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>> Dave King: Hi!
This is Dave from Steel City Drones Flight
Academy along with Michael McVay with Florida
Drone Supply and we're here in sunny Florida.
and we're here today to give you a really
comprehensive complete review on the entire
DJI Mavic 2 Enterprise and the Enterprise
Dual.
So we got the Enterprise, the first edition,
just a standard edition, back in December
and now we just got the thermal camera version, the Dual.
We have, what we think is going to be everything that you need to determine if these units
are right for you.
You know Michael, the very first thing I'm
going to say is, you know, it's very, we always
keep things very honest and open with everybody, we tell it like it is.
We're not going to give you guys a DJI infomercial.
There's a lot of great things here that these
do, there's some things here that we think
that we would have liked to see a little differently and we're going to give you the pros and cons
of both that way you can weigh them out.
So the very first thing is, let's talk about
my original impressions and opinions on the
original Mavic.
I was never a fan of it, especially for anything with commercial applications.
I didn't like the camera, I didn't like the
wind capacity or capabilities of it, and it
just was a great more of a novice kind of
a thing.
Enterprise versions are really for Public
Safety Departments primarily.
So Michael, the very first thing that I just
want to get off start out this video with
saying the very first thing that jumps out
of me the most important attributes that I
found to be improved over the original Mavic is the wind performance, by far.
We have really tested this out in windy conditions here in Florida, where you see palm trees
were bending.
It held much better, I thought, much better
than the Phantom 4 Pro.
Why don't you tell our viewers some of the
accessories, the attachable accessories that
also tell by for those are really outstanding
units.
>> Michael: Yeah I think equally important
as the flight performance improvement are
the accessories that everybody's really been asking for.
To start with, we have three main accessories
that you can add to a Mavic 2 Enterprise.
We've got a strobe light, we have a spotlight
and we have an audio speaker.
The strobe light meets the FAA requirements,
the spotlight, as we'll put on the screen,
is really bright and great for Public Safety
when they're flying in the evenings or civil
twilight or at night and then probably the
biggest surprise of how how much people like
things is this loud speaker because it lets
you play a recorded message.
If you're in public safety and you've got
to get a message out to that area that you're
flying in or you need to tell the people that
are out there to stand-by her that you're
coming to help them.
>> Dave King: I got to say, I was really blown away by the spotlight.
You'll see right here in the footage we're
showing you on the screen.
We actually wanted to light up completely
pitch black parking lot and I was amazed about
the output of that.
I was really impressed with that.
I'll tell you on the loudspeaker and got,
you know you can go ahead and talk a little
more about our loudspeaker test, but I was
a little unimpressed with it only because
I thought it was very easy and very sensitive
to start the story.
[Speaker test]
>> Michael: That's true.
It's definitely not the best quality sound
but it is loud and we flew out a hundred feet,
then a hundred and fifty feet and a couple
hundred feet and we could hear it.
Right?
But the sound did distort, it is a small speaker, the bass someone's voice is going to make
that crackle a little bit but the message
was audible and clear.
>> Dave King: Right.
One of the other things that I thought that
DJI I missed on, is on the beacon.
I thought that they really should have Incorporated it into the middle of the aircraft or potentially
just somewhere where we can actually have it almost permanently molded onto the body.
So that way we could use the detachable accessory whether it's going to be the spotlight or
the loudspeaker.
Especially guys, for those of you who have
tried to apply for a night waiver, the FAA
has really changed the criteria a little bit,
made a little more stringent on getting that
waiver and they really like you to make sure that you're lighting the subject area at
night from the air as well.
Which really requires this.
So that means then you kind of need both of them.
So the question is, how do you use both the FAA legal if you're flying on a FAA Part 107?
If you're not flying under Part 107 and you
got your waiver, or rather your COA, it's
not a huge deal but if you're flying under
107 it is a little more of a deal.
I'm sure you guys are going to come up with something, like you always do, that would
be able to make this better.
>> Michael: Well, you really hit the nail
on the head and that's exactly what people
ask for.
They say, "if it's dark and I need the spotlight don't I also need the strobe light to meet
the FAA requirements?".
So right now if you're going to use the spotlight and fly at night and you have to have a strobe,
we'll have to put a small, you know, not
built-in, a detachable that we can just stick
on the top of the aircraft
>> Dave King: Now on the subject of the attachable units, you'll see that in the menu setting
when you're using the loudspeaker and you're using the spotlight there's a little separate
tab under the menu settings that you can go in there.
Then you can change the intensity and you
can make it brighter or lesser if you want
too.
It's the same thing goes with how loud you
want the voice to be able to the gain for
it.
