Tips and Techniques for Flying Smoother

Yaw Tricks Video: goo.gl/TDccuG
I just realized that I presented the last move incorrectly. You actually have to move the roll stick to the opposite side first and then follow with the yaw stick sorry about that. I will have an update video later about this.

[@PenPeng]

Almost 4 years later, this video is still extremely helpful :D

[@bugsy742]

Still now brother ✊😃👍😎

[@olafschermann1592]

A great tutorial to come back twice a year. And every time i can take one more hint with me. Even when watched a couple of times there is still something left to learn. Thank you!

[@Frogzy]

Please do more videos and tutorials like this on how to get more smooth flight and also very nice that you showing the Stick movements on a Footage of a flight, like compare between one way of flying and the second way of flying.

[@jrgen7144]

Wow, this actually made it a lot easier to fly. Improved my lap time from 50:26 to 34:58

[@elliotfpv2645]

Love this, no intro or anything just straight into the video!

[@Kabab]

Elliot_fpv since the beginning my concept was not to bullshit around and waste time. not all of my videos stick to this because it takes more effort to cut out the crap but I still try. I wish TV shows didn't have intros either. especially game of thrones like 5min intro. show me more dragons for 5min plz.

[@elliotfpv2645]

Kabab FPV lol I've never watched game of thrones

[@asskicker6557]

Ya,thats like my best show man,,but I know what you mean.

[@DumbThumbsFPV]

That is EXACTLY why we love the DVR! GOT's intro was cool 7 years ago.. haven't seen it since..

[@Kabab]

DumbThumbsFPV GOT latest season was actually really surprisingly good. the first two seasons were good and this latest one. the others was just a whole lotta talking and a dozen story lines that ended up going nowhere. now it's interesting.

[@drukinsify]

the last part about the yaw transition was the answer to the biggest mystery in my fpv experience! thanks man! cant wait to try these out!

[@Einstine1984]

That last part, this is so simple and basic and yet it had such an immediate effect on the way I fly Thanks!

[@The1stJesusMachine]

This video is honestly one of the best freestyle tutorials ive seen. I've been flying for a few months and can split-s, power loop, and hit gaps etc., but I have never had that "flow" feel. Thank you so much for this. I have not heard or seen any of these tips explained this way and I can't wait to fly tomorrow and incorporate everything!!!!

[@Kabab]

There's a new video that blows the doors off all smooth flying coming up soon

[@The1stJesusMachine]

@@Kabab Awesome can't wait! Just discovered your channel and now subbed!

[@mrgarlock4626]

Don't forget to loosen up your springs. It might be a big transition for people coming from the stiff factory setting but you will get used to it quickly and you won't feel those notches when you transition the sticks.

[@flighttherapybullisticfpv133]

Years later this is still one of your most valuable videos :)

[@seewell8168]

I know this is an old video but I watched it last week and it's already improved the fluidity of my flying. Big thanks!

[@icerook1560]

Just ONE issue, time. I noticed a lot of pros are single, no family. Awesome video as usual

[@Kabab]

IceRook I'm hardly pro. I just fly for fun. a new pilot can easily surpass me in skill after just 6mo maybe. but I guess yeah, single. sort of?

[@0ADVISOR0]

I've got two kids and a wife =D. some day my kids will fly with me, until then they stick to the ground =)

[@andrewzaborowski9685]

Well that's because they don't FLOSS

[@IVKeboVI]

Andrew Zaborowski fuck off

[@GregQuillen]

Great I got a girl ill never be good.. just started yesterday.. lol

[@JJFPV]

Great tips Bob, you should do more of these. I don't always agree with your opinions but one thing I've never doubted is your amazing piloting skills. Thanks for taking the time to help us progress.

[@raptorfpv9519]

Oh my gosh!!!! Finally someone taught how to skate!!! Was looking for videos about this forever! Thankyou!

[@ManojRajakarunas2]

Very useful basic tips for a smooth ride. Thanks

[@BASHERSUNITED]

Cool tips! The relax part is key. Alot of my friends who just started flying comment on my ability to not freak out. Not that I'm a great pilot by any stretch but relaxing and thinking ahead of the quad help me a great bit.

