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0:00 - Awesome cinematic montage featuring the DJI Avata
1:14 - Electronic image stabilisation and camera settings
2:18 - Flight characteristics, noise level, handling
3:53 - Video transmission quality with the DJI Goggles 2
4:50 - Range test with the DJI Goggles 2
6:22 - Camera specifications and image quality
6:44 - Failsafes and emergency brake
8:05 - Sports mode performance
10:15 - Return to home (RTH) tested
11:27 - Battery life
11:59 - First crash: durability and water resistance tested!
14:48 - How to find a lost drone
15:51 - Battery security
16:38 - Second crash: drone lost...
18:30 - Hack to save your battery in a crash
20:34 - You don't need to fly in manual mode to enjoy the DJI Avata
21:03 - Do we recommend this drone?
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Give me two weeks ? And I’m in! But someone is phishing me from your pin that your giving me the Avata on GIVAWAY
Yeah the scenery is beautiful but holy cow what an attractive young lady you’ve got there brother. She’s got a mop of beautiful hair on her! Lol. You make a very handsome couple. Thanks for the great video my friend
Best video so far on the avata! thank you for covering all the details that many others miss instead of regurgitating same basic info we could already find on google and providing some frickin beautiful footage while you're at it
That montage is epic including the behind-the-scenes!!!😅 I’m always intimidated by the fpv world but DJI Avata might change that now. Thanks for the fun review!
TY. Both for your Avata Videos. We have ours sat waiting on the coffee table. First flight Monday. Wire ties at the ready.😀
The scenery is amazing
Been waiting for your review. Thank you!
Great review with real life events and tons of learnings! Nice job guys!
Excellent review Stuart. Think it’ll be a while before I try an FPV but enjoyed this from you. Made a lot of sense.
Brilliant video, really well put together! Can't wait to get out with mine this week
Fantastic video, great showing us how you use it and what the results were, teaching us how to look for a crashed one and so on. Thx!
Even in that weather, your content still high quality.
i like that it can release the battery, it can save the drone from tearing apart, the most cases it can be a life saver,
You both guys are fantastic thanks for this nice review!!!
What a beautiful spot that is in front of that mountain ✨
Great video. Still waiting for my drone. Really glad I watched it. Definitely going to secure that battery.
GREAT Review as usual, and thanks for keeping it REAL!!! ~Cheers 🍻
Awesome video particularly in that kind of weather.
I've been waiting for YOUR review all week! Thanks!
Music to our ears!
Very interesting upload! Cheers from Bucharest Romania!!
Fantastic! Thanks for the review.
So interesting about the battery coming out. You’re not the only one that has captured this issue. Might have to add something like an apple AirTag onto the unit along with some 3rd party solution to securing the battery to the avata. Seems to me that DJI has done a phenomenal job at making the quad durable though!
For sure, based on the comments here, a velcro strap will sort that and then you've got an indestructible little drone.
Continue the great work and show us the Scottish Highlands. Love that btw. This definitely made my mind up to buy it!
Best drone reviews on KZhead!
Great vid guys, the suspense of watching the crash unfold it definitely didn't look like it was going to was something else. Sorry to see your experience end the way it did - twice! It feels so crap to crash an FPV. I do wonder how the first one would have gone if the battery didn't come out though, being that it was fully submerged it may have actually been what saved it. Definitely fares a better chance without current going through it. Mine hasn't arrived yet but will certainly keep the battery popping out in mind!
Спасибо Ребята! Как всегда, интересно и приятно вас смотреть.
Thanks for the video! Some useful tidbits here that I hadn't seen in other reviews such as the gyro data being accessible for third-party software and that bit about the battery. Will definitely invest in some extra securing mechanism when I get my hands on one.
Amazing video, so useful. Thank you!
Thanks again for your honest review, it has helped me make my decision
Kudos to Alina for putting up with a crazy guy and crappy weather. I hope she was rewarded with a fancy dinner in a classy restaurant.
You are the best mate 😍👋
Love your stuff mainly the accent 😆 jk always watch your stuff keep it up ! Excited for this Drone !
Congratulations sir, you are the record holder for the biggest nerd with the best looking partner! There's hope for us
Great review, cant wait to jump into Sports FPV & a bit of Mavic style. mine is on its way !!! Sure Manuel controller will follow (when back in stock !)
Excellent video! Not having at lest a forward sensor was my only concern. My drone should be arriving tomorrow, cant wait to try it out.
This review is very helpful. Thank you so much! My Avata arrives tomorrow. I’m going to use cable ties to secure the battery as well. I hope people who buy later versions of this drone will benefit from a better battery latch.
