Mini 4 Pro Fly More Combo Plus with DJI RC 2, Drones with Camera for Adults 4K, 3 Intelligent Flight Battery Plus for up to 135 Mins Flight Time, Smart Return to Home, Drone for Beginners

What an amazing drone. So easy to control. Amazing picture quality. And so handy, I use this to check my roof after major wind storms and to see if the gutters need cleaning. I fly it by the river to watch the eagles fish. Also use it for predator control, chasing foxes away from chicken coop. Flight times are good, just depends on what you are doing. Turned off obstacle avoidance for more speed and ended up flying backwards into a tree while chasing a fox. I used the find my drone feature that flashes the lights and emits a beeping tone. Located drone quickly in a huge stand of trees. Expected to find a mangled wreck. Nope! Cracked plastic on one of the camera support arms and some banged up prop blades. Replaced prop blades, epoxyed the crack, recalibrated camera and away it went. Built like a tank. Flight controls are fairly intuitive and easy to use. The obstacle avoidance (when used) does a great job on larger items, doesn't see small tree limbs or power lines. Don't ask how I know this. So, over all this is an amazing drone that makes you want to go bigger and badder. But, alas, I am poor, so I will stick with this, and enjoy the heck out of it.

I've flown all manner of drones, including several DJI drones. This is by far the best, even better than the more expensive ones. It's marketed for "beginners" but that's only to get people to spend money on other "high end" drones so they can say they have a "professional" drone. If you're unable to take professional videos with this drone you are not a professional. I wish people didn't believe the marketing. This drone IS good for beginners, since it does have obstacle sensing in all directions. However it is capable of VERY good quality video and images. It has advanced flight features and just as many options as some of the drones twice or three times the price. I got the Fly More Kit with Plus batteries, I can comfortably fly an hour while recording 4k (on three batteries). I would encourage anyone to purchase this drone. I haven't really put its range to the test, but I've taken it close to the batteries range. I've flown it out a little over 4 miles away and didn't lose a single bar of signal strength. I flew it back and still landed with 30% battery. I also took a 4k recording the whole trip to see how that would affect the battery but I had plenty left on landing. If you do buy it, here's my suggestion, buy the Fly More kit, you'll be disappointed when your battery is drained because it's so fun to fly. See if you can get it on payments if the price is a bit out of your range for a lump sum purchase. I also bought insurance (YOU HAVE ONLY 48 HOURS ONCE THE DRONE IS POWERED ON TO BUY INSURANCE), I bought 2-year coverage, which includes water damage or flyaways, keep in mind that if the drone is lost it will cost you about $235 and they will send you a brand new one. I also bought 1 extra battery, since the case holds 3 and the drone holds 1, so I have 4 in total, with the extra battery I can fly for 1hour and 40minutes. This is not a BEGINNER drone, it is GOOD for beginners because of the obstacle avoidance. The only down side is that it feels a little plasticy, AKA cheap. However when you fly it, it's anything but. It handles wind very well for its size. Don't expect to fly in major wind though, use your best judgement.

This is my first drone and I love it! The shots that I take have turned out really good. I love that it has sensors so that it gives you the confidence to fly without worrying about running into anything. I have several batteries so that I can fly for a long time. The picture quality is great. You’re not supposed to fly it at night because of low visibility, but I flew mine straight up in the air just to get this nighttime shot. I also was able to catch a shot of the northern lights. So worth the money!

Best drone ever Simple to fly And simple to land

I am new to drones and this is my first one. I have flown it a few times now and it's really easy to use and has lots of features I never knew drones were capable of doing. I really like the auto tracking features, in which you can select an object (person) and have the drone follow it. The auto take off, return to home, and land are also features that are really cool. I am aware that most drones are capable of that. What really stands out are the sensors that provide 360 degree obstacle avoidance, as not many drones of this size have this feature. With recent firmware updates, you can actually "see" (in black and white) out of the 2 front and 2 rear sensors. This means if you're piloting the drone, you can swipe on the controller and pull up a window showing you what each of those sensors are seeing, one at a time. If you're going forward, you can pull up one of the rear sensors and see what's behind the drone. If you're going backward you can see what's in front of the drone. The controller with the built in screen is a nice touch, as you do not need to use your phone. The only thing I wish was better is the screen recording. When flying the drone, you record what the drone sees on either an SD card or the drone's built in storage. You can also record the controller's screen, which is a really cool feature. The controller has an SD card slot to do that, but it will not record the screen to the SD card even if you select it in the settings. Instead it saves screen records internally on the controller. To access those records, you'll have to hook the controller up to your computer. From what I understand, the controller can't record directly to the SD card due to bandwidth. Previous DJI control models recorded the screen as low res and was able to record directly to the SD card. The controller included in this bundle records the screen as hi res, which is too big to record directly to the SD card. This is a minor issue, but I thought I should bring it up. Overall, I'm extremely satisfied with this drone. I just wish I had more time and places to fly it.