Do you want to talk about how you can have
a pre-recorded Voice already in, advance or
you can simply, on-the-fly be able to add
a voice into it?
>> Michael: yeah this is a great feature and
we discovered this once we got to start playing
with the speaker and you can go into the little
menu tab for your accessory, when you got
the speaker on there, it will pull up a library
a pre-recorded, either audio messages, or
something that you downloaded off the internet,
if you'd be a siren, it could be something
that's recorded back in your station, and
you can either play something on if you were
recorded library or you can, while, the drones
out flying, say I need to change the message,
you can quick record when we speak right into
the Crystal Sky, save it and broadcasted it
out to the aircraft and it plays it immediately.
>> Dave King: What we're going to show you
guys is a little test that we did with the
audio.
So what we had is we had our mic just on the
camera and we had the Drone about 125 feet
away, about a hundred feet high and then you
can hear this is the sound of what it sounds
like from that for the camera's perspective
which is very close to what we're actually
hearing that far away.
[Speaker Noise]
So now let's talk a little more about some
of the other new features that the Enterprises
2 incorporated into this.
I guess this feature is also into the regular
mavic 2 standard version as.
Well, which is the advanced pilot avoidance
system.
>> Michael: Yeah there's a lot of new technology
in the mavic 2 Enterprise.
It incorporates dji's pass technology which
is the advanced pilot assistant system.
That's basically when the drones flying
and it's 3D scanning its flight path in front
of it it can now decide if it needs to go
over an obstacle, if it needs to maneuver
around an obstacle.
Before, it used to just get to a tree, or
building, or car and it would stop.
We have 360 degree obstacle avoidance, so
we have sensors that look forward, with sensors
that look backwards, with sensors that look
to both sides which we should talk about and
then we also have sensors that look both up
and down.
So they really cover all the way around the
Drone except in a couple of circumstances
and it's the side sensors that I want to
just say a little more about.
The side sensors only work when you're in
a mode like active track or tripod mode.
>> Dave King: Michael I got to say that, one feature, up here, you know, we're up here
in Pittsburgh alot, in the North East.
For everybody that's in the northern part
of the United States, you're going to really
love the new heaters that are built into the
batteries.
So this, like the Inspire 2, to any of the
TB50's, TB55's for the DJI Matrice, now we
actually have for the Mavic 2 Enterprise for the Mavic.
We have the new heaters built inside them.
So this is going to be nice because all you
have to do is put it in, plug-it in, turn
it on, and it going to automatically start
heating them up.
Let talk a little bit about the practicality
of this with law enforcement and Public Safety.
We're going to have a lot of law enforcement
agents come and ask us about, you know, they're
really going to, these things are just going
to jump off the shelf and say, "That's
the perfect drone for us".
So with that said we want to make sure that
we put some caveats to that.
By far, this definitely has a place.
Really I think of this more as a supplemental
drone not as your first drone.
You know, these obviously things have great
portability, there's no doubt about that.
It's great to have in your patrol car, however,
I think that this is not, this shouldn't
be your main drone.You know, you're pretty
much still going to want to have a MAtrice
200 V2 as your main platform.
Why do I say that?
Well, a few different reasons.
The very first thing is it's not weather resistant,
or what I should say, water resistance.
This has no level of water resistance to it
compared to the Matrice 200 V2.
You can't be can't be deploying this in
the rain.
Or a snowy environment.
It's not going to be sealed.
The second thing is, with this aircraft, you
cannot put the aircraft in manual mode.
Now the manual mode for this, is the add mode.
The first thing, the main thing that we teach
in our training curriculum is the turn off
the automation and fly manually.
You can't do that on these.
You're relying on the aircraft to switch it
off but it doesn't always do that.
You know, probably, in my experience, one
out of every 30 to 40 flights you're going
to experience a GPS anomaly.
You're not even aware of it and it's going
to start drifting or you know, you can get
some variances in the aircraft, responding
kind of weird because magnetic interference.
With that said, let's go ahead and talk to
our friends with Ross Township Police.
We were able to let these guys check out the
new Mavic 2 Enterprise series and let's see
what they had to say when they tested it.
So right now we're at Ross Township Police
Department and detective Brian Kohlhepp and
you and some of your officers have already
got a chance to fly this.
So what are your thoughts on it so far?
>> Brian: It's great.
It's a stable aircraft.
It's quick.
The fact that it can be deployed so quickly
and be stored so compactly is a great thing
with this.
As well as having the loudspeaker and the
lights attachments.
It's a great drone for Public Safety use.
