![]() Learning to fly the drone in any orientation is another skill that you have to learn, but learning each skill separately is easier than trying to do them all at once. Staying close to the ground allows you to cut the throttle and land when you get into trouble. ![]() You'll find that smaller control inputs are better than big inputs. You'll be doing this for all directions at the same time - fore/aft, port/starboard, and up/down, so it's not easy. Stay ahead of the aircraft, by getting it moving in one direction then make it fly in the opposite direction, then repeat. Rather than react to its movements, be proactive, and make it fly from side to side, fore and aft in a small area as it hovers. Hovering is easier if the front of the drone faces away from you, but you'll notice that you will never get the quad to hover in one spot hands-free, and you have to constantly control it to keep it hovering in a small area. Start by practicing to hover a few feet off the ground in a big room indoors or an open field outdoors to get a sense of how difficult it is to fly a quad that doesn't have GPS and position hold like the Spark (I own a Spark). Don't try to do everything at once - you won't be able to. You can learn how to fly without Angle Mode later. I suggest that you stick with the Mobula 7 and try flying in Angle Mode, which will limit the pitch and roll angles and I think auto-level the drone if you let go of the sticks. I suspect that you do not need another drone, you just need lots of stick time and to figure out how to learn to fly without getting discouraged or breaking your Mobula 7. You may be able to find additional videos online that help with learning. Find videos on YouTube that teach you how to fly for more. Properly-tuned multi-rotors are easier to fly in any mode than improperly-tuned multi-rotors. There’s lots more to learn that can’t be covered here, especially for acro mode. I also label my drones with the FAA registration number as well as my name and cell phone number. I went home and returned with a spotlight, and found it in 30-seconds from 100-ft away because I put reflective tape on it the night before. I spent an hour looking for a small quad that went down in the woods and probably walked within 10-ft of it several times without seeing it. If you fly outside, put small pieces of reflective tape on all sides of your drones as they will be easier to find in the woods/weeds after dark with a flashlight. RealFlight and LiftOff have helped with my acro mode skills. ![]() I rarely fly acro mode and then only for a short while at a time, but I’m still having fun. I consider myself an intermediate pilot and I’m still learning. I have something that I can fly anywhere and at any time. I also use RealFlight, LiftOff, and other simulators. I’ve been flying RC for 20 years and have a bunch of fixed-wing and a bunch of multi-rotor aircraft that span the price and capability spectrums. You can get versions of RealFlight that come with a wired RC style controller. Or, you can buy a cheap USB RC style controller for $20 or so. You may be able to get a cheap USB dongle that lets you use your regular RC controller with the PC simulator. Get a simulator that uses an RC style controller. When you crash, you just press a button to get a new drone. Consider the Syma X20 or similar drone.Īlso, get a drone simulator that includes drones with different modes like RealFlight and practice - a lot. ![]() When flying outside, learn how the wind affects the drone. Buy a $20 quad with altitude hold and switchable angle mode or self-leveling mode to fly in the house or yard. Save your expensive acro mode drone or race quad for later. Kids that learn fast because they have fast reflexes and no inhibitions with respect to risk and cost can learn in acro mode, but the rest of us probably need to start with help of the sensor mentioned. There is angle mode that limits pitch and roll angles (needs gyros and accelerometers), altitude hold mode that helps to maintain altitude with less throttle management (needs an altimeter/pressure sensor), position hold mode that holds the drone’s position over the ground even in the wind (needs a GPS and/or optical motion sensor/camera), auto leveling mode that levels the aircraft if you let go of the sticks, headless mode that flys away from you if you push the stick away and toward you if you pull the stick toward you regardless of which way the drone is facing (requires a magnetic sensor/compass if not a GPS), and then there is acro mode, which turns off many of the sensors to facilitate acrobatic flight.Īcro mode is the hardest to learn how to fly in and to master. Learn about the different flight modes, the onboard sensors needed to support them, and how they can help you learn to fly. Don’t get discouraged, It takes lots of stick time. I remember asking the same question not thst long ago. ![]()
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