Gadgetory

so Dan just called and said he needs a little help getting a clip for a video he's making about alternative energy I think if something has to do with windmills and luckily my navikev has arrived so this is my first time playing with the magic air and the reason I like this one so much is because it's a kind of a combination between regular Mavic throw and the spark that was released last year it's basically a Mavic pro that can fold up and collapse into the size of a spark so I got the fly more package which should come with a couple extra batteries and some prop guards which is good because we're taking more than one drone and I don't think they're both gonna make it back when you're flowing around windmills things can get dangerous here's those prop guards I was talking about drone should be in one of these bags got the batteries in here these look a lot different than both the spark and the Phantom and the Mavic so I don't think they're interchangeable anymore remember with the magic platinum and maverick Pro those batteries were interchangeable these ones are not this should be a eunuch hair wow that is sweet they're actually calling this the flame red and it is a completely different design than what I was expecting I was expecting something a little bit more like the spark I'll make a video where I show all these side-by-side and stuff a little bit later but right now we got to get going let's just keep our fingers crossed that this one comes back and if one wrecks it stands so initial impressions this is about as small as I anticipated it being one thing I was expecting was that the propellers would Bend you know and fold in half like they do with the previous medics the propellers have no flex to them the front arms pull out just like normal and then the back arms fold out like they do with the previous Mavic and that's pretty sweet and it's got these little tiny legs right here as well for like the landing gear on the front but not the back I imagine that's to keep the camera a little bit elevated from the ground I feel like everything's redesigned just a little bit different so with this front gimbal protection thing you unclip down here at the bottom and then it pops off the top that's completely different than all of the other gimbals on all the previous DJI drones the 4k sensor inside is stabilized on a gimbal and it looks like the batteries eject in a similar fashion it's got these little pull tabs down here you can tuck it back inside and it's locked and loaded doesn't come with a charge that is a problem so not only is this a smaller form factor than the previous Mavic but it also has more safety features that has centers on the back and the front so if you're flying backwards you can't crash in anything which is a plus because I fly backwards a lot getting that shot as you're backing up and panning around is perfect someone put these prop guards on just for kicks and giggles in case it bumps into anything it slips right down here through the bottom and then this top latches and closes and that way when this is spinning around nothing can come from the bottom and hit it and nothing can come from the side and hit the props and stop them because once one of these stops the whole drilling just plummets and we're trying to avoid that it looks like these bumpers actually snap into each other giving a little bit more protection not too bad that is quite the cage of protection right there okay we're set my charge some batteries we'll get out of here one thing I don't get is why people are kind of opposed to wind turbines I mean I get that they kind of like block the view but they're pretty sweet-looking and if you think about it the reason they're called renewable energy is because they're sustainable we can keep making more of it I mean I haven't seen any dinosaurs walking around recently and oil is a thing of the past it's not coming back which includes gasoline and coal and everything else that's taken millions of years to develop so getting the drones ready to fly around those wind turbines we have the irregular Mavic this is the Platinum and this is what I was talking about with the wings that fold open and shut one thing that is interesting with the Mavic I mean obviously there's the size difference the Mavic air is considerably smaller than the Maverick Pro but the gimbal as well so the gimbal right here is pretty free floating and the gimbal inside of here is protected on both sides when we're looking at the controller's we can see that the Maverick pro has a little bit of a display right here which gives some information while you're flying which is incredibly nice the Mavic air is more like the Mavericks Park controller where it doesn't have the display and it's more just everything is on your phone okay so the goal of today is to not lose either of the drones as we're flying around these wind turbines I think there's nine turbines and each of them can produce 2.1 wads of electricity sounds like a lot like something out it back to the future so thanks ACK for helping me out I am NOT the greatest drone pilot I tend to crash my drones and so I just need a few b-roll shots for a video that we're making with Bill and Melinda Gates on sustainable energy so I asked sach and he's like let's go by this giant wind farm and fly the drones around it so we're going to be careful we're going to be safe we are in a safe location we'll try not to get too close or dangerous it doesn't look like these things are moving all that quickly but in reality they are huge they are so big so we're gonna try to keep our distance and not get too close just to get some good b-roll I just need like three seconds of footage and the way we're gonna do this is that if you look at all of the turbines over there remember that these each of these propellers are like the size of a semi but there's one tucked behind the mountain over there that's not moving so the drone can probably get a little closer to that one then it can all the rest of these so it's super windy right now so the drone is compensating a lot for like the air movement in this canyon I do think it's interesting though your drone is more shaky than the Mavic you can you can super annoying dude I can't get the drone to go more than 193 feet from me so all of the footage you just saw none of that was from the DJI air it has a limiter in it when you're first starting out so you can't fly too high and you can't fly too far I adjusted both of those and even turned off the distance limiter and it still would not let me do what I wanted to do which is extremely frustrating this one is working really really well I was quiet the whole time he's over here I don't remember what he was saying but he was super frustrated when I'm over there just silent just like look at these shots they're amazing so if you see any shots right here these are my shot yeah I'm pretty proud of him dan did better today with the drone than I did so I know that you have skills it definitely was a not user error on this one it is really frustrating and like this isn't my first drone like I've had basically every DJI that's come out and so like I know what I'm doing when I'm flying around at these things but the settings on this were just even though the settings were correct the drone still would not fly and farther than like beginner mode so if you haven't seen Dan's video yet head over there and leave a comment saying I came here for the windmill and we'll see how many people go over from my channel so that just goes to show not every project goes as planned I had a completely different idea of how this video is gonna go but that happens tech doesn't always act the way you want it to and that's my review of the Mavic air alright so I'm gonna try this again because I've never gotten a bad product from DJI like everything I've gotten from them just works and so it's weird that this one is not working and it won't fly farther than just a very short distance from me so in a mess remount the settings a little bit and see if I can figure out what is going on with this and reach a final verdict right here once and for all so it has been about two days since I last flew this and there is yet another update so it's updating the Maverick air right now and maybe that'll fix the problem but to be honest I feel like every time I turn on one of these drones there's some kind of update going on okay moment of truth that made me calibrate the compass one more time but I think we're ready to fly all right let's see if we get farther than 200 feet this time and it did it so we are currently 600 feet away and there are no warning messages at all so it must have been that last firmware update that it needed to perform but the funny thing is is that I did all the updates before I left and everything was fine and it said it was ready to fly but then it just never did anything so a couple days later it finally pushed that last update and now we're good to go so I take back most everything bad I said about DG I previously I'm happy that this is now working and I will keep you updated on whether or not it continues to function as we go along so it really must have been that last update cuz now you can see it as entirely stable but when we first started flying around it was wobbling around in the air so even though it said there were no updates left when I first started flying apparently there was one and now everything's fixed kind of makes sense I'm glad we were able to update this and figure out what was going on with the drone thanks ton for watching and I'll see you around