**DJI Drone Review: Hands-on Experience with its Latest Model**

I recently had the opportunity to test drive DJI's latest drone model, and I must say, it was an exciting experience. As I began flying the drone, I noticed that it has a sleek design and is equipped with various features that make it user-friendly. The drone comes with a 12-megapixel camera and can record footage in 4K resolution at 30 frames per second.

**Controller Design**

The controller of this drone is ergonomically designed, making it comfortable to hold and maneuver. The grip is textured, providing a secure hold even when the hands are sweaty. The back button, which I mentioned earlier, serves as a convenient way to access various settings and features. Next to it is the "pause" button, which allows you to stop the drone instantly if needed. This feature is particularly useful in windy conditions, like the one we were experiencing during our test flight.

**Recording Modes**

The drone comes with three main recording modes: Normal, Sport, and M-Mode. In Normal mode, the drone flies at a moderate speed, allowing for smooth footage. In Sport mode, the drone's speed is unlocked to its maximum capacity of 87 miles per hour, making it ideal for those who want to capture high-speed footage. However, this mode requires more skill and practice to master.

**M-Mode: A Skill-Challenging Mode**

In M-Mode, the drone behaves like a traditional FPV (First-Person View) drone. It does not follow any pre-programmed path and instead responds only to the pilot's input. This mode is exciting but also requires skill and practice to master. The pilots need to adjust the throttle stick response and hold the joystick in a specific position to maintain stability.

**Flight Experience**

During our test flight, I was impressed by the drone's ability to navigate through challenging weather conditions, such as 18-mile-an-hour winds. However, we had to stop flying due to running out of battery, which lasted approximately 10 minutes. This is slightly shorter than what DJI claims, but it's still an impressive feat considering the wind resistance.

**Accessories and Features**

The drone comes with a microSD card slot, allowing you to expand its storage capacity. Additionally, it has a headphone jack for recording audio during flight. The drone also features adjustable lenses underneath, which can be adjusted to accommodate different distances between the pilot's eyes on the controller. This feature is particularly useful for pilots who want to capture smooth footage.

**Conclusion**

Overall, I was impressed by DJI's latest drone model, especially in its Normal and Sport modes. However, M-Mode requires skill and practice to master, which might be a barrier for some pilots. Despite this, the drone is still an exciting experience, especially for those who enjoy FPV flying or skiing/snowboarding enthusiasts.

