My turn: New toy - DJI Mavic 2 Zoom
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2019 9:42 pm
So after playing with a Mavic Spark a couple of months ago, I decided I wanted a drone for my Bday/early Father's Day so I got a Mavic 2 Zoom.
Very easy to fly. Lots of cool features and an abundance of safeguards built in. The zoom feature on the drone is nice. I need to tinker some more with it and do more reading but after doing some basic things with it in beginner mode, I took the training wheels off. I've flown some RC back in the day and I'm comfortable with my abilities. I took it for a spin and sent off, out West (I live close to the Everglades). I only wish I had a better line of sight, as houses, tress and other things kill your signal but despite that, I was able to travel a little over 2 miles (11k ft) before the video signal started to hit 1 or 2 bars. That was just for video feed. I still had about 3 bars on the remote control signal. Could have continued on a Instrument flight. LOL
I hit the RTH button and watched it Return To Home just fine. It has some safeguards now where if it loses signal then it will stop in it's tracks. If it loses the signal for an extended time, like 30 or 60 seconds, it will RTH.
I need to play with the features that allow you to track people or pick a point of interest and it will circle it or perform other patterns while keeping the object centered. The video below was flown manually and it's my family's new house they just built. I showed him the drone and he wanted an aerial of the house.
Very easy to fly. Lots of cool features and an abundance of safeguards built in. The zoom feature on the drone is nice. I need to tinker some more with it and do more reading but after doing some basic things with it in beginner mode, I took the training wheels off. I've flown some RC back in the day and I'm comfortable with my abilities. I took it for a spin and sent off, out West (I live close to the Everglades). I only wish I had a better line of sight, as houses, tress and other things kill your signal but despite that, I was able to travel a little over 2 miles (11k ft) before the video signal started to hit 1 or 2 bars. That was just for video feed. I still had about 3 bars on the remote control signal. Could have continued on a Instrument flight. LOL
I hit the RTH button and watched it Return To Home just fine. It has some safeguards now where if it loses signal then it will stop in it's tracks. If it loses the signal for an extended time, like 30 or 60 seconds, it will RTH.
I need to play with the features that allow you to track people or pick a point of interest and it will circle it or perform other patterns while keeping the object centered. The video below was flown manually and it's my family's new house they just built. I showed him the drone and he wanted an aerial of the house.