Top 10 reasons not to buy the DJI FPV drone12:48

Not that you would ever fly 5 to 6 meters away from anyone given how much you have fought against restrictions 🙂

soo many of these are for sale 2nd hand already…..

Borrow money to buy one.

Open TX is open source software. They raised their nose to open source. Newbies should ? run from this one.

Hey Bruce . I’ve bought dji v2 goggles. Waiting for them to get stock from getfpv. If they arrive and dji doesn’t have a fix for connecting to fpv mode to use my air unit . Could I drive to Tokoroa to bind to your dji drone so as to change this setting. Cheers ScottyDog FPV from Te Awamutu…

11. Propellers are expensive
12. Battery costs as much as a drone
13. Propriety ecosystem

Awesome video as always Bruce!

Here’s a big one, you may miss out on whoops and micros if you go the DJI route, to me they are the most relaxing fun to fly. No stress no worries about hurting people and you can just chill out front and rip. If you’re afraid of building there no need to anymore and in fact BNF are considerably cheaper than building your own! Plenty of complete solderless builds out now as well so the hobbie is really opening up IMO.

25mw Omg put most people off instantly

Can you review the potential d58?

Talks as fast as a nonse too. Slow down daddy

A well known reviewer on YT recommends the DJI FPV as a great beginners drone. I think that is ridiculous. What are your thoughts?

And 15 bucks for 2 props? And…….don’t break it! You will be really upset to have all that money sitting in the corner collecting dust.

Lots of fpv gatekeepers just hating on everything DJI especially this one where they think all their nerdy hard work engineering has been denied by this drone. I’m pretty sure it’s a hybrid drone people should know this by now

fk DJ(gay)I

Always, honest and too the point. You rock! I determined not to purchase that one even before the rumors started and glad I stuck to my guns!

Who is this “someone”? The fee for replacing an arm is about $100. Not nickels and dimes but also not $200. I’ve already seen replacement parts spring up but if you hurry, you can keep telling people there aren’t any a few more times before it becomes common knowledge.

Oh and is this “10 reasons why you don’t want to buy this for Freestyle” or as a GPS Camera Drone?

It doesn’t need voice interactions with the built in features…RTH… besides, the OSD is really good, especially compared to the “cheap” rigs you’re talking about. I guess if you need someone to hold your hand even more than displaying it right in front of you and automatically bringing the drone home if you forget…

Again, is the about Freestyle, or camera drones? How many axis is the gimbal on your freestyle rig? DJI is blending the genre and coming out with a hybrid of both. I agree it’s not the world’s best FPV drone, nor is it the best camera drone BUT it’s actually better than most other companies camera or FPV drones. I mean, you can build a better freestyle drone and I could build a better camera drone as well, what does that prove? WillCan your freestyle drone do the things the DJI FPV drone can? Nope. In fact, it would be near impossible for someone like you to build a drone with the same capabilities as the DJI drone. Period. DJI could release a BNF Freestyle quad that would boot stomp anything you can put together and sell it for $200… Sometimes, I think that’s what some of you are worried about.

How many times are you going to mention repairs and lie about it?

I’m pretty sure it’s not DJI’s fault about the EU’s regulations… Wait, are you using illegal radios to fly freestyle? I hope not…

I got authorization by an Air Force Base yesterday, if you can’t figure it out… I’m not a fan of NFZ’s but I do work for the FAA and Homeland, they get about 100 drone incident reports a month. Obviously, some, maybe most are garbage but still.

Geez Bruce, now you have two channels bashing this drone. Congratulations…

DJI is putting together a complete ecosystem. People have been asking for googles for the newer drones. These FPV Goggles and Motion Controller will work on the next gen camera drones like the Air2S and Mavic 3 Pro. Both of which will have a “FPV Mode” similar to the Mavic Air 2. Sometimes, I think FPV fliers forget that they are a very small percentage of the market. Every drone in the world wasn’t made with you in mind. Get over it. I don’t bash every new BetaFPV, Emax or iFlight drone that comes out, geez…

I was excited about the Goggles+kwad package until I heard you can’t repair it yourself and there are no spares. Screw ’em. I’ll buy the goggles and fly my own stuff.

