Dhillskiier1653
lvl.2
Flight distance : 391818 ft
United States
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Hello all,
I recently gotten a barely used Mavic Air 2 from a local seller to replace my Phantom 3 standard which I've been using for the past 4 years. So far, all the new features have been amazing and I love how quiet and portable it is comapred to my P3.
Every year at my dad's camp, I would take a video of the landscape and trees to see how the land develops over the years and be able to compare them at a later date. To do this, I would use the waypoints feature and run the same mission to get a relatively close looking video each year. After I record those videos, I would add them to a flash drive in a folder for each year along with footage outside of the waypoint mission that I took throughout the year.
When I was on the phone with my dad driving to go get the Mavic Air 2, I was talking about all the features the drone has compared to my much older Phantom 3 standard. One thing I was glad to share with my dad was the fact that the videos each year taken during waypoints would be much more clear and more stable now compared to my P3.
After test flying the MA2 and buying it, I brought it home and started going through the app to see the features that it has. I started looking through the settings to tweak the battery warning and similar settings that I like to customize. (battery discharge time is another) While looking, I couldn't find these settings anywhere in the DJI Fly app. I searched where to find them and found out that they aren't included in the app. Another thing I couldn't find was the intelligent flight modes menu like in the DJI GO app. The one flight mode that I wanted to find was waypoints so I could check out the waypoints 2.0 interface. I heard about it online and was eying it as it would make setting up the waypoints much easier compared to my P3. I couldn't easily find the waypoints option in the DJI Fly app so I searched it up. I found that the only way to use anything with waypoints was by taking a hyperlapse and having the sped up video instead of a normal video with the standard waypoint system that I used on my 4 year old Phantom 3 standard easily many times before.
After browsing through countless websites and forum posts all asking why DJI would limit a $800+ drone that can cost up to $1,400 to only be able to use the watered down DJI Fly app as compared to the DJI GO 4 and DJI Pilot app with many more features and settings that can be changed, I decided to start researching any possible way to share this concern and spread awareness about this ongoing issue. As someone who expected the newer Mavics to be able to have the same features as a 4, going on 5 year old Phantom 3 Standard, I'm disappointed to see that DJI would limit an already pricey drone to such a watered down app that they made to be used for beginners or smaller drones that cost less than half the price of the MA2. As far as I can find, the posts talking about this have slowed down and I can't find many recent threads still asking about this.
Basically what I'm trying to see is if people are still fighting for the Mavic Air 2 and 2S to be able to be used in the DJI GO 4 app or DJI Pilot app, or if this is sort of a lost cause by now. Thank you for reading.
TL;DR A new Mavic Air 2 pilot would like their $1,100 drone to have the same features/setting options that a drone (Phantom 3 Standard) from 5 years ago for $500 was able to use instead of being locked in the watered down DJI Fly app which has way less to offer compared to DJI GO 3/4/Pilot apps.
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