It does mean however that you do not need to baby a Phantom and in case your drone does get damaged, the aircraft is easy to repair. Making most of these new features possible required a redesign. DJI streamlined the body and gimbal design, putting more of it inside the body. It has more powerful motors and propellers that lock on with a simple push and twist instead of the endless spinning required to get the old props on and off. I tested it out on my daughter as she rode her bike and as long as she didn’t move too fast, the drone was able to keep up. When she did travel out of its range, the drone started tracking her when she got near again.
Finally, the rear of the controller features two customizable buttons , and a power port. The DJI Phantom 4 is a compact, high quality quadrotor camera drone that can easily be carried from one location to the next for every project. With a flight time of 28 minutes per battery and a flight speed of up to 45mph, the Phantom 4 covers a large area in a short time period, significantly saving time and resources.
DJI’s is in fact a pretty amazing piece of technology and — for the moment — has supplanted the Phantom 3 Professional as the consumer camera drone to get if you’ve got the money. That said, the out-of-the-box flight experience isn’t all that different from the Phantom 3 — any of them. To be sure, the Phantom 4 does more, but if you are a beginner, there are less expensive options for learning to fly and capturing nice video and photos while you do it. A little movement on the stick literally goes a long way, though. And the OSS doesn’t work in Sport mode so if you’re flying head-on into something, don’t expect these sensors to save you. Plus, when it is travelling at top speed, it takes much more time for it to stop.
It works pretty well, as long as your subject isn’t too small and doesn’t blend into the background. I was able to get it to follow me around with no problems when I wore a tan coat while standing on a green athletic field. But when our family dog moved from grass to a fallow field that was close to his coloring, the Phantom lost track of his movements. The dji mini 2 fly more combo Pro ships with a big, comfortable remote control. The left stick controls the altitude and spins the aircraft about its axis.
It’s a modest improvement from the , which is rated for 28 minutes and netted about 23 minutes of flight time in our tests. TapFly, which lets you move the Phantom to a point in space by tapping on it in the Live View feed, is joined by Draw. Draw works in a similar manner, but lets you draw a flight path on your screen. The drone will fly along the path, avoiding obstacles using its forward and rear sensors along the way. The drone also has a Sport mode, which increases the maximum speed to 45mph, but absolutely no obstacle detection is enabled. It can go faster with help from the wind—the app told me that my Phantom 4 Pro was flying around 50mph in Sport mode for a good stretch of distance during one of my test flights.
The base station also includes a charging station and two sets of batteries, as well as a remote control, telemetry module, and an anemometer to gauge wind. Data sets from all three flights were imported and processed separately. dji mini 2 fly more combo supports writing GPS coordinates to EXIF data of every individual image on the fly. It means no manual geotagging is needed when importing images to 3Dsurvey for processing. Further quality control was achieved by placing GCPs and establishing independent validation points.