Yes I know I'm quite late to review the Mavic Pro. It's been out for a while this is the
latest version so they've revised it a little bit they just tweaked the blades
on it basically is the only real difference and the fancy new paint job
it's the Maverick Pro platinum now these new blades will increase the flight time
up to 13 minutes now which is a few more minutes over the original model but most
importantly they cut down on that horrible whining noise that drones make
and let's admit they do make a hell of a noise especially my me drone that one is
significantly louder than this so it's around about five disables quieter now
and that increased flight time is always good to have now I started with the me
drone because I didn't want to start out with such an expensive drone it ended up
crashing it so that is why I didn't get this one to begin with but in hindsight
I really should have got this to start with because it's super easy to fly
there's also a beginner mode that keeps it really close to you so you don't end
up losing it or crashing it if you're worried about without that and you're
starting out now the drone itself isn't cheap so that's why I went for the me
drone first and that is probably the biggest and only real con that I found
out of this drone so far so because there's so many reviews of this out
already I'm going to just quickly cover the unboxing have a look at the drone
and just quickly very quickly and briefly cover setting it up I'm not
gonna go in too much detail there with the application and my first flight
footage as well as some other sample footage of what you can expect quality
wise here from the Maverick Pro platinum taking a look now what you get inside
the box so this is just the standard edition one it's not the fly more combo
pack you can get that pack with extra batteries in it and it works out to be
cheaper then if you were just to buy the secret batteries then you get the
controller of course it's not like the spark the spark when I got that it just
came with the drone itself and it was an extra to buy the controller I've got
some cables here so we have a power supply cable that's right there and we
do have two adapters now this is for the controller the controller comes with an
Android sorry the iPhone plug already in there but then you can swap that out for
my Kru USB 2 or type c so that's going to
cover every single mobile phone out there you'll be able to plug that in
directly to the controller I'll show you how to setup that and just a second with
the application everything else the drones packed up quite nicely in
there and this sadly is not really a transport hard case like the likes you
get with the sparks so when I got my spark you could actually use that case
to transport around the drone and it did offer a decent level of protection so
I'll probably end up buying a hard case for this just to keep the drone safe and
then lastly we have here some instruction manuals and leaflets I won't
go into that and then here is the charger for it to charge up the drone
with that funny-looking connector on it the charger also has two USB ports on
here so let's use one of them you could use to charge your mobile phone the
other one used to charge the controller so it's rather handy having this now
don't forget to remove these little plastic tabs that are covering up the
sensors if you forget to do that then the front-facing collision avoidance
sensor there those little cameras might not work properly and it could end up
crashing into something the gimbal also has a clip on it here so you need to
remove that there's two securing it in place so when it's in transit that
gimbal is not going to be moving around the whole time
now with the clip removed you can see the gimbal is free and it will rattle
around so if you are going to be going some when you put this in a backpack
it's probably wise to maybe put that clip back in there just to lock out the
gimbal and stop it from getting damaged now you do also get a couple of spare
blades so you get two clockwise and two counterclockwise blades on the right of
the drone you'll find a micro USB 2 port and on the left is where the micro SD
card slot is and I switch there to put it into the wireless or the radio
controller modes and there's also a little tiny status LED there for the
micro SD card you can see when it's writing to it it'll flash I'm on the
bottom of the Maverick Pro you'll find an array of sensors here so we have two
downwards firing sensors and then another two sensors there that actually
ping the ground so it can detect the distance this is all used in the auto
hover modes and it's used of course when it's landing as well when you tell it to
return home and it lands by itself that's when these sensors here come into
play on the top we have the power button and for status LEDs so each of those
LEDs represents 25% of battery life and you just tap the
and it will tell you what the status of the battery is you can see at the moment
it's somewhere in between 25% and 50% battery out of the box charging the
drone takes approximately one hour to get it to 100% from flat and the control
is quite slow that takes around three to four hours to fully charge now the fan
blades is where a major redesign has taken place here they are slightly
different and they do offer around five decibels less noise output which is
great and increase the flying time up to a maximum of 30 minutes but in
real-world use I get around 25 minutes 26 it depends on how close you want to
push it with the remaining battery life now you should probably unfold the
blades into the lock position that's marked on the top of them it's hard to
