hi this is now
day four that i've had this device and still the actual drone has never left this table if you
think that you're going from never flying fpv to weaving in and out of buildings and going through
and recreating that like bowling viral video that's been making the rounds recently good luck
see a lot of the reviews that i've seen of the dji fpv
is from people who have flown fpv before or people who are like whatever let's just go and
their confidence is next level but you see me i can't really afford to just be out 1500 bucks
like that this is not something that i want to go out and crash test
i think that's enough stuff all right so i want to make sure that i was set up for success for
this video because my experience with drones dji mavic pro 1. first generation never upgraded never
really needed to because i fly it maybe a handful times a year but as you could probably tell in the
dramatic intro i have zero experience with uh fpv and so that's what i wanted to get into today so
i got the fly more combo and so that includes of course you have the drone which came with
one battery they're like 20 minute batteries and i think if you're flying at full speed in the manual
mode you get like 10 so i got the fly more combo uh which came with two more batteries and this
cool little like triple quick charge station here obviously we got the remote the goggles
v2 whatever and then i got this guy because i figured it could be possibly easier to do this
than trying to figure out all the different controls and then the non-dji thing i got in
the mail today was freewell sent me out their nds specifically made for the dji fpv nd filters can
lower the shutter speed which gives more realistic motion bur will that be as beneficial on an fpv
drone since you're usually racing around a lot faster and too much motion blur obviously would
look pretty gross so i'll be curious to try these out so let's talk real quick about the
flight simulator because a lot of creators have talked about it but they've kind of breezed on
past it understandably because again they have more experience or just didn't want to talk
about it in their videos but i gotta say if it weren't for the flight simulator i probably would
have returned this drone immediately so for me the past handful days i've literally just spent about
30 minutes maybe 45 minutes a day just kind of going in the flight simulator going on the
different training courses and just getting better now you can clearly see here that i have crashed
hundreds of times while trying to go through different obstacles as you can see from these
screen recordings uh throughout the past couple days i definitely started to feel more comfortable
with just flying and literally as of this morning i feel comfortable kind of going through some
obstacles now not the small little holes where you have to go in a hole and then sharp corner and
then go out the exit nothing like that but i can now be like hey i want to go through that obstacle
line myself up go through it and i'm pretty stoked this is very much feeling like anything else you
know you pick up guitar hero back in the day for the first time or beat saber in vr and you're like
how can anyone do this but you give it a couple hours of practice and repetition you're gonna get
better at it just like anything else right the hardest part about all of this as a beginner is
i have yet to be able to focus on flying this from a cinematography standpoint i'm probably making my
viewers nauseous i know i'm probably making my dad nauseous sorry heck me wearing the goggles it got
a little rough sometimes but the way i'm flying right now is literally just hey don't crash this
avoiding the obstacles and it's just my opinion as of right now as someone who is starting brand new
in the fpv world don't buy it like two days before you're supposed to go on a professional shoot
have the mindset of like oh i would really love to learn fpv and to use this drone
to get some of those amazing shots and understand that like it may be a month before you're at that
level alrighty time has come it's time to go into manual mode no more playing around no
more simulators no more normal or sport mode let's see if we can actually get a decent cool epic shot
with the fpv drone with kind of a week's worth of training and not really a week i mean really it's
only a couple hours worth just kind of spread out over the week it's been a busy week give me some
slack
so for some reason the right joystick doesn't seem to be working fully in manual
i don't know if there's something i'm not turning on i went through all the settings
and unlike the simulator where you can you know do backflips front flips rolls it basically the right
stick is still acting like you're in n mode where it you know just basically does light turns and
and pivots but not crazy aggressive rolls and dives and all that literally can't get to do that
i got frustrated so now i want to try this little guy and see if there's any difference if it's
easier this i did not get to run in the simulation so it'll be interesting how this one does
so
all right i'm calling right now if you're new to fpv
this is your new best friend this is so much easier than the controller
so it's actually telling me right now in the goggles that there's a piloted
aircraft nearby and i don't know if you guys can hear it but right above me there's a plane it's