[@Kabab]

BASHERS UNITED yeah. leaning to just roll with it is probably the hardest part. what happens happens. deal with it. it's how I do all my dives into treetops. I can't see what's under at all...

[@Hennet97]

It's my second day with a simulator and some of the things said in this video I got them on my own by just trial and error, I'm still far from having full trajectory control but there are some things I noticed that I have to work on and focus on and they're not easy to learn: 1) gravity is SLOW; messing up with the throttle will really piss you off, you're doing a turn and compensating for the higher pitch because you're learning to tighten the curve and then be right off to skating again, and there you go not lowering the throttle soon enough and shooting up in the air as soon as you adjust your pitch, and it'll feel like forever when you're falling, you can take the chance and practice diving, but it still it feels awful when you're trying to fly level to the ground and you mess up; 2) losing control during turns; you might want to gradually tighten the turn but you either yaw too little or too much, from what I understand yaw never changes the direction of your movement, it just change the way you're pointing and thus your point of reference for the turn, so I turn with roll and pich(like with a plane) and correct with you, point is when you tighten a curve if you yaw too little you roll into the curve and you start moving somewhere you're not looking and have to balance that, or when you yaw too much you roll out of the curve, and that's even worse; 3)sometimes you just can't get the trajectory you want; small corrections are really hard to make, yeah you can get spin around a pole like you want, or pass through a gate, but I'm always risking collision and never doing it fully convinced, I don't crash as much as I think I'm going to but in order to focus on my trajectory I have to turn off my "DON'T CRASH" flying mode in my head, if that makes sense, and it just feels awful to have to feel like you're flying risky when you're making corrections to pass through a gate, and again relating to the first point, falling is so slow, if you punch the throttle too much you can forget about passing through, you'll just pass over it; 4)stop and reverse is really hard; there's this point in the track I'm practicing where I have to pass through a high gate and then fall and turn back and pass under it, whenever I try to reverse I found myself going in the wrong direction and it's pretty much impossible to correct since the second point to pass through is so close, out of the little four hours I got, I managed to try it about 50 times and only got it right 2 out of luck. ***)DON'T USE CAMERA ANGLE COMPENSATION, I don't even know if you could program it into your flight controller but even if you could you shouldn't, I tried it once, it made things "easier" but I feel more in control without it, for the simple reason that if I yaw I don't change direction, at first it might feel practical to do trajectory correction with pure yaw but doing turns feels just wrong.

[@Kabab]

Simulators all feel weird to me. Keep it up. You'll definitely get it.

[@ElektrykFPV]

The yaw first for turning... New info! I have been using the opposite direction yaw/roll for horizon level rolls only. Now I have something to practice for a few hours 😁🤘🏽🙏🏽. Thanks for the vids, Kabab!

[@MichaelRollins]

Thank you. As I'm sitting here having just finished a "Can you analyze FLOW" video, you do it. Appreciated.

[@ChrisQuadFPV]

I love beater's 😂 I still use my QX7 on my high dollar quads 😎in 2022 😎

[@buffalojones341]

There is brain science that shows that *small* changes are conducive to learning. I think this challenges your advice to stick with the same quad/rates/everything. I am sure, however, that your advice stands if you mean to advise against drastic changes, or if someone is a day-1-beginner. My guess is that "small changes" might mean something like keeping the same rates on three quads and flying them all. If you think about it, we *do* fly "different quads" from the beginning of the battery to the end since we fly with 20% less voltage. Keep up the good work Bab! I always look forward to you, Bardwell, and UAVFutures stuff :)

[@Kabab]

Matt Jones yeah you can't really keep it always the same. depending on the weather the gyro responds differently too. I really just mean don't go changing your rates and building a new quad too quickly.

[@JoshKetchum]

Thanks for the info Bob, adding it to my list of practices!

[@schumata3356]

This is a great video. You offered a much different perspective than I have seen previously.

[@brettalexander.studio]

Thank you! Wish I would have watched this an hr ago b4 I crashed my cinewhoop 😂thanks for the valuable info mate! Subbed

[@schmicksfpv5999]

Really nice video, thank you for sharing. Those tips seem to make a lot of sense!

