DJI AVATA 2: I Crashed & Destroyed Mine So You Don't Have To!

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DJI AVATA 2: I Crashed & Destroyed Mine So You Don't Have To!
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In this video, I take my new DJI Avata 2 out for it's first flight in manual mode after spending time on the simulator and not all goes to plan...
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-Craig
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@CraigPitts Ай бұрын

**Update** - So doing some research it seems like a bunch of others have had this happen, when the drone encounters a minor impact and the warning pops up on the screen, switching it into sport/normal or hitting the pause button causes the drone to freak out and hit the deck. Now granted, initially the fault was mine for bumping the ground but that seems like a pretty dangerous thing for the unit to do following a minor collision...I'll take this one on the chin and learn the lesson for next time!

@dronephotography3519 Ай бұрын

Indeed, a lot of other FPV pilots have reported this behavior. Especially if you are flying in Manual mode and hit something and then, decided to use the pause button. This is a big blocking point for me to invest in Avata 2 for the moment. And I never have been flying any FPV drone so far. I hope care refresh will cover your losses and if this is a bug in software it will be fixed soon. Until then, I think in such cases if you still control the drone, it would be better to find a safety place for landing and restart the drone. Happy flying.

@CraigPitts Ай бұрын

@@dronephotography3519 thanks for watching!

@JasonSturgess Ай бұрын

@@dronephotography3519 Can confirm mine did the same I hit the floor like in this Video and then went up and switched to Normal mode and the Drone lost signal ! after watching the Video back it drifted backwords and smashed in to ground and broke ! luckily have have cover and got new unit but I won't be using the M mode for a while ! Ill stick to just drifting in sport mode for the time being.

@TEKonTECH 15 күн бұрын

Flying risky gets you unwelcomed results. Everyone wants to fly in MANUAL mode, then blame DJI for their user error👎 And trust me I have crashed/lost my own drones in the beginning, but EVERY time it was USER ERROR.

@dronephotography3519 15 күн бұрын

@@TEKonTECH I think no one is blaming DJI for the HIT itself but the drone should be able to recover in such situation when you press pause button. This is so called safety feature. But instead drone start flying uncontrolled. I think if pilot is more skilled, he will never use the pause button and will be able to recover by itself. But for a noob like me I will do the same and will crash.

@KainniaK Ай бұрын

If it says sensor error don't switch to a mode that needs sensors. Land it asap and inspect it. Clean censors, and do a full calibration on everything. Any problems should show up during calibration.

@HermanMaaruf 15 күн бұрын

It happened to me twice to make me understand. After IMU or sensor error detected, NEVER CHANGE MODE TO NORMAL or SPORT mode, fly home and stay in Manual mode until land and restarting the drone to continue flight.

@Dez1981 Ай бұрын

After the first impact, the gyros needed time to reset. If you switch outta manual mode during this time, the avata will go outta control. After minor impacts, fly home shut down, start up and you good.

@CraigPitts Ай бұрын

👍🏼

@markus4979 Ай бұрын

You think the broken propeller and frame wasn't indication that it may have broken more or perhaps was enough reason to struggle to maintain balance? The height in minus level also was giving it away besides sensor warning, probably good lesson learned after any bump to land and inspect or fly/hover low to the ground. Sorry to hear but glad care refresh is painless and saves the investment. 😅

@serenestateofbeing1062 Ай бұрын

Funny how when they overengineer their products, one little bump will cause the drone to freak out. Great product 💩

@paulgolden8183 2 күн бұрын

Cool video, mate.

@CraigPitts Күн бұрын

@@paulgolden8183 thank you

@xjet Ай бұрын

If you get a *real* FPV drone with carbon frame then a crash like that would have been nothing, perhaps just the broken prop. The Avata is so fragile in comparison to regular FPV drones that once you're able to fly manually you'd be far better off buying a propper FPV drone than wasting your money on care refresh replacements for the Avata each time you have a decent crash.

@CraigPitts Ай бұрын

That's the plan!

