Here's what real FPV pilots think of the DJI FPV Quad

Alright. Is it fun yet? Hey, we're at a secret FPV location, right? Secret. You might know where it is. This is Glenn. He's an FPV pilot, like a real FPV pilot. And he's from here, in Atlanta, and you've never flown this. No, I've never flown it. I've wanted to fly one, but it's just not my thing to buy one and try to fly it. So you'd rather crash, I mean fly someone else's? I mean, yeah, fly it, definitely. I'd definitely rather fly it than crash it. Excellent. So what I've done is I've taken the tension out of the throttle stick, just so you guys know. Let's turn it on. Have you heard this start? No. Alright, ready? Do they have that for BLHeli? Oh yeah, right? I think they do. You could put this sound on a regular quad, that'd be great. Do you know how to start a DJI product? He does. So get up to a hover, and it says normal mode, right? Uh, yeah. Okay. Get up a little bit higher. You ready to go in acro? Yeah. So I'm going to put it in manual on here. Now, just to let you know, if you panic, here's the pause button, right there. You hit that, and it'll... Break, alright. Yeah, does it say pause? It says aircraft break, yeah. Okay, hit it one more time. Now you're good. Aircraft breaking. So I'm going to put it in manual, and then a thing will come up on the screen where you have to line the dots up with the sticks. Okay. And then once you're in that, then you're in acro. Alright. Now if you want to come out of acro, just hit that pause button again, okay? Oh God, here we go. Do you see the things? I'm in. Alright, there we go. I've known him for 15 minutes, and trust him completely. Now don't get crazy, Glenn. What do you think? It's alright. I like it. You do? It doesn't feel underpowered? It just feels floaty. Yeah. A bit floaty, and if you come down and break, it has a lot of prop wash. It's fun seeing a real FPV guy fly this. You see the speedometer on there? See, that's the thing. You're close. I'm so busy worrying about how to fly that... Yeah, don't. Don't pay attention to anything else except flying. I don't look at my own OSD. Yeah, okay, good. Don't. Just pay attention to the flying. Yeah, this is weird. Is it weird? Yeah. Weird good, or weird leaving you wanting more? Wanting less. Wanting less? Yeah. I'm going to land it. Glenn, your thoughts? It's too floaty. Yeah? Yeah, it's just too floaty. Would you agree that this isn't a quad for an FPV guy? Yeah, no, it's not. It isn't. It definitely isn't. And would you agree that this isn't someone's first drone either? Yeah, it's not their first drone. They should have something else before that. Not only sim time, but something before that, before they get this. Because to learn on this, you're not going to enjoy it because you're going to worry about crashing it all the time. And it doesn't fly like an FPV drone should. It's lacking something. And the propellers are plastic. Yeah, they're not polycarbonate like ours. So yeah, it's not something to learn on. Although, it'll give you some confidence because you can't shift it. Somebody coming from the GPS drone world would get one of these and maybe get a toe into the FPV world? Yeah, because as long as you have some semblance of how to fly a quadcopter, I think that would be a good transition. Okay, my original video, this is what I said. The DJI FPV quad is a piece of ----. I still think it's a piece of ----. But I agree with all your points. Yeah, I wouldn't get it now. I thought about trading my Obsidian for one of those or selling it and then getting one. But now? No, no need for it. There you go. No need for it. This is, please state your name. Adam's Quince FPV. Alright, I'll put your logo right there. There it is. This is the motion controller. Now, this does make the DJI FPV fun. It does. So, a quick lesson. Yep. You hold this down to take off. The record button is here. So, if you put your thumb here and accidentally hit that, it'll stop the recording. It's a dumb place to have a record button. Right there. We're a right-handed person. I bet this was developed by a lefty. You DJI lefties. This is the accelerator throttle. Okay. And then you go. There'll be a little circle in there. And so, where that's pointing, that's where it'll go. So, if you need to go up, point it up, and then you'll get it. But you can't roll. Everybody's saying in the last video, dummy, just turn it like this. It doesn't do that. Alright. I guess here we go. Yeah. Oh. Good luck. Oh, God. Yeah. So, turn it. There you go. How do you get it to stay after you turn? Well, the thing is, I turn my... You gotta turn your whole body. Yeah, that's the thing. You can tilt the wrist and then just bring it back a little bit. Gotcha. Okay, I got it. I think it's more fun to turn the whole body myself, but... Got it. Alright, I figured it out now. Alright, try to go up. You see that little circle? Yeah. Alright. Is it fun yet? I don't think it would be something I would do every day. It's a unique experience, right? Yes, definitely. You see how... It almost just feels like if you were playing a Wii video game. It is very video game-y. Yeah. When you tilt forward, that's the camera going. Gotcha. Yeah, I can see my props going up and down sideways. Right. So, I see the gimbal compensating for the... Yeah. If you just sit in one space and rock it up and down, you can see how that one-axis gimbal... So, the gimbal... Yep, I see. So, that way you can keep your hand level and it still tilts forward to accelerate forward. And if you go fast forward... But if you want to go up, you kind of just... Tilt it up. Tilt it up and hold the accelerator. Right. And just keep it going. If you want to go fast... As soon as I let go, you can just see it. It stops immediately. You having fun? Oh, yeah. A great view of the city up here. Yeah. Mercedes-Benz is a couple blocks away, so it's... Okay, that's cool, too. The little home return spot. Yeah. It's like augmented reality. As