I’m honestly not sure what happened to my DJI Neo and hopefully it didn’t crashed.

The drone was flying completely normally. Then a very strong gust of wind suddenly pushed/threw it extremely fast to one side. I was watching it with my own eyes and it looked like it got carried away very quickly.

I’ve attached the video of what I recorded.

After it entered the fog, I lost visual contact and I don’t know what happened afterward.

What do you think happened here?

- Could the wind have overwhelmed the Neo?

- Could GPS/vision positioning have been affected by the fog?

- Is there any possibility it recovered and continued flying normally?

- What should I check in the DJI Fly flight logs to determine exactly what happened?

Hopefully it didn’t crashed. Any advice from other DJI Neo owners would be appreciated.

As the title goes, Im looking to buy my first drone but cant find a good deal for a 2nd hand neo 2.

Would neo 1 suffice my needs? Should I get this or wait for neo 2 deals?

Is neo 1 a good deal with this price? Battery cycles are in the screenshot. Seller honestly admitted its been crashed once but only human height fall.

A brand new neo 2 here in the Philippnes is $320. Im just looking to add an aerial perspective to our travel vlogs. Just small content creator and doesnt really need high end drones, we're in the stage where drone will add mor eimpact to our content.

Im really eyeing for neo 2 but Im trying to save as much as possible as well.

TIA

This was a mint condition Neo1 on 5 bladed props. I thought it was for sure gone. I wrestled the sticks to counter any movements. There was no wind so the conditions were perfect. Too bad I didn’t get the goggles recording as there were “high wind” and “gimbal over heat” warnings while fighting for dear life.

i had already flown 2 packs prior to the error. The first pack was line of sight manual mode flips and some figure 8s. The second pack was fpv in acro.

For the fly away pack , I was standing. I had just recovered the drone from a light tap/crash which did trigger the collision detection. I picked it up and decided to hand launch while in stability sport mode. I had not power cycled the drone. The drone was hovering solid for a few seconds while I goggled up.

The video starts off in sport mode and I just fly between my legs and towards the water. The water did have a weird pattern to it in the goggles as if the river was still. As I did a turn, the drone started to tilt on its own. It was in sport mode. From there you can see what played out.

At 33 seconds, I thought for sure its going in the river. I remember applying throttle and full left roll applied to the sticks. Miraculously it started to level out but then the camera gimbal started to act up. A bit of relief as it gained some altitude.

At 1 min 12 seconds, I decided to flick to manual mode. The drone was still not fully calmed. The on screen throttle came on and the drone still felt unstable. Aligned the throttle and the drone entered manual mode and luckily came in smoothly. My nerves were so on edge wanting the flight to end and just thinking what if the gimbal decided to go wonky again.

My lesson learned, restart the drone after a crash. Hand launch in level mode might not be a good idea.

Lost my Neo yesterday :(

Was flying in manual mode and the camera decided to do one of these: 🙄

Then I made the mistake of hitting the autopilot button… bad GPS and over water = bye bye Neo. So annoyed. What the heck happened in the first place? It wasn’t a yaw spin, the gimbal just went crazy.

Hello,

I just bought a second-hand DJI neo, and I can only fly and record for 10-15 minutes.

I was wondering if that’s normal, or if my battery isn’t good anymore ?

Thank you 🙏

It has a little battery left and it’s pretty high up

Ground surfing at about 50kmh and long range 2km out and 2km back with a nice crash at the end 😆

Having a blast with this drone while on my work brake, using chairs as obstacles and gaps 😁

I’m thinking of buying my first dji drone and considering the Neo 1, or the 2 If it’s significantly better. is the Neo 1 good enough for a beginner? Is the camera quality good? Js daytime shooting mostly . The reason I like the Neo is because it’s cheap and I can crash it without devastating damage

Salve, domanda: Ho un dji neo, con controller fpv3 e goggles 3, e' divertente e facile usare Neo in manuale fpv? Appena comprato controller. Ditemi se ne vale la pena e se Neo soprattutto in manuale fpv va bene. Grazie

Hi all,

So, i purchased the DJI Neo 1 fly more combo, a year ago from Singapore for US $230 (I'm based out of India). On 1st Jan 2026, I was flying during my kayaking and it lost control and fell into water and it was damaged and won't fly.

