battery flight test of the dji mini 3 pro and the dji air 2s all right i'm brick aramella and if you
haven't done so please subscribe to my channel so you can get more drone videos to help level
up your skills and become a better drone pilot now in this video i did a battery flight test
with these two drones and i was actually surprised by the results and i did my best to make this a
fair test although there is no perfect test and i'll explain what i did so in this test there's
three rounds now there's many factors that could affect the flight of the drone such as how you fly
the drone the weather conditions the humidity and stuff like that i flew early in the morning so the
first two rounds were about 75 degrees and then the last round was around 85 degrees so the last
round might have cut the battery life a little bit but the first two rounds is probably normal flight
conditions and the wind for this test was around three to five miles per hour so pretty normal
flight conditions so i feel like it's an accurate representation what you're gonna see in the real
world now the dji mini 3 pro has two batteries the normal battery that keeps the drone at 249
grams that's this battery and the second battery is slightly heavier so it puts you over 250 grams
so i tested both batteries for each round so if we go to dji's website with the normal battery
the dji mini 3 pro maximum hovering time is 30 minutes now the maximum flight time is 34 minutes
okay so 30 minutes and 34 minutes which is pretty good time according to what they say it is now
with the heavier battery you get much more flight time so hovering you get up to 40 minutes and then
flying at a constant rate in ideal conditions you get up to 47 minutes now this is what dji says in
perfect conditions and i flew in pretty darn good conditions so we're gonna find out in a second
how my results stacked up with what dji said now for the air 2s and dji's website it
says it can hover for a maximum of 30 minutes and fly at a constant rate for a maximum time of up to
31 minutes all right so with that said let's jump into round number one where i hovered both drones
and i used the normal battery for the dji mini 3 pro now i brought the drones up to about eye
level and let them hover there and keep in mind for all these tests i try to make it as accurate
as possible so i use the mini 3 smart controller in my ipad and then i use my phone which had a
stopwatch to keep track of the time so i pressed the stopwatch exactly when the drone took off the
ground and then exactly when it landed to try to get it as accurate as possible and all my
batteries were charged up to 100 so round number one the dji air 2s hovered for 24 minutes and 55
seconds and the mini 3 pro hovered for 25 minutes and 15 seconds and i was really surprised because
i did a battery life test a long time back when the dji air 2s first came out and it didn't have
as much flight time when i did that test as it does now so i think dji did some firmware updates
that definitely made the batteries better and if you want to watch that test which i did with
the mini 2 you can click on the link up here and this kind of surprised me that there's only a 20
second difference between the normal battery and the air 2s basically they're pretty much the same
hovering that kind of surprised me i thought the mini 3 pro would win by a lot more by a landslide
but that's why i'm doing this test all right so now we're gonna go into round number two now in
round number two i use the heavier battery and of course this heavier battery is supposed to
give you a lot more flight time so i'm expecting a mini 3 pro to kill the air 2s only has that one
battery option so let's go to the results so in round number two the air 2s hovered for 24 minutes
and 52 seconds and the mini 3 pro hovered for 33 minutes and 27 seconds so naturally it hovered
for much longer than the air 2s and this is what i expected now i was happy with the consistency of
the air 2s batteries because i used two different batteries for round number one and round number
two and they were only off by a couple seconds so that shows you that this was an accurate test
and dji's batteries are consistent i was a little surprised that the mini 3 pro didn't last
longer okay these heavier batteries supposed to give you way more flight time up to 40 minutes
dji says it only got 33 minutes and 27 seconds was still great but i would have thought it would be
in the upper 30 minutes perhaps now we're gonna go on to round number three so for round number three
i didn't fly the drone simultaneously because i thought it would be too difficult to fly them
back and forth at a constant rate so what i did is i flew one drone and then i flew the other
so i threw the mini 3 pro then i threw the air 2s and then i threw the mini 3 pro again with
the heavier battery and i raised the drones up to 250 feet because i thought 250 feet is a normal
altitude that most people fly the higher up you go the altitude and the wind and the humidity all can
drain your battery so during this third round the wind was five miles per hour it was about 85 86
degrees during this test so it was a little warmer but there was very little humidity okay so because
of that i think it was a fair test not perfect but i did my best to fly the drones at a constant rate
which on dji site the ideal rate for the mini 3 pro is about 13.45 miles per hour or about 21
22 kilometers per hour so that's what i did so i flew the drone at 250 feet up in the air at a
constant rate between 13 and 14 miles per hour now doing this test i found it was a lot easier flying
the mini 3 pro at a constant rate whereas the air 2s it was a lot more difficult but i did my best
to keep it around that sometimes i was a little under sometimes a little over but overall i tried
to keep my thumb constant so the drone wasn't like jerking it was going at a smooth constant rate
which is what you want to get the ideal conditions and the ideal results so with that said let's get
to the results of round number three the air 2s flew 25 minutes and three seconds the mini 3 pro
with the 249 gram battery flew 25 minutes and 47 seconds and the mini 3 with a much heavier battery
flew 37 minutes and 9 seconds so overall that was expected that the mini 3 with a heavier battery
did much much better however i was really surprised that the air 2s battery and the normal
249 gram battery the mini 3 pro give you pretty much the same flight time okay you get a few more
seconds with the mini 3 pro maybe up to like 30 seconds more but it's really inconsequential okay
so these batteries are basically the same flight time on their respective drones whereas if you use
the bigger battery you get much more flight time and it's definitely worth it i advise you to get
it but the downside is that puts you over the 249 grams which a lot of people want to fly under the
249 grams because of certain regulations based on where you live so it's kind of annoying that the
mini 3 pro gets great flight time with a battery that puts it over 249 grams if you already have
the air 2s i would say just stick with it but if you're just starting out i would go with the mini
3 pro i think it flies better too that's the thing i discovered from doing this test flying them back
and forth it just felt a lot better it felt a lot smoother i can't really describe it accurately
but i will say the feel just feels better in my hand at least from my perspective flying all of
dji drones i was so surprised at how well it's flown now i've flown it a little bit before this
but during this test flying them back to back and feeling the difference i can say that the mini 3
pro definitely is smoother in flight has just a better feel and reacts to the movements and feels
like more of a professional drone which i was very surprised because i thought the air 2s would be as
good or actually better the air 2s is better in wind so if you live near an ocean or something
like this and you're flying in heavy wind then yeah the air 2s is going to be a much better drone
because the mini 3 pro it's still very lightweight so there's nothing you can do about it that's
the engineering of it it's gonna shake a little bit in heavy wind but in normal conditions with
normal wind it's definitely my choice so that's it for this test hope you enjoyed it now links down
below to all this gear plus a couple free videos i made to help you level up your drone skills like
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