The dji fly Pro can accelerate at more than 19 feet per second and descend at nearly 13fps. The Phantom 4 Pro’s mechanical shutter prevents rolling distortion. The combination results in 4dB lower noise generated when flying—a reduction of 60 percent. The time taken to make the GPS connections varies between a few seconds to a few minutes, depending on the conditions, but I never had to wait more than a couple of minutes.
If you’re planning any extended drone usage, I’d definitely advise investing in a couple of extra ‘Intelligent Flight’ batteries. In a rural environment I flew the drone 4,250 feet away from my position before getting any sort of choppiness in the live video feed, at which point I turned it around and brought it home. In a suburban setting, crowded with homes and Wi-Fi signals, the Phantom flew 2,600 feet away from the launch point before the video signal became spotty. Both figures are in line with our dji fly tests—it flew 4,500 feet in a rural test spot and 1,800 feet in suburbia before the video signal began to cut out. The only drone that’s done better in our rural test is DJI’s tiny Mavic Pro, which flew a full mile away from launch without a stutter—I didn’t try to fly it any further than that. It allows you to draw a box around a subject, which the drone will in turn recognize and follow as it moves.
Basically, it allows you to set up a single-point flight path on the fly, assuming that point is in front of the drone. Combine this with the drone’s automatic takeoff with a swipe and a tap in the app and, well, yes, anyone could put the Phantom 4 in the air and “fly” it. The Obstacle Sensing System only sees things in front of the drone. You still need a tablet or phone ready to go along with the controller and drone battery.
If this is your first drone, you should spend some time in the virtual flight simulator before actually flying. Included in the DJI Go smartphone app , the simulator allows you to fly your Phantom through a virtual world. The was the first DJI drone with forward-facing obstacle avoidance sensors, and those same sensors carried over to the svelte Mavic Pro ($1,799.00 at DJI) .
The DJI Phantom 4 Pro V2.0 offers you OcuSync 2.0 HD transmission that will give you a stable and reliable connection. It will also allow you to fly the drone safely in almost all kind of environments if you know what you are doing . And it provides you with a range of almost 5 miles, meaning that you will run into the legal restrictions from the FAA before you will be limited by the drone. The DJI Phantom 4 Pro V2.0 delivers when it comes to providing a stable aerial platform. No other off-the-shelf, affordable drone delivers the way the Phantom does.
A bigger clamp also allows this remote to hold up to a 9.7inch iPad. According to DJI P4RTK camera FC6310R is identical to dji fly pro’s but has a glass lens instead a plastic one. Announced on April 13, 2017, the Phantom 4 Advanced uses the same camera sensor as the Phantom 4 Pro. If the price is right, and you do not need OcuSync connectivity, yes, the Phantom 4 Pro is still a great drone. Make no mistake, it is no longer in production and is only getting infrequent updates for critical software patches. The newer Phantom 4 Pro V2.0 usually sells for about the same price, and is still the ‘active’ Phantom unit, so we absolutely recommend the newer drone, if it’s an option for you.