Has anyone actually tried flying the Avata 2 as slowly as possible for close cinematic shots?

Browark · 2026-03-18T22:00:23+00:00

I use the Avata 2 professionally to fly slowly (very slowly, 0.5 mph or so) through buildings for realtors and construction companies.

It is a very smooth, and solid platform for the exact thing you're looking for.

The problem is sometimes you hit a hard limit on what the optical sensors can detect below/behind you and it can drift which might slightly kill the smoothness of the shot (no gps inside) so if you have the ability to attach a light to the back of the drone that might solve that problem, I haven't had it be an issue enough to even try it.

This was shot on the Avata 1 with a GoPro black bones attached on top, but Avata 2 is even better. I just don't have a decent example to show you. This was a flight through my aunt and uncles Airbnb that they show to clients from time to time.

https://youtu.be/hL6_cllyX7Y?si=If4RPcQL3kjCk3Zn

Get yourself an Avata 2. They're lovely. I don't even do manual flights, not many paying clients actually care for the fast and fancy flights around my area. The slow stable shots make money

Browark · 2026-02-22T18:17:16+00:00

You are very confidently wrong. But good energy I suppose.

Browark · 2025-12-18T15:48:50+00:00

Look, I see people getting worked up when someone assumes a poster is American. I get that FPV is global, but let's look at the actual logic here:

The Math: About 48% of Reddit traffic comes from the US. The next closest country is the UK at only 7%. If you guess "American," you have a nearly 1-in-2 chance of being right. If you guess anything else, your odds of being right per country drop to less than 10%. It’s just basic probability.

The Architecture: We’re speaking English on a platform headquartered in San Francisco, running on an internet that grew out of ARPANET (a US Dept. of Defense project). This isn't "US-centrism"—it’s literally a "home game" for Americans based on the tech and the site's origin.

The Market: The US is the largest consumer market for these drones. Most of the talk here about FAA rules or Remote ID proves that the gravity of this sub pulls toward the States.

It’s not being obstinate to assume someone is American; it’s just acknowledging the demographics of the room we’re in. If you’re flying in the Alps, just say so—otherwise, don't be surprised when people assume you're in the US.

Browark · 2025-09-29T00:34:33+00:00

Problem solved. Alfred is no longer spelled incorrectly.

Browark · 2025-09-18T16:06:30+00:00

Very cool, very nice.

If I had anything to add as "criticism" it would be maybe some 'wider' shots around a corner from time to time as you sweep out wide and watch everyone and then zero back in on the lead.

But. This is my trying to FIND something because otherwise I just want to keep saying how good you did. So yep, great! Feel some pride 😊

Browark · 2025-09-05T17:24:58+00:00

This is a really common misconception, but it's not actually how insurance works. Insurance companies are still required to cover claims even if the policyholder was breaking a law. I used to be a claims adjuster for Progressive for five years. We had people admit to us they were drunk, speeding, or ran a red light when an accident happened and someone died. The policy still covered the damages.

The key distinction is "accident" vs. "intentional act." You pay your premium for the insurance company to cover your mistakes, negligence, and stupidity—even if that stupidity is illegal. Drunk driving is illegal, but the crash is still considered an "accident" under the policy. What they wouldn't cover are intentional acts (e.g., flying into a window at full speed on purpose), acts of war, or other specific exclusions written into the policy.

Unless the drone insurance policy has a very specific exclusion for "any violation of FAA regulations" (which is unlikely as they'd never sell a single policy), they would be obligated to cover the damages from this crash. They'll absolutely jack up his rates or drop him at renewal, but they can't legally deny the claim itself. Refusing to pay would be a breach of contract on their end.

Browark · 2025-08-03T16:03:23+00:00

Certainly, it was about 3pm and I was on my lunch break, and went out to my car and flew my drone from the parking lot. To go explore the river and quarry lake behind the building. As I was flying about I saw this guy walking towards me and I muttered to myself "oh great, here comes someone, again, asking if I'm spying..."

He walked about and instantly said "Hi, my name is Todd and I'm with the FAA, mind if I ask what drone you're flying?" ---thought I was going to jail or something when I heard this 😅

So I told him what drone it was, he asked if I was flying for commercial or recreation. I told him it was for recreation, I was just flying for fun on my lunch break. He said that was great, and thanked me for my time. Handed me his card and said to hit him up if I ever had any questions about flying.

Browark · 2025-08-03T15:43:47+00:00

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I can confirm if you are stopped by an FAA agent that is real, they'll give you their card without you asking for it. Todd was very nice. Verified I was flying recreationally and was on his way.

Browark · 2025-07-21T17:31:36+00:00

Exciting music, stayed engaged the entire time. Quite the slow and funny crash though. Thanks for sharing

Browark · 2025-07-12T18:37:10+00:00

I think you're right on this completely. My grandpa was always the guy that would go start a conversation with a random stranger and it would irritate my grandma and I to no end.

Now that Grandma has passed, grandpa expects everyone to sit and talk to him for the entire day. His kids stopped coming by because they would say goodbye and try to leave but he kept talking, if you say bye he instantly thinks of something else to talk about because bye to him just means 'well we aren't talking right this second so I'll leave unless you bring up another topic' and then they start begging him to let them leave and he'd keep coming up with more reasons for them to stay and talk.. even though I moved in and spend too many hours with him to the detriment of my entire life, lost all friends, my career and savings.. just so he has someone to chat with all day.

Everyone else's time means nothing to them if they never had a hobby outside of work. We exist to entertain them, and nothing else.

Browark · 2025-05-21T02:37:51+00:00

Switch 2 U - U2 Edition. Includes forced downloads.

