Hi
I have been a mavic owner since my original mavic pro but unfortunately the mavic pro was never a stable or a reliable drone, dozens of sensor calibrations and weird behaviors during flight, ****** batteries from Dji and finally it crashed couple of weeks ago and possibly non repairable.
Some of the issues it gave me and short coming of that model (but not limited to)
- down vision sensors required repeated calibration using a PC.
- remaining on ATTI mode and with some wind it will swing from side to side (presumably not acquiring GPS)
- the nasty dji go4 app, i had to check my settings every single time i launch the app, settings will change for no reason after turning off the drone from previous slight or even a FW upgrade which was quite rare recently !...?
- batteries flying for less and less time, broken cells etc.
- gimbal will suddenly rotate and start making weird movements in the mid air and stop recording !!...
some of the short comings in that model which drove me nuts:
- quite a noisy image even in excellent day light ! (apparently due to the highly compressed video file)
- extremely compressed 40Mbps videos making it almost impossible editing the footage with premiere pro ! (trust me on that !)
One nasty and huge problem i faced from time to time (as long as years ago when i recently obtained the drone) was that the dji go app will loose connection and screen becomes grey while drone in mid-air, so i have to reboot the app (on android phone(s))
And finally weird signal lost messages, controller error and signal lost, forever !...
What am wondering here, are there more problems than just that with dji products ? and is the new mavic air 2 any better than the original mavic pro ?
Id really want to have a Single Drone from now on, just like having a single dslr, action cam, etc... and never loose it again or have to buy a new drone every couple of years or so and not having to spend tons of money on repairs,
i trust dji is reputable enough, but is the drone technology really mature enough to invest money in ? and as a Chinese company is it reputable and reliable enough and have proper quality control and a good engineering dept. etc ? or better to stay away from the aerial photography for the time being and its just a huge hype ?
thanks,
I have been a mavic owner since my original mavic pro but unfortunately the mavic pro was never a stable or a reliable drone, dozens of sensor calibrations and weird behaviors during flight, ****** batteries from Dji and finally it crashed couple of weeks ago and possibly non repairable.
Some of the issues it gave me and short coming of that model (but not limited to)
- down vision sensors required repeated calibration using a PC.
- remaining on ATTI mode and with some wind it will swing from side to side (presumably not acquiring GPS)
- the nasty dji go4 app, i had to check my settings every single time i launch the app, settings will change for no reason after turning off the drone from previous slight or even a FW upgrade which was quite rare recently !...?
- batteries flying for less and less time, broken cells etc.
- gimbal will suddenly rotate and start making weird movements in the mid air and stop recording !!...
some of the short comings in that model which drove me nuts:
- quite a noisy image even in excellent day light ! (apparently due to the highly compressed video file)
- extremely compressed 40Mbps videos making it almost impossible editing the footage with premiere pro ! (trust me on that !)
One nasty and huge problem i faced from time to time (as long as years ago when i recently obtained the drone) was that the dji go app will loose connection and screen becomes grey while drone in mid-air, so i have to reboot the app (on android phone(s))
And finally weird signal lost messages, controller error and signal lost, forever !...
What am wondering here, are there more problems than just that with dji products ? and is the new mavic air 2 any better than the original mavic pro ?
Id really want to have a Single Drone from now on, just like having a single dslr, action cam, etc... and never loose it again or have to buy a new drone every couple of years or so and not having to spend tons of money on repairs,
i trust dji is reputable enough, but is the drone technology really mature enough to invest money in ? and as a Chinese company is it reputable and reliable enough and have proper quality control and a good engineering dept. etc ? or better to stay away from the aerial photography for the time being and its just a huge hype ?
thanks,
