(18-Feb-2021, 08:12 AM)Titanv11 Wrote: Can't believe the amount of bias, negativity and outright hatred in most of these comment's.
Some people that will end up buying these drones will not be capable of flying a diy 5" racer and some don't have the necessary skills to build one, some possibly don't have the spare time required.  So this new DJI whatever will be very appealing,  as to the claim that the whole hobby will freefall.... LOL,
If the government in your country adds more rules or regulations hey... its happening in every country with or without DJI's input. Except for  Thailand
I think it will actually attract more people to this hobby, after all, I assume one of the aims of this forum was to attract new people to the hobby and baby them along.
I myself bought a Mavic along with a few friends (yeah, I know, Just made a few enemies) and 4 of us decided it was too limiting and we started delving into diy drones (none of us very successful.. still learning) . I assume the same scenario will occur with the release of the DJI drone.
The above comments remind me of the Apple vs Android drama ;(  each has its pros and cons...
Hey 'live and let live', I can assure everyone that this hobby will continue for a very long time even after the release of DJI's new income stream.
Weather you can admit to it or not DJI has greatly helped the hobby in general, some of you even own DJI products.
I myself love the Mavic Air II and hopefully my new DJI Goggles will arrive tomorrow but I love my diy 5 & 7" quad even more even tho its prone to more breakdowns than a 30y old Morris Minor ... sigh.
BTW..  I didn't use Bangbad... thanxs Snow

I can't speak for everyone, but the way I look at it is that people who buy it will either a) realise it's kinda trash and start making their own quads, have burned a load of money with DJI that would be better spent with vendors who support our hobby, b) get bored when they realise it's a Mavic with goggles or c) fly it like a pillock, poisoning the well for FPV.

If we want to attract people to the hobby we need tiny whoops, not $1500 of vendor lock-in.

(18-Feb-2021, 09:55 AM)Banelle Wrote: I can't speak for everyone, but the way I look at it is that people who buy it will either a) realise it's kinda trash and start making their own quads, have burned a load of money with DJI that would be better spent with vendors who support our hobby, b) get bored when they realise it's a Mavic with goggles or c) fly it like a pillock, poisoning the well for FPV.

If we want to attract people to the hobby we need tiny whoops, not $1500 of vendor lock-in.

I'm just guessing here.... Do you own an iPhone? LOL
Well I'm obviously poisoning the well for FPV since I can barely hover atm but its great entertainment for onlookers ;(

(18-Feb-2021, 10:47 AM)Titanv11 Wrote: I'm just guessing here.... Do you own an iPhone? LOL

Nah, Android ;-)

(18-Feb-2021, 10:47 AM)Titanv11 Wrote: Well I'm obviously poisoning the well for FPV since I can barely hover atm but its great entertainment for onlookers ;(

I don't mean people who are still learning to fly! We love you guys! I mean people who don't fly safely. Up until now we could always point at people flying Mavics around helipads and over crowds and just shrug and say "that's not us". Now DJI has made FPV available to the rich idiot crowd it's going to be harder for us to make that distinction.

Boy you got to hand it to DJI. They get a ton of free advertisements on the forum. The amount of pages on this in a short time is great PR even if it’s mostly negative. I bet they are drooling over the money they will make on this disposable quad like craft!

Bruce sums it all up quite nicely in a logical manner, as usual...

https://youtu.be/KwOw5wIM7OI?t=470

Another leaked unboxing of the new DJI FPV Drone...

EDIT: A working copy of the video can be found in post #117 of this thread.

All details here:
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/s...tem/+&cd=1

(23-Feb-2021, 11:14 AM)SnowLeopardFPV Wrote: Another leaked unboxing of the new DJI FPV Drone...

(23-Feb-2021, 10:58 PM)Andreas-sa Wrote: All details here:
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/s...tem/+&cd=1

Looks like both of these are now taken down

(17-Feb-2021, 01:54 AM)SnowLeopardFPV Wrote: So the DJI drone can fly full acro according to Ken Heron who has flown one. There is however an emergency button on the controller that you can just press if you get into trouble and it will take over and recover itself back to a controlled stabilised flight. It seems like you have to take off in DJI's auto take-off mode like the camera drones do before you then switching to acro mode for manual flight.

xD a computer take over controll by a performance flight xD for safety!!!!! xD is this the idea?
do they like to hurt peoples to solve the reputation of drones xD
so i choose drop as a failsafe procedure or disarm in case xD i guess we all.

(23-Feb-2021, 11:59 PM)bffigjam Wrote: Looks like both of these are now taken down

Here you go. I had a cached copy of the GetFPV page for the DJI FPV Drone in my browser so I've converted it to chopped up images, removed any GetFPV branding, and posted them below  

I also have a copy of the unboxing video but the original content owner has been claiming copyright strikes against all of the channels that posted it which has resulted in it being removed, so I'm not sure how easy it's going to be to post that somewhere.

What is it with the future dystopian nonchalant young white hotties theme DJI seems to be going for??  Is that the future of FPV??  

Will I need to wear ruby red lipstick to fly it?

Damn, they got Taylor Swift modeling for DJI?

(23-Feb-2021, 11:59 PM)bffigjam Wrote: Looks like both of these are now taken down

Another copy of the second unboxing video has appeared on a Chinese Youtuber's channel. Best watch it quick before the copyright strike police appear and take it down...

EDIT: A working copy of the video can be found in post #117 of this thread.

At this point I just want to see it flying. This teasing is just taking to long since I doubt it can outperform a already good quad... It seems a nice polished product though.