Greetings and hallucinations fellow Mavic Pro 2 aficionados. I am delighted to announce before the assembled world press paparazzi that I have now been officially inducted into the hallowed ranks of the Mavic 2 Pro Brethren, with all rights and privileges implied. On eBay, I today scored a used Mavic 2 Pro with three batteries, a multiple-output battery charger, extra props, and a few lens filters thrown in, all for a comparatively affordable price that I was able to cover without having to auction off my mother-in-law for scientific research. I expect to take delivery of this new-to-me drone by early next week, barring my abduction by aliens aboard tic-tac UFOs or any similar incident such as a major asteroid impact on my house.
My drone hangar at the moment includes a Phantom 3 Standard, a Phantom 3 Pro, a Mavic Pro 1, a Mavic Pro Platinum 1, a Mavic Air 1, and a 2020 Fimi X8. My primary use of all these drones, excluding the Fimi X8, is flying fully autonomous Litchi waypoint missions that range well beyond the signal connectivity between the RC controller and the drone. The maximum distance I've been able to achieve during those Litchi flights was 6.1 miles round trip covered over about 22 minutes of flight time. during which 4GB of video footage is typically recorded to the SD card. This drone addiction will be my downfall yet. I can see myself destitute living on Skid Row with a suitcase full of drones for company.
This Mavic Pro 2 purchase will definitely be the last purchase for me looking into the foreseeable future, primarily because newer generation DJI drones cost a small fortune, but also because all newer generation DJI drones are sold with the DJI Fly operating system, as opposed to the DJI Go and DJI Go4 platforms that came with the older DJI drones. DJI Fly and its "virtual sticks" protocol, will not allow Litchi missions to continue beyond RC signal range, which is an absolute deal breaker for me. I must be able to send my drone over the horizon because it is perfectly legal to do so in my remote Third World backwater, and because I love the idea of a fully autonomous drone finding its way back home at the precise moment I expect to see it return for landing.
With that brief introduction, I will stop this compulsive typing and refrain from expounding on my theories about the social impact of drones on modern civilization, until such time as I have a real Mavic Pro 2 anomaly to report. Over and out for now, and may the farce be with you at all times.
My drone hangar at the moment includes a Phantom 3 Standard, a Phantom 3 Pro, a Mavic Pro 1, a Mavic Pro Platinum 1, a Mavic Air 1, and a 2020 Fimi X8. My primary use of all these drones, excluding the Fimi X8, is flying fully autonomous Litchi waypoint missions that range well beyond the signal connectivity between the RC controller and the drone. The maximum distance I've been able to achieve during those Litchi flights was 6.1 miles round trip covered over about 22 minutes of flight time. during which 4GB of video footage is typically recorded to the SD card. This drone addiction will be my downfall yet. I can see myself destitute living on Skid Row with a suitcase full of drones for company.
This Mavic Pro 2 purchase will definitely be the last purchase for me looking into the foreseeable future, primarily because newer generation DJI drones cost a small fortune, but also because all newer generation DJI drones are sold with the DJI Fly operating system, as opposed to the DJI Go and DJI Go4 platforms that came with the older DJI drones. DJI Fly and its "virtual sticks" protocol, will not allow Litchi missions to continue beyond RC signal range, which is an absolute deal breaker for me. I must be able to send my drone over the horizon because it is perfectly legal to do so in my remote Third World backwater, and because I love the idea of a fully autonomous drone finding its way back home at the precise moment I expect to see it return for landing.
With that brief introduction, I will stop this compulsive typing and refrain from expounding on my theories about the social impact of drones on modern civilization, until such time as I have a real Mavic Pro 2 anomaly to report. Over and out for now, and may the farce be with you at all times.