[@duranopaulo]

Thank you Brother. In my turn I normally press Yaw and side movements in sequence. Now I am trying to head your advice to do Yaw first and follow within second to side move and it looks smooth in the video.

[@Kabab]

Please read the video description

[@duranopaulo]

Thanks I have to do the opposite, roll first & yaw next. Practice, practice, practice.

[@tq64to4]

I would like to add a little tip I've been thinking about if you don't mind. We all know it take tons of practice. I believe that confidence in yourself and commitment to every move of the stick will result in smooth flying. Commitment manly..

[@Kabab]

Tommy Quarles I've wanted to make a video on that but it's kinda fluffy. you gotta commit to the flight. be comfortable with what can and will happen. roll with it. you are moving always. manage it.

[@ADAMKINGTV]

very helpful bro, straight to the point too, and split vid examples made it very easy to follow you; good job!!

[@lecodsportif]

I can not thank you enough dude for how much this has helped my flying (well the videos anyway, i always like just ripping around!) Great video :)

[@stevensbox9625]

Thanks for those tips. I feel I can get out of the rut I've been in. Felling like I'm not improving. Going to try all your tips. Keep up the great work.

[@piloterror]

This explains so much...or at least part of why, my flying sucks so much. Thanks. We'll see if it helps.

[@madpoet]

Sorry I am late comer to this thread. Love your vlog sytle. I found this video very useful. I practice quite often and can see my self going through the stages you discribe. Good for reenforcing good habits. Thanks Dude!

[@menardliamzon187]

Oh my, i have been doing it all wrong for a long time. Thanks for this video. It really made a big difference on my flight. Subbed....

[@StephenPeot]

Loved this! Great tips. Definitely going to incorporate this into my next practice session. Thanks for making this video!

[@YourLocalIceMan]

I think the first one is solid advise. I am progressing through quads as I am learning fpv. I notice its hard to jump from quad to quad. As well as from a 3s to a 4s, back and forth etc. I was telling myself a few days ago I need to stick with one quad and battery type and master that.

[@darthwoopv573]

nice video, I dig it man👍 helpful tips, and I enjoy your humbleness, the world needs more of it:) keep on rippin!!

[@berberdodo]

i love that you talk about this stuff!..very helpful and inspiring!..if you have seen quadmover a guy on youtube and fly's a impulseRC warp quad!...that kind of style should be explained! because what he does is from another planet and johnnyFPV if thats who your referring to at the begging of the video ..i think thats called "juicy"...i dont know but he is very smooth!..but my point is if you can make a video on the warp quad and that flying style would be magnificent!!..by the way you fly very smooth and tasteful not to flippy and jerky! ...the video on the blade torrent is one of my favorites!..how in the hell do you fly around the palm tree with the camera facing up!!..looks so cool and difficult??

[@LakayFPV]

I ordered mine online..thanks for this sir!

[@cfcgilbertoparaiso6708]

I've just found your channel and I'm already in love! THaaaaaanks man! hope to watch all your vids as soon as I can! (sorry, this is my company channel).. Greeting from Brazil

[@MatthewTaylor3]

I'll try these steps this weekend

[@jwlee9791]

Love this!! I see your hands a lot in your videos!! :) thank you!! I wanna go practice now!

[@UnlimitedVertical]

Nice tips, I'll have to try some of these. The first one will be tough for me though as I go back and forth from simulator to quad. Unfortunately I don't get much time for "real" flying during a typical week, so I'm still using the simulator for practice. I definitely notice what you're talking about though, typically it takes half a flight or so to adjust to the difference in feel.

[@Kabab]

UnlimitedVertical yeah but the sim is still useful

[@UnlimitedVertical]

Absolutely. I don't see myself stopping sim practice any time soon. My old reflexes simply need the sim time in order to improve.

[@DawnHub666]

Adjust the simulators settings to fly like your main quad.

[@UnlimitedVertical]

That makes sense, doesn't it :-)

[@Thedrifter1]

Some good tips bud, thanks. Just started on simulator and jsss.

