She has very little interest in drones and even though I have asked and encouraged her to fly before, she only tried once and didn’t really enjoy it. The first person I asked to try it was my wife. I was sure that anyone could experience FPV on their very first attempt and I couldn’t wait to have someone try it out. While it was a completely different experience than flying manually, I could immediately see what the purpose was.

I felt like I was flying a fighter jet in a video game! It was much more fun than I had anticipated. This mode turns off the obstacle detection and unlocks a much faster speed. After flying around for a few minutes in “Normal” mode I decided to take it to a higher altitude and press the “M” button which switches the drone into “Sport” mode. I was amazed at how easy it was to operate and I had a real sense that this was perhaps the way of the future for the casual drone pilot. The drone automatically slowed down when the obstacle was nearby and sped up when I avoided it and moved away. I noticed that as I approached an obstacle, I got a yellow warning on the screen and then it turned red as I got closer. I was immediately able to control the speed and direction without any issue whatsoever. I carefully pulled the trigger, and the drone began to move in the direction of the white circle. Turning my hand or tilting the controller caused the drone to turn left and right, which is called yaw in aircraft terminology. Wherever I pointed my hand, the circle would move. Now, I could see in my display a white circle overlaid in the middle of the screen, which reacted to how I moved the controller. I pressed the launch button (labelled “lock”) and the drone automatically launched itself and hovered just over a meter off the ground. A small circle appeared in the box and moved in the direction that I gestured with the controller. I was greeted by a new box in the bottom centre of my display. I set up the aircraft, put on my FPV goggles and powered everything up. I must admit I was quite skeptical that this would be a good way to control a drone but I had an open mind and the weather was nice. I read a quick tutorial on how it works and headed out to try it in my local flying field. This was a simple process of holding a button down on each unit and it was completed in a matter of seconds. The first step was to pair it with the DJI FPV drone, which I reviewed a few weeks ago.

Dji fpv motion controller