**Links and Resources**

For those interested in purchasing this drone, I've included links to the best prices found online. Please note that prices may vary depending on your location and availability. If you have any questions or comments about the drone, please feel free to share them in the section below.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enmorning another day another real world test today we're doing it on the dji fpv drone i'm a little scared of this thing i'm not gonna lie but we'll see how this goes i've actually head up state from new york city just to get out of the city so we can fly this drone without terrifying people or getting in trouble for that matter now i'll show you some footage we're gonna talk about how you fly this thing and what it can do and also check in a little bit on the battery to make sure that it lives up to the claims the dji has given it but first things first so coffee check now if you're curious where i am right now because it looks interesting um i'm in what's called a tiny house now they're part of a bit of a movement that started not too long ago with people trying to save money by buying these smaller houses and they were trying to live simpler lives usually associated with living off the grid as this one is with its solar panels etc i've never stayed in one before though so this ought to be interesting oh my regardless this tiny house happens to be on a private farm so we should be able to test out the drone without bothering anyone besides the chickens apparently there are chickens in that little hut there sorry chickens okay so first let's talk about what fpv drones are fpv stands for first person view and they're usually flown and controlled while wearing a headset the bigger thing about them though is that they are more rigid they're faster they are modular for when you inevitably crash them so you can replace the parts easier and they aren't really meant to ever sit still you're meant to generally hold down the throttle and just go now most of these types of drones are used for drone racing which you may or may not have known was a thing but it's a thing and they're usually built by the pilots from the motherboard to the motors to the battery system the charging system everything is kind of diy done they even use maybe a gopro or some other similar action camera as the camera on this rig now because of the diy nature of these drones you don't really see them as often as you do say traditional drones they're just a bit more complicated and to some degree require at least a little bit of engineering knowledge now the idea behind this dji version of these types of drones is that it doesn't need to be built it doesn't need any engineering knowledge and because they've used a lot of features from their mavic lineup it's supposedly a lot easier to learn how to fly and that last part we're about to find out because while i've flown plenty of the mavic lineup and i really do like my dji mini 2 i've never flown an fpv drone before what could possibly go wrong okay so as indicated by the name the default way to fly this thing is by using the headset i will say i look like ant-man wearing it but thankfully because you can't see out of it you can't see the faces that anyone watching is making which i believe is a great feature you can also by the way use the dji fly app plugged into the headset with the otg cable that they include to see the fpv stream if you don't want to wear the goggles or just want to show someone else what you see and there's also an audience mode that can transmit what you see to other headsets but i'm not really sure how i feel about that as bystander like controlling the drone in that matter is different than me just like wearing a headset and watching it flip around it just sounds nauseating to me but maybe that's just me it also comes with this playstation like controller and three very important modes that you can switch between using this toggle i appreciate that everything on this by the way is very kinetic and easy to tell what position things are in without looking because again ant-man is the default mode okay now to set this up you actually have a separate battery pack that connects into the headset so this has to be tethered i'm not sure why they didn't just make the battery part of the headset maybe to keep weight off maybe because they were concerned with the look by the way you have to be tethered to this which is which is fine it's not funny and when you do turn it on there are fans in the headset which i was surprised by interesting then you also turn on your controller and flip up the antenna here and then you actually have this battery pack that slides into the back of the drone and connects at the top and we turn that on it makes a terrifying sound so firstly we have end mode or normal mode and this is how i'm flying it at the moment because it's the most like traditional dji drones it auto hovers it won't tilt more than x amount in any direction and the speed is limited significantly to 31 miles per hour now once you get the hang of that you can switch to s mode or sport mode which is a hybrid between the n and the m or manual mode which we'll talk about later so it still auto hovers in this mode and maintains altitude etc but pitch and roll are less limited than an n but still limited to a degree and speed is now limited to 60 miles an hour now honestly in this mode it feels very much to me like a less stable in a good way version of your normal dji drone obviously we have a lot more angled when we turn and that kind of stuff um but it feels familiar enough from flying my regular mavic that i still kind of feel in control and i'm not i'm not scared of this mode but it's a little more fun now firstly the drone can shoot in up to 4k 60 frames per second but it also has modes for 100 and 120 frames per second in 1080p that has already slowed down you can change between these modes and all of the modes and go through the settings format the sd card etc using the headset and this joystick that you can press down on to select with and the back button next to it all of that at the top right now in addition to putting a micro sd card slot in the drone itself like usual to record footage you can also put one in the headset to record that screen instead and we have sliders underneath to adjust the lenses inside to accommodate the distance between your own eyes on the controller at the top we have our start and stop button for recording it also takes photos if you're in photo mode the mode toggle i mentioned already another toggle to adjust the camera angle up down or forward quickly we also have a dial like usual on other dji drones to manually move the camera up and down as well and we have a very important button which is the pause button which you can press if you ever need the drone to stop and just freeze and hover in place which is great you can also push this again to get