Yea, I basically dropped my
air 2 off a cliff while launching before it was completely flying, LAME! I do love the
Air2s, same drone better camera. . . .and I had 3 extra batteries for it from the
air2 death, even the battery in the drone survived . . .I blasted down that cliff, 300' I was bent on getting the drone, the SD card and the battery, plus leaving the dead drone would have been littering our beautiful mountains. . .
I used to be an RC glider pilot so seeing and operating a DJI GPS drone is world easier then a floppy little glider at the mercy of natural lift and crazy turbulence. My best advice for getting good with the drone, drop your yaw and gimbal setting way down to fly nice and smooth and then find a place where you are on a high point. From there, as long as you have a positive altitude # on your telemetry, you can fly with zero feet of hitting the ground. Relax, get comfortable, crank some slider moves into orbit. . . all the cool moves, top down transitions with big gimbal tilts. . . oh YEA!
Once you feel confident on the control side, then you can enter terrain BUT, there is one more key element. As your flying straight and surveying the terrain, make a mental map of threats and when you are SURE you feel confident about where they are relative to your drone, start flying sideway but only then. . . even flying diagonally forwards will allow you to see what is in your path and a cool move. . . . Last, confidence kills, I bounced my
Mini2 twice flying backwards to reframe some shots. Think, if it could happen it will. . . I ALWAYS turn around now unless I have solid clearance. I set sport mode to yaw faster just to look around and INSURE I am safe BEFORE doing a fancy blind move. . . .
The drone is the only camera that takes much time and for me that is a big part of the fun! Magnetic mounts for the phone and tripod. a go pro on a selfie with a built in tripod are fast and easy to get up. The whole thing has actually enhanced my experiences many times, my head is on a swivel, I see way more awesomeness now fishing for awesome shots and I actually resting a bit during a quick setup keeping my pace from getting too fast and exceeding my VO2 max. . .leaves me with MORE strength and energy. . .
For the current video, which I am cutting, (from Mauritius to Masdagascar, Johennsburg and up aslong the west coast of AfricaI to Dakar i get 400Euro. Better than nothing.