@brandon9689 15 күн бұрын

How difficult was the care refresh process? I've heard stories of DJI Acting like an insurance agent, finding any reason they can not to honor their coverage. Of course I hear these things after paying for the service. But I've not yet needed to use it. Any pitfalls? Or ways you need to worry about getting screwed? What if I'm not recording video at the time of a crash?

@CraigPitts 15 күн бұрын

Couldn’t have been easier, they sent a label, I sent it off and received a new drone a week later no questions asked

@brandon9689 15 күн бұрын

@@CraigPitts good to hear!

@GlueChickeN10 28 күн бұрын

Thanks for the video. I appreciate your honesty. I've yet to find the stones to go manual...

@CraigPitts 28 күн бұрын

Thank you! It’ll come in time, keep it up 👍🏼

@IxToxicity Ай бұрын

Great video. Glad you have Care Refresh. Where did you get your sticks?

@CraigPitts Ай бұрын

Cheers, they're some stick extenders from Amazon

@IxToxicity Ай бұрын

@@CraigPitts Thanks! Ill check them out. stock ones are a little short.

@nonyabeezwax193 Ай бұрын

😂😂 "my legs are shaking" couldn't stop laughing when you said that as I know the feel first time flying my avata 2. It got better after a pack or 2 lol.

@CraigPitts Ай бұрын

Haha the adrenaline dump was real 😅

@clifffield1 Ай бұрын

I appreciate you sharing your experience. Sorry that it ended the way it did, but fingers are crossed for a nicer time of things in future! Cheers!

@CraigPitts Ай бұрын

Cheers for the comment!

@amoktimeflies Ай бұрын

Thanks for demoing this Craig - I have my manual controller arriving in the next couple of days. How many hours were you on the simulator before your first flight? Which simulator was it? Lift Off?

@CraigPitts Ай бұрын

Cheers for the comment. I did 15hrs in Liftoff before that flight 👍🏼

@amoktimeflies Ай бұрын

@@CraigPitts crikey! Ok! Looking forward to your Iceland footage - good luck buddy! 🖖

@CraigPitts Ай бұрын

@@amoktimeflies I just did like 30mins here and there after work and that time soon racked up, enjoy the process! 🤘🏼

@Antelope46 Ай бұрын

Thanks for making me feel better about my progress on the sims! I’m only 3-4 hours in and still SUCK so I’ll reassess at the 15 hour mark 😂

@CraigPitts Ай бұрын

Haha, one day you’ll pick up the controller and it’ll all start to click, keep it up 👍🏼

@user-ks5jh1rp6d 25 күн бұрын

❤I saw a really cool video. 👍

@kimberlyjacobsen4148 18 күн бұрын

mono track for voice ? its only on the right channel

@patrickmoutal878 Ай бұрын

I felt every second of your flight and it made me stressed as much as you ! You did quite well for a 1st full manual flight in real life. After flying Mavic Air, M3P and M4P, I got the Avata 2 and started learning on uncrashed simulator.... I have not flown it yet in real world in accro mode.... That's why I was feel fully empathic with the way you did it. My learning curve is not that fast and I always feel astonished whenever I see freestylers or racers going at full speed with such an incredible virtuosity. Anyhow, care refresh is here to repair our noobs mistakes. I really found that you managed quite smoothly with nice turns and keeping steady low. After repair, you'll be good for many other go ! Happy flying and thumbs up to you !

@CraigPitts Ай бұрын

Thanks so much, appreciate the comment 🤘🏼

@edongfpv6651 Ай бұрын

Just wondering, is the crash caused by the "deathroll" issue the same in Avata 1 before?

@ukmonk Ай бұрын

With the RC3 can you invert right stick in mode 3 does anyone know please? So pulling back ascends and pushing forwards descends.

@serenestateofbeing1062 Ай бұрын

Yes you can do this super easy on any real fpv drone using the betaflight software. Too bad dji doesn't care about what you want 😂 you're locked into how dji wants you to fly their garbage.

