

Well, as I mentioned, DJI thought about this … and made their FPV drone the perfect bridging drone of people coming from normal drone flying to FPV. You might think, that still doesn’t answer how you can learn flying in this mode? Right. Learn FPV flying with DJI Virtual Flight app FPV controls work very differently from normal drone controls.
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The “S” mode might sound familiar from Mavic drones as well, however in the DJI FPV drone it’s a hybrid mode of normal flying with some of the freedom of the manual FPV mode in terms of movements.Īnd then there’s the M mode – you should really only touch this if you know how to fly FPV drones! Otherwise you’re going to crash very quickly.

The drone also has features like return-to-home, take-off and landing assistance, and front sensors to avoid collisions in N mode. This one can be set to the “normal” mode and you’ll have all the controls and behaviours you are used to from a Mavic drone. That’s not possible with other FPV drones. Believe me, I have no clue on how to fly an FPV drone, but I am confident that with this drone I can learn it.įirst of all, the DJI FPV drone can be flown like a normal drone as well. The DJI FPV drone seems to be the perfect entry-point for “normal” drone pilots like me into the FPV space. It turns out, DJI really thought about this. Now DJI’s FPV drone is not exactly lightweight though – it weights almost 800 grams or 1.75 pounds, which is partly because of a large battery that allows it to fly for up to 20 minutes but of course also bears the question – how can you learn how to fly this without destroying it almost immediately? An entry-level FPV drone with various flying modes Most FPV drones are self-built and often very lightweight (especially Cinewhoop drones), which makes even hard impacts often not as destructive as on heavier drones. Image credit: CineDįPV drones are notoriously hard to fly and take many, many hours to master, involving lots of crashes in the process. And yes, you can fly this drone only with goggles. Flying the DJI FPV drone is a quite different experience: FPV stands for first-person-view, and it’s a completely new design for DJI, with a very different purpose in mind: sports flying, at high speeds, with a completely freedom of movement in all axis, to make movements you haven’t seen before. If you’ve ever flown a drone, it’s most likely you flew a DJI Mavic or Phantom drone – DJI’s normal “mainstream” drones.

Flying an FPV drone – very different from “mainstream” drones Here’s let’s focus on my hands-on first-look review of the device. In case you missed our post with all the technical details of the new DJI FPV drone, click here to read it.

I took it for a first spin and here are my impressions from a filmmaker’s perspective in our DJI FPV Review. DJI just announced the DJI FPV, their first ready-to-fly first person view sporting drone.