I mainly bought the mini 4 pro for additional features that are not on the mini 3pro and these include 1. Waypoints: this feature is really important for me and on the mini 3 pro its only limited to hyperlapse. On this drone, you can do a lot with waypoints including recording a video. I also did a dolly zoom with it using waypoints and the results are just great. 2. Smart return to home feature that optimizes the route. This intelligent feature is a plus. 3. 360° active tracking where the drone tracks you while revolving around you....this also drew me to the drone. 4. Still on active tracking...you can choose many angles to be tracked from including the front. Mini 3 only has parallel and tracking from behond. 5. The VR return to home feature. Not really a selling point to move from the mini 3 pro but its fancy. 6. The optin to fly nearer to the ground...some shots really come out great with that motion nearer to the ground. 7. Multidirectional sensors...they are not an obstacle avoidance guarantee but work really well except for something small as tree banches (twigs) without leaves or electric lines...sometimes it depends on the speed. The cons 1. Still pricey 2. While I appreciate the advancement of the drone, I feel DJI can still push for more features on the drone. For example, the drone has preprogrammed moves > quickshots and mastershots. I feel like I should be able to also add my preprogrammed moves. Waypoints is not exactly what I have in mind. I should be able to use my preferred moves on any location. I feel this is possible since we already have waypoints. 3. Tracking humans/ objects, although pretty much accurate but needs improvement. I did some tracking with my vehicle and it lost me several times when going behind trees. Trust me, it has an intelligent feature that makes it able to re-lock the object but it is not entirely accurate and most times it stopped tracking. At one point it resumed tracking but on another car not mine. Overall, I love this drone and has some key features that made me upgrade. The benefits far outweigh not upgrading.

Dangerous battery flaw, Retaining tabs on batteries are breaking off after only a few insertions. I noticed a battery seemed loose in the drone and after placing it in the DJI 3 port charger I noticed a retention tab was not coming back out. It was cracked, it broke off placing it back in the drone to get a cycle count (how many times it has been used.) That insertion made it cycle number 19, half of the previous insertions were just to get the endless updates they have had the last few months. The other tab is cracked and will break off next insertion, this will allow the batteries to fall out in flight causing a dangerous and potentially fatal scenario. I went online to find this was a common issue and happening far to often to some people I contacted DJI, They will do nothing, the battery and drone has only a 15 day warranty. So you can figure it will cost you about $5 per insertion to own these junk batteries. The problem is the paper thin, brittle cheap plastic they are using to try to reduce weight, same with the drone, it is made with such a thin plastic if feels like it is cracking when you simply hold it. I replaced a Mini 3 with this drone, the Mini 3 felt and flew far batter than this Mini 4 Pro, this is jittery and jumpy in the air. It holds well in the air and the stabilization is great but this jumpiness in air is going to help throw these batteries with the breaking tabs out of the drone. We should not have to use tape to hold a battery in a $1200 drone after only a few flights. I should have stuck with a far cheaper drone, I was conned into the brand name equals quality scenario again and DJI has proven that a brand name and does not equal quality and you certainly do not always get what you pay for. They have some quality products to be sure, but I think they have reached the quality limit keeping it under the weight 250G limit. I can't imagine how far the Mini 5 quality will fall. Besides this tab problem these batteries will only last about half of the stated flight time in normal conditions. Also as stated above and by many others the drone is made of a very thin plastic to keep it under weight. like the battery, the drone quality is suffering greatly trying to keep it under the legal weight, this is the same reason the batteries are short lived. If they were posting honest battery flight times they would not sell many of these. Please do a web search for these issues to verify my claims.

It is unbelievable how much tech is packed into this small drone! Many features that are useful and easy to access. Take the time to learn the drone and you will be rewarded with very good video and photos. Easy to fly and the signal from the remote to the drone is rock solid. It is also very quiet, which is important if you want to fly unnoticed. But two things you should know. 1) The drone can handle a substantial amount of wind, but it really bounces around a lot in winds above 20mph. The gimbal handles most of the bouncing around, but not all. Just be careful to make sure you have enough battery power to get back to home if you are going against the wind. I've had to lower the altitude and/or go into sport mode a couple of times when the wind picked up while flying to make headway against the wind. If it is too windy, you will see the camera "jerk" at times because the gimbal cannot handle the bouncing around. 2) And this is a bigger issue for me than the wind, is the difficulty in replacing the props. DJI decided to use screws tipped with loctite on the threads to hold the props on. Works great holding them on, but very difficult to get the screws out to replace the props. The screwdriver DJI gives you is a joke, so I ended up having to buy a more quality made screwdriver (you need a PH0000 screwdriver) that works better but replacing the props is still not an easy job because of the screws. I can't imagine trying to do this out in the field if by chance you nick a small branch and damage a prop. Although you do not have to replace the props very often, it is a major undertaking if the screws are tightly attached because of the loctite. I've seen YouTube videos where people have heated the screws to loosen the loctite or grinded off the plastic props with a dremel to get them off. With all of the superior engineering DJI puts into their drones, this method of replacing the props is baffling. Otherwise, this is a great drone with a lot of features.