AusAir
lvl.2
Flight distance : 425049 ft
Australia
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Decent racing quads set you back more than that and don't have all the automation & obstacle avoidance on board. The difference is, they survive most crashes with nothing more than simple DIY repair required. I've crashed my dedicated FPV machine at over 50mph and it cost me $30 in parts. The Mavic would almost certainly be a write off at that speed.
There will be plenty that will assume just because there are googles available they can fly the Mavic like they've seen FPV racers do on YouTube then no doubt complain about their expensive crash here. Sure, you can watch it on your phone in the controller but it's not the same as wearing googles. Googles bring a very different experience to FPV that takes a little getting use to, not the least of which is understanding the relationship of the cameras FOV to the dimensions of the drone. It's one thing staring at your phone then looking back up at the drone to see what it's near. It's another thing completely with goggles when you don't have that option. The other thing here is that a lot of people will be use to flying VLOS and only using their phone screens to compose a shot. Jumping in with goggles is again a very different way to fly.
The Mavic is attracting serious attention from a lot of first time users without any experience or knowledge of the things that impact on the performance and opertation of drones. That's blatently obvious by the number and nature of questions from users all over the web. Plenty of these users have no idea about the basics of how to fly them let alone things like latency and how that will affect them during flight.
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