5 Reasons To NOT BUY the DJI FPV Drone 

He's talking from a drone videographer perspective and this drone has only limited uses in that field. This drone is great for people who aren't drone savvy and want a high quality FPV experience with long range and handholding to keep them from destroying their expensive toy.

I think I've heard every reason people have come up with on why I should not to buy this drone but I still got the DJI FPV anyway! Even weeks after, I've still no regret about it! ✌️

@Danny, that’s sucks about the power issue. You have the limiter disabled and it’s still like that?

I just bought this drone. I was SO impressed with it I went all in , extra batts, backpack. I love the anti crash tech -must have. I went out of range and it comes back until you take it over. Very impressive. Yo need to go into goggles and disable all ROLLS in the controls. This is good to just get used to it. These guys are all picky but this drone is awesome. With the goggles INCREDIBLE. Worth every penny

Great video pal. Thanks for the info!

Love the video but love even more the sudden inserts! Right on point and funny!!

I agree that getting a custom built FPV drone with go pro hero 9 is the way to go, however for someone who wants to get into FPV that doesn’t want to start building, soldering and tuning their quad, and simply wants to start flying right immediately, this thing is awesome( that is me). With good lighting/proper editing software you can still get some epic shots and serves a purpose in the world of FPV.

when it comes to the Nazgul5, are their shops for me to take it to if I need repairs and what not?

Ironic - your footage at the very end sold me on it hahaha. Great videos man

I'm looking into the nazgul5 and the dji. What setup do you have with the nazgul5? I'm New to fpv and want to buy a complete setup and thought the dji is the easiest way to go but don't want to regret it. Would love to hear what setup you have fora complete fpv drone with the Nazgul5.. And the price cheaper to get the nazgul5 with the dji goggles?

How was it with mounted gopro? And how would you compare it with nuzgal with mounted gopro?

Hey man, i would love to fly a nazgul but the only thing holding me back are the goggles which have problems activating if you don't have the dji drone.

If I was an enterprising FPV frame designer, I would consider making a frame that could mount the electronics of this drone. Lighter weight, higher durability, it would be a good performance upgrade, and an option for people who inevitably use up their care refresh to possibly give their busted drone a new lease on life without spending $750 for a whole new one.

Just discovered you and subscribed. Some questions for you if you wouldn't mind answering? 1. Have you compared recording in D-cinlike and color grade in post? 2. Could you smooth out your flying skills to help smooth out DJI's footage? 3. If you record the DJI in 4K60, could you get comparable video stabilization in post? Great footage - I've been recording drone videos for years and getting ready to move into FPV.

Hi Danny I'm in Australia and need your opinion, I have had a stroke and only can use my right hand my left hand does not have fine motor skills Ive been told to purchase this drone as you can use one handed do you have any other ideas Regards Rob

I love almost everything about my DJI FPV drone including the look!!

Thank you danny, very nice video on the cons. Very respectful to DJI

The drone's "chodie" body design appears to be a lifting body, which would make it potentially energy efficient in forward flight.

What would you suggest for my first fpv?

NEW SUB nice vid bud just started with a basic mavic pro , would like to step up for drift/sport shots

How can I get the steady shot program

Can I find a ready to fly drone like yours(the one with yellow props) somewhere?

Dude I love this thing and its my first official real FPV drone. It is easy to fly and its perfect for those who have no experience flying drones. It has the Return to Home mode. Also has alot of safety measures like Collision avoidance. The camera gimble is easy to control with the switch. It goes 90 + plus miles an hour and it can fly in areas where you want to surveillance. It has N mode S sport mode and then M manual mode which should be full able to do acrobats and way more upgrades in the future no doubt to increase its capacity for those who become more efficient with them.

I’m thinking about buying an FPV for a sixteen year old. From your perspective is it more economical to buy this as the first FPV or to do the build your own (he’s capable) and buy all the other components. Great reviews. I’ve got a Mavic Mini-3 Pro and I’ve subscribed to your channel now. Well done!

I'm really asking. Unless you carrry the updated aviation sectional chart that FAA publishes every 90 days, how do you know you are not in a no fly zone?

Can you tell me how to build the fpv drone you own? List parts so I can replicate? I really want the dji fpv but the price is stiff.

good info thank you

Could you take out the camera from the drone and modify the GoPro camera for it??

18650 battery packs for drones are blocks made from battery, AA is a type of battery very different from 18650. Dji has 6s lipo but with low c rate as a 18650 not even close to a high c rate racing drone race, you can read specs on dji site

What is better Air 2S or DJI FPV I've been looking at these two drones for a while but I don't know which one to get

Just ordered mines, cant wait to fly it.