an FPV guy, is this something you would want in your kit or no? Probably not. It's just a curiosity, right? Yeah. I appreciate the experience of letting me fly, but it's definitely not something that I would invest my money in. But if you're a rich dude and you just have... Oh, if I had a bunch of expendable cash? Yeah. For sure. Orbit with the wand controller. This is going to be interesting. I don't know. I don't have control of... I don't have control of yaw. It's weird. You have to go forward. You can't do it. You don't have the... I think you can. If you go forward, it'll bank for you. But you have to get at speed, I think. Don't hit anything. Try it. I'm like... It's keeping it so the... It's weird. It's wanting to only yaw. I can't roll with it, so I can't incorporate both at the same time to be able to keep focused on the actual light pole. I wonder if that's... I can do circles around it. A setting. Maybe a firmware update? If anybody knows, let me know, please. You ready for sport? Yep. Okay, now there's no obstacle avoidance on that. It's a little faster now. You noticing it? I'm going to come over here and go... It will bank in sport mode. Atlanta, that's what that was? There you go. Now you can see... Wow, that goes really fast. Yeah, the props go up and down really quick in the... Yeah, see how fast you can go across the field. I think it'll go 90-something. That's at full. Is it a little more fun now? Yeah. Now that I can actually travel somewhere quicker that I want to go look at. Yeah. Now try the orbit on the light. Oh, God. I don't want to crash it. I'm just going around circles more than anything. Kind of looking at stuff. That's kind of what it's almost fun for, is to go scope out something. Yeah. It's very clear. Yes. If I take it out of sport mode, do you feel confident going inside the stadium? Like underneath right here? Yeah. No, inside. Let me try it. All right. Yep. Airbrake. All right. All right, cool. Yeah, okay. And I'm going to come around here. And I'm going to go show you what kind of penetration it is. And I will be turning my whole body. Oh, God. That was close, wasn't it? Yeah, it's hard to just punch out if you're panicking. All right, I'm going to. Oh, God. All right, you put the circle where you want to go. All right, I'm inside. And there's no break up. Everybody bow. No. Okay. No, this is good. I'm inside. And it's no problem. I'm inside. Slide through the, underneath the stairs. Oh, there's a helicopter. You hear the helicopter? Yeah, it's okay. Yeah, it's okay because I'm undercover. You hear that FAA? Now there's a whole bunch of people here. Hi, people. I don't know what they're doing. They're waving. Okay, so they're cool with it. I'm going to turn around and get away from the people. Go the other way. Let me know when the helicopter's gone. Oh, that's what I like about this. I like the penetration. I think our cars are okay. I'm out there. Yeah, I'm on the other side. The entire building is. That's one thing good about digital is it penetrates very well. And we all want good penetration, don't we? Ladies. All right here. It actually does help to turn your whole body. There it is. So your final thoughts on that? It's fun, but I don't know. Yeah. It's weird. It is weird. It's very weird. I can see how people could get used to it. Yeah. But then when you get used to that, then it kind of will ruin you for regular controller. Yeah. So don't just get this without learning the controller. I would definitely learn the controller without a spring in it. Yes. If you're going to learn. Yeah. Just go ahead and take that spring out automatically. If your intention is to fly actual FPV and use this as a practice, then yeah, do that. Yeah. Awesome. Thanks, man. No problem. All right. Thank you. Fly high FPV now has never flown the DJI FPV quad and you're about to. Yeah. I'm looking forward to it. It's going to be pretty, I think. Let's turn it on. First, you rub it this way. Oh, baby. What a big back end you've got. So go ahead and take off. Manual or beginner mode? I mean, yeah. What am I saying? Yeah. Normal mode. So there he is. Angle mode. In normal mode. I'm a noob again. Look, no hands. Do you need to fly it around to get used to it? I mean, it's just like a Mavic, right? Yeah. Okay. I'm going to put it in manual. Now you have to line the thing up. You see the sticks? Yeah. The dots? Line that up and then you're free to crash. Oh, Lord. What have I done? Wham! It is very floaty and it's got a lot of prop wash. I can't follow him, Ken. Yeah, that's all right. Come and get me. What do you think? The picture is incredible, of course. It's weird that it doesn't go down when I let off the stick. It's oddly floaty. Do you feel confident to go inside? No, I'm not going to break this thing right this second. Do it! If you break it, I don't have to fly it anymore. It's that burnt out building, though, man. This is crazy. Do you think this is a good first drone for someone? It's too fragile for that, I think. That's good. I'm glad you said that. That's my concern, is that it's going to shatter into a billion pieces the first time I crash it. I've been flying for four years in Acro and I crash every day. It's part of the process. Okay, land. Land? No, I'm just kidding. Do you think this is for FPV people? Yes, too, but it's a toy. It's more of a curiosity. Is it recording? Battery firmware version inconsistent. Flight safety at risk. It is? Yeah. And the video froze and now it's at 11%. Piece of s***. 19%. 19%! 22%. 24%. 25%. 27%. This is why DJI says, must have full battery before doing a firmware update. It's going to be fun, though, once it updates. Oh, boy. You ready? Yeah, I don't think you're ready. Yeah, I don't think I've ever flown an FPV before. 80%. Alright. 81%. Are we there yet? 81%. Hasn't moved. Stand by for fun! Any second. Here comes the fun. Where are we now? Oh, warning zone nearby. Fly with caution. Oh, we can fly? Firmware update successful.