Another excellent couple of videos from S & A - excellent vocal delivery and presentation - second to none. I wish I had the skills to offer you my editing facilities - but this is an occasion to say - I don't have what you need - but wish you every success in your quest !
Thank you John!
Great show! Sorry about the accidents, but as you say, it's part of owning an FPV drone. I hope DJI fixes that battery problem -- I imagine they have had an earful from users with similar experiences! Keep the Avata videos coming! I will stick with my Mini 3 Pro and Mavic Air 2, but have enjoyed your work for a long time! Stay well!
Hi, I just found you in the last week and I absolutely love your videos, hints and tips, and indeed the downsides and crashes, brilliant and informative for amateurs like me. I really look forward to all your videos and antics highs and lows funny too, well presented and I as a novice don't feel excluded. Thankyou so much, p. S the downloads very helpful, it's like having a pro assisting me. Keep it up and a big up to the missis, patients of a saint!!?
Thank you for the kind words and welcome to the channel Jason!
Hello Stewart, been waiting on your review 👋
Your wife truly loves you lol. That was one heck of a first experince with the Avata.👍
Hook and loop strap should do the trick nicely. Thanks for pointing out this shortcoming!
Great video man
I don’t comment enough on your videos, but love your direct approach/reviews that help us creators make better decisions on gear purchases. Sorry about the Avata mishap; could see employing a Velcro strap (or other measure of security) similar to our FPV rigs to avoid this in the future.
Thanks Ryan! 100% - I think a velcro strap is the way forward here. There should be enough space to get it through frame of the Avata without any trouble. Even if others don't have this issue, it's good peace of mind. Cheers!
ur patience is what i learned from this video
Best review 🤜👍
Amazing. 😎👍
Great review as always Stew! The Avata looks good and sounds promising, I was a little bit surprised by DJI's decision to include only the motion controller in the combo. Also its a bit heavy for a cinewhoop, given the fact that they are now upto Mini 3 (all sub 250g) I was hoping it would be lighter. Would love to get your take on that in a future video perhaps. Cheers
Nightmare with the battery ejection when I eventually get one I'll definitely use the cable ties, great initial video I'm looking forward to more.
Appreciated!
Thanks for sharing your bad day with us. :D
Good review Stuart. Shame about losing the drone and battery.
Nice! I subscribed. You had me at the intro.
Welcome to the channel!
Love the video 😎👍 I will be getting my Avata Tuesday, I think I will try to using a battery strap from a standard FPV drone to secure the battery. Thanks for the heads up, sorry you had to loss a drone.
Great video as always guys! I'm new to FPV and I'm tempted to pick one of these up. After having a look, I'm fairly certain that the drone ships with a motion sensor controller and not the one that you were using for this review. I'd be interested to see what you could achieve with the controller DJI actually ship with the drone? Thanks for the great content.
I didn't know about GyroFlow ; thanks for that.
Footage seems dark, but the dynamic is AWESOME!!!
Nice drone 👍👍👍
Great content as always. I would have thought that the rigorous testing procedures done by DJI would have experienced the battery issue and been resolved before releasing the final product.
parabéns pelo canal sensacional, não vejo a hora de voar com esse Brinquedo maravilhoso, Deus abençoe.
You do excellent videos Stewart. Quick q - did you ad a filter in post to get your footage looking soft like that? Other footage I have seen looks oversharpened. Cheers!
Very fantastic sir
Great Video, thank you
I've seen others having the same battery ejection problem so I'm going to use velcro to secure it for sure. Just to comment, Alina's face looks so familiar... Ah yes, FRIDA from ABBA (or her offspring perhaps)🙂 Excellent video!
Really looking forward to your in depth video using the motion controller if you're planning on it still.
Great video. The way the battery locks in, it's hard to believe that the battery would come out. I can hear the click of both battery tabs.
I like how you grade this footage
Tough weather conditions is what makes the Scottish people strong 💪🏻🏴
This drone looks so fun. As other ones. Thanks for share your honest experience with it. It reminds me my first drone. I was so excited, waiting for a month for it and it was destroyed in just 30 minutes. if this drone were more resistant, it would be fantastic. I think it would be hard to find if it is crashed in remote zones.
Thnx for this video. Great mic sound also outside , just a different question: which tripod are you using for the DJI mic in studio?
I really need to get up to the Highlands 🤜
Ha! No, no, no...just for us! There's no, err, room for you! Glad to see you still killing it on your channel. No idea how you put out so many videos!!