[@skyjunkie389]

You said you have really low rates, whats your degrees of rotation? Thanks, and great video!!

[@Kabab]

I don't remember but I think they're around 800dps

[@thrust-fpv4136]

Fantastic information .. Great job

[@TeeSCee]

Thanks for the yaw-roll-delay TIP. I hadn't thought of it yet. Hey can you give your thoughts on the racerstar 5048x3 prop.

[@Kabab]

TeeSCee I dunno which that is but I'm sure it's fine as a typical prop to use. not my preferred choice of prop maker.

[@TeeSCee]

www.banggood.com/10-Pairs-Racerstar-V2-5048-5x4_8x3-3-Blade-Racing-Propeller-5_0mm-Mounting-Hole-for-FPV-Racer-p-1153885.html That's the prop I meen. I think this and the 5051 racekraft clone are the only good props they have made. I think having CHEAP props makes you fly better, since props are what you break most often. When your not worried about breaking your props, you dare try going faster, doing new tricks, hitting smaller gaps and so on.

[@CoppertopFPV]

TeeSCee I use the 5048 v1 racerstar, I know several other people who do. £3.50 for 20 pairs and they're well balanced and fly well. Certainly not the best in the world, but more than good enough to practice with, and so cheap I'm not tempted to try and bend them back 20 times.

[@doktordrone]

thank you very much and have a great weekend ❤️👍🙏🍺🍺

[@fpvkagge]

Hi. How are u doing the thing from left to right? U turn left and in a second the movement stops and u turn right..like skating. Looks so nice.

[@HiTechDiver]

Good tips. I think I'll still start with a simulator; the cost of a simulator would probably be spent in broken parts anyway.

[@Zachsnotboard]

Did you trim down your switches? Also any recommendations on keeping gopro footage smooth as possible ? I am using a session with a 3d printed mount, informational video as always

[@Kabab]

MF-BOOM don't fly in super bright sun. little darker scene will force the shutter to stay open longer and that avoids jello. set the iso limit to 400 on pro tune. and yeah I cut down my switches because why are they so long?!

[@Zachsnotboard]

awesome info man thanks ! and yeah I did some traveling with mine this weekend and was afraid of breaking them off

[@ChristopherPunton]

Please make a video on this!! Like the perfect gopro settings

[@crossfirefpv414]

Thanks bob..i want to know one thing.how do you capture your videos..are you using your phone to capture it?..which phone is that..?

[@Kabab]

CROSSFIRE FPV yeah. it's just a one plus. not the most recent one. like the one plus 3

[@crossfirefpv414]

Kabab FPV ooh..the video looks good..

[@Dzeroun]

Sooo i should stick with my phantom 2?

[@MactacFPV]

Fantastic video. What rates do you use?

[@Kabab]

will be pasted in the video going up tomorrow. Been experimenting with the rates again.

[@juliejones8785]

Yaw first for smooth camera makes a lot of sense, especially for those great freestyle videos. I am curious about the effect it has on speed through the corners. Is it faster when racing to yaw and roll at the same time? My instinct says that when going very fast that almost no yaw is needed to corner, but this would assume that camera angle matches pitch in a racing situation.

[@Kabab]

Yeah with light powerful quads, they're flying at almost 90deg so minimal yaw is needed.

[@effoffutube]

What a great tree.

[@thomasdevos8525]

What about your stick spring tension. Is it stock setting or have you put it smoother?

[@Kabab]

Thomas De Vos mine is all stock. I just remove the ratchet from throttle. but I didn't loosen the friction which I've been meaning to do for like 6mo now. so lazy...

[@ritviknesargi7958]

Which pilot were you referring to at the start of your video?

[@Kabab]

Ritvik Nesargi juicy j

[@Hellmuthsilva]

Very cool video, i been flying for some time but not fpv, just getting into now. I got a cyclops box and trying to find out what would be best way to get started as far as drone and if i should get a fpv googles fatsharkt hd3 or aomway v2 and which drone i saw your pretty good on your reviews. What would you recommend? Thanks

[@Kabab]

Don't get Aomway V2. The V1 is good but V2 is definitely not. Dom V3 or Dom HD0 are the only goggles I recommend at the moment.

