DJI O4 Air Unit Professional First Flight

Guys, I’m actually excited – that is my very first flight with the DJI O4 Air Unit Professional model, and I spotted this won’t be one of the best place to test it out as a result of this factor is sort of steep. If I’ve to retrieve the drone – this doesn’t have GPS – and likewise it’s tremendous steep, so if one thing occurs, I’m actually screwed. I’m probably not certain why I picked this place for my very first flight, however I like risking it typically. So let’s test it out, let’s arrange the drone, put a battery on it, and begin flying. Let’s go!

First Impressions

Now I have to be cautious about these energy traces. One factor I have to say right away is how easy all the pieces appears. I’d really feel some vibrations from the body, which I’ll should examine if they seem within the video as a result of that may be an issue since we solely have this digicam. Take a look at this wind – it’s blowing fairly strongly from the left facet of the drone, so I have to be cautious with that. 60 megabits, wow, that’s nice! That’s identical to flying the V2. Oh, the wind is so sturdy right here – the drone virtually doesn’t transfer. You possibly can see it’s like staying in a single place. The sign although is so, so easy.

I have to be cautious right here as a result of I’m going to lose visible line of sight if I am going behind these rocks an excessive amount of. Oh, I like that! Let’s simply not go all the best way down as a result of I don’t wish to waste my battery simply climbing up with this ridiculous wind right here.

The angle of my digicam is sort of excessive, and nonetheless, I’m having plenty of issues simply going ahead due to that wind. However this rock right here, it’s known as the Pierced Rock as a result of now we have a… wow, the wind is absolutely sturdy. Undecided when you guys are capable of see it within the footage, however right here it’s fairly chilly and likewise tremendous sturdy. However I’m having fun with the standard, it’s simply very easy. It’s not… okay, now it’s loads lower than 60 megabits, however you get the purpose.

The Incident

Let’s do a small dive right here, let’s simply set it up… Oh, that was good! I heard an odd noise – I feel I may need clipped one of many antennas possibly on the props, not too certain. I’ll should examine.

However wow, that is so crystal clear! The feed inside your goggles is simply spectacular. One factor it’s important to simply give to DJI is simply how immersive all the pieces appears whenever you’re flying FPV. You’re contained in the goggles, you actually really feel such as you’re flying, and the nearer you get, the extra thrilling it will get for you. Oh, I’m loving it! Whoa… okay, I positively really feel some unusual noise, and I virtually did what I used to be considering that I ought to be tremendous cautious to not do.

That was so, so, so shut! Oh my God, I want to look at if all antennas and all the pieces are effective as a result of I’m listening to some bizarre noises. So let’s simply land and see what’s occurring.

Identical to I assumed – possibly the antenna… somewhat bit… possibly you will notice it’s not correctly fixed, so sooner or later it’s simply dangling. Yeah, that’s the issue. I want to lock it in one other approach, however simply my body just isn’t, you realize, tremendous properly configured for this new air unit. I don’t have any 3D prints for it, I don’t have something but as a result of it’s that new. So we’ll see about that, but it surely’s not an issue. First flight was a hit!

The Temptation

Now it’s time to simply discover extra and do extra with this model new Air Unit O4 Professional. It sort of sucks as a result of I actually wish to undergo the rock right here, the Pierced Rock, and I’ve completed it earlier than many occasions, however the wind is tremendous sturdy. I’m feeling like this may be an enormous danger – if one thing occurs and the wind blows it within the final minute due to that turbulence that you simply get from going by the rock, if one thing occurs, I should go all the best way up right here. I’m simply undecided I wish to danger it that a lot for a shot that I’ve already recorded beforehand. So I feel I can be wiser right now and simply give attention to getting extra pictures and attempting out the Air Unit Professional in additional areas as a substitute of risking it for a shot that I have already got. You’ve seen it on my channel already, so hope you guys are okay with that. Let’s proceed with extra flying.

The Determination

A clever man would most likely hearken to himself, let this go, let it slide, and simply go and document extra footage that you may really share and use in your channel. Sadly although, I’m not clever. Not one bit. As a result of what did I do? I despatched it! I noticed that the solar is beginning to peak by the clouds, the lighting was nice, it was the start of the golden hour, all the pieces was simply tremendous cool trying with this golden glistening on it, and I needed to get a shot from this Pierced Rock. I needed to undergo the hole.

