DJI Air 2S Fly More Combo, Drone with 3-Axis Gimbal Camera, 5.4K Video, 1-Inch CMOS Sensor, 4 Directions of Obstacle Sensing, 31 Mins Flight Time, 12km 1080p Video Transmission, Two Extra Batteries

What can I say about this drone, other than it's superb. I'll start with dispelling some of the confusion I had when looking at licences and general rules...Directly from the flight association they simplified it by saying currently you can fly with an operator ID under and A2 which allows minimum distance of 50 metres, at the end of the year bordering into 2023 this drone will enter an A3 category which means you need to stay 150 metres away from people unless you have A2 (COC), and then it returns back to 50 metres... Simple.I have signed up to A2 (COC), as this certificate is only £80 and last five years so I don't need to be concerned about when the rules change. I've signed up through "The UAV Academy", other firms offer the exact same certificate but are charging significantly more as they are resellers rather than the primary exam Proctor.Only criticism is not about the actual product itself it's trying to find instruction manuals online from DJI and downloading the app which required going to files and making an exception on my smartphone to install a non certificate appThe set up after the app is installed is fairly intuitive, icons are pretty self explanatory, the battery life is OK more would probably make it heavier. The gimbal is next level tech, it's stable and responsive creating some of the best pictures I have seen from any photographic device that is in motion.The obstacle avoidance is also top notch, I did a 50 metre run up a normal mode to my face, and it's still intact and stopped with plenty of room... After that I picked a fight with the gazebo, shed, tree and inadvertently a pigeon the flew out of the tree in front making the drone do an emergency stop.The sound is not intrusive although it's full running motors suspending in the air so it's never going to be silent. Appan setup it's going to take a good hour to do everything from the app to read the instructions and get familiar with the controls... That hour is well invested as I only needed it on slow mode for the first two outings after that straight up two normal and even a dabble on sporting.My son had a cheap drone to see if he liked it, my daughter had a slightly more expensive drone that I thought felt robust and was ok on both flight but picture is shaky, however this once again like the technology is next level it feels suitably robust and made to last.Apart from praising once again the quality and versatility of this drone, I must stop typing and go out and play with it some more.Happy and responsible droning to everyone hope this helped

Critcisms:- Edges in any full FOV mode i.e. 4k less than or = 30fps or 5.4k, are a little soft. To be expected with a 22m equiv. No aberrations or anything major though.- 4k 60 is very soft I think because it's 1:1 pixel sampling from the middle of the sensor, (i.e. no down sampling). Pretty sure the bitrate has something to do with it also - quick pans in complex environments and the compression goes haywire. The crop still equates to way more than a 1/2.3 inch or 1/2 inch sensor so I'm not sure why 4k 60 looks at least no better than the mavic air 2's. To my eye it looks like excellent 1080p or mediocre 1440p at best. The lack of sharpness with 60fps will probably make me upgrade to a mavic 3 at some stage lol. DON'T BUY THIS FOR '4K NOT 4K' 60.- Some wish DJI made a bigger battery for this version. The advantage is that the 'power - weight' of this drone is stupendous. The ascent (and descent) rate is 6m/s which is phenomenal for a drone that lasts realistically ~24 minutes in the air - it's very inspire 2 like. If you have a mini/mini 2, this has a similar flight time. In the UK with CE transmission power, the battery life and signal strength complement each other rather well - you'll generally find yourself running out of signal strength around the time you're running low on juice. This will be anywhere from ~7-8km out if flying perpendicular to the wind.- Also, you must fly at around 12 - 13m/s to get the most flight time (and dist.) in most scenarios, which requires you to manually hold the sticks from maximum. In normal mode it will default to 15m/s which is annoying - I wish there was a software feature to change this yourself like with the Autel 2. In return to home it defaults to 12m/s. Obvs if you're flyng with the wind on the way back, you'll get closer to a 12m/s relative if you push the stick to get 15m/s, or even fly in sport manually if the wind is particularly strong.- If you're not doing stupid range tests, the battery is more than long enough - with the fly more kit, you can get well over an hour of flight time which I think is more than most people will want to fly in a day.Don't buy this drone for the 4k 60, I think you'll be disappointed. 5.4k 30 is fantastic however. SHOOT IN DLOG. The oversharpening with the standard colour profiles is criminal and causes lots of 'aliasing shimmering' if you are watching the footage back on certain displays.Stay away from birds - seagulls are particularly aggravated by the frequency of this drone (much more than the mini), so especially stay high and/or fast when near the sea).Other pertinent notes:- Use smart photo mode for night shots - 'hyperlight' is excellent.- 4 antennas = great signal even in CE countries- Multicharger thing is useless - charges the batteries sequentially which takes hours. Buy the 'LYONGTECH Battery Home Charger' - also allows you to easily maintain the LiPo's at 12V for storage e.g. if you're not flying all week. You don't want to be replacing £90 batteries too often.- You'll need a lot of storage - at least a few 256gb sdxc cards if you're going on a trip for more than a week. You'll probably end up being a lot more picky about what and when you film for this reason.

I was very lucky to get hold of this kit at the right price specially with the fly more package probably one of the best drones on the market with its 1 inch sensor. You get fantastic video and great nighttime and daytime pictures because of the amount of light that it will let him if you are looking for the ultimate in drones, and not worry, too much about the fact that you extremely careful where you fly this one, then this is the one for you. The kit came with the smart controller. The unfortunate thing is it’s the older smart controller which means it only has close to transmission, so the drone downgrade to class two instead of using class three. I have had some lag between transmission from drone to controller, but I wouldn’t say it’s that bad and I would recommend the DJIRC controller with screen then you would have the ultimate package.

Unwrap it, charge it up and go fly. Simple, intuitive and the camera is brilliant with loads of automatic video/photography available from the app. I would definitely recommend this package with the additional batteries and ND filters. An exposure control on the camera would have been nice but tbh with the filters it's not really a problem, and I guess an expsure control might have compromised the performance of the camera/gimbal with additional weight. Just one word of caution, I use mine with an iPhone 13+ which, when using a case, is a real squeeze to fit into the holder. Not fallen out yet, but a slightly larger cradle to accomodate the larger phones available would have been good.