@@DroneFilmGuide haha 😂 I’ll invade and get out quickly ! 😂🏴 Thank you means a lot 🙏
Wonderful video. Out of all the 'testing' videos I've watched over the last few days, I noticed, in retrospect, they all seem to be in warm, sunny, dry conditions. Many include crashes that didn't pop out the battery. Don't know what the temperature was during your shoot, but you are wearing jackets, so I assume it was somewhat cool. Don't know how temperature would effect the characteristics for the plastic frame securing the battery but I just wonder if the cool, wet circumstances contributed. Just a thought.
Nice video!
awesome👍
"Coordinated turns" Its unbelievably ironic it turned right into the tree when everywhere else was clear.
I would definitely be adding a strap of some sorts thanks you to your video.
I think you probably saved the drone by having the battery falling out possibly before being submerged in water which would have shorted the drone out. DJI doesn’t recommend flying their drones in wet weather. Glad it’s still working.
love the video! i used to use the cable ties, i replaced that with velcro straps! change your life :) all you have to do is get a long velcro strap to hold the battery in ALSO attach a air tag to the drone so your will NEVER loose it! You can buy a water proof case for the air tag so you are good to go in any condition ;) have fun love the videos.
So cool
Well done on producing such a helpful and visually exciting video! On the basis of this video and your subsequent solo video (where's Alina?!) using the motion controller, I've ordered one. I have previously flown a cheaper FPV by another manufacturer that was probably more of a toy rather than a flying camera and I couldn't get to grips with it, it was too unstable and difficult to fly smoothly but this one looks like DJI have it just right. Thanks very much and keep up the good work!
Great stuff! Hope you enjoy your Avata!
You can recover the video file. The only reason it didn't play is because the file headers are messed up. There is software to fix it. Sometimes even if you put the memory card back in the drone and just record 1 more clip, it will fix the headers of the corrupted clip. Its just because the recording didn't end correctly, but the file is definitely recoverable, I've done it myself a few times when I lose the last file.
sorry for your loss, mate. thank to dji sent u another one. 😀
Nice video
Great video, love your content. How about Velcro Tape used for cable tidy ? Should hold battery and reusable. Concerning on how fast you lost signal when blocked, doesn't really encourage diving over a mountain/building etc
Thanks! Keep in mind FCC transmission is waaaay better.
Like Stewart, I do think this is a great and capable little drone. Sadly I have to agree with him on the battery issue. This is not an imagined. It's real. Flying in Normal mode, twice yesterday my son hit a goal post resulting in the drone going down and the battery self ejecting. The first impact was at just 2m/s (5mph, 7kmh). Side on. Impact detected. Drone dropped about 1.5 metres on to grass. Battery self-ejected. The second impact, on a different battery that was brand new unused, at a speed of 6.7m/s (about 15mph, 24kmh). Impact detected. IMU error. Then GPS loss. Drone went nuts and flew itself randomly in all directions, including upside down, across the field while trying to regain itself. Impacted the ground at 13.9m/s (31mph, 50kmh), threw the battery out, and lost the on/off button for the battery. Meanwhile the drone somersaulted and bounced across the field. On inspection, it actually smashed the battery casing open on the corner where the power button is. Have managed to close the casing but now it has no button cover. I think the way it clicks in is way too flawed. Since the accidents I have been looking closely at the design. The gripping area of the clips is only about 1mm on either side of the battery once in the battery bay. I have found that without using too much force you can actually pull the battery out without pressing the battery release buttons. I can't do that on any of my other DJI drones. It takes less force than pulling the battery out of the Tello! I can see over time, a user wearing out the upper cage clip retention if not quite depressing battery clips properly. I have seen comments from others saying it's a safety feature - but if that's the case, what's the point of designing in find my drone and turtle mode. DJI clearly does not intend for the battery to self-eject at these low speeds. Very, very disappointing for a £1,300 spend. Be prepared to lose your drone or buy additional batteries. Absolutely love it otherwise.
Update. DJI are replacing mine. The support operative agreed this should not happen. Though it is kind of DJI to offer a replacement, I don't think the new one will be any different. Rather than a bad moulding of the upper frame, I suspect it to be a design flaw of the battery retention design. I would put my house on a new battery retention design on Avata II.
Thanks for the comment! Glad you got it sorted with DJI.
Another brilliant video guys! The Avata looks like it has amazing potential but the fact it so easily ejects its battery is a deal breaker. I mean, you two were on familiar ground, had clear LOS and still lost the thing in an open field simply because it can't hold onto its battery. Poor latch design notwithstanding, it's odd that DJI doesn't provide for such scenarios by having a small permanent battery onboard that would last long enough to broadcast their location in the event of a crash. Even a supercapacitor would do just to send out a GPS for a minute or two. Hopefully DJI does a quick redesign to fix what appears to be a fatal flaw.
