DJI AIR 2S
trange things start happening once a company no longer has any meaningful competition, and the Air 2S from DJI is a prime example. Like all of the company’s offerings over the past several years, it’s an absolutely top-quality platform that provides robust capabilities in both its flight and imaging performance. However, it also has some important limitations—a few of them seemingly arbitrary—which it is important to understand before you buy it simply because you can afford it and it is the “latest and greatest” from the world’s leading manufacturer in the industry.
THE BASICS
To begin with, let us consider the Air 2S as a small uncrewed aircraft system (sUAS)—a flying machine that we intend to operate in the National Airspace System (NAS). In this regard, our top concerns must be safety, reliability, and performance. The Air S2 excels in all three categories. Incorporating an Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) receiver, the S2 will alert you through the DJI Fly app when a crewed aircraft equipped with an ADS-B transmitter is in the vicinity.
ADS-B is nearly universal at this point on the type of small, general aviation aircraft that are most likely to be operating near us as remote pilots, making this an incredibly valuable tool. Unfortunately, it won’t tell you which direction or how far away the aircraft is, but you’ll likely see the warning before you can hear it. That gives you
