so ive been running my Dominator HD3s for like 3 years now and honestly they still work fine but everyone keeps telling me the DJI V2 goggles are life changing and i cant tell if thats just people who bought them trying to justify the price tag

my main thing is i fly mostly freestyle, some light racing, and the latency thing is what scares me about digital. i know DJI has gotten better but my buddy still swears he can feel it on tight gaps. we're talking like sub 28ms now i think? but analog at its best is what, like 5-10ms? the gap is still real right

also i already have a ton of analog VTXs on my builds so switching to DJI means basically rebuilding all of them which is another few hundred bucks minimum. i have like 6 quads. the math gets ugly fast

anyone actually gone back to analog after running DJI for a while or is it genuinely a one way door situation

i made the jump about a year ago and yeah the image quality is insane but i wont lie to you, the latency is noticeable if youre used to analog. not horrible but its there. for bando flying and fast proximity stuff it took me a few weeks to recalibrate mentally. my crash rate went up before it went down if that makes sense

the thing nobody talks about enough is the VTX replacement cost. i put the DJI air unit or the vista on everything and it adds like 40-60 bucks per quad depending on what youre building. fine if youre doing it one at a time but yeah if you have a bunch of analog birds already its a commitment. i kept two analog quads actually just for situations where i dont want to risk an expensive air unit

went DJI two years ago, sold all my fat sharks, zero regrets. the latency thing is way overblown in online discussions, at least for freestyle. if you were racing at a high level maybe you'd care but for gaps and flow flying you adapt pretty fast and then analog looks like garbage in comparison. like literally unwatchable after a while