 Hey guys, welcome to Rotoriot. Today, we're taking a look at the all-new DJI FPV drone. This drone is made by DJI and it is more similar to our freestyle drone. So this drone is capable of all of the freestyle drone tricks that we do, but it also has some other beginner mode so it can fly similar to the other DJI camera drones that we have. Yeah, this is unlike a drone DJI has ever made before. Yeah. This can fly very similarly to the drones that they have made before like the Mavic's and the Phanoms with GPS hold, altitude hold. All the assistances that you might be used to if you've flown a DJI product before, but what makes this special is two things. You can pilot it FPV, first-person view with low latency. Not like the screen you're looking at the Mavic. Like in the goggles, full FPV mode. You see the motion of the drone and all those flight assistances we were talking about, you can turn all that off. You can fly this thing in full Acura. You can do flips, power loops, all the things that we do here on Rotoriot that maybe you've never seen before. Maybe you're not familiar with what FPV means and I think that's exactly what this drone is for. This is a drone created to help get people into FPV, to make it easy for them to fly FPV and ease them into the world of full Acura drone flight. So I can't wait to get this thing in the air, but before we get to that, let's see what all do you get when you buy this drone. A lot of you guys have been waiting to see DJI come out with something like this and personally I'm very interested to see. I'm going into this with no expectations. Let's get the box open and see what we got. Here we have the DJI FPV drone. I'm going to break all these components down. Looks like the same goggles. I believe there might be some differences, but visually speaking, they look the exact same. Ooh, okay. This is kind of slick. This is the DJI FPV drone controller. I do really like the form factor. It reminds me of some other radios that are on the market. And then besides that, we got some props. We have B props and A props. One thing that can be really complicated when it comes to drones is figuring out what prop goes where. So on this one, I can already tell they've labeled it out of the box. You have B and you have A. I want to hear it boot up. Whoa. Whoa. That was so cool. Looks like this is going to be our accessories, swords. Looks like we have another pod. It looks like that's for the shell out here. So if you want to change the look of the shell, looks like we got some cords. What I find interesting and I was very curious, the FPV goggles usually power off of a lipo battery. And it doesn't look like they've included a normal size lipo battery, but they give you a cord. So this is actually really an awesome feature because normally in the past, you have to use a lipo battery, which for anyone who flies drones, it's no problem. But it looks like now you can power your FPV goggles through one of these guys. So I kind of like not having to dedicate drone batteries. And here we have our FPV antennas. These screw on to the DJI goggles. This looks to be a USB to type C. These look like they are stick-ins. They go on the side of the radio now. It looks like the radio comes with stick-ins already. To put these on, the really simple way to screw on. So out of the box, it's got a flip-up antenna. Really, really nice for being able to transport your drone because you want to fly with your antenna up like this. When you're transporting it, you can pop it in like that. This isn't a new idea or new concept. There's some drone controllers on the market that already do this, but I'm very happy to see DJI following the trend and incorporating it. The gimbals, they feel pretty good. DJI's gimbals device felt really good to me. I don't like how they don't have a lot of resolution. More resolution you have, which is, in theory, the more control throw that you have. Easier it's going to be to make small movements. When you have kind of smaller gimbals, it can be really, really hard to fly smooth. FPV goggle-wise, these goggles look the exact same as the first ones. I was really hoping to see a smaller version of the DJI goggles. I know a lot of people have been holding off on buying goggles because there's been rumors of a V2, and I personally have gotten used to the size of them. I really love how beautiful the image in the screen is. So I don't really think about it anymore. However, it would be nice to see a more sleek goggle. I mean, they've shaved the controller size down, it looks like. So I would love to see this get smaller in the future. Finally, the drone, which I still don't know how to turn off. Looks like we have our FPV camera up here. I'm assuming this is going to be a pretty darn good camera. It may be upgraded from the previous one, considering it's all integrated. I'm assuming this camera is probably going to be pretty good. The motors look pretty good. They feel really good as well. They're not your standard drone motor. They're very DJI proprietary. The