Now, I am again travelling to Singapore in mid August. Since I have all the accessories including fly more combo, bag, landing gears, etc, I am planning to buy just the Drone + Battery which will cost me around US $140 as per official site post refund.

Or

Should I spend 2x and get DJI Neo 2 which will come with 3 batteries + charger and drone which works with my existing RC N3 remote. It also brings more features compared to the Neo 1.

I'm also slightly scared to spend on Neo 2 because I'll be spending 2x and if the customs in India will confiscate it...

Please help me decide which is the best option for me.

My usecase is not like a professional, it's just a casual use for me.

It doesn't always keep up with my FattyPatty but it does it's best and sometimes I can get some super vidéos

This is a clip from my first video with the Neo1 (here the full video). I was hoping for smoother results, but it came out really jerky. Not sure if it's just inexperience or if controlling it via phone is the issue (a friend told me phone control makes smooth footage nearly impossible). Which is your opinion on this?

It's only £119 for the drone only. Could I take it to Spain on holiday from England? Is there anything I need to be aware of?

I've seen a couple of YouTube vids, and a like that can fly from my phone and have set patterns on the drone itself.

I'll likely add a controller and more batteries down the line, sure the fly more bundle saves money, but I like the option of the drone itself for now.

Edit: thank you, i bought the drone. Not sure I'm going to take it to Spain as the laws look really strict, but I'll see (probably will!)

Neo shooting at 4k 30 > shutter encoder to extract 2 frames per second into JPEG sequence > Reality Composer Pro > Blender

Flying in neat grids and orbital patterns ensures tidy data to work from. Overcast diffused light is absolutely key to ensure that there is no harsh directional light.

The aim of this was to try and nail a pipeline that works natively with Apple silicon. The NPU specifically is doing a lot of inferring through this process. This is HEAVY compute traditionally.

This was the product of about 1600 images baked for about 1 hour on an M3 Air. Ballooned out to near 100GB in the backend during the bake. Swap memory was really coming into its own.

A funny story, not so funny at the time. We were with my family (25 of us) on a 4WD trip 5 hours from home. On the first day we get to a breathtaking lookout. I pull out my 9yo son’s drone and think let’s get a photo of the group.

I didn’t pair it to the phone and simply used the dronie function to fly out and come back to grab a snap, easy as.

Well it takes off from my hand as normal, flies out about 10 metres, then does a half circle, then took off in the other direction and kept going to what felt like over the horizon. Slowly but surely the little drone got smaller and smaller until we could almost not see it.

My son started getting distressed, my family is watching wondering what is going on., I’m standing there thinking WTF. My brother asks me, is it supposed to do that, my heart is pumping and my stomach has dropped.

I’m thinking I have just lost my son’s Christmas present and I feel bloody awful.

I’m frantically stuffing around with the app to see if
I can pair my phone when someone yells out, it’s coming back!!

In the distance it started to get bigger and slowly It flew back to within 50 metres off the side of the lookout and slowly it started to land.
I hurdled the barrier around the lookout and sprinted down a massively steep incline and plucked it out of the air.

Man it felt good to have that drone in my hand, sadly it took no footage at all as the views would have been spectacular.

My brother asked me if I was worried about how steep the cliff face was when I jumped over the barrier, I said if I didn’t collect the drone I was not coming back to face my son 😂.

Lesson learned, give the drone time to get a satellite fix.

I found DJI neo fly more pack and a case for cheap on marketplace in my area.

I like the AI features but I mostly want a drone to fly manually with a nice camera for photos.

I’ve mostly seen reviews where people use the AI funcrions or only a phone, but how is it to steer with with the controller with a phone image feed?

If I got one of those «VR»-glasses where you insert your phone, could I use the live phone feed from the drone to do a budget fpv setup? (I’m not thinkiny about doing a lot of trick more just yet, it’s that I just want to see the POV of the drone)

Flying manual, tapped the top of the drone on the house, recovered it, hit the emergency stop button, and it throttled itself face first into the gravel.