[@Hellmuthsilva]

Kabab FPV thanks for the reply do you think D aomway v1 is better than the dom v3?

[@grizzlybirdfpv8549]

I literally do all the wrong things! Thanks for this!!

[@joshuamontgomery0]

As a future dentist I really hope the floss comment is because you're a dentist

[@Funcentric]

Thank you for this video. Who the @$&% is putting thumbs down on videos like this? Ugh.

[@-sickfast434]

@Kababfpv hey man did you dye the qx7 or paint it? i am about to hydro did mine

[@Kabab]

Green is oddly an option 😂. The plastic is actually green. Like even if it scratches

[@MaxBeamer]

The camera center roll can easily be configured in beta flight.. Much more precise

[@Kabab]

That's kinda cheating and it screws with a bunch of other moves. Better to just develop the skill.

[@MaxBeamer]

you got a point

[@dimyata]

Great video! You push me to the next level :)

[@MArgusChopinGyver]

Okay I will try not to move the stick to the center and always skating on my next flight. Thank you for the information 😁👍

[@rasalghul1904]

Nice man, Well explained for beginners like me

[@AchimStein-SEO]

That helped me a lot! Thank you!

[@treehunterfpv9352]

Nice one. Gonna practice this. Thanks😁👍

[@--JohnDoe]

Great tips, thank you.

[@gigiboxa]

9:00 i`ts like you are trying to hold the center of turn in the center of the camera fov if you er doing it the other way the picture looks like arching in between turns

[@BMSThomas]

Ooooooo tip 3 is oddly satisfying :) (well maybe not oddly but it is satisfying lol)

[@PaulPearce78]

Haha!! Love the video and the dental advice at the end!

[@HuynhS0n]

Love your content. keep it up.

[@Zeisslermusic]

Nice tips

[@Lcanino]

Helpful! Thanks

[@fr3style]

BEST TUTORIAL EVER!!!

[@loopyjean4714]

what remote is that

[@Kabab]

QX7 in Green but there are better options today like the Radiomaster Tx16S ( I may have gotten the letters and numbers wrong but there's only one)

[@Stanton_High]

you dont got the m7 gimbals yet? dude! i was shocked at the difference. try em, youll make a video on it im sure.

[@Kabab]

Stanton High one day I'll get them.

[@Stanton_High]

Kabab FPV if you are gonna make a video on flying smooth, those gimbals should be on the list.

[@Kabab]

Stanton High I haven't even taken the friction off my throttle. there is no specific hardware required to be smooth. some things do help however.

[@Robson89almeida]

I fly a phantom 3 and I barely can control it. I wish I could control it completely.

[@Kabab]

FPV is for you

[@Robson89almeida]

@@Kabab thank you for the tip.

[@MrTimmyGT]

Cool vid, thanks for the tips

[@bombetdavid]

Thank you 😊 for this

[@SkyCandyVisuals]

im a newb and don't know who johnny is, can somebody link his page so I can watch his flying videos? because I love watching kababfpv fly but if he likes watching johnny then I can't even imagine his skill level lol. where is he??? whats the last name? sheir, cheir idk

[@Kabab]

Google johnnyfpv. He's the most well known pilot by far. By faarrrrrrrrrrr.

[@SkyCandyVisuals]

@@Kabab thanks! Yea i went all the way back to his first video and then compared it to his last. Mind blown. He has came a long way. I am currently on a mob7 modded 3d printed 2.5" learning the basics but i feel like im ready to move up to a 5" and fly 4s or 6s what build kit would u recommend?