props snap into place and it looks like that's pretty much the only way to do it. Besides that, it feels really rigid. Definitely feels heavy. So I'm very curious to see how this thing performs. That was great, Alex. Good job. Now we're going to go fly with Jeff. All right, so we're checking out some of the different flight modes that you have available here. This is your flight mode switch in the top position. That's normal. Middle position is sport. And all the way down will be manual if you've done the things that you need to actually enable manual. So right now it actually is still in sport. So normal mode is pretty much like flying a Mavic. But you know what's different though? It does mixing. So as you're going forward and you give it yaw, it banks the turns. Okay. And you see the banking happen. You can turn when you say yaw. Yeah, you don't need to use the rolls. Sport modes just makes it faster and it enables cruise control. You get going fast or whatever speed you want. You can kind of pick your speed. Hit this button here, this trigger. And now it's in cruise control mode and it just keeps flying forward. And then I can just steer. That's kind of actually just with one stick. But really you should train steering with two sticks. And what I find really interesting, this really is somewhat of an acro trainer because when you're flying a drone in acro mode, you tilt it forward and it just keeps going forward. And then when you roll in yaw, you carry your momentum around the turn and keep going forward. And you have to pull back to slow down. Right. And what happens if you do pull back? Does it? It slows me down. Okay. So you still have stick break. Yeah. You have a stick break, but you also have a break break. So let's say I get going forward and I get a little panicked. I'm like, oh crap. This trigger up here. Hit that and it just whoo. Oh my God. Did you hear that? Yeah. You're going to slam the brakes. It slammed the brakes so hard. I saw the frame come into the camera view. Yeah. Let me, let me swap out the battery for you. Oh, it's a little punchy. Yeah. The horizon's not flat. Oh, well, because you're flying in the wind. So it's actually. Oh, okay. It's position holding. It cooks. Oh, whoa, whoa. Well, that is weird. That when you yaw, it banks. Right. Having done FPV for a while, it's like, I almost don't like that. But I think it will really help people understand that when you turn, you need to bank it. I see a lot of people struggle with that when they're just starting FPV. Whoo. Are you in normal mode? Yeah. You are cooking in normal mode. Yeah, it goes. It has a augmented reality. There's an H where you land. Yeah, that's your home point. Isn't that crazy? That's pretty cool. Okay. Okay. Okay. I kind of like it. Oh, it slowed me down because I was close. Oh, it's an obstacle? Yeah. Do you want to try and run into something? Slow it down a little bit just in case, but I don't think it's going to let me. Yeah, don't, don't just blast into it. Wait. Oh, I hear a beeping. Yeah, it won't let me. I'm getting pretty damn close though. I don't know, I pulled back. Should I try? It might let you do it. Like it might be one of the things where it slows you down, but if you push forward, it'll let you do it. Don't try to hit it. Or at least we're going to try and hit it. Do what's where I can see it. Yeah. I don't really want to, but it makes it obvious you're about to hit something. I'm going to try sport mode. There. So one down there and then sport. Yeah, she's a little fast. Oh yeah, she cooks. Oh my God. This thing's really fast. And it is weird that you don't, it just like turbo boosts you because you don't have to tilt. That's kind of cool. I kind of like that. It's so counterintuitive. You're just like. It was going faster the other way. The wind favors the other way. If you're coming from a Mavic, this is going to feel like significant. Yeah, like insanely fast. Just the sound. It's weird that it sounds like one of our drums, but then like, if you break, it does a Mavic move. Yeah, I just hit the break. I got an e-brake. That's so funny. Oh, I didn't turn home. Yeah, but here hit it again and that'll let you stay there. Have you tried the cruise control yet? No, that would just work any time, right? Yeah, but you have to get, uh, it is this one. Yeah. So if you start and then you hit it. Yeah, cruising. Yeah, you can just fly with one stick. That's all you need. You just do that with one stick? Yeah. All right, fly through the awnings. Do it. It's cruising. Cruise control. Just doing the yaw. That's it. And I'm slallowing. It's easy to do slallowing. So that was all with one stick? Yeah. That's insane. This is like definitely the best trainer mode ever. Yeah, it's pretty cool. If you're comfortable with the speed, you can just get it going like really slow. There's creeping along. That's something I did not think I was going to like the cruising mode. When I was kind of reading through everything I had, I was like, I don't want to cruise. You're like, you should