Good day. Well, I pulled the trigger on a Mavic Pro. I'm from Northern Alberta and I need something to do during the summer...better known as poor sledding season.
As usual, I jumped right in without checking the water for sharks or broken bottles. It was raining for the past couple of days so I passed the time buying a bunch more stuff for my drone, before I even figured out how to fly it.
After farting around with the wee beastie for a couple of days, reading countless posts and watching innumerable youtube vids, the weather finally broke enough to take the thing for a flight.
I am a private pilot with a bunch of RC experience, (some days the experience was transforming perfectly good model aircraft into bags of balsa), and this is my first drone. The controller configuration is pretty much the same as with an RC helicopter so it wasn't completely terrifying. The greatest thing so far about the Mavic Pro is that if you let go of the controls, the bloody thing just sits there in mid air.
Cool. That's save on the parts bill. Speaking of that...is the Care Refresh program for real? If it works half as good in practice as it claims, it will easily be worth the money.
I am a bit annoyed with DJI's assertion that this will pair just fine with Android devices but my research, (mostly done after buying the thing...of course), seems that it's not nearly as reliable as Apple hardware. I currently have a couple of Blackberry Priv's, which run on Android. They are a couple of years old but they have decent hardware, with a medium 6 core Snapdragon processor and 3GB of ram. It's operating a version of Android 6, which is reported to play nice with the Go4 app...as well as an Android device can.
I'm basically dedicating my spare priv to the Mavic for the time being. Now, it worked well enough, no app crashing so far, but there was significant video lag. I did slow down the gimble settings quite a bit so that might have something to do with it and I've barely touched the surface of its inner secret sorcery, so I'm not going to panic quite yet, but if it is the phone and I have to get something newer, I have no desire at all to buy an Apple product.
I have nothing in particular against Apple, but other than a short stint with an ipad2, Everything has been either Android or Windows. I have no urge at all, to acquaint myself with a new operating system.
As often happens with leaping before looking, some details get missed. My point in this is, if DJI is going to focus on Apple, they should let folks know right on the box, before they plunk down their cash. I can see why they might be reluctant to be totally up front, considering the number of Android device owners out there, but they would be better served in the long run to be straighter with customers.
Okey dokey...rant over.
Overall, this is one seriously slick little unit. I believe I'm going to have tons of fun with this little thing.
As usual, I jumped right in without checking the water for sharks or broken bottles. It was raining for the past couple of days so I passed the time buying a bunch more stuff for my drone, before I even figured out how to fly it.
After farting around with the wee beastie for a couple of days, reading countless posts and watching innumerable youtube vids, the weather finally broke enough to take the thing for a flight.
I am a private pilot with a bunch of RC experience, (some days the experience was transforming perfectly good model aircraft into bags of balsa), and this is my first drone. The controller configuration is pretty much the same as with an RC helicopter so it wasn't completely terrifying. The greatest thing so far about the Mavic Pro is that if you let go of the controls, the bloody thing just sits there in mid air.
Cool. That's save on the parts bill. Speaking of that...is the Care Refresh program for real? If it works half as good in practice as it claims, it will easily be worth the money.
I am a bit annoyed with DJI's assertion that this will pair just fine with Android devices but my research, (mostly done after buying the thing...of course), seems that it's not nearly as reliable as Apple hardware. I currently have a couple of Blackberry Priv's, which run on Android. They are a couple of years old but they have decent hardware, with a medium 6 core Snapdragon processor and 3GB of ram. It's operating a version of Android 6, which is reported to play nice with the Go4 app...as well as an Android device can.
I'm basically dedicating my spare priv to the Mavic for the time being. Now, it worked well enough, no app crashing so far, but there was significant video lag. I did slow down the gimble settings quite a bit so that might have something to do with it and I've barely touched the surface of its inner secret sorcery, so I'm not going to panic quite yet, but if it is the phone and I have to get something newer, I have no desire at all to buy an Apple product.
I have nothing in particular against Apple, but other than a short stint with an ipad2, Everything has been either Android or Windows. I have no urge at all, to acquaint myself with a new operating system.
As often happens with leaping before looking, some details get missed. My point in this is, if DJI is going to focus on Apple, they should let folks know right on the box, before they plunk down their cash. I can see why they might be reluctant to be totally up front, considering the number of Android device owners out there, but they would be better served in the long run to be straighter with customers.
Okey dokey...rant over.
Overall, this is one seriously slick little unit. I believe I'm going to have tons of fun with this little thing.
