DJI Mavic Pro Platinum, Fly More Combo

Your browser does not support HTML5 video. The DJI Mavic Pro has revolutionized the consumer drone industry, or more accurately created it. Previously you had to spend double this amount to even get started with a decent drone. The old done came in a huge box and could not be collapsed. And finally the older drones took hours of flight practice to get any kind of reasonable result. Not so with the DJI Mavic Pro. This drone folds up so compact, it easily will slide into any backpack and most camera bags. The intelligent flight modes make it a breeze to fly even for the uncoordinated such as myself. The excellent 4k optics bring home the shot and provide impressive results. Best yet the safety features and obstacle avoidance capabilities do what they can to protect you from your own stupidity. There are of course some exceptions. See attached. As mentioned there are exceptions and flying over water is one of them and should only be done with great care. Many of the safety features will not help, especially when launched above water. Returning to home on a boat that is no longer there will not work. I loved my DJI Mavic Pro. At least I did until I sent it for a swim. Now it is 60 ft under water. I do not recommend using this device under water, it does not float, but rather sinks rapidly. Out to attempt a dive to recover later this week. The dive attempt failed. I have since replaced the drone. The included 16 GB micro SD card is inadequate for recording 4k video. With the stock card installed, I was only able to select 2K mode. However, I upgraded to an amazing Sandisk Extreme Plus 128GB SD card and had no issues at all and was able to record at 4k and download the video quickly to my PC with the chip removed. I recommend this micro SD card or a smaller version of the same. http://amzn.to/2tfCQbQ With an excellent card reader such as http://amzn.to/2shF9Ou or http://amzn.to/2svvZi0 See the attached benchmark copying the MicroSD I am using in my Mavic Pro. With the Saicoo USB reader it is about 10x as fast as copying from the DJI directly, and 5x as fast as using a generic USB 2 reader. Even in a USB 2 port it is still 2x faster than the generic USB 2 stick reader that came bundled with a different card. Honestly the 128GB is overkill, I was worried about the size of the 4k video files. Unfortunately there is a bit more compression used than I would have preferred so the files are not too large. Still the video comes out great. The camera mode is able to shoot in RAW and can capture some breathtaking views. The attached represent HDR and panoramas created with minimal effort using the DJI Mavic Pro. The ease of use with this drone is just mind blowing. It can be flown in tap to fly where you tap in the screen and it flies itself recording along the way with no effort. I do recommend this set of ND filters as they will help reduce white blow-out on sunny days. They can stay equipped through the initialization cycle which seems to be an issue with some other options. http://amzn.to/2tfBuxV If you plan to fly above water I strongly recommend this device, or other efforts to make sure you can at least recover your device. The DJI insurance will not cover the drone unless you have the drone. This recovery device will pop up with a string attached to the drone should it enter the water. http://amzn.to/2svND5d I also recommend the Fly More combo as battery life is 15-20 min of flight time. It just feels very short and spare batteries are very welcome. Spare rotors are also a welcome addition. http://amzn.to/2rpw4iu

Utter junk, Amazon in house referbish..... battery only lasted 17 mins of flight time and had a number 2 written on the battery in the red area On the back, probably a battery with a bad cell Flew the Mavic during the day kept getting a motor failure notice based on prop speed Was told to use caution in flight Flew the drone at night, yeah that did not go so well...... I launched it up and ran it around 200 feet above the ground and the red led navigation lights went out..... yeah no bearing what so ever..... thinking this can’t be good.... I managed to get it back home landed it shut it off and restarted, the nav lights came on so I launched again..... Flew the mavic around in a pattern again in the dark and all of a sudden the mavic started to rotate on its own axis 200 feet above me yup Wiggled the controls and did not stop rotation So I gave it forward momentum and the vehicle stopped rotation The battery got low so the vehicle returned and then asked me to land and in landing it landed in two elevations Called amazon and let them know.... The camera needed to be manually centered at 1.3 To the right center the rotation On the ground the camera gimbal would not rotate right or left more than 3 degrees So I will go to DJI and ask what to do in the am Thank you for getting me the product on a Sunday Amazon but your referbish program needs to be examined

This Mavic Pro Platinum is my first drone, and I love it. It is easy to fly, takes good (albeit not dslr-quality) photos and video, and is not annoyingly loud. The design of the drone and other bits is very well thought out -- for example, the flight batteries will automatically discharge themselves after a settable number of days in order to preserve their useful life, and the charging hub pumps all its power into the least-discharged battery first, so you get flying again as quickly as possible. The Mavic is perfect for my photogrammetric mapping application, mostly using pre-planned "waypoint" flights controlled by the Litchi app (a slightly more powerful third-party replacement for almost all of the features of the included DJI go 4 app except the firmware updater; I need it for its much better facility with pre-planned waypoint "missions"). The Mavic easily fits in a day pack with all its accessories, two extra batteries, etc., in a third-party carrying case, leaving room for other equipment like a landing pad, control-point markers, a jacket, water, lunch, and more. The controller is finicky about connecting to some tablets, including my Android Samsung Galaxy Tab S2, but does eventually work, sometimes after restarting the tablet once or twice. This is really irritating to learn to work around, but in the end is worth it for the bright OLED screen that you can actually see outdoors. Apple tablets and phones work seamlessly, but my iPad Air "retina" screen just can't cut it in the sunlight, although I suppose that some kind of sunshade might make it usable. The fly-more combo is a good deal, because you really need almost everything in it, and it is cheaper than buying them separately. The two extra batteries are a must; the charger and hub for attaching up to four batteries works fine (I got a third-party faster charger but have not needed to even try it yet), the charger that plugs into a car's cigarette lighter might well come in handy, and the extra propellers are good insurance. The "power bank adapter" for the batteries is a small, seemingly trivial thing that finally made sense when I read a comment in a forum post: you always land the drone before the flight battery is dead, leaving some charge in it. So you pop a charged battery into the drone to get back to flying, and use the "power bank adapter" to convert the mostly-discharged flight battery to a "power bank" with a USB cable that plugs into the side port of the controller. This recharges the controller AND your Android tablet plugged into the lower USB port of the controller while you are flying the drone on its next battery! (Apple tablets or phones apparently will not recharge.) If your tablet and controller are fully charged when you start, they will easily last as long as three flight batteries. But if one or both was partially discharged when you began, or you ran your tablet down adjusting flight plans or doing other things with it, you could have to cut your flying short when the tablet or controller threatens to poop out. The little power bank adapter will prevent that, without your having to carry around an additional USB power bank. If you are going to be far from a car or wall socket and expect to use the tablet for something else, like consulting a GIS, taking photos, or recording other data, you might want to take a separate USB power bank anyway, but at least the DJI adapter will let you use all the juice in your flight batteries. The DJI carrying case seems a little too tight to me, especially for traveling by plane or car, where something might bump or press on the case. I bought a zippered suitcase-like carrying case by a company that starts with "Dou" that adds a tolerable bit of bulk but a lot of protection.