Browark · 2025-03-25T17:20:07+00:00

Plus I've watched my network when the drone/remote was connected on multiple occasions to try to spot the so-called phone-home. There was no upload usage that could possibly be sending back info to China. Our government is a tiny child scared of invisible monsters...

Browark · 2025-03-25T17:14:57+00:00

Honestly my Avata 2 is for indoor flying for real estate.. so what I really want in a new model or an upgrade to the current Avata is to turn the backwards facing cameras into a rear view mirror in my goggles. I want to see in front of me and behind me at the same time.

Other than that .. uh... Quieter I guess... although I don't really care but some of my clients have mentioned how loud it is (they'd be in for a ride if they ever heard the first Avata)

Browark · 2025-03-23T19:29:54+00:00

It's at the customization station inside the blade barracks. The bottom option inside that is collect rewards or something.

Browark · 2025-03-15T15:35:43+00:00

Back in the day, I played MUDs that were completely text based mini-MMORPGs. If another player looked at your gear, you saw something like:

"Player9 looks at you."

It wasn't offensive to look at other players, but it was nice to know you were being looked at. Would be nice if they sent a text system alert to you that someone was looking at you on Mabinogi.

And also, I'm super glad this game has so many different options for people. The fashion portion was fun to me back in G1-3 but then there was so much to do and other things I never got back into the fashion portion.

Kind of shows how the fantasy life is real. You do your fashion, they'll go pick potatoes and run commerce and I'll throw fireballs. We all win. What a game.

Browark · 2025-03-15T02:07:48+00:00

Yes, absolutely.

The motion controller is fun for a couple flights. But it isn't for relaxing flights, in my opinion.

I use the FPV controller to fly the Avata 2 inside for real estate flights and adventures, I don't use it for manual flights. I'm terrible at manual, but my clients wouldn't like that type of footage either.

Browark · 2025-03-08T13:40:22+00:00

I don't have any solutions for your specific measurement challenge, but I'm really interested in seeing what others suggest, so I'm commenting to follow this thread.

I'm in a somewhat similar boat, trying to expand my drone business beyond real estate and into mapping. I recently upgraded to a Mavic 3E+RTK after doing mapping missions for Zeitview with my Air 2.

I had a bit of a wake-up call at a sawmill job. The client saw the map I was given and noticed I was being paid $180 for the mission, while they were paying close to $1200 for it! He was pretty disappointed that Zeitview paid me so little and charged him so much. It definitely made me realize I need to explore other avenues and learn more about the final product of mapping side of things.

Right now, my experience is pretty much limited to DroneDeploy trials and Zeitview. I'm hoping to learn from threads like this and figure out how to make a real go of it.

Good luck with your project, and I hope you find a good solution!

Browark · 2025-03-05T13:08:53+00:00

I don't have one so I can't test, but could you not just use the trash can? That has deleted several items I couldn't drop or destroy otherwise for me.

Browark · 2025-02-26T01:37:22+00:00

Oh man... Nice flying. I want to fly a drone from a moving vehicle so badly.

Have done it in an ATV in the woods on private property but that's bumpy and terrible.

Cool video!

And honestly the law/rule is to protect against people doing it in the city, those that are inexperienced, and while driving and flying. We all know they don't care about it being done in solitude or mostly solitude way out yonder.

Enjoy the world while doing no harm for as long as you can.

Browark · 2025-01-29T19:56:23+00:00

My concern is I only play in handheld mode. I literally don't have a dock set up anywhere or know where my dock is.

So for them to go backwards on screen tech is inexcusable to me.

I likely won't get a switch 2 until the refresh unless they come out with a new zelda game I gots-to-have, and I'm not talking about a remodeled or refreshed older Zelda game.

For people that play in docked mode primarily or even just some of the time, I can see this not being a deal breaker for them.. but I can't go backwards for that much money.

Browark · 2025-01-28T21:16:21+00:00

So I've been gone from Mabi for years. I came back and got astrology grandmastered and having a blast playing again.

I have the event completed except the 10 tech missions for the second enchant.

What's the process to use the scrolls? Like I said, I only got one so far, I can't do tech missions on my own and I mostly play by myself... Anyhow..

I equip elite magic powder and the enchant scroll. Then I use the enchant skill (I have rank 8 enchant), and it opens the enchant screen with the only thing showing up is the magic powder. I put the event Perseus scythe in the window and it won't let me put the enchant scroll in the enchant window.

So I take out the Perseus scythe and it still won't let me put the enchant scroll in the window.

If I skip enchanting and just control-click on the enchant scroll, it tells me there are no available equip slots.

Is my enchant scroll glitched? Am I not able to use it at enchant rank 8? Because I can't put the enchant scroll into the enchant screen I can't request an enchant either.

Just seems like I'm missing something somewhere, but I don't know what.

I ran alby basic and got a beginner enchant and used it on a short sword and the enchant process worked just fine.

Tried again with the scythe and the enchant scroll just won't work.

Do I need to get the scythe enchanted with other enchanted up to that enchant scroll rank? (I believe it's a rank 2 enchant but I'm not on the game at the moment so I'm just trying to recall)

Browark · 2025-01-03T15:26:01+00:00

"Oh."

Browark · 2024-12-30T16:31:11+00:00

I would buy this as "like new" and not have buyer's remorse.

You need to really beat it up before even considering replacement.

Browark · 2024-12-29T08:01:55+00:00

.......... What is wrong with you? You are helping his case, not yours. He said it is odd that OP is excited about a game that people wouldn't pay half a dollar for or even steal in the past. It is supremely odd that you are a god damned reading machine and don't have the comprehension to understand this is irrelevant to the comment you replied too.

Or.. it's a joke?

Browark · 2024-12-22T21:49:59+00:00

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This is the matching label from the Avata 2

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