alrighty guys so
all right i hope you enjoyed that intro my name is Brett Garamella, the Drone Pilot Pro,
and in that introduction i tried to mix it up so you could see both the dji fpv drone traditional
fpv drone and then a normal dji drone and you can see the different footage now obviously you could
fly an fpv drone sort of like a normal drone in a normal drone sort of like an fpv drone so there's
a million ways you can fly but i thought that would be a cool introduction for today's video
i'm gonna give you three reasons to buy the dji fpv drone that's gonna come out on march 2nd
and three reasons not to buy it okay now i'm gonna give you a lot more than three reasons but three
major reasons and then some little reasons also to both buy it and not buy it so there's been so
many leaks online and i've checked with a few legitimate sources and yes the dji fpv drone
is finally going to come out on march 2nd so march 2nd you'll be able to buy that and i'll put a link
below this video so if you want to buy that you can check that out so in this video i'm not going
to spend a ton of time going over the specs i'm going to go over them briefly and then we're gonna
get into the three reasons why you should buy it and three reasons why you should not buy it okay
so let's go over these specs i'm sure a lot of you know it already but let's just run down now we
don't know all the specs and yes i'm getting these specs from many different sources so it's hard for
me to cite just one source but several of these sources have flown the actual drone so i'm just
going to give you the specs that we know right now but there's still some things we'll find out
on march 2nd so i'm going to briefly go over the specs that we know so dji fbv is going to shoot
4k at 60 frames per second and 1080p at 120 frames per second so we're gonna get great slow motion so
that slow motion is obviously needed because we're gonna be flying so fast so dji has implemented
the same ai rock steady stabilization from the osmo action which is great digital stabilization
obviously we prefer mechanical but digital stabilization and osmo action look great it'll fly
like a normal gps drone up to about 35 miles per hour and then if you switch it to sport mode it
can fly faster than every dji drone on the market right now except for the inspire 2 so it's going
to be able to fly up to 60 miles per hour in sport mode all right so then if you want to go into full
manual mode this is for fpv pilots if you have no experience flying fpv drones i won't do this
before practicing on a simulator getting some experience but in full manual mode it flies up
to 90 miles per hour and dji has a little tutorial in the goggles because you have the fpv goggles so
it's going to give you a little tutorial on how to use manual mode but with that said we'll have to
see exactly how that tutorial is i've heard about it but i haven't tried it out so we'll have to see
then the dji fpv also has the return to home feature so you'll always know where you took
off and where you are and where the drone is so if you want to return to home that's a great feature
and then if the battery gets low the drone returns to home automatically it's got obstacle avoiding
sensors in the front and downward i'm not sure if that's just in normal mode or also in sport mode
i imagine it's not in manual fpv mode but we'll have to see but it does have obstacle avoidance
sensors in the front and the bottom so the field of view the lens it's a little wider than a normal
gopro lens so it's going to give you a wide field of view which is nice to have now another nice
feature is that it's gonna shoot h.264 and h.265 so i always tend to shoot h.265 so my footage
looks better but if you have a slower computer you may want to just shoot h.264 and that's perfectly
fine now a really great feature is this emergency button i don't know the name of what they call it
but i'm just calling it emergency button so when you press the emergency button the drone
just stops and it just hovers in place so i guess if you go into manual mode and you're flying fpv
and you have a heart attack you're like oh i didn't mean to press that i don't know how to fly
an fpv drone uh let me stop it i'm gonna hit the wall you just press the emergency button and the
drone will just stop and hover in the air and then if you're an experienced fpv pilot or you really
get into the fpv mode you're gonna be able to buy a separate controller and kind of like a joystick
just move it in different directions to move the drone in those directions so you like tilt it to
the left and down and then the drone will go left and down so that'll be really cool if you get into
the manual mode the fpv mode for this drone and lastly with the specs it's gonna fly up to 20
minutes i imagine more like 15 minutes or so maybe 15 18 minutes says up to 20 minutes but depends on
how you're flying obviously if you're pushing in fpv mode you're gonna get less flight time but
still that's a tremendous amount of flight time for an fpv drone because most fpv drones get about
two to seven minutes now some obviously get a lot longer and i know you can customize it to fly for
a really really long time all right but i'm just talking in generalities for this video all right
the first reason to buy this dji fpv drone is because it's easy to use right out of the box
you don't really buy a normal fpv drone okay usually you build it now there are fpv drones
you can just buy right out of the box and fly but from most fbv pilots that i know they prefer to
actually build their own fpv drones and fly them and customize them and then usually when you fly
you end up crashing it and having some spare parts and some extra drones ready so that you can fly
them and then you have to repair it so you have to know a lot of things about soldering putting it
together how to repair it and all this can take a lot of time and then just to be able to be a
good fpv pilot it does take some time to get good at that usually people just stay at home and they