fly it. But when you actually fly it, if you have any drone experience, it's weird how much your natural instincts start to creep in because it starts to emulate the look of it. Right, but it feels so weird because all you're doing is this. It was a little weird for me. I was timid to drop down into a gap because it's a different. It's not like I'm chopping the throttle. I'm telling you I want to go lower. Right. Well, and the other thing is if you wanted to drop through a gap with one of our drones, you would also pitch forward, look through it, but the camera is locked. I wasn't confident it would drop down. Which it probably would. If you want to get crazy, this dial actually changes the camera angle. Oh yeah. So you could be flying, look down and do it like that. I don't know about that, but that's kind of why. I want to play with that. Let me play with it. OK. That is kind of cool to be able to change the camera. For reveal shots, you got to think of it like you're flying a Mavic. Oh, you're thinking cinematic. Yeah, that's what this would be good for. You're good for cinematic FPV. That's kind of what they want it to be is like right in the middle. They want to take a Mavic and they want to take a pro-grade FPV drone and find that sweet spot right in the middle. It's a very weird thing to find a hybrid for because they're so drastically different. I think because of the gimbal, that's why I like the cruise control. Because it is a little weird. You don't have that fine control. Wait, what just happened? I don't know. I think it's just a little better returning home. Can I override it? Yeah, you can just... She does not like coming down. Coming down flat? Yeah. Today is an interesting day to have done this because it stayed really stable despite the wind. So how are you landing it? Just hold down altitude? Yeah. It's kind of easy to land. Just land. I'm surprised how much you enjoyed flying it given that you're like a very seasoned pro FPV Acro pilot. Yeah, well I'm going to use it for what it is. Right. Just to like enjoy the novelty of... Because I have a Mavic, I don't use it a lot, but I've flown it and it's... I always want it to be that. It's pretty cool. It's kind of cool and the fact that I can just cheater mode. Like, I'm not that good at slalom as to begin with my quad. Right. I was almost doing them better just because it's doing so much of the work for me. Yeah. But ultimately, I think someone who has never flown a drone before could like work their way through it. Like, I think this has a really cool... Yeah, you'll be shooting gaps day one. That's nuts. I think. The DJI drone is capable of flying in full acro manual mode just like the freestyle drones that folks like me are used to flying. But DJI knows that this drone is also going to be bought by like your typical DJI pilot and they don't want those guys getting in trouble right out of the gate. So they make you jump through a few hoops in order to enable full manual acro mode. And the first hoop is that this rocker switch here, which switches flight modes from normal to sport to manual mode. When you first get the drone, that manual mode switch is just sport mode. In order to change that, you need to go into the remote controller configuration in the goggles and go down to that custom setting and change the custom setting from sport mode to manual mode. When you flip that switch into manual mode, the drone will not immediately start flying in acro mode. Rather, it will make you hold the throttle in a certain position just a little bit below center and it'll make you center the sticks. And the idea there is that they want you to switch into manual mode acro mode with the sticks in a position where the drone won't just like suddenly start flying to the moon. So they basically have you hold it in a hover position more or less. Once you do that, then it'll switch into manual mode and you'll be flying in acro mode. But there is still one more safety precaution that you're going to want to turn off if you truly want to do freestyle flippy flops. You see they ship the drone with an angle limit and that means that if you go full stick deflection, say you go left roll or right roll, the drone will not actually do a loop. It will go to a certain point, stop and not go any further. In order to disable that, you're going to go back into the controller config. You're going to go to the rates and expo section and down at the bottom there, there is a toggle to turn off the angle limit. Once you do that, you will literally be flying in full acro mode. By the way, that's also where you can change the rates. If you want to adjust the rates to match your normal freestyle rates or to change the rates to make them faster or slower depending on what you need from the flight characteristics of the drone. So when you get it in full true manual mode, your throttle will turn into a normal throttle. So to get to the screws, you peel back this like grip cover. Changing the tightness of the F1 screw changes how much the throttle will keep