Right now, DJI’s new Mavic Air 2 camera drone can go where I can’t. I live near a county park in New Jersey where I’ve tested out drones in the past but, with it closed to help flatten the coronavirius curve, flying there was out of the question. For me, at least.
The Mavic Air 2 can fly farther and for longer than the original from 2018, and that’s in spite of it being slightly larger and heavier at 570 grams (1.3 pounds). Its max flight time is now 34 minutes without wind, up from 21 minutes. (I got roughly 32 minutes of zipping around my backyard before it forced a landing.) Its max video transmission range has increased from 4 kilometers to 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). With it I could stand outside the near-deserted 121-acre park — an odd sight for a sunny spring Saturday — and fly over its flowering trees and capture it all with the drone’s new 4K-resolution camera even if I couldn’t see them in person.
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