practice on their computer flying with a simulator and just getting good at the different moves
okay so with this dji fpv drone you won't have to worry about doing all that it flies like a normal
gps drone so you can just do that right out of the bat and make use of it then it has the option
yeah if you practice with a flight simulator or you get good at flying fpv drones then you can
use the fpv mode however you don't necessarily have to do that so for ease of use the dji fpv
drone will be a lot easier and i don't really consider a fpv drone i consider it more like a
hybrid drone so i put it cross between here's a normal drone here's an fpv drone and in between
is dji fpv it's kind of like the best of both worlds but not exactly a true fpv drone so
if you're an experienced fpv pilot probably this drone isn't for you because you want to
build and customize and repair your own drone and you won't be able to repair it so if you're just
starting out and want to get going real fast this is a good introduction to fpv drones without like
pushing you head first in so to speak all right the second reason to buy this dji fpv drone is
for dji safety features now there's a lot of great features on this drone that are implemented from
a normal dji drone so it has the return to home point you can see where that is the drone will
return to home when the battery's low you'll also be able to see the drone and where you are
so if you get really far you know the battery's low you need to bring it back okay that's really
nice and because it flies like a normal gps drone and a fpv drone you could go in normal gps mode
and the drone will just hover it also has that emergency button that you can press if you're
flying in fpv mode and you freak out you're like oh no i can't do this then the drone will just
hover which is really nice in place and go back to you know gps mode and the other thing is you're
flying really far so if you go really far out when flying a fpv drone a digital fpv drone you
can freak out because if you lose signal sometimes that could be uh disastrous you may not see that
drone again right whereas you know i'm not talking about analog here i'm talking about digital so
with dji's drone at least you have that return to home feature and you don't have to worry about
flying really far the signal strength is going to be really good and yeah it'll give you a little
bit more of a peace of mind when flying long distances now like i said before there are fbv
drones that you can fly really far and you don't have to worry about that but again i'm talking
in generalities i'm not talking about specific drones you can customize fpv drone to make it
much better than this dji fpv drone but again customization depends on how much time and effort
you want to put into all those things and for most people that's not practical so for the safety
features built in right out of the box this is really good to have all right the next reason to
buy the dji fpv drone i mentioned this before is the longer flight time okay with most fpv drones
you're only gonna fly two to seven minutes let's say like three to five minutes it's kind of normal
with dji fpv drone you'll be able to fly 15 to 18 minutes maybe even up to 20 minutes
so this is really great and allows for really long flight time now i hear you in the comments
some people out there saying wait a minute i have an fpv drone that flies for you know 45
minutes or something really long like this yes you can make an fpv drone fly for a really long time
but again i'm talking for the majority of people out there flying fpv usually it's a short period
of flight time and for this dji fpv drone 15 to 20 minutes is great time for an fpv drone especially
right out of the box alrighty so now that we have the reasons why you should buy the dji fpv drone
let's go into the reasons why you should not buy it so the first reason is because you'll probably
have to fly this drone in remote areas and you won't be able to fly this as much in cities
around people now if there aren't people around sure you can do that but with the new drone rules
flying over people flying over vehicles this drone because it flies so fast can have an a dramatic
impact if it hits someone so the new rules state that you you can't do this so i'm not gonna get
into all the rules about that that's not for this video but in summary this drone weighs enough
and flies fast enough that it could be risked to some people as deemed by the faa therefore you're
really restricted to fly it more in areas where there aren't people and because it weighs over
250 grams or 0.55 pounds you'll have to register it with the faa and you'll have to follow remote
id when that goes into effect in 2023 so that's looking down the road but if this is an investment
you want to have for a while and use this drone then that's something you have to think about
the second reason not to buy dji fpv drone is because it's going to cost between 1300 to 1500
so it's going to be over a thousand dollars which is kind of pricey considering you could get a
mavic air 2 right now or a skydio2 and that drone will fly really great and you'll have a lot less
crashes and give you great cinematic footage and you can even use the mavic air 2 and the skydo2
and speed up the footage in post to make it kind of look like an fpv drone now granted i understand
there's so many things you can do with fpv drone and the way you fly that you can't really do with
a normal drone but i'm saying if you wanted to you could get a lot of the cool fast action and fast
movement of an fpv drone you could simulate that in post-production with the right editing
techniques and the thing is a mavic air 2 or skydio2 are for beginners they can right out
of the box they can fly it whereas an fpv drone takes a lot of time to learn so if you really want
to maximize the fpv features of this new dji fpv drone then you're going to probably want to fly
