okay so this isnt really a question i just need to talk about this because i flew my friends avata 2 for about 20 minutes yesterday using the goggles 3 and motion controller combo and something broke in my brain. i came home and looked at my mavic air 2s sitting on the desk and felt nothing. complete emotional void.

i got into drones for landscape and real estate stuff and the mavic makes total sense for that. its a tool, it does the job, clients are happy. but the avata 2 experience was just so different. its like the difference between driving a normal car and a go kart. totally different thing.

anyway now im reading about fpv and freestyle and acro mode and i dont know if im about to spend a bunch of money on a hobby within a hobby or if i should just accept that the avata 2 is kind of a novelty and my mavic is the right tool for what i actually do. has anyone else gone down this road, like kept their camera drone and added an fpv setup? how did that end up for you

lol yeah the avata does that to people. i went through the exact same thing except i already had some fpv experience before trying it so i knew what i was getting into. thing is the avata 2 is kind of a gateway, once you fly it you start watching fpv freestyle videos and then you start thinking about building your own quad and then suddenly youre soldering at midnight and none of your friends understand why you spend weekends at an empty parking lot. fair warning.

that said plenty of people keep both and theyre genuinely used for different things. a client isnt going to want avata footage for a real estate listing but for a short film or a wedding highlight reel a quick low pass shot from an fpv looks incredible. so its not totally impractical. just be honest with yourself about whether youre buying it for work or because it was fun, both are valid reasons, just different justifications

the motion controller is what gets everyone i think, it feels so intuitive. i will say though if you ever want to fly acro properly the motion controller kind of holds you back, youll eventually want proper sticks. so factor that into any math youre doing about what the avata 2 actually costs to get good at