I’ve stopped counting at some point and ordered one.

Look mom I got a flying brick. And the motors are attached with tooth picks. Ok son, we have some tooth picks if you need any.
Oh and you did get paid, it’s called a 1300 dollar drone. I’ll give you 500 for the whole gig. everything they sent you and I’ll pay shipping. Not

I love my DJI FPV, is as good to me as a noob. Is not at all disappointed.

lol the camera needs to be cropped anyways as the props are in shot LMAO

Greatest piece of shit to hit the market in a long time…Not if it was free would i take it…

They should’ve just released a firmware update to add support for their air unit rx and an acro mode to their current quads. This was just a money grab for them, and to be honest, I respect that. The DJI fanboys are lapping it up.

Just like Apple and Tesla, everything proprietary so that they can continue to make money from each and every item they sell for the life of that item.

Bruce-y, Bruce-y… Come on, my Bruce-y!
Whazza matta, you don’t like our new Drone, Mr. Bruce-y? Whaddya, some kind of friggin tough guy?
Well my boy, lemme tell you a short story… You don’t like-a the drone, we don’t-a like you, Mr. Bruce-y.
And you don’t want us to not like you, Bruce. No no no nonononono, you don’t want that at all, now do ‘ya?
Love, Mista DJI
(don’t sleep)
O¿O

I was hoping when he got back from his phone call he would remember all the good things about this drone and why it is worth buying .
Unlike all other freestyle FPV drones …this one has a brilliant automatic Camera pitch Gimbal .
It also has (unlike most other FPV drones …
GPS
Return to home
A brilliant on-screen three-dimensional return to Home marker .
Beginner mode / sports mode / acro mode .
Automatic bail out button pause button in any mode .
Better flight battery indurance than many other FPV drones ( however still could be better ) .
Find my drone .
… and although it’s not as quiet as other camera drones it’s still fairly low compare to some of the very noisy (build it yourself type FPV racing drones flying under full acro )
I was actually very impressed with how good camera was considering it was never designed to be a replacement for a proper camera drone .
I flown this DJI FPV drone for a few weeks now and it’s a real machin e, incredibly reliable …and fast as hell when you know what you’re doing …

Cheers fella. Your honesty is always appreciated.
There was no chance of me ever buying this though, even with my hat the right way around. ; )

4 DJI videos, no actual review vid of Sharkbyte…spill the beans man, negative or positive, Fatshark needs to hear it from the Bruce!

It’s a toy not drone

Not sure how I ended up here but as a Mavic flyer and new to FPV….I quite like this drone. I’m happy I bought it.

Both the first & last points you raised in this video are an ethical concern, for me.
The fact that you cannot repair the drone yourself – IE You *have* to send it to DJI for *them* to repair it (if they do, they charge exorbitant amounts of money to get ‘er done); & the fact that DJI has it geo-fenced – IE You cannot simply fly it whenever & wherever you want, even though you still have the legal permission to do so, but DJI still says “No!”

Both of those things are highly unethical, as it stops those that want to repair their own drones from being able to repair their own drones. If DJI (or anyone else, for that matter) made a helicopter with the same anti-repair practices, I wouldn’t buy it.

Geo-fencing also stops those that have the legal permissions to fly in otherwise infringing areas from doing so, as it assumes that the end user doesn’t have legal permission to fly (say for example) in/on/near an airport/heliport.

As I’ve said, that’s unethical, that’s a deal breaker for me; & *that* is why I am not going to buy myself one of these drones.

damn it feels good when xjet validates your opinions.

Wow it cost that much for arm!?!? You could buy a analog Nazgul5 4s Bnf for that. Crazy.

I don’t like that the battery is part of the chasis (landing gear) one bad landing and good bye to the expensive battery.

backwards cap gang

What alternatives do you recommend?