>> Dave King: Ok, so you guys already use
the Matrice line, you're using the Phantom
as well.
So how do you think this would fit in your
department?
>> Brian: I think the best features on this
for a for adding it to what we already have
is the fact that it can be stored so compactly and it can be deployed in a very quick and
appid situation.
Especially if you're looking to put drones
at a patrol use.
>> Dave King: What are your thoughts on the
accessories so far?
>> Brian: The accessories are very beneficial
from a public safety standpoint.
Having a spotlight that you can use to eliminate
an area on the ground either searching for
someone or maybe you want to direct officers
to a certain area where there's a person or
item of evidence.
Also, the loudspeakers great because you can
communicate.
The biggest drawback that I see is only being
able to use one of these at a time, so I can
see if you have a night time thing and you're
looking for someone, you can have the spotlight
but then you can't have the loudspeaker to
communicate with them.
Being able to put both of those on the Drone
and use at the same time would be great if
you could locate and communicate to somebody
at the same time.
>> Dave King: Great.
Well, thank you for your feedback and thanks
for taking a look at it.
Okay so now that you've seen the opinions
from some of our law enforcement clients.
One feature that also really stands out to
me Michael is Airsense.
For those that are not aware of what Airsense
is, Airsense is a feature that was first introduced
last year when the Matrice 200-210 came out.
To me is an absolute fundamental feature that
they should have an all drones and I'm sure
that's that's the way it's leading to go into.
So what Airsense does is, if there's any kind
of aircraft that's nearby, it's going to
alert you that there is like a smaller airplane
or helicopter in the air.
Then if you click on the map it's going to
show you exactly the proximity to where it
is in relation to where you are and it's going
to tell you the height and the type of aircraft.
It's outstanding.
You know guys, I've been flying drones for
over 10 years now and my number one fear is
helicopters because helicopters can come out
of anywhere at anytime with hardly any notice.
Michael, why don't we also now talk about
cameras.
Cameras, is a, now their a huge component
obviously because we have the standard Enterprise
2 version and then we have the Dual version.
Let's start with the standard version first.
Why don't you talk about some of the specs
in that camera.
>> Michael: Sure.
So the standard Mavic 2 Enterprise comes with
a 12 megapixel camera.
It has the ability to go to 2x optical zoom
and then digital xoom 6x beyond that.
It lets you fly around and then be able to
get a pretty good zoom in on your subject.
It's not a 20 megapixel camera but it's really
good for the use of Public Safety.
>> Dave King: So now, because everybody's
going to be jumping on the thermal camera
version.
Right?
Let's go down the rabbit hole one at one step
at a time.
>> Michael: Well this was just a great surprise
for us both in the product, its capability
and really its price point as well.
We've been really hoping for a thermo Mavic
for a long time for Public Safety, quick to
deploy.
Easiest way to get a thermal camera in the
air with a small size, a quick response time
and a lot of flight time.
So this was a game-changer for us it's something
we waited for her for a long time.
It has both the regular camera, called an
RGB camera, your normal visual camera with
a fleer thermal camera built in that same
housing right down there.
It lets you switch between a regular View
and a thermal View and it's just really fantastic.
>> Dave King: Okay.
Now Cavette time here.
Let's talk about resolution for both RGB and
thermal camera because we don't want people
getting carried away thinking that this is
a 4k camera high resolution video camera and
a product that's going to be very comparable
to the XT versions, which is the professional
line of thermal cameras.
So first start with the RGB camera and then
go over to the thermal.
>> Michael: So like Dave said, this is not
a cinema camera.
This is an industrial RGB camera.
This is for inspection, this will get you
a look at your scene, this will get you following
a suspect, this will get you a good picture
of what you're after, but, it's not something
you're going to go shoot corporate videos
with Hollywood videos with.
So it's really geared for the people that
aren't using it in the cinema line, they're
using it in the Enterprise line and they're
out working with a doing inspections and Public
Safety.
So that would be the normal camera, or the
RGB camera.
Then the thermal camera, the thermal cameras
are really designed based around the size
of their sensor, which we'll call resolution,
and they start from the top of the line coming
down like the XT's and the XT2's, they
have 640 x 512 and that's the pixel count
sideways and vertical.
Lines of resolution and we'll call that the
full resolution sensor.
So we had the full resolution sensor 640 x
512.
Then a lot of people went into a little bit
lesser price version of the sensor, we'll
call at half resolution 336 x 256.
This is neither one of those, this one is
160 x 120.
So really your limitation here Dave, I would
say for clarity is height and distance.
So as you get further away from your subjects
and as you get higher in the air, the detail
that you can see will diminish.
