Mavic Pro to Air 2

CaseyEire · May 11, 2020

I just sold my Mavic Pro for €800 and ordered the new Air 2.
I hope this is a big upgrade considering the used Pros go for the same price as the new Air 2!
Any thoughts on if it was the right choice ?

itsneedtokno · May 11, 2020

I got my Air 2 yesterday. I think it's amazing, although I AM having gimbal overloaded issues at the moment.

I may have figured out that this thing is NOT a Sport mode frequent flier. I'll have more information later, but it seems like the gimbal motors are easily overworked from fighting wind in Sport mode.

CaseyEire · May 11, 2020

itsneedtokno said:
I got my Air 2 yesterday. I think it's amazing, although I AM having gimbal overloaded issues at the moment.

I may have figured out that this thing is NOT a Sport mode frequent flier. I'll have more information later, but it seems like the gimbal motors are easily overworked from fighting wind in Sport mode.

Who did you buy it off? I heard a lot of delays on the DJI store, mine is still processing since last week

Dedal · May 11, 2020

Air 2 video capabilities:

Air 2 Tracking capabilities:

There was a statement in one of the posts in your introduction saying that: "Mavic Pro have dual IMU and dual Compass vs single IMU and single Compass on the Air 2". That was seen as downgrade, because: "many had fly away when flying the mini due to compass calibration error". Here is one other thread where member @Meta4 (in post #2) and @msinger (in post #3) nicely explains "flyaways" and some other stuff:

How often do flyaways happen?

I am new here. I own the Mavic Air and never cared about flyaways. I have taken off from some dense places with 5 satellite signal and fly up to get more signal and then fly further. After reading about flyaways, things have turned out scary for me. 1. Is there are stats on how often flyaways...

mavicpilots.com

Air 2 is, as of right now, probably the best we can buy in this segment as non professional users that DJI has to offer. When you compare it to Mavic Pro, the name would suggest that it is a downgrade (missing "Pro" in the name). But, the time that passed between the "Mavic Pro" introduction and the new "Air 2" was was most likely used by DJI to develop and improve, we can see it on many examples on the internet, the ones I posted being just two of them. There might be different opinions, and that's OK, but this is mine: It's an upgrade, for sure.

Safe flying.