@tenqba448 Ай бұрын

What simulator do you recommend? I never been flying any drone but i want to buy avata 2 this year and maybe mini 4.

@CraigPitts Ай бұрын

Liftoff or Tryp are quite good 👍🏼

@gershonc 22 күн бұрын

which simulator did you use? how did you connect the dji controller to the PC?

@brandon9689 15 күн бұрын

In the USB C port, you need to activate the controller before the computer will pick it up as an input device. It will work with any mainstream simulator, I've personally used it with DRL Sim and TrypFPV. If you have the drone you activate the controller through the goggles. If you buy the controller before buying the drone you can activate it with DJI Assistant 2 For Consumer Series Drones Program.

@8ank Ай бұрын

I wish you show all the damages on the drone and was it happened from the first impact or second one?

@CraigPitts Ай бұрын

One of the motor arms snapped and a prop broke, from the second impact

@chrishomer Ай бұрын

Sensor error… you switched to using sensors…. Doh. Wish I hadn’t watched this. Haven’t flown FPV since around 2015, and don’t want to again, but it’s very tempting… Hope the care refresh is painless

@CraigPitts Ай бұрын

Fair point but it seems rather crazy that the fail safes won’t work with the slightest of bumps, I’ve heard this happening even with the emergency stop button! Granted I shouldn’t have had a small bump but it’s meant to be designed to take them 🤷🏼 Haha it’s great fun, I really just got back into it for Iceland, I want to get some of that dive action. Cheers for the comment mate

@SceneryFromSky Ай бұрын

@@CraigPitts I think you just got unlucky that the sensors malfunctioned after your minor crash. I've definitely had similar and harder crashes than yours and never got that error. The most I've had was an IMU error for a short period after a bump, but I just waited a bit in manual mode before switching back to normal and it was fine.

@DangerousDaveKincaid Ай бұрын

Bummer..😮

@Speedbat76 Ай бұрын

It was a really good first flight in manual mode. If only you had landed after the first impact directly tho. Beside that you did a awesome job flying that avata 2 👍👍

@CraigPitts Ай бұрын

Yeah I wish I’d just tried to land it, we live and learn! Appreciate the comment 🤘🏼

@andreastornesel8404 Ай бұрын

shouldn't the switch from manual to sport mide put the drone in stabilized mode? Well, for manual mode real fpv, I will continue flying my 5" Tanq and geprc mk5. And use the Avata for cruising, DJI produckt are brittle thermoplastic things

@Sk8WineMedia Ай бұрын

Pleased I didn't go the DJI route. I am flying analogue ELRS. If it makes you feel any better, I changed controllers and my muscle memory from the old controller to put into air mode was where the disarm button is on the new controller... Disarmed it a fair few meters up and crashed. Interestingly I have crashed my DarwinFPV Cine25 twice now fairly hard and only had to replace a rubbing motor. I think if you hadn't had DJI you wouldn't have crashed so bad, as the safety net made this crash happen. Weird it broke so badly just on grass!

@CraigPitts Ай бұрын

Yeah rather annoying, I think I’ll build my own 5” down the road once I get into it a bit more! Cheers for the comment

@Sk8WineMedia Ай бұрын

You can get a fairly affordable drone and use your DJI goggles and controller, which is a small win.

@CraigPitts Ай бұрын

@@Sk8WineMedia as it stands the new goggles and controller are not compatible with the O3 air unit, so I’m a bit stuck until they make them compatible or release the O4 air unit

@Sk8WineMedia Ай бұрын

Ah yeah! DJI 🙃 I am sure they will… you would hope… it is only one generation. Forgot about that.

@NickHarbornePhotography Ай бұрын

Which sim did you use ?

@CraigPitts Ай бұрын

Liftoff

@NickHarbornePhotography Ай бұрын

@@CraigPitts cheers 🍻

@CraigPitts Ай бұрын

@@NickHarbornePhotography tryp is alright too, bit more arcade like but good fun 👍🏼

@KainniaK Ай бұрын

@@CraigPitts So you only have experience lifting off, you should have also used the Touchdown simulator a bit.