in position, like how much friction there is. So it's pretty loose right now. So look, I just shake the radio, got a little floppy throttle. Let's tighten that up a little bit and now the throttle stays where I put it. The F2 is spring. So by changing the tightness of F2, you change how much force there is re-centering the stick. In certain modes where there's altitude hold, you want that stick centered because the throttle stick isn't actually a throttle stick, it's an altitude stick. But when we fly acrobatic drones, this is actually a throttle stick. So we just want no throttle, all throttle. And see, I've still got a little bit of spring there. We want to get rid of all that. So with an aerial platform drone, you start and stop the motors with stick commands, right? On our FPV drones, we use arm switches. So we need to put it in M for manual. And now if you do a stick arm, it's still not going to be a manual. What you need to do is instead of doing a stick arm, you need to use this start and stop button and you double tap it. So tap, tap. And now it's armed. And then if you need to disarm, tap, tap. It's got a little flutter. It's so weird doing a drone that looks like that. Fly like one of our drones. That was high winds. So did you just split-ass it? Yeah. That's awesome. I'll open. This is so cool. It's not the best tune. I can say that. It feels like a stock Betaflight tune. This guy's so picky. Is there any pin tuning available? I'm going out of the water. Going over the top. That flies pretty good. I don't really feel like the latency or anything. I mean, definitely not the best flying drone I've ever flown. Like, you know, felt. I will say flight time. I think I'm looking at my battery and it says I got 58% or it tells me how much time I have left, which is really awesome. So it's kind of estimating. So right now it says I got about four minutes left, which I'm ripping it. I have to fly the other DJI camera for comparison, but I will say this camera, I like it a lot. I don't know if the latency is right or anything, but it doesn't feel late. It looks better to me, but that could just be the lens, which I think is different on this. The colors look really good to me. As someone who would be getting into FPV, or getting into FPV drones is perfect. Because this fly is just like a five inch quad. It feels heavy because it is. It's about 800 grams. I looked at the manual. Power's really good though. I'll be used to that. My quad's are usually heavy. This will feel very similar to your quad. The flight time is great. I like to, I'm just going to come into a hover. I'm going to try this. Being able to adjust the camera. Okay, that is so cool. So I can adjust the camera tilt there. So if I was, let's say, for filming. Is it preset or is it? No, I can adjust it. But it's holding its angle, right? So here we go. I'm in a hover and now I'm raised the camera up to, and it tells you the angle as well while you're in Acro. So let's say I'm doing, let's say in theory, I'm doing a shot where I'm chasing an object. Let's say it's a pretend it's a skier here. And I'm going to try and go in front of the object. Well, with our normal drones, we can't adjust the camera tilt in the air. So like I'm chasing the object, but when I get in front of them, I want to lower. Okay, this is sick. So I can lower my angle now and fly backwards. That is sick. That is the coolest thing on this so far. That just opens up so many doors. So you can just like, you can be, here, watch, I'm going to go like, I'll go back gently backwards to this. So I have my camera tilt raised. Now I'm lowering it with my left finger. That is cool. That is cool because you can fly backwards now without the camera looking up at the sky. That's so loud. So you could be like super low camera angle, doing some crickets backwards and then whip it around, raise the camera way up and do a matty flip. That's honestly the coolest thing. I'm honestly really having fun with this. I was a bit pessimistic when I saw how heavy the drone was and everything, but it flies really good. I think there's going to be pilots in the FPV community who complain that's like not the most well-tuned drone or the most powerful, but just from a person who enjoys flying freestyle and cruising the features on this, it feels like a magic version of an FPV drone. And for anyone who's going to complain about latency, which I am that person who would complain about latency, the latency feels really good on it. I'm not saying it's race capable, but I'm not a wild fan about the controller. Like I wish I could fly with the other DJI radio and maybe that's a possibility. I would prefer that. I haven't been flying since forever. How long have I been flying? Go up in the air, flip upside down and then do and flip it into a position hold mode. All right, so you're upside down. Oh my gosh, and it just saved it. It just saved itself. And it's amazing. Oh, it says low battery return to home. Oh my gosh. Oh my God. I'm not pretty fast. It's way faster than a Mavic. It does a