First strive was nice, however sadly, I’m a perfectionist and I simply didn’t like the road. I didn’t just like the shot. The objective was not simply to undergo the Pierced Rock – I needed to get a pleasant shot out of it, I needed to make it thrilling. Sadly, my shot was not thrilling in any respect. I feel it was simply very boring, very bland, simply going by the rock. This isn’t what any person needs to see, proper?

The Crash

So I went again, I needed to repeat the road, make a pleasant transfer, and simply have an extended flight, longer line that I can place correctly, go along with somewhat bit extra pace, and simply have a pleasant shot afterwards. Nevertheless, this didn’t go as deliberate. As you noticed within the intro, I overcompensated somewhat bit, went somewhat bit too quick going by the hole, and the wind pushed the drone to the proper closely simply as I used to be getting by that gap. That, in fact, resulted in an enormous crash.

I attempted utilizing Turtle mode to flip the drone after the crash and to simply attempt to get out of this sticky scenario with out having to go manually myself there and rescue the drone, however that didn’t work both as a result of the props had been damaged. I feel the drone flipped one time, however that didn’t assist.

The Restoration

By no means say “this one final time,” simply “yet another time.” Don’t say it, don’t say it! Guys, it’s the curse, it’s the FPV curse of the “final time” as a result of examine this out – you would possibly be capable to see my automotive, that is the place I began. Nonetheless somewhat bit extra to go, it’s not a superb look, not what I needed to do that afternoon, however we’ll get it completed. It’s nonetheless in a single piece total, however not very best, positively not very best. And I broke the antenna of the air unit sadly. Rattling it! And my automotive is all the best way down there.

It’s such an enormous distinction between how you’re feeling the wind down right here at floor stage and the way it really is up there. Right here it’s so peaceable, it’s quiet, it’s good, it’s relaxed. You feel like you will have plenty of confidence, you’ll get the shot it doesn’t matter what, it’s no downside. However as quickly as you get to that top level the place there’s actually nothing that stops the wind, it will get a lot completely different, and that sturdy wind actually was the distinction.

That is it guys, that is a part of the expertise, what you may count on in relation to FPV. I’m certain lots of you’re conscious and are acquainted with a lot of these crashes as a result of it’s regular. It simply sucks to occur that early once I’m nonetheless determining the O4 Air Unit Professional for a few of my first flights, and I couldn’t actually take pleasure in it earlier than I crashed it.

Closing Ideas

Why am I even making this video? Clearly, I wish to share one thing fascinating that occurred whereas I used to be testing the O4 Professional. Additionally, I feel it’s fascinating to share our fails as a result of it was really easy to place this within the bin, to by no means say something about that, to by no means point out it on my channel. However I do know just about each single FPV pilot has been by that, and it’s refreshing to see that everybody makes errors. It’s nice to have the ability to chuckle at your self, I feel, and that’s the rationale why I needed to share that.

Clearly, I received the drone again, all the pieces is again to regular. I managed to put it aside, I rebuilt it somewhat bit – principally the antennas had been the large downside with the O4. I’m comfortable to say that the O3 Air Unit antennas additionally work on the O4 Professional – that’s one thing that a few of you would possibly discover very helpful in case you injury your O4 Professional antennas as properly, identical to me.

Now the drone is again in motion. I used to be capable of fly extra after that within the days after that, and all the pieces is working correctly. No motors had been damaged, no injury on the ESC and the flight controller – nothing was actually that damaged apart from the props and the antennas of the O4 Professional. So it was a fantastic expertise usually. Trying again on the footage, it’s humorous to me – clearly on the time it was not humorous in any respect, however I nonetheless assume it’s a pleasant, fascinating expertise that I needed to share with you guys.

Hopefully you loved it! In case you did, you realize what to do – blow up the like button, subscribe if you wish to see extra O4 Professional movies approaching the channel, and likewise some extra spicy issues across the nook as properly. That is Mike from Drone Supremacy – take care, have enjoyable, fly loads, and I’ll see you very quickly in my subsequent one. Ciao!