probably a it's a small plane so it's probably at like i don't know 600 feet or something so
pretty cool that warns you but seriously this so much easier than the remote but you don't
get manual mode with this so it's very fun for a normal and in sport mode super easy to get into
now before you leave the comment on this video talking about how it's you know a bunch of bs
or whatever that we didn't even see any like spiral or dives or anything imagine how i feel
after buying this and then the right controller joystick thing just doesn't want to do any of that
fun stuff so there is a week of simulator flying for nothing by the way if you have any idea of
a fix or a known issue for that please let me know down in the comments below i just have to
send it back to dji and see if they can fix it so this video turned out very very differently
than what my original plan was i mean i was contacting people to go through these awesome
like hiking in the forest flying through trees sort of thing so really cool car stunts all these
scenarios that i've seen other people film in fpv environments that look amazing my nerves were
maxed out when i was flying this in an open field with no subject really to film and no one anywhere
nearby but honestly by the time i was about 30 minutes into flying about two batteries in
i started feeling more comfortable i started kind of doing those 360 spin arounds um in manual mode
i love the noise it sounds freaking awesome and it is super super fast this is not a drone
that you can like oh i'm gonna kind of sneak over this building and get a cool shot and no
everyone in the nearby vicinity is going to know you are there but you know there's something
interesting about drones and drone videos drones i kind of put in the same categories
as like gimbals you see i know a lot of filmmakers and content creators who buy the latest drones and
the latest gimbals and then if you ask them like a year later hey where's that you know dji fpv
or that ronin s2 or whatever they're gonna be like oh i sold it after a handful of times or
oh it's over there on the shelf with half an inch of dust on it and there's a lot of factors that
go into that but for me personally one issue i always have is locations you see i live in the
midwest and there are some beautiful places here but i'm not a huge traveler i'm not a huge hiker
and so i'm not doing that stuff constantly and so i kind of live vicariously through like the peter
mckinnon's of the world where i'll watch their drone footage they're going to these beautiful
landscapes you kind of ignore the my new issues with the camera quality or whatever and you just
are in awe by the scenery meanwhile me i kind of fly this thing again in a nearby park nothing is
looking too spectacular the coolest thing to film there is a train track which i kept trying to get
the train schedule so i could get a cool shot of that but i just never hit the mark i know prior to
making this video probably the most requested question i had had to do with nd filters huge
thanks to freewell for sending me out their new kit specifically designed for the dji fpv
i definitely used them and found if you're going for the more cinematic shots they can be extremely
useful first of all i love the packaging this has a nice magnetic case to it and everything is right
up here super easy to kind of pluck out and put back on they are a bit large and that's because
the fuv has such a ultra wide viewing angle more so than the mavic so you literally
can just attach it to the front push it on there and it balanced okay i did get a error
but the message i was getting on the screen is gimbal access max reach something like that
basically telling me that the top of the nd is hitting uh kind of this guard whereas without it
the camera can indeed pan up a little bit more i just pan up oh my god i caught myself a filmmaker
the camera can tilt up further past that little housing there so if you're flying all over the
place like when i was in sport mode going real crazy turning and going up and down super fast
i got that air a lot it didn't seem to actually affect anything so you technically can just ignore
that message and keep flying on super sunny days definitely helpful to make sure that your shutter
speed can be set properly it's going to give you a better image overall hopefully this video added
some value to anyone out there who is looking to get into fpv drones or maybe you just bought this
and we're kind of nervous and wanted to know that you're not alone if you're curious about
all the parts and accessories that we got with the drone you can check them out in the links
in the description everything will be linked down there as well as if you have any other questions
about the dji fev let me know down in the comments below and i'll answer anything that i can i know
it's been a bit since i've uploaded i've been working basically on like three or four videos
at once and this video has just taken a lot longer than i had originally hoped so thank you all for
the patience if you're curious about what's coming up next i'm getting the oneplus 9 pro in my hands
in the next couple of days hopefully as well as the blackmagic pocket 6k pro which a lot
of this video was shot on those videos and plenty more to come so if you're not already
definitely get subscribed thanks so much for watching guys and i'll see you in the next video