see there's a little tiny icon right here so you lock them into place but
don't worry if you forget to do it properly the centrifugal force will
force them into the lock place anyway once it starts to spin at maximum speed
like takeoff I roll the build of the drone is excellent it is top-notch here
now there's only one thing that's probably the fragile last thing on there
and that's of course the propeller blades they are super fragile so if they
were to clip or hit a tree or a branch or something like that on a tree then
they would get damaged straight away we were wondering about the camera spec
it's 12 megapixels with an F 2.2 aperture and of course it shoots up to
4k something that my DJI spark didn't do that was only 1080p maximum which is a
slight disappointment but the quality of this camera I found to be really quite
good but we'll have a look at some samples in just a minute in this video
quick look at just how much the drone ways so the Mavic is 747 grams which
isn't bad at all and it cuz it folds down to a really nice portable
transportable size so when you pair it on you can hear the fan come on after a
while there's a fan to cool it in both the drone and the controller so that's
really good it's going to make sure the components aren't going to overheat now
won't go into a lot of details here but your basic controls are we have the
sticks here of course so this is to gain altitude decrease altitude rotate the
drone left and right this is to move forward to move backward
to move to the left and right as well with this stick so the controls are
pretty easy once you get the hang of it now I do recommend probably starting off
in beginner mode if you've just first got a drone in your all you're new to
drones on the controller here we have the sport mode so enabling the sport
mode puts it into a performance mode and again probably recommend keeping that
off if you are new to this drone I'm going to keep it off because I've just
first got this and at the top here we have the controls for the camera so this
is to start and stop recording this is to take a photo and right here we have
the control here for the gimbal tilt so if you use this you can tilt the gimbal
all the way down and get one of those shots there bird's-eye view straight
down looking at you when you take off is quite nice of course you can angle that
however you want to look at various different things this dial here is for
the exposure we also have some buttons on the back there that you can customize
all of the controls can be customized and we get a basic readout here of
information that is displayed on our cell battery for the controller better
life for the drone as well as this top one here the signal of the remote to the
drone which is very important now because of local laws here I cannot test
the range and altitude of this drone there's plenty other videos that do that
so check those out this tells you here the clearance you have the height and
then the distance the drone is away from you it's pretty self-explanatory
now this little button here is very important as well tapping this will auto
return to home and it will start the landing procedure you can also use the
app to take off and land then when you set it up with the app it will also run
through the controls for you and let you know what the actual controller screen
Reata so there it's telling you exactly what everything is there because there's
a few things that I did leave off there I'm just being brief now very quickly
runs through the application here what controls we have but I won't go into a
lot of detail so the control modes we have is simply clicking that what looks
like the control icon you got quick shot active tracking tap to fly using the map
tripod mode just your mode and there are quite a few other ones here cinematic
mode you've got terrain follow point of interest home lock waypoints follow me
so if there's a lot in there to go through and test out all of which I
cannot possibly cover in this video unless it was going to be
an hour long now camera settings will be found here so you're able to adjust a
lot of things there you can tweak of course if you want to record higher
frame rates but lot of resolutions here I've got it set to 4k 30 frames per
second and you're able to change all of this of course so if you decide that
hang on I want 1080p but I wanna record with 96 frames per second or 60 frames
per second to have that get some slow-mo that's all possible here of course and
able to do that through this now it does give you a lot of information here it's
a little bit overwhelming to start with but one of the key things you should
really concentrate on probably will just be these buttons here so it is your
takeoff button and your landing when you're starting out is the map there
telling you exactly where you are a lot of various different information there
is well - and it gives you information reads out on your signal your GPS signal
of course I don't have at the moment because I'm endorsed tapping this will
also record so it's just started to record now and it pays to tap the screen
to sometimes focus - I remember when this this model first came out a lot of
people had footage they looked a little bit blurry because they had the focus
off they didn't focus it properly so that's a lot of things to remember I
know once you're taking this off and you're flying it around but you get the
hang of it and it's all just a learning curve of course which will take a little
while after a few flights and you can see me there in the camera beautiful day
here by the way so the drone is still quite loud as you can hear but it's not
