Unless you buy a Skydio 2 used, you'll be waiting for it. They went out for pre-sale last October, I ordered late in the day the first day, and mine was in 'batch 3', didn't arrive until mid-July. I haven't seen what the wait time is for new orders lately, but they're not 'in stock' for quick shipping anywhere. They're selling for a premium on eBay, $1900 for a $1300 rig with batteries, beacon, and controller.
The Skydio 2 is kinda amazing, but it's mostly a selfie drone with better than ordinary subject tracking and a better camera. They use plain WiFi to connect to a smartphone or the controller, so they don't have long range like Mavics with OcuSync. The Skydio
2s are made to track active subjects up close.
Billy Kyle got jumped on by the FAA for flying his a mile or so down river in his fair city and posting the range test on YouTube. But that's extreme for WiFi. Mine lost WiFi a few hundred feet out in my neighborhood.
I''m not an athlete, not into selfies, don't have much use for the Skydio 2 I waited 9 months for. Now that I've got a few good shots of my rowdy Pinschers walking me, I'm thinking of putting the whole rig on eBay before I crash it again.
They're not perfect at tracking. My first one ran so hot it was too hot to hold, and it snagged on a twig on it's 3rd flight 15 minutes into the 1st battery and crashed hard, snapped an arm.
Skydio support was great, customer service responded quickly and mentioned the guidelines that say 'watch out for twigs' in so many words. Engineers looked at my video and logs, decided it _was_ the Skydio's fault, and shipped me a new Skydio 2, free. The new one runs a lot cooler, tracks better, is a fine drone. Skydio's apparently a fine outfit, too, just not able to keep up with demand.
The replacement drone's been problem free, but now that I've seen it fly itself and land itself on its case a few times, I've really got no use for it, because I'm not into selfies and don't do anything athletic, no running, mountain biking, skateboarding, or other stuff a Skydio can track.
They're not perfect at tracking and I suspect that the videos that show them tracking the best took a long time to find a suitable track and a lot of practice to set up. Mine can lose me two or three times on a 20 minute dog walk if I'm not careful to keep it out of the woods when its tracking alongside us. It might do better with the GPS Beacon, but I've seen enough of tracking me and my dogs.
There has been some mention of 'house scanning' added to Skydio and/or DroneDeploy to take advantage of it's AI and I'll wait a while for that. Most of the lots I 'map' are under tree cover and need to be hand-flown, can't just turn DroneDeploy loose to do it. If the Skydio does it better, I'll get another one.
Meanwhile, for what I do, a
Mavic 2's and Inspires are better for work, and a Mini and FPV racers are better for play.