So a person, you know, 50 feet or a 100 feet
is going to have a great outline, especially
as we talked about the MSX technology, it
will have a great outline, look like a person.
As you get 150 ft 200 ft, you're going to
see the person's heat signature but you won't
see the definition of their shape and features.
>> Dave King: Let's that start out by comparing
both Zenmuse XT cameras from three different
distances.
Here is both XT cameras at 65 feet away.
Here is both XT cameras at 110 feet away.
Here's both cameras at 160 ft away.
Now let's compare the higher-resolution XT camera to the Mavic 2 Enterprise from three
different distances.
Here's both cameras at 65 feet away.
Here's both cameras at 110 feet away.
Here's both cameras at 160 ft away.
The last test we'll compare to lower resolution XD camera to the Mavic 2 Enterprise from three
different distances.
Here's both cameras at 65 feet away.
Here's both cameras at 110 feet away.
Here's both cameras at 160 feet away.
So guys, those are the video test.
We wanted to give you as much data as possible
so that you can make your own opinions or
conclusions on what you want.
The 640 version is absolutely going to give
you the highest resolution possible but it
comes with a very high price point.
The 336, again, is going to be your middle-range
cameras.
If you feel that the lowest-end resolutions
are going to fit your needs, that's great.
We just want to make sure that you understand
what the limitations of this aircraft are.
Michael, one also Improvement I think over
the regular mavic 2, as well, is flight time.
DJI is claiming about 30 to 31 minutes flight
times.
Just like every piece of aircraft that we've
seen.
Normally when you see the advertised flight
times, you probably want to take about 3 to
4 minutes off those flight times realistically.
So you're probably looking at 26 minutes or
so.
>> Michael: Yeah, mid 20's I would say
>> Dave King: Exactly.
Another great feature that we think is just
the overall flying capabilities of the aircraft.
Why don't you talk about what you think
about it when you were flying it.
>> Michael: Yeah, I think this aircraft performs
really really well. and DJI has really matured
in their flight controls over the last 10
years or so.
We're seeing it show up in this line of aircraft
now.
It handles well, it's easy for someone to
start to fly and learn.
You can get good control of it in a short
period of time.
You can really learn on an aircraft like this
and you would be able to successfully fly
this.in most environments, including high-wind
environments.
>. Dave King: So let's talk about the different
displays that you can use with the aircraft.
There's a lot of different ways that you can
go, so let's talk about each option first.
Basically this comes with, what is essentially,
the same remote controller as the original
Mavic. and that allows you to be able to use
your smartphone and just use that as for your
display.
Do you want to talk about another about the
option for the new DJI display that just came
out.
>> Michael: So in addition to using your smartphone
you can use a Crystal Sky display either attached
to the standard remote controller or built
into the new remote controller called the
smart remote controller.
That is going to be the smaller size crystal
sky, so it'll come with a built-in 5.5 inch
Crystal Sky and it's going to be quick to
deploy, fast to turn on, no brackets, no cable.
It's kind of an all-in-one remote which is
a little bit different than using either a
5.5 or 7.85 inch Crystal Sky with an accessory
mounting bracket on the current remote.
>> Dave King: Now, my personal favorite option
is to use the larger 7.85 large Ultra bright
crystal display, the ultra bright.
We actually have been flying with the evolution
3D bracket that allows you to be able to attach
the unit straight to the back of the controller
and really have a nice big display on it.
That's my personal favorite.
>> Michael: I like that too and it's tough
not to like the biggest one, it's tough not
to like the brightest one.
I do think the new smart controller will have
a place too, you know, because of its quick
ease of use.
Like you just like you said, with the large
one, it's big, it does get a little heavy
which becomes a comfort and a safety issue
for prolonged periods of flight.
So we'll see.
We'll test them all and, you know, get him
in the hands of everybody.
>> Dave King: Yep.
So that's our review.
We wanted to make you guys a really good comprehensive
review that was really honest and tell it
to you of what we thought was very good and
there's a lot of really good stuff inside
this.
Some of the things that we feel is some of
the drawbacks and limitations, like everything
else, right?
Like every aircraft that we review that has
some limitations to them.
But we wanted to give you as much information
so that you can really draw your own conclusions
and see what's best for your organization.
If you have any questions about the equipment,
you know, you can definitely contact Florida
Drone Supply and Michael and he'll be glad
to talk to you about anything that you want
to talk about on the equipment side.
If you're interested in getting some training
on these platforms Steel City Drones Flight
Academy is definitely your source for that.
So like always, feel free to reach out to
either one of us and until we talk again,
thanks again !
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