Do you need a drone permit or anything to fly in mexico?

might i suggest looking up 4500m up in DJI fpv drone. Also are you using full acro in any of these scenarios, I may be wrong but it seems more like you are flying only in sport mode

Great review

hello, thanks for the review. I want to ask you about the FPV flying mode (M mode in Dji FPV). what is your first advice for beginners? is the simulator really beneficial? thanks again man

Is it possible, when you've rached the max. 500 meter altitude when hovering onto something, to update the height to 0 and then hovering again 500 meters?

Dude whats the best drone that you'd recommend?

At 2:23 you are in Valladolid, Yucatán, México! 🙌🏽

Carbon fiber frame. I’m with ya there.. the power? I live in a place with high elevation where oxygen is thinner and even in those conditions. I never have a problem with power. The one and only issue I have is the process to replace an arm. The soldering. The full unbuild process. They need to develop the vers 2.0 with quick assembly/disassembly parts for rapid redeployment. That’s the number one issue with quads from dji. Even I have replacement arms with motors on them with 3 prong connectors ready to install and go

If the drone weighed less than 250g, would it’s lightness aid in crash worthiness (less mass/weight) or worsen it (fragility/less flight time with smaller batteries)? I’d settle for less than 20-30 minutes flight time if it were 15-20 minutes.

Hi Danny >| nice video . Thanks. Could you please send your fpv drone where to buy it with every part< because amazon link does not work. thank youuu

3:31 Does geofencing take notams into account? Might be the reason you weren’t able to get it off the ground

Was almost impossible to skip the DJI care pop-up, No idea what happened there.

dude that issue you talk about at 3mins in with giving the drone power and it not responding is something i just had happen to me and after 4-5 months of never once even touching down rough with this drone in the one time it did to me exactly what your explaining it went full send into a giant palm in my yard and the crazy part is i can pretty much rule out enviromental stuff like wind because it was dead calm that day and i was flying really close to myself when it happened. Its almost like it dropped radio signal but kept video for some odd reason and i wish i could say it only happened temporarily i cant even say that for sure because it really only took 1-2 seconds of that issue happening before it was smashed to pieces to the point where im left having to buy replacement everything pretty much. Its crazy to me that your basically describing what 100% also happened to me. Prior to this i never had a single issue and flew it relatively often but not so much that it would make sense for it to be possibly a motor going out either.

Also, why not modular parts? Especially the arms. Maybe designed with break points so all parts can be modular.

You do really good reviews.

you can be as far as possible from the nearest airport but you are still in the airport approach sectors or entrance gates which won't allow you to fly.

can you please fix the link to your iflight nazgul, it just takes me to amazon homepage

Would you recommend it for someone who doesn't want to build a drone? I like to have with a nice range just to cruise around and i dont really like building this stuff

Hi Danny, love your video. Could you tell me the configuration of the drone with yellow prop ? frame , motor, etc. thanks

Love this vid!!!! Straight up Real. Thanks!

what is the name of your backpack?

Hey my friend I'm super new to your chanel do you have any videos on a good complete fpv set up for newbies? What do I actually NEED to get into fpv? Finding what to buy at the start has been a task for sure any help from anyone would be amazing 🙏🏼

Great honest review! I'm keen to get into the FPV cinematography world and the DJI FPV was my next option but looking at this i'm thinking of something more customisable. Thanks for the review! ps Love the world map on the wall. Was that a 3D print?

Question I enjoy vid goggles, So fpv through a phone screen is stupid. If i wanted a mavic can i get a set up where i can use say fathshark goggles on a mavic ? Because its the better drone just fpv with goggles can you ?

This video was so useful

If you’re new to flying and want to get the basics down this is a good place to start but once you learn I would stick to building one and not dealing with DJI complicated softwares

It definitely breaks super easy. On my first crash, I was going like 5 miles an hour and I ran into a pool noodle, it slammed to the ground and burnt out the motor. lol BUT I send it in for repair, paid 75 and DJI sent me a whole replacement! So that was rad. So if you send yours in, pay for the repair not the replacement if you can! they will probably just send you a freshie.

If you can safely dismantle the DJI FPV then I would make carbon fibre parts out of the components that you can. In fact it wouldn't be too difficult. I doubt the weight saving would be much but there should be gains in strength of the frame. Maybe. Great content.

I don’t how you turn your DJI fpv cause when I first started mine the first thing I got on my screen was the DJI care Refresh... like I don’t know what was wrong with your drone lmao...

dono how i found your channel but I was in one of your zoom group calls the other day 😅😆 small small world hahaha !

What is your recommendation for 2022?

Funny thing about you saying its not snappy and doesn't punch up when you go up. I don't have this drone but i have tested it on Lift-off sim and i can feel what you are describing.

what about an nd filter on your dji drone for the comparison??

maybe the menuverability is something that can be adjusted in the control settings?