it to come back to its home point which is the place that it sets via gps that it took off from like other dji drones do and lastly we have a cruise control button which you can use in s mode while moving forward to lock the drone moving forward at that speed without needing to hold the joystick forward so you can then control other aspects of it a bit easier and if you press it again it stops the cruise control of course okay and if you couldn't tell by the footage already it is very windy we have 18 mile an hour winds apparently which is a lot for a drone it's doing just fine but we've already run out of battery so it lasted about 10 minutes now i've also flown it in less windy scenarios and i can tell you that it lasted me about 19 minutes doing that and that of course is closer to the 20 minutes that they mentioned on the package okay and what's your name david david all right we'll stand about 15 20. all right see you then thanks oh steak sandwich okay figured i would get a quick bite because i'm starving but let's take this time to talk about m mode so in a mode your drone is in a mode that it won't do anything without your input basically the speed is unlocked to the max speed of 87 miles per hour you can put the drone at any angle even flip it over etc but you also have to get it level and keep its height at all times so they actually have you go into the drone settings to confirm that you want ammo to be enabled in the first place and then they have you use a hex screwdriver that comes in the box to adjust the two screws at the bottom of the controller to stop the joystick from automatically re-centering itself since you'll need to hold it just right to get the drone to stay in the air vertically where you want it as well as adjust the throttle stick response now in mmo this is basically like flying any of those diy fpv drones unlike the other two modes that i just showed you it is something that is kind of a skill that needs to be learned you need to practice it it's like it's like snowboarding or skiing looks super fun great time once you get good at it but you gotta practice to get there first and with that said and my daylight quickly disappearing as well as the fact that i didn't know about the hex crew and so i didn't think to check the box for one and i don't i don't have it and so unfortunately i think we're gonna have to end it there overall i kind of love the concept i i'm not sure that me a person who lives in new york city and doesn't really have access to outdoor spaces like this unless i really take some effort to do so um i don't know if it's quite for me but i could see how other people who wanted to enjoy it again like skiing or snowboarding like it's a sport it's like a thing that you practice and you get good at and like you do every now and then with your friends like maybe you guys do races that that's pretty cool um it does at least make that whole world of fpv a lot more accessible i again was kind of scared to even use this in the first place because i know how hard it is to use fpv drones but at least those first two modes they were fine the end mode especially was just like very normal the s mode was actually my favorite because it let me have a lot of the fun that i imagine is fpv flying um with all of the like kind of training wheels that dji usually gives you when you're flying a drone so kind of best of both worlds super fun for sure we'll also leave links below to the best price that i could find on the drone uh let me know in the comments below though what do you guys think of the drone of this video always appreciate hearing from you guys and regardless thanks for watchingmorning another day another real world test today we're doing it on the dji fpv drone i'm a little scared of this thing i'm not gonna lie but we'll see how this goes i've actually head up state from new york city just to get out of the city so we can fly this drone without terrifying people or getting in trouble for that matter now i'll show you some footage we're gonna talk about how you fly this thing and what it can do and also check in a little bit on the battery to make sure that it lives up to the claims the dji has given it but first things first so coffee check now if you're curious where i am right now because it looks interesting um i'm in what's called a tiny house now they're part of a bit of a movement that started not too long ago with people trying to save money by buying these smaller houses and they were trying to live simpler lives usually associated with living off the grid as this one is with its solar panels etc i've never stayed in one before though so this ought to be interesting oh my regardless this tiny house happens to be on a private farm so we should be able to test out the drone without bothering anyone besides the chickens apparently there are chickens in that little hut there sorry chickens okay so first let's talk about what fpv drones are fpv stands for first person view and they're usually flown and controlled while wearing a headset the bigger thing about them though is that they are more rigid they're faster they are modular for when you inevitably crash them so you can replace the parts easier and they aren't really meant to ever sit still you're meant to generally hold down the throttle and just go now most of these types of drones are used for drone racing which you may or may not have known was a thing but it's a thing and they're usually built by the pilots from the motherboard to the motors to the battery system the charging system everything is kind of diy done they even use maybe a gopro or some other similar action camera as the camera on this rig now because of the diy nature of these drones you don't really see them as often as you do say traditional drones they're just a bit more complicated and to some degree require at least a little bit of engineering knowledge now the idea behind this dji version of these types of drones is that it doesn't need to be built it doesn't need any engineering knowledge and because they've used a lot of features from their mavic lineup it's supposedly a lot easier to learn how to fly and that last part we're about to find out because while i've flown plenty of the mavic lineup and i really do like my dji mini 2 i've never flown an fpv drone before what could possibly go wrong okay so as indicated by the name the default way to fly this thing is by using the headset i will say i look like ant-man wearing it but thankfully because you can't see out of it you can't see the faces that anyone watching is making which i believe is a great feature you can also by the way use the dji fly app plugged into the headset with the otg cable that they include to see the fpv stream if you don't want to wear the goggles or just want to show someone else what you see and there's also an audience mode that can transmit what you see to other headsets but i'm not really sure how i feel about that as