[@Kabab]

@@SkyCandyVisuals just watch some of my more recent videos. Lots of stuff in the descriptions

[@jerryolivarez1055]

Love the funny thing u put

[@witgangyounotube287]

wow, as a beginner i really don't know what to learn anymore...when i started training in velocidrone i had set my camera angle mix at 30 thinking that was the actual camera angle , then i've found the actual setting where to change the quad camera angle but forgot about the camera mix angle and i've trained for about 8 h flying a drone with airplane like controls. then i get myself into a multiplayer room and watch some pro's flying and look at they'r stick movements and i'm like WTF!!! how can you turn that tight and fast with no yaw input and someone explains to me about the high camera angle and how the sticks change roles after 45 degree's , so i go back and change my camera angle to 45 and train for another 10 h trying to fly that , which is now effectively 15 degree's camera angle and still frustrated as to why i can't turn that tight and my yaw and rol are now so bad.. then i got lucky and found a vidoe of Joshua Bardwell explaining the camera mix angle setting for Betaflight and i've realized that i might have set that wrong in velocidrone . so basically i had to start learning to fly a drone as a drone from scratch again and now i had to undo the skills i picked up in the first 18 h or so and now to get to this video and learn that there are great drone pilots that try to fly a drone like a plane :)) so my take from this is , if you want to do racing you learn the no "camera mix angle" but for free style i think is better to try and switch slowly into 45 cam angle and 45 cam mix angle and have it fly like a plane ,the tight turns would be much harder to do now since you gotta use both sticks , but the wide slow turns will be a breeze

[@Kabab]

Just keep practicing.

[@theh9930]

I assembled my dron tyro99 bind and setap my Flysky -i6s and reciver FS-iA6B but the dron dont reactt to remote control, only beeping 2 times motors move slowly and then red led at controler flashing еvenly and permanetly thats all, motors dont start, I am absolutly beginner. I upload video on my chanel The H.

[@Kabab]

I'm sorry for the poor experience so far. :-(. Join one of the many many FB groups and ask questions nicely with your video. I'm certain you'll get tons of help very very quickly.

[@DiviPhotos]

Cool video

[@MushypeasDMc]

Thanks man

[@MarcHord-mk5ff]

you need to market kabab floss.

[@chillbrink]

thanks!

[@thatnerddaniel]

How in the HELL did you get a green QX7?!

[@Kabab]

It's like a troll controller 😂

[@thatnerddaniel]

Mannnnn I'm like checking the entire span of the world wide web looking for a green shell lmfao I'd kill to throw my transmitter in such a sexy shell

[@Kabab]

@@thatnerddaniel 🙈

[@cezargheorghiu2606]

5 years later I use the same controller =))

[@Kabab]

There's only one controller that's better and it JUST came out. The radio master Boxer. It's not even good out of the box. You need to do a little mod on the gimbals to get the gimbals to be actually full size. All these radios that came after the X9D and X7 claim full size gimbals but not a single one is. It's extremely important to ease of control to have actual full size gimbals and I'm so confused why they keep making small ones. The Boxer with the small mod is definitely better than the X9D and X7 today. I'd highly advise it. I'm gonna be making a video about it in the somewhat near future. Specifically about the mods and importance of full range gimbals.

[@JeffriRanger]

nice tips now I know where is my fault

[@jeremiahgrover7672]

_don't forget to calibrate your sticks_

[@Friskee62]

Just subbed...

[@thehanley2]

Fugg. Gud tips mang

[@TheSmurfPenis69]

You always floss between batteries son Much thanks for all those tips

[@retardedguy9847]

I Love the tutorial

[@MojoPapiFPV]

Amen. Buying a new guitar every other week isn't going to make you better player.

[@AirSoftGod001]

Wrong, thats how i got better. Never got bored of a guitar

[@beefge]

Maybe, but it worth a try.

[@mil-fpv4931]

Changing girlfriend doesn't make you better at sex.

[@roadapple441]

yes it does

[@SvPVids]

we overseas are pretty much bound to aliexpress and bangood because of their reasonable shipping prices. Can you please make a video on the quad you would make if you had only these two sites available.

[@Kabab]

Jean Quad VanDamme the motor video coming on Thursday

[@stevstomatoe6456]

look up "uavfutures 99" and you'll find Stew's 99 dollar banggood quadcopter. be sure to take the upgrades in the description, it will make a difference.

[@inkwadnito966]

These were some great tips that I haven’t seen anywhere else. Looking forward to testing them out soon to hopefully smooth out my flying.

[@SkyCandyVisuals]

Your name though lol awesome

[@jasoncross6151]

I've just informed my dentist I'm moving over to your practice, healthy teeth and good quadcopter advice....perfect 😁