
DJI Avata 360 First Flight: My Raw, Uncut & Unsponsored First Impressions
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Hi everyone, welcome to 51 Drones and this is the DJI Avata 360. Welcome to my first uncut and raw first experience with this drone. I did this with the

YouTuber Jeven Dovey flew both the DJI Avata 360 and the Antigravity A1 back to back and came away without a clean winner. His comparison video, published this week, pits the two 360-degree drones against each other on flight handling, camera output, controllers, software, and price. The takeaway is not the one most buyers expect:…

Adventure filmmaker Jeven Dovey destroyed a DJI Mavic 4 Pro on the second morning of a three-day overland shoot in California’s Eastern Sierras, flying in Sport mode with obstacle avoidance disabled when the drone hit a tree and tore the gimbal off the airframe. The crash, documented in a video published to his YouTube channel,…

British filmmaker Philip Bloom has tested both 360-degree drones against DJI's Mini 5 Pro, and his verdict lands hard: the DJI Avata 360 beats the Antigravity A1 on image quality, but neither replaces a proper camera drone for traditional cinematic work.

The DJI Avata 360 is now on sale in the United States at $719 for the standalone drone. DJI has opened US orders through its store and through Amazon after American buyers sat out while the rest of the world got access following the global launch on March 26. That wait is over. The Avata…

Welcome to your weekly UAS news update. We have three stories for you this week: a report that confirms that, sadly, nobody is coming to replace DJI in the consumer market; the FCC has opened public comments on drone spectrum reforms; and Oregon is telling the FCC to build drone test sites in the mountains…

Today, we’re comparing two of the most interesting drone releases in the past few years. On one side, we have the DJI Avata 360, DJI’s first ever panoramic drone designed to combine FPV flying with full 360-degree capture. And on the other side, we have the Antigravity A1, the first mainstream 8K 360 drone that…

The Antigravity A1 launched in December 2025 with a price tag that made a lot of people curious and a lot of wallets nervous. Four months later, and with the DJI Avata 360 now breathing directly down its neck, the world’s first 8K 360-degree drone just got its first significant discount. As of March 28,…
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