better job of landing than you do. It does. It does way better. Okay, I'm going to sound really biased saying this. I really do like it. Would it be like my normal freestyle drone? I don't know. Maybe like I like this. You would not use to make this your normal freestyle drone. Listen, listen. I was able to fly around for what? Eight minutes at least. Maybe more ripping it around cruising. The camera is definitely better in my opinion than the one that we normally fly, which is just the normal DJI FPV camera. So I love the camera on there. I didn't, I was expecting a ton of latency. Didn't feel a ton of latency. I do love the OSD on this too. The OSD font is amazing. It tells you where home is having those features. Like listen, it's kind of would be a nuisance if you were just out flying freestyle a lot. I think I did enjoy it a lot and I would definitely keep it in my arsenal to fly. And I definitely have some people in mind who don't fly FPV typically who I would really want to fly this because I feel like you can actually fly a FPV very easily. So. Sounds like a new person would really enjoy it. Oh my gosh, this is a perfect drone for a new person. Yeah. I'm going to sound such a shill. I genuinely, like, this is perfect for a new person. So I've been wanting to get my mom into the hobby and she has basically no flying experience and I'm going to teach her to fly with this DJI. You think she's going to be able to fly? I think she will. Oh no, I'm going to try. I got this, I got this. You got this. Okay, I got this. Oh, you're turning. Oh, I'm doing it. And this is my mom, FPV mama. Hey. And she has been super supportive of me flying my FPV drone. I've been wanting to get my mom into FPV so she can experience the awesomeness of it. I think that this DJI FPV drone is a perfect drone for her because there's a bunch of, like, beginner features and stuff. Pitch. Okay, now. You see those leaves, right? I see the leaves. So go away from the leaves. Okay. Go away from the leaves. So that means I have to roll. Yes, to move yourself away from it. Yes. Okay, okay, all right. I get it. Now go forward. Forward. Wait, wait, wait, wait. I just forgot which way. So, okay, pitch is the right side. Remember, your objective is trying to go around the trees. Which trees? There's so many. Any trees. All right. So, like, you can, like, so if you want to, you can stay in one place. Don't do that. Don't try to go backwards. Oh, what? Don't do that. Okay. Turn. I'm not. Turn so you can see where you're going. Okay. All right. Turn. So I'm trying to. Yaw. Use your yaw to see where you're going. Yaw. Oh, my gosh. This is awesome. Always go forward. I want to go this way and below that tree. I need to use pitch more. Yes, you need to use pitch more. Yes. I feel like I'm just, okay. All right. So, now try this. Now while you're going forward, now try to give it yaw and roll. And then you'll be turning. Yaw and roll in the same direction. Yes. While you're turning. While you're going forward. That's so cool. So now you're turning. You turned. Oh, my gosh. This is like the coolest thing ever. Oh, my gosh. This is the best. Oh, my gosh, buddy. You should see what I just did. Oh, my gosh. You would be so proud. Okay. Stop. Oh, my gosh. I'm going to go through that gap. Yes, that go through the gap. I'm going through the gap, buddy. Stop. Okay, I'm going through that gap. When you're hitting this gap, you're going to make sure you're going straight through the gap. Oh, my gosh. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. Mom. Mom. Mom. Okay. Just armed. Just armed. Okay. Kayla, that was amazing. You're going to break the antenna. You're going to break the antenna. That was awesome. I can't believe I just did that. That was amazing. I'm going to say, all the features are like a Mavic. Yeah. But like FPV. Yeah. Like being hired for a specific talents. I do think that it's obviously not the same. I don't think this replaces talent. I think it makes it easier for people to build that talent. But ultimately, you have to know what you're doing. I agree. Because you're not going to get those shots in the assist modes. Like to get true, like really high quality FPV shots, you need to fly in manual mode. And that's still going to take some practice. I know he makes it look easy. I was back flipping, trying to go through the tree, and I hit the tree. I hit them one piece. All four of the lights are working. Props. One prop's gone. These props are bent. Plastic is fine, though. Yeah, it's okay. Props. You know, we can deal with props. It's kind of cool to like... It's kind of like a Tesla. Like it drives itself. You can put it in like track mode. It's got whatever. It's too low. Oh god. Oh god. Stop it. It's trying to fly home because I unplugged the goggles. Oh my god. Look, it's got a spotlight. Guys, watch out. Oh my god. It's got a spotlight. Okay. So just a heads up. That's so cool. I unplugged the goggles because the goggle battery is getting low. The spotlight is so sick. The spotlight is so sick. It is