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Aloha MOS,
Yes, a Phantom 4 Series aircraft is going to be a good investment, but what will eventually be available? After the original P4 was discontinued, the next of the P4 Series to be discontinued (but still supported) was the P4 Pro Obsidian. I sincerely doubt you will be able to get one unless it is refurbished or purchased from a Third Party Vender. However, the only difference between the Obsidian and the P4 Pro White is the color. If you require the color, you can get a P4 Pro painted to the Obsidian color by yourself or a professional painter.
After the Obsidian, the P4 Pro White was discontinued and now only the P4 Pro V2 and P4 Advanced are theoretically still viable products for purchase from DJI. Once the problems DJI uncovered are resolved and manufacturing and sales resume, the P4 Pro V2 and P4 Advanced should go on sale again. The P4 Pro V2 is like the P4 Pro on steroids for transmissions. The camera is basically the same, but the firmware will upgrade the use characteristics as DJI has done with their other products.
Right now (as in today - I just checked) you may be able to buy a P4 Pro (white) version 1 refurbished. But it may not be available tomorrow or two days from now. This is the Phantom you were raving about.
I have a P4 Pro version 1 and it is an amazing bird as you have discovered. But then I have a P3 Pro and P4 (original) and they both have amazing performance qualities. I will probably never sell them, but I may give them to someone special for special use like research and documentation.
Finally, the support equipment is what will be most influential factor in your use experience. If you buy or get a relatively new tablet that is good for gaming, you will have a great experience. But if you buy a cheap, slow tablet that has a difficult time with games, you may learn to hate your Phantom.
This is because the Phantom is a flying computer network. There are at least three computers involved, the aircraft flight computer, the remote control computer and the tablet computer. In order to fly properly, all three computers in the network have to be communicating properly together in the network.
Downloading and editing videos from the P4 Pro's amazing camera will require a decent gaming PC. If you do not have one, editing will frustrate you. To use the DJI Assistant 2 for updates and calibrations will require a good computer to. So, there is a lot that goes into the fun experience of flying DJI products that you need to think about.
Aloha and Drone On! |
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