ok so ive been flying the DJI FPV for about 8 months now and honestly love it, manual mode took me a while to get comfortable with but now its second nature. thing is my buddy keeps telling me to try his Avata and i did for like 20 minutes last weekend and i genuinely dont know what to think.

the ducted props felt so different, way more confident flying through tighter gaps and around trees but something about the whole thing felt... floaty? like the FPV has this snappiness to it that the Avata just doesnt match. or maybe i was just used to my own tune. he had it on stock settings i think.

main thing im wondering is whether people who came from the DJI FPV to the Avata ever actually preferred it or if its mostly people coming from the cinewhoop side. also curious about the obstacle avoidance on it, does anyone actually use that in normal flying or do you turn it off immediately

yeah the floaty feeling is real, its not your imagination. the Avata is tuned much more conservatively out of the box and the ducted design does change how it handles crosswind and quick direction changes. you can push the rates up and mess with the expo settings in the assistant app but itll never quite snap the same way the FPV does in full manual.

that said i actually made the switch and kept both. use the Avata for anything close to people or structures, the prop guard situation is genuinely reassuring when youre flying near stuff. obstacle avoidance gets turned off immediately though, it causes this weird hesitation mid-flight that drove me insane the first time it kicked in and nearly made me overcorrect into a wall

i came from cinewhoops to the Avata so maybe not exactly what you're asking but from what ive seen the FPV guys usually miss the raw feel. the Avata is more of a content tool imo, like if youre trying to get smooth footage through tight spaces its great but if you actually want to thrash around a field the FPV wins every time. different tools kind of thing