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Anyone here into them? I see where they released the Air 2S today. Appears to be quite a deal.

Air 2S

A photographer on one of my climbs gave one to my boys, a Mavic. They enjoy fooling around with it but is more of a toy to them than anything.

The tech is pretty amazing. It can stay almost dead stable in quite a bit of wind, and it’s camera it great at locking on to people and trucks and UTVs and boats and such so the drone can follow them around.

It probably beams the video straight back to the chinks so we don’t point it at anything important.

glad I don't see them things out here. This is what I think of them flying over anything but their own property or that which they have permission to fly over.

I've used a Mavic Air since 2018.

These will be SOP on police stops in 5 years
Video will bypass the department and go straight up IAD database.
Soon as the patrol vehicles come to a stop the drone will lift off the charging station and video everything. Facial recognition, infrared, thermal...

My kid and his buddy have had there top of the dji drones since they came out ..my 2 kids got me the 249g Minnie. Good times I tell ya ! My boys has 4000k telephoto. He's even got a chit hook for it and flew up to the next guy on the street and gave him a beer !

I've been using a phantom 3 advanced for several years. Picked it up as a duck scouting tool when my Dad got too old to be beating thru 200yds of cattails just to see if there was a pond to hunt.

1984 is here.

I’ve got both the Mavic Air and the Mavic Mini. I tend to fly they Mini more just cause its cheaper if I crash it. I’m suprised I haven’t yet.
There’s a lot of uses for one—farming, ranching, surveying, construction estimates etc. I use mine mostly for scenery shots while fishing. It would be great for hunting but I would never do that as it is totally illegal.
If I can fly one anyone can—indeed got a couple of local boys that play games a lot on computer and its amazing what they can do with one.

I have a Mavic Mini 2. I have a lot to learn about them yet but it takes some very good photos and video when I do it right.

What range can one control one of these, didn't see it in the specs.

I just got one and am surprised just how much I like it. I put mine in sport mode and crashed into a tree, just yesterday I sent it to dji. Hopefully it’s fixed quickly.

It's very easy to overshoot your abilities. Of course the 1st thing anyone wants to do is find out how far away it can get. I had my Mini 2 out to over 2 miles line of sight. At that range, any obstruction at all will result in a loss of signal. Also at that range, the limiting factor isn't the signal, it's the battery. I took it straight out and back to about 2 1/4 miles and it came in running on static and all the low battery signals screaming. It was probably only a hundred yards short of autolanding itself in a field.
When filming video, you want to keep your eye on the subject to get the shot you want...and you run it into a tree or something. Don't try for fancy shots until you can fly it like an expert.

They tell you to not fly in cold weather. When it gets down in the 30's, your battery life is cut by 1/3. Keep your extra batteries in your pocket.
IMPORTANT: don't recharge a cold battery. Let it warm up to maybe 50 or more. Recharging a cold lithium battery will damage it and it won't take a full charge any more. That applies to your battery powered tools, too. Some chargers won't charge them when they're too cold.

Pretty good stuff there JW.

The FAA requires them to be kept in the operator's line of sight but most of them can be controlled 7+ miles out.

DJI Mavic 2 Pro here



There is a bit of a learning curve, but it takes some pretty spectacular photos........

These "stills" are straight out of the drone, no post photo processing.........

















Note the water trough near the bottom middle starting about 30 seconds into the video clip.



Here is the same water trough from a ground level with a ground blind set up where my Expedition is parked under the Oak Tree........







ya!

GWB

Do passenger flights and conventional aircraft flying over your place cause you concern as well?

Very nice!