@weirdmark Ай бұрын

Geez…I never noticed the gum. I have the original Avata and was wanting to get the new one but after seeing how fragile the new one is, I’m having second thoughts.

@KainniaK Ай бұрын

I am going to fly mine in sport mode for a full year to get my money's worth of fun out my avata 2 before I flip it in manual and crash.

@_NeXus6_ Ай бұрын

Didn’t he do well! Before the crash 😀 I’m kinda hoping I don’t do that crashy thing !

@JasonSturgess Ай бұрын

This is pretty much how I crashed mine ! I was under the impression you could switch from M back to Normal and the drone will Stop ! This is obviously not the case because mine did what yours did and smashed in to ground and broke.

@CraigPitts Ай бұрын

Ah that sucks man, yeah it’s pretty annoying, hope you had care refresh!

@cipri198zero Ай бұрын

Lets not be discouraged. FPV = plenty of crashes. Care refresh is a MUST! And we need to keep in mind the emergency pause button, not the switch. After few hours in simulators, have some flights in real life without any stunts because we tend to become over confident. First flight in manual suppose to be a normal flight just to get the feel of how drone react. Then back to sim. So first few days with the Avata, no stunts! Build properly your muscle memory in simulator, you will know when you're ready. Its painful to see professionals in action and not being able to do the same but ask them how many times they crashed or how many times they tried to get the best shot. Its hard but its rewarding! I think patience and resilience is the key here.

@hummerzdca Ай бұрын

Okay, glad you got to narrate your flight, but when people crash, I never understand why with the struggles, and discomforts you mentioned, why didn’t you just slow down and be more precisely practiced with your moves?

@mdk42o74 Ай бұрын

you fuk your drone up day one lol lol Well bro you said you want to know what it feels like to fly in real life This is it bro welcome to FPV you made it lol. soon you will go fly and have 6 drones and come home with 0 working lol thats true flying lol

@tomkoller749 Ай бұрын

My low buget drone from Aliexpress for 100€ (3inch Cinewhoop) has already seen several crashes that were much worse than yours, but my drone is still intact 🤔🤣

@MatthewClarke1922 Ай бұрын

Oh dear mate 😅

@CraigPitts Ай бұрын

🤣

@isaacramirez8862 Ай бұрын

@@CraigPitts What simulato do you used?

@CraigPitts Ай бұрын

@@isaacramirez8862 Liftoff mainly

@callsign_kivi Ай бұрын

Nice video, it's fun to watch you slowly getting better!! I'm currently flying my Avata 2 and am also very unsure. However, I have something to criticise about your microphone. Unfortunately, it sounds very unpleasant to listen to you smacking your lips while chewing the gum.

@silverfox74 Ай бұрын

Ask DJI to upgrade your cover to two years then you'll have another 3 claims to make

@CraigPitts Ай бұрын

Yeah good idea 👍🏼

@ShermanKenB Ай бұрын

It's too bad they produced such a fragile product. Lots of other options out there on the market. And with firmware like Betaflight or Inav you can start out using angle mode which is much easier than acro and progress over time.

@CraigPitts Ай бұрын

Yeah I’ll move into something like a nazgul or chimera at some point

@lancesmith6724 Ай бұрын

The googles that you have are fine but DJI drones are junk one little crash sets you back order a carbon fiber frame racing or freestyle drone that has a compatible DJI Air Unit an get back to flying! Save the Avata 2 for when you get good!!!

@KainniaK Ай бұрын

The avata 2 is a horrible horrible drone for learning acro for two reasons. 1) It's really fragile 2) It's underpowered. And so those beginners that wants to do rolls and loops withint 5 minutes they put themselves in a situation they can't get out. But if it would have had more power they would have been able to get out of it. That's why nobody should learn acro on an avata 2. Just fly in sport mode, that's fun as well. Get something light and repairable to learn manual with. Get really good first, then slowly explore the limits of the avata 2 in acro.