??? I am not impressed. It is the rich mans entry to fpv, who only flew gps stabilized. Dji are going to make lots of $ on repairs now, since all their other drones have aftermarket repair parts, this hype step is needed, to keep up their market position. For 1300$ I can get sooo much fpv gear. I can build 5 great freestyle drones for that price.

I’m an electronics engineer .. why do people buy phones .. people build your own .. cheaper & stronger .. oh .. mmm .. your not an electronics engineer .. well , learn

Excellent info.
I have been flying pro since 2011, mostly inspections on the electrical grid and similar. I have a long time experience with DJI gear and the more I learn, the more I dislike this company.
From the lightbridge 1 that stopped working when the battery went dead, the constant changing of equipment that isn`t backwards compatible, not field repairable and the closed proprietary systems that “have is own inner secret life”. People pay ridiculous money for very poor build quality.
Today, it is our policy not to use any DJI equipment, but only open source.
The same is true for my private FPV flying quads and fix wings.
Open source is the way to go!

Every one in fpv world is upset that dji has built the drone so many of us want and we didn’t have to build it! Not that I’ve ever heard of an fpv drone with all the features the dji fpv has.. it’s an amazing drone!!! lol

It’s in my opinion these consumer drones (remember when we just called them quadcopters or quads?) that’s caused all the crap for us fpv pilots (starting with the erm phantom (probably)). Yes many will buy them and fly sensibly, however a lot, as has been documented will not and do not, like the idiots flying over football matches, concerts, near major airport landing paths) etc with their shop bought ready to go easy peasy long range machine. People that build or even buy your standard non consumer drone generally even if it’s ARTF have to solder, setup in betaflight etc, and have much more respect because of the effort it takes and the skills needed to fly them.
This DJI FPV is great for getting (rich) new people into the hobby but at such a cost (and just maybe geofencing is a good idea for these people). In the UK now it’s so restrictive because of aforementioned idiots, and very few documented cases where by people that built their own.

Sorry Dji I would not buy this drone.

It should have been made user repairable.

DJI is pissed now. No more vistas for you FPV guys. LOL

And an 11th reason: Wait two or three years and you will not get any replacement batteries or propellers. Both are proprietary parts which are incompatible with any third-party parts.

Why did they make the drone to land/takeoff on the battery, how safe is it?

the biggest deal breaker here is 4 me that you cant fly it where you whant. thats the reason i sold my mavik pro and got my self a blade 350qx with c2go gimbal cam equipt with fpv system 😉 its awsome! maybe ill make a video to it this week.

I just bought one and totally agree with both 10 reasons to buy or not buy. But besides that, am I the only one that hates how it looks? It looks like the big gooey critter from Alien to me. I’m glad I have to fly it FPV instead of looking at it, because it kind of creeps me out. Great videos as always!

Hi Bruce ,we all know that DJI are criminals ,they are always trying to trick us and who don’t think so ,they are just fooling them selves ,that Drone is too expensive and like I told someone on another channel ,they will soon be no batteries available for it ,just wait and see , it is only a matter of time .I give it three years or so and they will do the same thing they are doing to us with the Mavic Pro .Thousands of Mavic Pros out there and DJI is a billion dollaer company but can’t provide you with batteries ,who don’t think that is ridiculous are just plain crazy and I don’t care how they explain it .DJI will capitalize on the new stuff and then hang you out to dry when they make a newer product .take care Bruce .

Big salute …..

You have made some good points. I’m sold. I won’t be buying that thing.

Reason number one. $1300.00 US.

Awesome video! A lot of people don’t have this info. They will hate the drone after they buy it!

And in Australia, it is virtually illegal to fly FPV outdoors.

At first I thought this video was going to be a joke… But your points are very valid, well said sir!!! Thank you for sharing ?

Is everyone else getting paid to review this drone as an adequate FPV drone…. or the free drone itself is enough?? tut tut.

Sir Bruce Legend.

cheers Bruce saved me £1300. thanks for the honesty as always

so this is a “mommy, may I?” drone
and you know when you have to ask mommy, the answer is “no”
that alone ends any chance of me buying

and also the amount of time DJI will take to make the repair…
Really good points you brought up.

