- Okay this is some tips for new DJI drone owners,
so let's start.
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So first tips is about you really want
to update all the firmware on your drone,
on your remote control, and batteries.
Remember batteries have to update firmware.
It's not like when I was small you buy a console, back home,
plug it in and you can play right away.
These day you buy a PS4, Xbox, you have
to spend like an hour update everything
on that box and station.
Soon you may have to update your toilet paper
something before you can use it.
Last time I thought I’ve updated everything.
Then realise I have to update all batteries I've got.
I probably waste a few minutes of fly time
just to update the batteries.
So how do you update your battery?
You have to plug in this battery,
and then you will update everything,
and then you have to plug in your another battery
to check if there's update,
and if there's update you should install it.
While updating you should consider getting DJI Care
on top of the normal warranty as it cover accidents as well.
So now it's time to pick your location
for your first flight.
It's good idea to pick an open area not in the wood.
For quite obvious reason.
It's easier to fly, less easy to crash into anything.
Well obviously obey local law as well.
Now where should your drone take off from.
Obviously not over there.
You put it at a centre of the road.
Also pick a point that's nothing above,
there’s not a tree above the take off area.
Because when the drone in low power,
if you lost control of the drone,
it come back straight down.
So obviously if there's a tree above it goes straight down
to the tree and become a bird.
Now would be a good idea to put on propellor guard
for your first flight.
Because when the propellor hits anything.
It's almost impossible to recover from it.
Now this is really simple test to show you
what happen when you drone propellor hit something.
I've done every safety measurement possible I can imagine.
Should be fine, yeah.
I can't say I'm not nervous about this
but the thing is I've tried it for you,
so you don't have to try it.
What I wanna demonstrate is that when
the propellor hits something.
It's almost impossible to recover from that,
so you really want to prevent that from happening.
Okay I going to let the propellor hit this tripod bag.
It's quite soft to not damage the propellor too much.
(drone flying)
Yeah that happened.
With advanced computer technology we reveal
what really happened in the final seconds from disaster.
When the propellor hits the bag.
It slow down and loose lift.
The drown tilt towards the bag
rather than away from the bag.
That's why it is almost impossible to get away from a crash.
Now turn on your DJI Go App.
Now you want to make sure everything is all right.
Kind of like an actual pilot pre-flight check list.
It even show you the check-list in front of you.
It might help like a Japan train driver.
Like point and call out.
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White glove optional.
GPS good, really important.
Compass really important good,
and Vision Sensors really important as well normal.
Oh this is your first flight.
Now after you take off, it's a good idea
to take off for a bit,
and then observe everything is normal,
and then go straight up.
For over 7 to 10 metres.
Because for Spark and Mavic Air you have
to take off straight up over seven metres
for it to recognise the floor pattern
for it to land automatically if you need to
For Mavic Pro you have to be at 10 metres.
Straight up, not like straight and then go forward.
So it's a good precaution.
Okay that was just too damn hot.
I think it is a better idea yourself in the shade.
Your drone take off in the open area.
That's better, yes.
Okay another tip is don't rush is.
Just don't rush it no matter what.
Actually it happened to me once.
It was my friend's drone as well.
It was already battery low,
so I thought I would just rush it
for just one more shot.
Just one more shot.
Because I'm rushing it I didn't realise
when I fly backward it just hit something and then it crash.
So, believe me if you fly a drone don't rush it.
And another thing about don't rush it is
that to get cinematic footage.
Now take off slowly.
Straight up.
It actually happened to me
that after I flew a drone for a few times.
I realised how bad the battery life is.
Actually it's not too bad.
It's like 15, 18 minutes but when you are flying it.
Time fly, and then when you realise that
you tend to rush everything.
After I got the footage back on the computer.
I find out everything is just too fast.
Well of course sometimes fast moving motion
is just what you want, but what I mean is
when you want slowest move motion if you are not calm.
You tend to rush it.
You don't even realise, so zen like.
Zen, zen like, calm.
Be like water.
Use the force.
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Another thing is obey all those warning signal.
For example if you see weak signal warning.
Better get the drone back closer to you.
Low battery warning is calculated based on
your drone altitude and distance from you.
So when you see that,
it's time to immediately bring the drone back
with auto return to home
or do it manually if you are confident.
They got different level of low battery warning.
No image transmission signal...
It's a good idea to remember
how do you trigger return to home without your phone.
To trigger return to home from the remote without a phone.
You press the return home button and hold it.
So this is really useful
when you just drop your phone or
something happen to your phone.
You just can't see what the drone sees
so you can't fly it back.
It's up there.
Oh for some reason it's doesn't land
to the exact same point.
Okay well I can still control it back.
(drone warning beep)
Now as you can see there is not a guarantee
that it will always work.
I mean all this automation, it's best to treat them
as a good back up when things go wrong out of your control.
It might get your drone safely back to your hand,
but still don't rely on them.
Rely on your self to fly them safely.
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Now when you are finally more confident
of flying it near obstacles.
You should always have an escape route in your head.
Like this, if I'm flying straight into it
if anything happened the escape route
is obviously coming back out.
If you don't have an escape route in your mind.
You might got panic and let it just stay there,
but escape route in your mind you know just go back out.
Now for example if I'm going to fly above water over there.
If you don't have the escape route in mind.
You may not know what to do.
Suddenly it's dropping, suddenly it's drifting.
Now I'm locking my eye on it,
and if you have this escape route in your mind.
You know you'll never pull the stick down.
Just remind yourself any thing happen pull up.
Pull it up.
I mean it might be obvious now,
but when things happen, okay, low power warning.
(drone warning beep)
So therefore these tips,
I think they should be quite useful for new owner.
The thing is DJI drone are really safe.
Really reliable if you don't do anything stupid.
So these tips is to
prevent you from doing anything stupid to your DJI drone.
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