good to go for fpv so i actually filmed this whole video down by the beach and the reason i did that is because it's one of the only like wide open places that you can go down and film so that being said the audio is super super windy when i first tested it the wind was really crazy but there was no way that i wasn't gonna film and i wasn't gonna fly that first battery so bear with me i'm sorry about the audio but uh yeah i had to fly the drone and by the time i finally got the drone up in the air it was actually the third time trying to fly it the first time we woke up super early and then when we got to the beach we were actually inside a no-fly zone so this right off the bat is something that traditional fpv drones definitely have on the dji drone is there isn't any no-fly zones as long as you're safe as long as you're actually following all the rules you can fly anywhere but with the dji drones they have all these geo-fencing technologies so we got to the beach and we just couldn't film anything so we had to go to a second location so we packed everything up went to a second location found a second location outside the no-fly zone and then started flying again but once i got there i got up in the air a little bit in normal mode was able to try and switch to m mode but it wouldn't let me flip it would just like stop at a certain point so i took the drone back and tried to figure out what was going on but i ran out of data on my cell plan down here in mexico so i couldn't research what settings i needed to change so what you're seeing now is our third attempt at filming the first flight video so without further ado you guys saw the setup process and everything the only thing you need to do more is just attach the propellers you do red on red gray on gray and then you're good to go so now i'm going to take you to the first flight video cool so theoretically we should be good to roll um yeah i'm so freaking stoked for this so i'm going to rip around and just kind of walk you through my thoughts as i'm flying and hopefully not crash into the ocean let's do it okay oh there we go there's full manual mode adjusting the camera roll a little bit right off the bat the image is just insanely clear wow this picture is insane controllability wise seems pretty solid there's a lot of power in this drone for sure there's a little bit of camera shake for some reason not sure what that is and a little power loop boom yeah this drone is really fun and the picture is just so clear as far as power and speed it hasn't felt quite as fast as my um other fpv drone that i fly it's called the nazgul but it is pretty decent all right so now i'm gonna try the hover mode so i'm gonna just fly pretty fast and then just press the hover mode and see if it saves it so i'm going and press okay damn so yeah that worked super super well so while i'm in the air switch to m and to switch into m you're gonna have to do this little centering the sticks thing you basically have to keep the sticks in one spot and now it's back in manual honestly the the performance issues might just be just because it's like super windy out i'm gonna do a little bit of a range test and go decently far to see how far i can go without losing any transmission damn okay so i'm getting a uh getting a warning on my screen that says i'm going near the no-fly zone so i'm going to switch into hover mode okay and then i can just take my hands off the controller and turn it off which is something you could never do with other fpv drones just because if you take your hands off the stick for a second your drone would pretty much crash um i'll definitely be doing a better range test now i'm coming around just doing a couple of unique palm tree shots coming around hanging out with this bird the only other thing that's different from this drone as my other fpv drone is the control sticks are actually super hard to move um i think mainly because you can switch between like a a normal drone mode and then you have to tighten that screw to get into fpv mode the sticks are like really really hard to um to turn which is kind of interesting it's not a huge deal but it would have been nice to not have that all right now i'm just gonna go super super high up and do a bit of a dive wow this is insane even this high with my other fpv drone i probably wouldn't go just because i'd be scared of losing connection now it says i'm unable to enter m mode maybe because i hit the the height ceiling i can still control the drone i can look down and everything but i can't switch down interesting all right i'm gonna try and fly back back sort of in the mode it's super wonky when it switches between modes because it makes you feel like you're falling okay we're back in manual mode and i'm gonna go up high again but not quite as high so i can do a dive zooming down i'm super curious how the stabilization is in post um okay i got a low battery warning i've been flying for like seven and just over a half minutes now and i'm at 29 so not quite as good battery life as advertised i'm sure if you're flying for like really short low velocities um you could probably get 20 but i'm only getting eight minutes right now and with dji it usually makes you come home at around 20. okay so i'm going to stop and hover take the goggles off and damn that landing process is very different than a normal fpv cool you can still catch it all right guys so just to wrap this video up um as far as the first flight to be honest i wasn't as impressed as i thought it would be like i said multiple times in the video i think the super windy conditions definitely had something to do with that but now also looking at the footage it's just not stable enough as far as like real steady and gopro you can get shots that are insanely shaky on the drone just come out perfectly silky smooth and i didn't see that on this footage at least for that drone on top of that there's this really weird warp like when the drone is angled upwards it just has this globe-like appearance and that's just like not really something you want to see on a drone that you're filming professionally with on top of that i only was able to get about eight minutes of battery life which is definitely a little disappointing considering that they say 20 minutes on paper like i said this could be due to the wind but i don't think that i would get much much more if there wasn't any wind at all especially if i was ripping really hard so all these little things that i'm talking about are definitely things that are only concerning to me because i'm a professional pilot if you're someone who's never done fpv before and you just wanted to buy this drone to figure out how to fly get the hang of things and learn i think it's a great drone the fact that you can switch between a normal mode a more advanced mode and then full fpv mode makes it super easy for people to progress and progress so if you're a beginner fpv pilot this might be the right drone for you um honestly i just really need to fly it more i need to fly it in better conditions so anyways those are my initial thoughts right off the bat i'm going to be doing a bunch more comparison videos i'm going to be testing it a bunch more in the future so if you're interested in seeing those videos definitely hit that subscribe button down below but yeah that was my first flight i am really freaking stoked that this thing is finally out and i'm stoked to test it more so that's it for this video and i will see you guys on the next one

Channel: Danny Mcgee

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Keywords: dji fpv, fpv drone, hybrid drone, all-in-one drone, drone racing, cinematic fpv, mcgee, mcgeefpv, dji fpv m mode, how to fly fpv dji fpv, dji wpv wont work, dji fpv setup

Id: nR4GOk5V0fQ

Length: 13min 17sec (797 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 12 2021