Coming from the DJI Go4 app, I've found DJI Fly to be fine, just different. Every release seems a bit more mature.
However, I do dearly miss how DJI Go4 displays the drone's altitude above the ground whenever the aircraft is low enough for the bottom sensors to function. Fly only gives me altitude above takeoff point, which--as a habitually low-altitude pilot--is approximately useless information to me.
It's very time-consuming to descend slowly until--looking straight down--I can judge the details in the image to achieve a low-but-safe altitude (say, 2m/7ft over the surface). The VPS altitude as displayed in Go4 is so much faster and more positive. It gives me a ton of confidence in the drone's vertical position relative to the surface.
Say I want a descending, arcing, panning swoop down over some beaver ponds or wetlands that are 400 yards (meters) downstream from my takeoff point. I don't give a fig about the drone's altitude relative to my feet; I care about its altitude relative to the dense shrubbery it's flying close above! I may have VLOS, but against that busy backdrop the bird's vertical clearance is very hard to judge with the required accuracy. (PS here: my MA1 could do that shot; it shouldn't be harder with the MA2S, fer cryin' in a bucket!)
Clearly, whenever the Air 2S is low enough, it can calculate its altitude-above-ground exactly from its sensors. That's the information I want! Am I missing something in DJI Fly?
However, I do dearly miss how DJI Go4 displays the drone's altitude above the ground whenever the aircraft is low enough for the bottom sensors to function. Fly only gives me altitude above takeoff point, which--as a habitually low-altitude pilot--is approximately useless information to me.
It's very time-consuming to descend slowly until--looking straight down--I can judge the details in the image to achieve a low-but-safe altitude (say, 2m/7ft over the surface). The VPS altitude as displayed in Go4 is so much faster and more positive. It gives me a ton of confidence in the drone's vertical position relative to the surface.
Say I want a descending, arcing, panning swoop down over some beaver ponds or wetlands that are 400 yards (meters) downstream from my takeoff point. I don't give a fig about the drone's altitude relative to my feet; I care about its altitude relative to the dense shrubbery it's flying close above! I may have VLOS, but against that busy backdrop the bird's vertical clearance is very hard to judge with the required accuracy. (PS here: my MA1 could do that shot; it shouldn't be harder with the MA2S, fer cryin' in a bucket!)
Clearly, whenever the Air 2S is low enough, it can calculate its altitude-above-ground exactly from its sensors. That's the information I want! Am I missing something in DJI Fly?