Have any of these issues been addressed by DJI? I'm currently looking for a good FPV drone.

I have this drone and I love it!

Dji care refresh is ABSOLUTELY a MUST HAVE for beginners! I got it with my mini 2 (first ever drone) and have used it once already... on the very first day 😓 That hurt. But it was definitely a favorable situation to not having purchased the plan! Mine was $50, $49 to replace, would be $70 for second but that won't happen. $250 for flyaway.

Ahh. yeah.. I've heard a lot of people coming from self built FPV drones (including myself) saying the same, we're ALL waiting for a DJI FPV drone with a carbon fibre frame, I think DJI would sell a lot more by doing a more "tinker friendly" drone.

At the end of this, I think all your good reasons far outweigh all the cons this drone might have! The fact that it can fly right away makes it a good enough reason to have one!

You can unlock other settings and nfz zones and flight limiter

it has the same sensor as the old mavic air :( maybe a better lens to improve it??

thanks bro

Hi there Danny. Ridge runs ARE still possible, as long as your launch is equally high or higher than your objective. Most of my videos have satellite & high-altitude drone intro sequences. (Around 1000 to 1500m a.g.l.)

I’ve noticed the same prob some you mentioned when flying over the wave. I had this happen the other day while doing a very mild dive around some trees. My battery was around 65% but giving it full throttle the drone did not want to gain any altitude. I was close and could hear the motors whine at full throttle (I was in manual mode angled up) but I just couldn’t go up. It felt like flying with a flat battery.

I already have the DJI FPV, but if I sell the drone (and keep the goggles/controller) what FPV drone would you recommend getting instead for increased performance?

Nice video

The “I know what I’m doing so I should be able to break the rules” mode probably isn’t a good idea…

You referenced several times that the maximum altitude is 500m, I think you need to check the specs again. In the Specs the DJI FPV's Max Service Ceiling Above Sea Level is 6,000 m, I've seen an altitude test on RU-vid of it doing 4500m.

I beg to differ here somewhat! I prefer the built-in camera on the FPV instead of the gopro. The footage is less wobbly thanks to its RockSteady EIS plus the quality of the videos are way better IMO!

Dude I can't put it down.. it's my favorite thing I have ever bought.. I have nice cameras .. oled tvs.. ps5.. nothing touches the fun of this drone

This will work for me thanks tho for this vid

Just got it as my first drone EVER. I might get another one maybe someone thing smaller and more quiet. But I'm have an absolute BLAST. I was between this one and the Avata.

Only thing I think to mention, in the app you can override the height limit in the flight settings menu

Thanks! I just changed my mind

Was an honor to edit!

I just bought one.. absolutely love it

Can't you turn off the GeoFence? On my Mavic I have the ability to turn off that and fly in about anywhere I want. I have not even attempted to fly near a major airport.

I have one of these. It is freaking awesome. The highest I got with it was little over 1600 feet before it said that was the limit. I went to record some mountain scenery in a canyon and just beautiful shots...yes I am an amatuer. But, there was a point where I lost image transmission and my goggles went blank...the drone itself continued to record and fly itself until I could see in the goggles again. It's quite the device lol...

Geofencing and height limit are a killer

Whats the intro song?

Thanks for the video you shared. For me flying drones is the easiest thing, not a problem. I like high speed drones. Flying is fun, but the problem is being disturbed by people who have questions. I don't like talking to strangers. It's the most annoying thing in my life.

I don't know what to say to this video ...in my opinion completely missed items, first he complains about the quality of the camera, then he says that he prefers traditional FPV to fly .... then he complains about the flight altitude, with traditional FPV you just reach 500 meters and you can go back immediately because you no longer have battery power. these are incredibly vain comments from a man who says he works professionally, and that this drone could have a better camera ???

You can do a "sport" version of this drone yourself with a half sized battery .., that is probably the reason it sometimes feels underpowered the weight ...

The most thing I like about the FPV is the Savage startup sound 😈😎

Great review. I want to buy a drone but know nothing about them apart from they fly and make a huge noise. I had no idea about this geolocation thing, I wonder how that works here in the UK.

So how does this thing work in regards to flying rules? I was under the impression you weren’t allowed to fly your drone “out of your range of sight” which is about 1500ft. If you’re doing fpv you can’t really “keep an eye on it” lol. Just wondering how that works. Edit, I found the rules. Apparently if you are using FPV goggles you must have a “spotter” or designated person to watch your drone to make sure it never goes out of line of sight.

The reason dji has no punch is because it use a battery with low discharge rate, way less than a 120 c we use on a real racing drone.

Thanks. Watched 100%.

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