It’s so butt ugly….. it makes any freestyle quad look handsome

Who will be the first to gut the little piggie and put those guts on a real carbon frame. It’s unfortunate that DJI doesn’t allow for PID tuning because the tuning probably will totally go to hell so it will fly like a dog anyway. Also who knows if shedding the body for a carbon frame will actually make it that much lighter. BTW, you want this aircraft to have tilted horizons not to remove them, the gimbal is good for controlling vibrations but most of all for angling the camera anyway you want without having to land it. That said, you are absolutely right on both cases 10 for and 10 against, guess we all have to weigh 10 v 10 and see if there is a tie breaker beyond them, I bought it, and now I have a tie breaker, the goggles which some of us went into because we also have normal DJI equipped kwads will have to be re-paired every time you switch from the DJI drone to the DJI fpv system equipped true race or freestyle kwads and I believe back again to the DJI drone. I thought I could sell my V1 goggles to cover some of the cost of the fpv drone, but DJI will always F*k things up and make you spend more money. Had I known this, the drone would never had been purchased. Oh well, maybe it will end up on eBay.

Haters gona hate because all of a sudden, your special skills of soldering drones are not required anymore.

This guy is objective because he also has a top 10 reasons to buy. Stop all the non sense.

Returned it last week and I really wanted to find a place for it in the tool kit. This video goes through all the exact reasons why I had to “send it” back.

Instead of wasting my money on a DJI fpv. What should I spend my money on to get into fpv flying? I would like to get your thoughts on what beginners should start off with. I seen both videos on YouTube and you sell it in on one hand and take it from another. So what do you recommend?

I’m so glad this video came out I almost ordered this drone

We have freedom. WE ARE ALL FREE TO DO AS WE ARE TOLD! :/

It’s kind of like a partial privatisation of Law Enforcement.

It’s funny, these xyz reasons to buy or abc reasons to not buy are all the same. They’re biased as hell. Boring. I call bullshit on most reasons this video cute as not to buy. Saying it’s noisy is just silly.

I’ve had one sat in my Amazon basket for the last week but you’ve killed it for me. Annoyed? No. Thankful if anything for pointing out the 25mW limit here in the UK and the fact a tree at 200m can cause a loss of communication triggering an RTH that may or may not get it safely back. The specs suggest the FPV HD video transmission range is “up to 10km” but that looks pretty useless if you can’t control it that far in countries with restrictive RF limitations.

China doesn’t do Free(anything), and Geo fencing is just getting you use to being under control, if and when an activity is or is not permitted. They design their tech with the same philosophy.

A Communist DJI drone???

90% of the nay sayers just talk about price. It’s not built for cheapskate back yarders. It’s for people that have a few extra bucks and want an easy fpv experience. Some people don’t have time to sit and make a drone, they just want to fly. Is it perfect… what is? ?‍♂️

Here’s a challenge: Build a better quad for the price of one battery for this.

How come we in NZ have the small ranger 25 mw and not 1200mw like usa

What new FPV is better. Not old but new FPV

I am sorry sir. This is a lot of blah blah …

some have very good frame desing but other things go down very easy (parrot bebbop drone) frame and props are best but control board is pure garbage (cant survive 1m drop)… so i build my own on same frame and motors …and this thing can fall out of sky with no demage …frame good… props good… just a board it self is a pure crap … so no 4k camera no fancy board but frame is still 100% , im not a fan of DJI but it build better … its like 4 years now and it still works afther some crash landing

Is there a recommendation for a drone that has the 10 reasons to buy, but has a carbon fiber body and no flight restrictions? I think I could live with the other 10 reasons not to buy.

You got it wrong my friend. For me was a good buy. And was Mindfulness for me. Your views doesn’t matter. Plus JB, crashes this drone, he did it on purpose! Get it for free then you won’t appreciate. Plus! Get your wife out earning! You male showmanistic Idiot..