Learn to Fly an FPV Drone - Lesson 5 - Coordinated Turns

[@gbisaga]

If you only memorize one phrase in all your FPV flying it's Joshua's "use the pitch and roll to steer the horizon." That's gold right there.

[@Caelarius]

You can actually permanently set the camera to a desired value, but it requires manually editing the configuration file of the drone. After you've duplicated your drone, there will be a newly created directory in your game folder. It's in \SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Liftoff\Liftoff_Data\DroneConfigurations\. The directory will just be a bunch of letters and numbers. In that directory, there's a .drone file. Use a texteditor to open it, and change the camera angle within the file. For 15 degrees, it should look like: CameraRotorRiot01 15 Save the file, and from now on your camera will always start at the desired angle.

[@FBcruzz]

I have about 15 hours in a few different sims and flying LOS is SO much easier still, Acro in a sim is easy, on analog IRL it is a lot harder LOS! I tweaked my rates, scaled the throttle to 80%, added .some expo for good measure :D and it is pretty sweet for now, as I learn. Love all the JB content! Especially the PDI explanation.

[@RCSurf]

i learned how to fly when you did the original learn to fly series like 8 years ago , good to see you re-doing the series .

[@Kyldrake]

When I started up the sim I went straight into the tutorial and I thought this is impossible, how the hell do people fly these? Then I followed your tutorial up to this lesson for 2-3 hours and now I’m able to keep the drone in the air and make turns. What an incredible feeling. Thanks 🙏🏻

[@andrewhussey2002]

I've been trying to learn for months now. However, I've made progress the last two weeks with two strategies . Fly at least 10 minutes every morning and another 10 every evening. Also, I spend time trying to fly slow and accurate and then some more time flying balls out. It's fun!

[@FoolWithACamera0]

THANK YOU AGAIN for this wonderful series. I am now able to fly around the fence perimeter without crashing every 15.5 seconds. I was almost at the point of giving up.

[@feelfreefpv]

Great! I think you have gotten past the most frustrating part. Now just refine it, making it as smooth as you can. Try to do it at different speeds and close to objects. Try varying between long sweeping turns and a little tighter ones. You will get more and more precise control from now on 👍

[@pad0n]

The most challenging thing in this learning curve.... 😢 Thanks for tutoring this!

[@FredFlintstone-v3m]

I am Mr angle no longer! after a 4 hr binge this morning on the sim I finally took my first acro flight today that didnt end in me bleeding. I now understand how little control you have of the drone in angle mode! Surprisingly I went home today with 2 drones both working, did my first barrel rolls! Turning was very difficult until this video! Thx JB!

[@PowerScissor]

It's wild watching all this war footage from Ukraine and it's my beloved BetaFlight overlay for 90% of the videos I'm seeing. This tutorial might become the future of warfare troops 101 training if the Ukraine / Russian conflict expands like they tend to do.

[@avocado-notem421]

You are one of the most helpful youtubers out there, thank you for putting so much effort into teaching the community it is so appreciated as someone getting into fpv!

[@d0dgethis765]

Hats off to you sir. I've just had that penny drop moment in flying. Started out on a ps4 controller (about 45mins flying) until my boxer arrived. Omg game changer! 10mins after using the boxer and boom. I'm there. Live is good and so much easier. So with you vids I'm less than an hr into flying and my turns are good, altitude control check, and speed and regain control check. Will b carrying on through your series and drop a patron. Ty ty ty for making learning fun and easy 🫶

[@TravellingCarl]

Holy cow, flying a dji drone is a different story, i had no idea. 😮

[@rakzfn]

Wdym?

[@TravellingCarl]

@@rakzfn If you are used to a dji Magic or Air you wont be able to fly a Fpv drone.😅

[@rakzfn]

@@TravellingCarl why not

[@TravellingCarl]

@@rakzfn try it and you will see the differece. But please If you never flew a Fpv drone use a simulator first. 😅

[@baldoyler007]

I've only started my fpv journey. And this playlist will help me for sure 100% Thank you and keep the content coming

[@nullfield1126]

Pure gold of a video! BTW, what happened to "right" and "left" at the beginning of the video? 😅

[@boomfiziks]

My wife has the same issue. 😂

[@Mittens_fpv]

He’s leaned into the turn..or she. She’s leaned into the turn…or they🙄…leaned into the turn. Bardwell! Love you man😂

[@Ist_Geheim]

It's all about gender drones.

[@AtortAerials]

I laughed inside too. :)

[@johnsmithe4656]

So this is basically how any plane or helicopter turns. Bank, rudder into turn, nose up, manage thrust. Any air vehicles for which this would not apply? Besides hot air balloons?

