Well Hivers I鈥檝e been waiting for over a week for my new DJI Mini 3 to turn up and on Saturday i talked to DHL in Exeter where it鈥檚 been sitting since last Monday 馃槨send still no defiant delivery so I went to pick it up this morning.
I have been waiting for a few months for the stand alone drone to be released anyway so a few more days didn鈥檛 make a lot of difference.
But finally here it is the much talked about DJI mini 3 Pro in sub 250 Gram config.
Much like the Mini 2 it comes covered in transit stickers that need to be removed before flight. Unfortunately I missed was the lump of black rubber foam behind the camera gimble so I had a load of gimble stuck error messages when it started it up.
It is a title bigger than the Mini 2 and feels a bit more fragile bit it is a lot of drone in a small package.
It took a little while to pair up the first time with my RC N1 controller and it does get a bit warm as,there is no internal fan,when doing the updates but my fan tower that I printed for the mini 2 doesn鈥檛 fit so there it鈥檚 a bit of a rethink needed.
Weight wise it is very close to the 250 gram limit too close in fact to get a high viability skin like my mini 2 and keep it under the 250gram limit. It鈥檚 a real pity they don鈥檛 make it in orange I鈥檇 have more chance of seeing it.
One thing that is another missing is the prop keeper that comes with the Mini 2
which stops the props catching on other things when you put it in a bag. So I guess I鈥檒l look around for a third party one.
Well thats all for now there are a bunch of firmware updates to do before I can go and fly the beast.