"I am sitting here rubbing my palms and grinning like a fool. It is going to be an excellent year for droning!"
Great visual
Sure, they have been making computerized diagnostic tools for many years and always had a good reputation. That's why I purchased the XSP. It's a good drone and performs well.This is actually a sign of a good company. Their engineers probably want to see exactly what happened so they can track component failures and make design or component changes if needed. Plus, the fact that they did all of this for free is pushing me in the direction of Autel.
Not even close! EVO has no elevation of the gimbal possible above the horizontal, cinematic control is seriously wanting, and the pixelated frozen FPV at any distance, needed for reliable video composition will have you begging for Ocusync 2. If you only fly VLOS, and don't need cinematic control, it's a good backup when the M2P GEO locks you out. It's no 1”sensor, so low light performance is on a parity with the M2Z. The EVO 2 6K version will be on a parity with the M2P, but still can't match OcuSync 2, despite a claimed 5 mile range. Flight time is the only real distinguishing factor, but not without reliable FPV out to the full range.
"I am sitting here rubbing my palms and grinning like a fool. It is going to be an excellent year for droning!"
Great visual
LOS is possible to any unobstructed distance. Vision has no relevance to LOS.
I saw today on YouTube this monster is going to cost somewhere around 4000.00? Surely they just? If true sounds like a e Autel who I do like is trying to put themselves out of business. I also believe I saw 1495.00 so, who knows?
$1495 for the 8K version and $1795 for the 6K version. Other versions TBD.
Exactly. Autel has a terrible track record of actually delivering on their CES vaporware! The promised 1” sensor EVO has become a promised 1” sensor EVO 2 two years later, and is still nowhere near to release! Other than a longer battery life, the Mavic 2 Pro still excels and has already been available for over 15 months! Autel is always late to the party. Mavic 3 will be the EVO 2 killer. Hopefully, DJI matches the 40 minute flight time with their stellar OcuSync 2.0. signal strength!
That is wonderful news! If this thing is coming out by the end of March, I will definitely be considering it.
I too am undecided between the M2P and EVO II at the moment and wondering if DJI would be likely to come up with a new model to counter the EVO II. But a new DJI product is increasingly looking unlikely at least for the first half of 2020. The M2P has indeed proven its worth. But the at least 30 minutes of flight time of the EVO II, the absence of geo-fencing, and the camera specs make it a serious contender for the title of the new king. I keenly await a serious review of the camera's performance, especially for stills.
The specs from Autel's website for the EVO II put the max speed at 15m/s for the "standard mode" and 20m/s for the "ludicrous mode". I have no idea what these mean and not sure if the difference is one of a hardware configuration or a software one (like P and S modes in the DJI lingo). 20m/s is 72 kph; exactly the same as the top speed of the M2P in S mode.
Autel is still fixing huge bugs in the original EVO! The M2P is a mature aircraft and the EVO 2 is still a guaranteed buggy pipe dream!