[@timransom5011]

I just ran through a pack just hugging that fence and staying as low as possible. Such a simple exercise, but I feel like it's cleaned up a bunch of slop in my turns.

[@brandon9689]

Love this series! I'm approaching 5 hours so far in the DRL Sim. Once I started watching these videos in conjunction with the sim my comprehension and skill ramped up massively. Thanks so much!

[@NascarFanatc24]

I been trying to learn on and off for months and some of your explanations really helped me understand more along with actually putting time in on sim

[@Kaputznefreble]

Iwas really frustrated at the tutorials on the sims - uncrashed, liftoff, tryp and fpv.skydive. And then, a good soul in Reditt told me to watch this series. I am loving it! god! Why they made all the tutorials on the sims SOOO frustrating?

[@JefeDog]

YES! This is exactly what I've been looking for! I actually found one of your videos from like 8 years ago, and it helped a lot, but this is PERFECT! I'm quite far along in my acro training, and I still find myself sliding through turns. Slightly pitching back as you turn is something that I've never seen explained, and it makes a ton of sense. I usually pitched forward to turn sharper, which can work, but gives you more speed going into a turn, which makes it harder. This explanation makes perfect sense! THANK YOU!

[@brainiceland]

This series is so good!

[@ruffriki3264]

Yup!! Hit the wall!!! Sigh, I’m so tired!!!

[@grelf_fpv364]

Another thing that newbies do is climb when they fly. Maybe a lesson on how to maintain level altitude? Thanks Joshua.😊

[@JoshuaBardwell]

Isn't that what the first 3 lessons are teaching? You should be working in maintaining altitude the whole time.

[@putrid.p]

It's throttle control. Just like when you drive down a straight road you need to be constantly adjusting the car's steering wheel (and you can't just hold the steering wheel fixed in a certain position to drive straight), you also need to be constantly adjusting the throttle to maintain a constant altitude in a quad.

[@raymceachren7975]

Thanks for breaking it down so well , really does help a lot . Much appreciated

[@volodymyrtanpeter]

Thank you man for this great LTF series! 👍

[@devaprasanna402]

Nice one

[@TheRealClutch1010]

I've got a little Cetus X that I can crash pretty regularly, but I overestimate my skill level constantly and move too quickly and even did this in LiftOff. I've now taken an hour to work on my throttle and pitch control. Breaking down the macro movements to fine movements while in the air is tough for a new pilot and the first lessons are deceptively simple. Now that I am working on turning, especially coordinate turns I'm hitting that wall and I've noticed that my fine movements are suffering and I'm reverting to macro moves trying to correct. I end up in a couple of states, gaining too much altitude or pitching too far forward. I'll keep practicing, I really want to get the hang of FPV flight and with your videos I'm starting to see how my clumsy practice before has set me up for failure because I haven't learned those fine motor controls.

[@almeisam]

As I go through the lessons (Thanks!!!!), I've discovered that the InterLink DX Simulator Controller (an optional item the can come with Real Flight) starts having control lag issues after awhile, while the BetaFPV LiteRadio 2 SE never gets lag. This is certainly turnout out to be a more challenging lesson.

[@TheWalter777]

hell yeah , we r doing it!!👍👍

[@ernieschatz3783]

Thanks Josh!

[@abinjohngeorge_07]

Thanks JB, i like to see a video how to takeoff and land a quad safely ?

[@Nanoblaster77]

You always have very good information. Thank you!!!

[@yevhenpopkov9173]

Hi, thanks for your lesson. I'm currently learning to fly FPV in acro. I also bought the book - 'FPV Fly Dynamics' by Christian M. Mollica. (By the way, you are mentioned in that book several times.) About the coordinated turns, he suggests starting to turn from roll, not yaw. (And makes a note that it really matters) Before reading this suggestion, I also trained in turning, starting from yaw. Then, I switched to roll. In my perception, starting from a roll makes the turn more controllable and sharp. When opening a turn from yaw, I struggled with my quad kind of sliding and missing the gates. I still feel insecure starting from the roll because originally, I practiced with yaw. Maybe I just trained a bad habit. However, I still don't have a strong opinion on which first move is better - yaw or roll.

[@JoshuaBardwell]

My opinion is that, in the end you will do roll and yaw at the same time. So which one you do first doesn't matter. But when teaching I prefer to teach yaw first so you can see your target. If you roll first then you've no idea if you're moving the right direction.

[@yevhenpopkov9173]

Yeah, makes sense. Thanks

[@janm.janssen8306]

Bedankt

[@splitSec_fpv]

Thanks for all your content!!! You've earned that Patreon sub! Can't wait for the next flying lesson. I have trouble with overshooting my turns when flying close above the ground. Like on the 'field day' track I make the first couple of gates and then I often kinda drift away from my next turn. Any tips on that in any of your upcoming videos would be fantastic

[@feelfreefpv]

By leaning more into the turn you put more thrust in the direction you had from the beginning. That makes you drift less. Does that make sense?