bystander like controlling the drone in that matter is different than me just like wearing a headset and watching it flip around it just sounds nauseating to me but maybe that's just me it also comes with this playstation like controller and three very important modes that you can switch between using this toggle i appreciate that everything on this by the way is very kinetic and easy to tell what position things are in without looking because again ant-man is the default mode okay now to set this up you actually have a separate battery pack that connects into the headset so this has to be tethered i'm not sure why they didn't just make the battery part of the headset maybe to keep weight off maybe because they were concerned with the look by the way you have to be tethered to this which is which is fine it's not funny and when you do turn it on there are fans in the headset which i was surprised by interesting then you also turn on your controller and flip up the antenna here and then you actually have this battery pack that slides into the back of the drone and connects at the top and we turn that on it makes a terrifying sound so firstly we have end mode or normal mode and this is how i'm flying it at the moment because it's the most like traditional dji drones it auto hovers it won't tilt more than x amount in any direction and the speed is limited significantly to 31 miles per hour now once you get the hang of that you can switch to s mode or sport mode which is a hybrid between the n and the m or manual mode which we'll talk about later so it still auto hovers in this mode and maintains altitude etc but pitch and roll are less limited than an n but still limited to a degree and speed is now limited to 60 miles an hour now honestly in this mode it feels very much to me like a less stable in a good way version of your normal dji drone obviously we have a lot more angled when we turn and that kind of stuff um but it feels familiar enough from flying my regular mavic that i still kind of feel in control and i'm not i'm not scared of this mode but it's a little more fun now firstly the drone can shoot in up to 4k 60 frames per second but it also has modes for 100 and 120 frames per second in 1080p that has already slowed down you can change between these modes and all of the modes and go through the settings format the sd card etc using the headset and this joystick that you can press down on to select with and the back button next to it all of that at the top right now in addition to putting a micro sd card slot in the drone itself like usual to record footage you can also put one in the headset to record that screen instead and we have sliders underneath to adjust the lenses inside to accommodate the distance between your own eyes on the controller at the top we have our start and stop button for recording it also takes photos if you're in photo mode the mode toggle i mentioned already another toggle to adjust the camera angle up down or forward quickly we also have a dial like usual on other dji drones to manually move the camera up and down as well and we have a very important button which is the pause button which you can press if you ever need the drone to stop and just freeze and hover in place which is great you can also push this again to get it to come back to its home point which is the place that it sets via gps that it took off from like other dji drones do and lastly we have a cruise control button which you can use in s mode while moving forward to lock the drone moving forward at that speed without needing to hold the joystick forward so you can then control other aspects of it a bit easier and if you press it again it stops the cruise control of course okay and if you couldn't tell by the footage already it is very windy we have 18 mile an hour winds apparently which is a lot for a drone it's doing just fine but we've already run out of battery so it lasted about 10 minutes now i've also flown it in less windy scenarios and i can tell you that it lasted me about 19 minutes doing that and that of course is closer to the 20 minutes that they mentioned on the package okay and what's your name david david all right we'll stand about 15 20. all right see you then thanks oh steak sandwich okay figured i would get a quick bite because i'm starving but let's take this time to talk about m mode so in a mode your drone is in a mode that it won't do anything without your input basically the speed is unlocked to the max speed of 87 miles per hour you can put the drone at any angle even flip it over etc but you also have to get it level and keep its height at all times so they actually have you go into the drone settings to confirm that you want ammo to be enabled in the first place and then they have you use a hex screwdriver that comes in the box to adjust the two screws at the bottom of the controller to stop the joystick from automatically re-centering itself since you'll need to hold it just right to get the drone to stay in the air vertically where you want it as well as adjust the throttle stick response now in mmo this is basically like flying any of those diy fpv drones unlike the other two modes that i just showed you it is something that is kind of a skill that needs to be learned you need to practice it it's like it's like snowboarding or skiing looks super fun great time once you get good at it but you gotta practice to get there first and with that said and my daylight quickly disappearing as well as the fact that i didn't know about the hex crew and so i didn't think to check the box for one and i don't i don't have it and so unfortunately i think we're gonna have to end it there overall i kind of love the concept i i'm not sure that me a person who lives in new york city and doesn't really have access to outdoor spaces like this unless i really take some effort to do so um i don't know if it's quite for me but i could see how other people who wanted to enjoy it again like skiing or snowboarding like it's a sport it's like a thing that you practice and you get good at and like you do every now and then with your friends like maybe you guys do races that that's pretty cool um it does at least make that whole world of fpv a lot more accessible i again was kind of scared to even use this in the first place because i know how hard it is to use fpv drones but at least those first two modes they were fine the end mode especially was just like very normal the s mode was actually my favorite because it let me have a lot of the fun that i imagine is fpv flying um with all of the like kind of training wheels that dji usually gives you when you're flying a drone so kind of best of both worlds super fun for sure we'll also leave links below to the best price that i could find on the drone uh let me know in the comments below though what do you guys think of the drone of this video always appreciate hearing from you guys and regardless thanks for watching\n"