Video recording Sunday, April 25, 2021, on an overcast, spring morning, allowing to test the camera 1-inch sensor dynamic range under lower lighting conditions.

It was an overcast afternoon and decided to go to the most western part of the island, northeast of the car bridge. I went on the west riverside of the cape providing an excellent line-of-sight over the 3 Peninsulas.

For cinematic purposes, watch the Mavic Air 2 flying over the same area on a sunny spring day: [ Ссылка ], a mid-overcast super windy autumn day: [ Ссылка ], and the Zino2 on an early winter super-overcast day: [ Ссылка ].

After traversing a forested area, I arrived by the riverside on the west side of cape bay facing the 3d Peninsula and used it as a home point, to perform two successive flights.

On the first flight, I took off and flew the Air 2S westwards to the 3d, then the 2nd, and then passed the 1st Peninsula, and continued flying for a while.

When the battery was at 46%, decided to yaw 180 degrees and fly back towards the take-off point with the wind.

I flew back passing over the 3 Peninsulas, crossed the bay, and landed it manually on the apron; the battery was 20%.

After swapping the battery, I flew out again, this time to awards the North along the coast of the cape, until I could see the 1st Cape bay, from the sandy beach I took off last summer, crossing the wide-open river to the two mountains area, with the Mavic Air 2 - see [ Ссылка ].

Then flew back to the home point and landed it on the apron. The battery was at 52%.

DJI's Air 2S is a very reliable, smooth flyer. It is very responsive and precise to the control sticks, a speedy, powerful quad, with an outstanding camera. Its communication link is very robust, and its remote FPV image is very clear.

At 50 m of altitude, the wind was blowing at 13 Kph, with gusts of over 28 Kph, and the ground temperature was 12 deg C (54 deg F).

The Air 2S FPV (First Person View) camera was recording on Normal HD Auto mode at 4 K / 30 FPS.

The RunCam 5 video camera was RPV (Remote Person View) recording at 2.7 K / 60 FPS mounted on my hat. I used the iPhone X to record the quad take-off.

Note for the AIR 2S Flyers: A2S throttle stick is tuned differently than the MA2: its max speed at Normal mode is 15 m/s e.q. + 3 m/s faster than the MA2. So, when flying with no wind the A2S at max Normal mode speed, the battery depletes faster than when flying the MA2.

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