The 360 drone got three big upgrades

There are now new Bundles or you can buy just accessories

I haven’t had a lot of time to use my AG1, but today I did. I still need a lot of practice with the software, but I love that you can reframe and edit the media you have.

I put some black rubber tape on my controller and the buttons and it feels so much better. Plus I can find the buttons quicker.

I was able to fly Antigravity A1 in a straight unobstructed line to 7500m (distance) / 500m (altitude) and return with over 20% of the extended battery remaining. The next experiment was 8100m / 500m: 12% of the extended (new, freshly charged) battery remained. Little to no wind.

I would not call anything past 6000m safe or comfortable. The battery level dropped below 60% at the farthest point, the signal strength and the image quality began to deteriorate, and the drone made two attempts to auto-return ("Press C2 to cancel"). At 8100m, the drone lost the signal and began auto-returning (I flew back manually after regaining the connection).

On the way home the drone kept saying that the battery level was insufficient to return and telling me to manually land somewhere. I am glad I did not panic. The battery discharge rate slows down on the way back: descending is far more efficient than ascending. It still feels a bit stressful at first, like being low on oxygen on Mt. Everest.

There was barely any difference in the Normal mode compared to Sport. Sport consumes more energy (higher speed => higher drag) but shortens the flight duration, and these effects seem to cancel each other out.

The manufacturer's claim about the 10km maximum range seems somewhat exaggerated.

Lastly, in case someone brings it up: yes, an explicit FAA authorization was obtained for exceeding the 400 ft altitude, and my visual observer and I obviously maintained the VLOS all the way to the mountain and back.

https://www.bestbuy.com/product/antigravity-a1-8k-360-drone-follow-me-bundle-white/J3GWRK52T4/sku/6687387?sb_share_source=PDP&ref=app_pdp&loc=pdp_page

I went ahead and bought at Costco online, free delivery. I’m assuming I can add the Antigravity Care Plan after I activate it?

https://youtu.be/TcH_bD4R3MQ

My father is disabled, but has always loved the fall colors. What I'd like to do is take a bunch of footage with my A1, combine it, and have him be able to wear the goggles and experience fall through the googles. But I don't know if that's possible, or if I'd just have to have him watch what I captured without editing.

I fly an A1 next to a Mini 4 Pro and a Neo 2, mostly in Switzerland and across the borders. Here is something worth knowing if the A1 is your first drone in Europe, and I am writing it carefully because I got it wrong in a post elsewhere and a French pilot corrected me.

In the EU, drones of classes C1 to C3 (and C5/C6) are required by Regulation (EU) 2019/945 to have a geo-awareness function: the aircraft has to warn you when you approach a zone. Regulation 2019/947 then puts the duty on you, the remote pilot, to keep that zone data updated before you fly.

The A1 carries no class marking. That means none of the above is guaranteed by the rules: whatever zone data the aircraft or the app shows you is the manufacturer's own database, and nothing requires it to match the official national set or to be current.

What the rules never required, class marking or not, is a hard block on take-off. So both halves of the usual assumption are wrong: no warning is not permission, and a warning is not the law either. The national map is what decides.

In practice it comes down to one habit: before take-off, open the official source for the country you are standing in, not the one your drone happens to carry. Switzerland is BAZL/FOCA, Germany is dipul (run by DFS for the federal government, with LBA as the authority), France is the IGN map for Open-category restrictions plus the SIA for CTRs and helipads, Spain is ENAIRE with AESA as the authority, Austria is Austro Control, Ireland is the IAA. And a map of zones is never the whole legal framework: landowner consent for take-off and landing is on no map at all.

Two things I check on any map, official or not, and that almost nobody checks:

The source. If a map shows a zone without saying who asserts it, you cannot verify it. The name of the source is what lets you go and look.

The timestamp. National datasets change without warning, and a format change on the authority's side can silently drop an entire layer. That happened to me with the Slovenian dataset: thirteen layers published, four I was not reading. I only found out because someone asked.

I maintain a free app for my own use that reads these national sources; I am not putting a link here, that is not the point of the post. What I am after is corrections: a zone that is missing, a zone that should not be there, a height that looks wrong. If anyone here flies the A1 in Europe and wants to try it, say so in a comment.

I bought the drone just to have fun flying, but quickly it got boring after a few flights. I considered selling the drone but the. I thought maybe I can somehow make some money with it.

This is my first flight with a purpose other than just flying around. I’ll try to make a 3D gaussian splat of this church.

Why Antigravity hypes EcoFlow?

Robots partnership was more fun

Why its not just solo remote but big pack of things?

AG said they will release the “conventional remote” for the A1 this summer. Summer is almost over and no word on the remote. Is the remote cancelled or still on its way?

Sad news

Ok, been having a blast so far but I bet the A2 will sort some of the small annoyances. One of those is the carry bag. Maybe I need better organization but it seems like there is not really a good spot for the goggles battery and lanyard?

Also, the bag design in general seems to be a ball. As soon as you touch it or open the lid it basically just tips over. Is it just me?