in a flight simulator and get really good at that or at least feel really confident before you fly
your real drone because if you crash it then it's crashed and you have to send it back to dji you
can't really repair it yourself so that's gonna be a bummer you're gonna have to wait all the time so
it might make more sense just to get a mavic air 2 or a skydio2 and the chances of you crashing are a
lot less now normal fpv drones can take a beating you can fly it crash it and usually they won't you
know you might damage the propeller here or there or you know the camera might come loose and just
have to secure it and stuff like that but it's not gonna ruin the whole drone like
you could just make that repair right onto the site just fix it and then just take off again
or you know you have a spare part or a spare drone you could just put the camera on that new drone
and then just take off whereas with the dji fpv if you crash you're pretty much at the will of
dji you have to send it back to the manufacturer you're not going to have the spare parts and it's
going to be so complicated and it's going to have proprietary dji parts you're not going to
have those parts on hand to repair it so you have to rely on dji to repair it and then send it back
so that's going to be kind of a pain and ruin your whole creative flow and lastly with this dji
fpv drone you're only going to be able to use the camera that dji has whereas people who build their
own normal fpv pilots they use their own cameras or they buy a separate camera like a gopro a 360
camera or you could even build a a whole big rig and hook up a cinema camera to it so you have so
many more options pretty much sky's the limit with the fpv drone whereas this dji fpv drone
you're really stuck to whatever dji gives us now this camera is going to be good shoots 4k
up to 60 frames per second but it's still not that big of a sensor it's not a one inch sensor
so a lot of people may be kind of upset about that they're like wait a minute it's the the camera's
good but it's not like great you know i might as well just use my gopro or i you know i could use
my 360 camera or i could use my cinema camera so again customization you're relying on dji
it's kind of a double-edged sword some people like that but true fpv pilots and people who
like building and creating and having that control won't like this drone and the last reason not to
buy the dji fpv drone is that you can't fly it alone and you can't fly it in a big group so you
can't go out there and just fly it alone because you're wearing the goggles and you have to be
able to see have a visual line of sight so to meet the faa standards for that i don't know how this
counts but the faa does consider it acceptable if someone else is watching your drone so it's called
a visual observer so as long as you have one other person watching the drone while you're flying with
the goggles they consider that okay all right technically you really should be able to see
your drone at all times but with fpv drones they do allow this so if you're wearing the goggles
you won't be able to see the drone so you always have to have someone to fly and like for me in
my situation right now i live alone kind of in a remote area so i don't really have friends that i
fly with around here and what am i gonna do like i plan on getting this drone but then i'm gonna
have to try to find someone else to fly with or someone to watch my drone okay so that can be kind
of annoying and with the traditional fpv drone you can build it yourself it'll be a lot cheaper
and you can get a whole community of other fpv pilots who can tune into your feed
and they'll be able to see what you're seeing so it has that whole bonding and community aspect
whereas dji fpv this isn't yet a niche now it could be a whole bunch of people obviously going
to buy this drone so you could get together with other dji fpv pilots but they have to have the dji
fpv drone for them to tune into your feed and see what you're seeing and sort of communicate in that
manner and have that bonding experience but for traditional fbv pilots being able to have control
over the drones you build and already having that community being able to get together and watch
and see how each other are flying in real time is a great feature and that could develop with
dji fpv we'll have to wait and see all right so i hope you enjoyed that video gave you some reasons
to think about whether you're going to get this drone or not personally i am going to get this
fpv drone hey because i got the channel i sort of have no choice but i am looking forward to it
and my thought is if you learn those fpv skills you can combine that with your normal shooting
skills to be more creative and have a whole new skill set to present to clients so if you think
you want to make money with your drone this could be an interesting way and a new skill set to have
to make money with your drone and it can just be fun if you want to bond with other people
like i said you need to have someone else with you and then you can reach out to other people
and it might have that nice bonding experience we'll have to see about that in my next video i'm
going to give a more in-depth look at the dji fpv drone after flying it for a while comparing that
with a traditional fpv drone and then comparing that with a normal dji drone so i'm going to
compare all those in much greater detail so that's something you want to see consider subscribing
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drone pilot to fly like a pro and before i leave this video just wanted to let you know i have a
free drone gear guide that i continually update so i'll have to add the dji fpv drone to that
by the time you're watching it'll probably be in there and you can get that guide by clicking right
up there or in the link below thanks for watching guys give this video a thumbs up if you enjoyed
it or share it with a friend. I'm Brett Garamella, the Drone Pilot Pro, and remember, Fly Like a Pro!