[@splitSec_fpv]

@@feelfreefpv so more roll basically, and probably a little pitch back

[@christopherm-84]

Very nice break down of the parts of a turn👍🏻 I at least have experience with an RC plane which, as with real planes to, needs coordinated turns as you mention but I know drones are a whole other animal and I'll follow these steps to get a drone turn right👍🏻 About that tree you hit, ask Ken Herron, he'll tell you all about trees😂😂😂

[@putrid.p]

Quads turn a bit like a plane with no rudder because on its own yaw in a quad does nothing to affect the direction of travel. I think about turns differently to this video - using roll to change direction of travel then yaw to point in the new direction of travel.

[@christopherm-84]

@@putrid.p that is another way to look at it.

[@TimJW]

I've been flying around for 6 days and can't land. HELP my arms are getting tired...need next lesson

[@VladVortal]

Thanks

[@bradwhitman4271]

Hey Josh. You should try horizon mode. Makes it so much easier

[@JoshuaBardwell]

Lord no I loathe horizon mode. It's like Angle mode where suddenly it switches unpredictably to Acro mode in the middle of a turn making smooth turning impossible.

[@bradwhitman4271]

@@JoshuaBardwell just set max angle to 180. Flies very intuitively

[@bradwhitman4271]

@@JoshuaBardwell of course I could be wrong but I've not had any problems with horizon mode. Maybe u could do 1 of your deap dives on this.

[@themocaw]

Hey, Joshua, thanks very much for these lessons. Something I've noticed is that as I do my turns, I'm still carrying momentum from the previous vector: so when making a right turn, I'll find myself still drifting to the left as I finish my turn. I often end up overbanking right to get rid of that left drift, then leveling out afterwards. Is this a bad habit to get into?

[@JoshuaBardwell]

Eventually you should be able to lean into the turn so that you finish the turn on the correct vector with no overshoot. Try starting the turn earlier.

[@themocaw]

Gotcha. Thanks for the tips.

[@jvmauricio107]

thanks for this JB. this should be a paid tutorial somewhere lol

[@abinjohngeorge_07]

Waiting for next lesson 😢

[@herbmorin]

Thanks for your videos. I’m having trouble with INAV auto launch on 2 different models. ZOHD DART XL and DIATONE ripper. Auto launch activates when I throw models but it’s not enough power or barely enough to fly. My planes glide to the ground. Something is limiting my throttle. I’m perplexed. I’ve set auto launch idle at 1300 and launch throat 1700. Any advice?

[@BMLLINEAGE]

Which simulator works on ipad pro?

[@gameplayer4817]

Kinda a random question, but it wasn't answered in your video on sims. Do you know of any sims that simulate video well, like making the video look like an actual analog connection, with static and lense distortion. I am really good at flying in sims, but i always crash my real drone. I think it is because im not used to flying through static and the video feed looks different.

[@Halphbaked210]

Left!

[@franciscohompler2773]

whats your name in velocidrone? are you fast?

[@alexcolvard9491]

How are you preventing drift? (I'm using a slightly different setup (Sim: Uncrashed w/ DJI Controller 2)) I can coordinate yaw and roll to make the turn to reposition my drone facing in the new direction, but the momentum from previously moving forward carries me wayyyyyyyyyyy off course (even at slow speeds)

[@JoshuaBardwell]

You need to roll more to "lean" into the turn like riding a motorcycle. And possibly pitch forward.

[@alexcolvard9491]

Been practicing yawing then leaning into turn ->it's making a big difference Thank-you!@@JoshuaBardwell

[@FlaemmchenFlame]

2:45, 3:27 you say turn right when you're actually turning left

[@alancline7138]

So, I noticed you say you are turning to the right but it looks like you are doing a left turn. This is at 4 minutes…

[@stevepage7103]

Have you seen what has happened to Bruce of Xjet. The local council have royally screwed him over. It's great teaching people to fly, but we should all do what we can to look after the hobby as Bruce has tried to do. The poor guy is at the end of his tether. it looks like he might even chuck in his channel. Go and show his some support guys.

[@sur-ronrides]

i seen another bloke explain it, but, roll first then yaw

[@JoshuaBardwell]

You can do it however works for you, but this is how I teach it.

[@sur-ronrides]

@@JoshuaBardwell cheers, keep up the awesome work

[@swomflys3380]

He's finally running out of stuff to talk about

[@MadDragon75]

😂... Never!