Stewart, one can buy cheap accessory clip that secures battery in case of mishap. As always, Alina is perfect video companion! Ready to assist with gist! She has elegance of presence, glow ready to go! 🇺🇸💛🇬🇧
Thanks for the in Depth review. It’s a no go that the battery comes of that easily. (Duck Tape might help, but paying a lot and then I have to fix it myself ???)
Great review S&A, please have a look into reusable cable-ties, in south africa we get whats called Lumeno flexi ties, they are dark green and can be reused so no need for a side cutter, other more conventional reusable cable ties have a little tab you can lift to release it or else use a Velcro strap, Ive used normal cable ties to hold in batts in some off my rc creations and really sucks compared to a reusable strap
Thanks for the advice!
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Your accent is amazing :P (just like the video)
Great video. Awesome location. Bummer about the battery. Maybe if you had brought a Mavic with you it would have helped with the search. Also, if you had a small strobe light that might have helped you as well.
Good pick fpv ☺️
Great video I have a question can we put air tag on the drone and the battery?
Fantastic review. Nice to see someone that got the drone free(2 in fact lol) and still talk about the negitive aspects of the bird. Thank you for that.. btw at about a 8 min flight time at best. I now have to add on attaching a zip tie to the drone and battery EACH AND EVERYTIME. HAHAHA. At that point it's really no different then a traditional FPV drone... With GPS of course.. but still mate. This is a major FAIL . MIKEY
Thanks for your comment! As some of the comments have suggested, a reusable cable tie or velcro strap would give peace of mind on the battery. Keep in mind the drone is not aimed at boss-level FPV enthusiasts. Without GPS flight modes and the emergency brake, 99% of existing drone enthusiasts wouldn't even think about trying FPV. There's too much time required to learn the skill for your average person with family/life/work commitments (myself included). This drone opens doors for sure. Added to that, here in the UK the drone itself costs £499. That's not a whole lot more than the price of a new GoPro. Cheers!
@@DroneFilmGuide EXCELLENT points touched on mate.. 💙💙💙 agreed.. it's not for all of us but between me and you. Lol ..I'll use a Velcro trap happily. Lol shush lol. I love there products to much to let every little thing sway me . I wish they would have though I'd the more experienced as well. Maybe add a strapfor them challenging flights lol (that it comes with) hey that's another accessorie they can sell.. lol. Thx for this answer mate. I Love your channel.. 💙💙 Mikey
@@DroneFilmGuide really great review despite all of the tribulations in drone paradise. But I've got to consider the cost of the drone alone as £770 or us$900, because I could never spend that type of money on a drone without also having at least 3 batteries and the charger as well. DJI tech is awesome but both of those crashes could likely have been prevented if they had the equivalent of betaflight crash recovery programmed to the flight controller. The BF crash recovery setting momentarily throws the flight controller into stability mode when a collision is detected, then quickly returns it to manual. Just long enough for the pilot to regain control. It has saved me from a lot of crashes when making my way through tree canopies or when a sudden piece of scraggle pops up out of nowhere.
Great video. My Avata arrived this morning and I waited almost 7hours for the drone battery to be fully charged. Which seems very excessive, after doing all the upgrades etc I have set the battery on charge again with a dji USB charger in the hope its quicker. On my Mini 2 and Mavic Zoom I am able to import my NFZ authorisations but can't see where this can be done on the Avata, Do you know if its possible ? Interestingly a friend had mentioned the battery falling out and he uses a velcro strap which does save the cable tie's. Tonight after the updates I took off unexpectedly in my front room and after the initial shock it was surprisingly easy to control with the motion controller, however in my rush to try it I hadn't read the documentation fully and didn't know how to make it land so I had to leave it to auto land after battery depletion lol.... lucky escape
It’s actually a good thing the battery dislodged before it became submerged, kept it from shorting out. Use a Velcro strap to secure the battery instead of cable ties.
Indeed!
Great video! what is the tripod/stand you use for the DJI mic at the end?
Stewart, do you think it would be possible to fix an Airtag to either the drone or battery? It wouldn't help much submerged I am sure, but might offer a secondary location feature to the drone and only add 11 grams, from what I see in the AirTag tech specs. This work around doesn't of course address the issue, but could provide a workaround. As a novice in gps drones, and never having tried any fpv, I do see this as something to peak my interest.
Hey Mark. Yes, an Airtag would probably be a good solution. Other suggestions in the comments are reusable cable ties and velcro straps.
I've ordered a battery anti drop buckle especially for that reason .. to keep the battery in place
Stewart - how about some industrial grade velcro to secure the battery? No cable ties to "snip" 😁
Hi thanks for the honest review. Do you can make a video inside a house? I want to use it for real estate to. But can't see good reviews of that. Especially when you fly from inside to outside etc