as bad definitely not as bad as my me the me drone 4k that was pretty
horrendous obstacles this telling me that obstacles me of course it's
tracking me right there you can see on the app we do have different nice but
first I wanted to get around with check out the area here a little bit so just
gain some altitude
and we're gonna head over towards I just give you a view now of the mountain
range here so let's pan around again so that's the Mongo there now I'm in an
area where there are some abandoned houses there's no other houses around
pretty much a safe area to be flying this drone here I need to keep the
aircraft individuals the whole time here according to the Spanish law okay here
we go full power ahead gonna hit over towards it's getting a little bit more
altitude towards the tower of iron well the toward of the gyro
you can just see it there actually I try and get it in picture just bring the
gimbal down a little bit so I just move around here now to the just right the
rotate the aircraft around there you go you can see it right now so that's the
iron tower there in the background and the Mediterranean coast there I still
have this on the drone so that is good spend some more altitude very quiet day
here and that joins not actually making too much noise I mean it's not bad for a
drone so happy and noticeable noise difference there so I'm just gonna bring
it down a little got the auto focus on so hopefully that's keeping everything
in focus and is hit out now towards that tower that's my little point of interest
seventeenth-century defense tower to alert the town if there were pirates
apparently so I can still see the drone here a little closer towards it so down
towards this way here we have the town that's all the last rotors area you can
see right now and in the far distance you will see the castle which is pretty
much right now where I'm gonna be focusing the camera on is touch there on
the screen so that's the castle right there and a pretty good day I mean the
visibility isn't quite 100 seen it's a little bit hazy
but it's not bad and battery life was still at 89 percent which is great give
me a little bit of time to test out some things like these sports modes and
whatnot and I'll just pen around here we'll chest up the tracking - in this
video so they're few houses nearby but what you're looking at right now all
this complex is actually called well the unofficial name is the ghost town it's
all um it's abandoned okay it's been like this since the 80s they didn't have
the permit for it so I'm not flying over anyone's houses or anything like that
I'm not gonna be a you know annoying anyone so I'll bring it back now towards
me making so much less noise than the me drone so see what it's like now when it
descends cuz that's the noisiest bringing it down okay it's not exactly
quiet you can still definitely hear that
down towards me here
it's still a little noisy but that is just so much quieter
okay so just gonna rotate it around here point it back towards me right on to me
here so I'm gonna go into the tracking mode so you got the different mode see
if you touch that little control icon we've got two active track you've got
the tripod mode tap to fly using the map of course our gestures only go into that
is loads of videos that cover all of this kind of thing if I was to go into
every single thing that this has this drone we would be here for 30 minutes or
an hour or so so there I am again I get it to track me now okay so it's tracking
me hit go this is exactly like the spark speed priety you can see a few other
things you can get it to sort of fly around you too and things like that so
just run over here see it's keeping me in the shot the whole time now hopefully
I can use this money to go mountain biking because actually mountain bike
along here it's a trail don't flick it back into sport mode
Kings up again yeah just doing almost 60 kilometers per hour
there we go landed and done so this is a fantastic drone here the Maverick Pro
and the Platinum gives you just a slight little tweak to the propeller so it
makes about five decibels less noise gives you a few more minutes of flight
time and I'll take that you always want to get extra minutes but is it worth
upgrading to this model well no existing maverick Pro owners wouldn't be
upgrading you just go out and buy the new blades that's all you need to do
because the rest of it is exactly the same there so it's a very easy drone to
fly it's got a lot of advanced features the tracking mode the orbit mode the
collision avoidance sport mode as well as quite a bit of fun because it really
picks up and you do notice that change in performance there with it so a lot of
people would probably think hang on this is a massive cost to pay if I'm new to
starting out with drones and yes it is that is why I personally did not start
out with the Maverick Pro I went for a cheaper option which was the Xiaomi me
drone 4k and I feel that that drone really does offer a lot now it doesn't
have the portability of this this only weighs about 750 grams it folds down and
the me drone is quite bulky it weighs well over a kilo and you can only fold
down the legs on it but the 4k footage I found to be quite similar to what's on
offer here it's not as good so the footage on the mebut pro yes is unknot
sharp a level above that but i feel for the price that is probably a good drone
to start out with now the spark I also reviewed that so
check that out over here and take a look at my me drone 4k review there as well
there really is no cons to this drone apart from the fact that yes it is very
expensive and if I was to be picky I do feel that they could have made the box
also act as a case