awesome. I love the spotlight. Okay, so just a heads up. Don't unplug the goggles while you're flying. I know that sounds ridiculous, but I figured it had position hold, and then I could just change my goggle battery real quick, but that upset it. So if you unplug the goggles, it takes as a failsafe. That's good to know. Oh, the spotlight on the ground is so awesome. Is the spotlight stolen? Yeah. Oh my god. All right, so check this out, Sean. Ready? Boom purple. Oh, you can change it. Yes. You can change it. Make it green. Make it green. It's got to be green. Green for Sean. Green for Sean. Yes. Fast and furious. Oh, he wants to be blue. Oh, they don't have blue. Just kidding. Blue banana ride. Oh. I love that. That's freaking cool. That's freaking so cool. I was hoping you could change the color. This is the best part of the drone so far. Oh my god. Look at all the other stuff. The colors are the most important part. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Oh, yes. You can make the focus color too. That's so cool. You can turn those on and off. Oh, look at that. Oh my god. Look at this. He's doing things. That is so cool. All right. That's nuts. Look at that. It does a thing. Light. Oh my god. That's so cool. He's talking to me for being obsessed with the adjustable camera angle or whatever. And he's over here. I'm obsessed with lights. The lights? So what's the best way to go from unboxing this to flying in acro mode? The first thing I'd say you should do is take away the centering on the throttle stick. Right out of the box. Even though you're not going to get to actual acro mode for a little bit. I'd say get used to it. When you're flying an FPV drone, you don't have centering on the throttle. And that's going to be something that if you're used to flying a Mavic or a fan, that might take a little bit of getting used to. So I'd say right away, get rid of it and get used to flying without it. And it will teach you throttle control. Get comfortable flying around in normal mode. And then get your way into sport mode. And once you're in sport mode, getting used to those higher speeds. This might sound weird. Use the cruise control mode. There's no cruise control on our drones. It does not really emulate how we fly our drones, but it does provide you with the feel. And what I mean by that is when you're flying in acro mode and you tilt the drone forward using the pitch stick and you return the pitch stick to center, the drone keeps flying forward. Cruise control simulates that feeling because you get going forward, you turn on cruise control and it'll just keep going forward. And then you steer it at that speed and you need to slow it down. It does not come to a stop when you center the stick. The next step would be really force yourself to move both of the sticks while you're turning. Something I don't like about this drone per se is that it builds in the banking to the yaw stick. So you can just steer this drone around only using yaw input. And as it goes around the turn, it automatically rolls to bank the turns for you, which I mean it's good because it gets you used to the visual of that happening. You need to learn that you need to do that yourself in manual mode. If you are in manual mode going forward and you just give it yaw, you can do that. You need to give it equal roll. Next step from there would be use the sim. DJI has a sim built into this whole system that you can fly with the goggles, with your radio and everything and you can practice in manual mode in the sim with virtually no consequences. You're not going to be crashing your real drone. So from there, get used to flying in acro mode. And honestly, if you get very proficient flying in manual mode in the sim, you're not going to have any problems. But let's be honest, you're going to rush it. You're going to feel like you know what you're doing, you're going to want to go straight to manual mode. That brings us to the final step, put the drone in manual mode and keep your finger on the panic switch. The most impressive thing about this drone to me is just how well the panic switch works. You can be cooking at 60 miles an hour, flip upside down and go, I don't know what I just did. I hit the button and it goes, it just stops. It really just, it stops. It's crazy. Follow all these steps. It's kind of a weird set of steps. It's not really a set of steps that DJI outlined, but these are the steps that we think will yield the best success. We've been making videos for a long time about flying FPV drones because we think it's an amazing hobby, but it's always been a hobby that's been difficult to get into because of how difficult it is to build the drones and how difficult it is to fly the drones. And this is a solution that leapfrogs you past both of those barriers and gets you flying right now. And eventually you'll be doing your own maintenance, you'll be flying a full Acro drone, and you'll be getting the full FPV experience. And this is a great way to start on that journey. I just really want to throw that.