Alrighty! Today we have the Mavic to the Mavic air 2 and the Mavic mini and
I'm going to show you how to use all three of these drones with your iPad in
today's video so let's get into it
alright I get this question all the time should I use an iPad should I use a
tablet should I use a smart controller what should I use with my drone now all
my drones these drones the Phantom 4 no matter what drone you're using I prefer
to use an iPad and I'll explain why now you could use the smart controller smart
controller is still a nice device to have however it's more expensive first
off than an iPad has a smaller screen so you get less screen real estate and I
really like having more screen real estate and I also found it to be a
little glitchy a few bugs and a few things that I didn't like so overall I
just like the iPad plus I use the iPad when I'm away from flying my drone so I
really like having an iPad it's very versatile and having the screen real
estate is great so I would go with an iPad now you may also be asking Bret can
I use an iPad Mini or can I use an iPad pro yes you could however the iPad pro
is most of them I found are too big for this tablet holder so just a normal
sized iPad fits in this tablet holder ok and it fits nice and snug so that's one
reason I use it and iPad Mini I said ipad mini iPad air or whatever
you call it the smaller iPad whatever the name for it is it's kind of too
small to me it has less screen real estate so I don't really like that and
also it tends to overheat in hot weather whereas the normal iPad and iPad pro
tend to not overheat in really hot weather now one thing to know the iPad
will overheat occasionally very occasionally it's happened to me only
two times and all my hundreds of times flying my drone
so only twice that's happened to me and that's been in extreme hot weather in a
tropical location near the equator so usually I fly in the morning or I find a
place with shade so you're if you're holding it in direct sunlight it's like
a hundred degrees and you're someplace like Colombia Indonesia or someplace
like the yes there's a chance it could overheat
but if you're just in a normal location even on a sunny day and a hot day in the
summer it's not gonna overheat I've never had a problem with it now if
you're professional and you're like Bret I can't have that risk of it overheating
ever you could go with the crystal sky that crystal sky is a great way also to
use your drone but to me the crystal sky it's made by DJI it's a little
overpriced and yes it's it is brighter than this
screen however I've used this even in direct sunlight I've never really had an
issue and I usually can find a place where there's some shade usually a tree
a house of building a plant something where I can find a little shade or just
turn my body away from the Sun and I'm able to see my screen fine with just a
normal iPad so that's my experience I've used my iPad professionally as well both
for real estate and commercial jobs and I've never had a client say anything bad
about it they've always been impressed with it so
from my experience I would say it's both good for hobbyists and professionals now
the next step is how do you connect the iPad with your drone because we have
these three different controllers they have different ports different
connections and I'm going to show you how to do that right now so first thing
you're gonna need is a tablet holder and this tablet holder is really nice
because it unfolds this is made by this one I got by pgy tech and I have links
to all this gear in the description below so make it nice and easy for you
to find for whichever drone you have and if you take this apart the nice thing
about this pgy tech holder just fold it up I can just fold it up like this and
then it comes with this nice little bag and I can put this bag like this and
we're good to go all right so we got this nice little bag
right here and we can travel with it nice and easy and then we just take it
out and there is your iPad holder okay tablet holder can you just take it
out like that has this part right here so you just pull it out like that and
that end right there it just goes in like this and it just screws in right
here so yeah I just put it in there just pops
in and we just screw it on and that's our tablet holder like that all right
and then we just stems out like that and we're good to go
that's it all right so that's our tablet holder and then you just put your iPad
right on the tablet holder all right we can just put our iPad right on our
tablet holder like this and voila we're good to go all right so that's a tablet
holder now we have a tablet holder right here and iPad is on it the nice thing is
it just goes right in alright so it just goes right in there when I'm done it
looks like this so basically I have it like this right above me so I fly it
like this and my thumbs are right here and it works great and you got that
screen real estate so you're gonna do that with the Mavic too and with the
Mavic MIDI now putting into the Mavic air 2 goes in right here actually it
might be a little easier it's not my favorite location with the iPad I
actually got used to the other way maybe that's because I've flown my Matic to so
much you can put it in like that so with the mavica or two obviously it's a
little higher and the controller's down here whereas with the other drones it's
down below with the Mavic 2 and the Mavic mini the tablet is over your hands
personally I don't look at my hands when I fly because I've just flown so much
I'm used to it if you're starting out and you need to look down at your
controller I suggest you start practicing and then get good so you
don't have to look I think most people don't look but it's never a problem for
me so I can just look at my screen and look at my drone and I'm never really
looking at my hands because I know where all the buttons are so now we need to
get into how do we connect it let's start with the Mavic - I'm gonna work my
way down to the Mavic air - and then down to the Mavic mini now the end that
goes into your iPad is obviously the lightning cable alright so the lightning
cable goes in the side here like this okay no matter which cord you have I use
a 1 foot cord for the Mavic - and for the Mavic mini but for the Mavic air - i
use a cord that's it's a little over a foot and a half it's about 1
six feet the reason is the design of the controller you need a little longer cord
with the Mavic air - but don't worry I put links to all these cores that I'm
using the exact cord in the description below because I had to search around a
while and tried a couple different cords and these are the ones that I found that
are the best so I'm gonna put the iPad down for a second and I'm gonna show you
the connection for each of these controllers so the first controller is
the Mavic - now you need to connect to the bottom right here in the bottom and
you're gonna connect that with a USB so if you buy this cord one ends the
lightning cable the other end is the USB and you just put it in here like that
and it's that simple and then you just put the other end into the controller
and you can fly it like that alright next up we have the Mavic air 2 and for
this controller you're gonna want to connect with a USB C so what I've found
out is that you charge down here so you don't want to connect the cable here
instead you want to connect it to the back
okay the USB C port back there it's kind of a pain in the butt to connect this
you just got to go back there helps if you have smaller fingers this is our
longer cable because of the design we need it to connect to our controller and
we're all good we're done and olestra on the Mavic mini we use a micro USB
connection so with the Mavic mini we're going to connect it right in the side
okay it's the only place we can put it and we put that right in the side like
that
so a quick recap of using our iPad with our DJI Mavic drones you're gonna need
to get an iPad I recommend a normal sized iPad get the tablet holder that I
put links to in the description below then you're gonna get these cables the
Mavic - you're gonna need a USB connection for the Mavic air - you're
gonna need a USB C connection and for the Mavic mini you're gonna need micro
USB and then at the other end obviously you have your lightning connection to go
into your iPad so that's how you connect your DJI Mavic drone with your iPad now
if you want to see all the gear I use kind of like this my little tips and
secrets behind that I created a free drone gear guide and I just updated it
for this month so it has all the new drones all the new technology
accessories software etc you can get that free guide by clicking right over
there. I'm Brett Garamella, The Drone Pilot Pro
and remember fly like a pro