15 Beginner Drone Maneuvers (Sharpen Your Skills)

If you're new to flying drones or are looking to get better, these 15 basic drone maneuvers are perfect to hone your skills and will show you how to fly your drone.

Join Greg in this video for an introduction to practice maneuvers for your GPS-enabled drone such as DJI, Autel, Skydio or Parrot. We’ll cover basic movements, climbing and descending, and work our way up to basic tracking and orbits. We’ll also discuss some basic cinematic drone shots along with your basic maneuvers.

These basic drone maneuvers are perfect for beginners and will make you a much better pilot.

00:00 Introduction
01:07 Straight Flight
02:47 Vertical Box
04:15 Climb & Travel
05:52 Reverse Sensing
08:59 S-Turn
10:43 Rectangular Pattern
13:07 Rounded Corner Rectangular Pattern
16:27 Vertical Triangle
18:15 Follow with Yaw
21:19 Orbit
24:11 Forward Reveal
26:19 Corkscrew
28:22 Zoom Reveal
29:34 Yaw & Reveal
30:29 Tracking

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[afanofdieselengines]

I'm sure you are tired of hearing this this is the best video I have found for a newbie. I flew R/C planes and especially glider for years. 40 years ago! These things are different because they fly sideways. These exercises will give me a good handle on this skill. Thank you for your excellent video!

[miller-joel]

Maneuver #1: Avoid the po-po and the Karens.

[lynsmith]

Great tutorial this is the best I have found on U-Tube. As a new Drone flyer I will use this as a refferance to help me learn to be a better pilot. Thank you.

[DesertAdventuresinArizona]

Very well done video Greg - I’ve had my Mini I for almost a year now and after taking your Part 107 Course passed the FAA Test early this year. I’m gaining experience flying and starting to use 2 stick maneuvers - It really makes better video! Thanks so much. Steve

[RackBaLLZ]

Just bought a Mavic 3 with the fly more package and the DJI RC for my 1st drone ever. A bit nervous about flying it 🤣. It should be here this week, so I've been watching every video I can find. I believe this is one I'll be watching over and over

[francogallo]

Love haw you show this maneuvers not too easy, no to hard but very nice to practice with your drone . Very more technical

[DonBrowne]

As a manned aircraft pilot and 107 drone pilot, it may be pointed out to use a "light" touch on those controls in learning the maneuvers.

[galimirnund]

I start my dji like that. I'm very new to the drone.

[shawnbittner]

Can you tell me what your set up is? Looking at getting into the drone world and have no idea where to start.

[TheKeeperoftheGarden]

How come that so many people were "randomly selected" to get not one but two drones as a prize...?!

[Loverboy_Bernice]

With this detailed training i can secure a drone certificate with an ace! Thank you Sir. God bless you.

[carolinesmith]

Wow, I was looking for an instructional video of different things to practice and this is absolutely incredible, you guys nailed it! Thank you so much for everything you do

[boatdetective]

Greg is so unbelievably patient. I imagine that he is a master at dealing with five year olds!

[kaweeka]

This is just amazingly well produced and presented. Thank you for this introduction.

[ClydeasterzVlogz]

Very good teacher, a very good pilot in drone indeed, i can really sense even the smallest details of things, he even explains it very well heheh

[garritj]

30 minutes of good stuff. These are good reminders of what the drone can do. I learned these maneuvers before the quick shots. Great information here!

[driewiel]

*TO ALL BEGINNERS*
Learn to fly inside the house with a $20 toy mini drone with all around propeller guards, and without GPS, optical flow, or even altitude hold. Learn throttle! Then try outside.
That is how you learn to fly. Sooner or later you will need those skills if GPS does not work. Any video telling you a DJI Mavic is great for beginners is just ridiculous. You don't learn how to drive in a self driving Tesla either.

I'm fine with the rest of this video. Forward, backward, land etc.

[oceannomads]

If youve noticed in the park, the christian one-by-one has become insane.. One very good example is Victor screaming non stop, the indian lady almost becoming victor screaming carrying a board and, the other one is the black guy (the hackler) has no manners interrupted the the 3 gentlemen having a good serious conversation..

[donniemeyers]

This is the best learning video that I have ever watched. Thank You!!!

[benjimw]

Thanks a lot for the great demonstration!

I'd like to add two suggestions. To make the s-turns more challenging, try performing them over a fence line or something similar, making sure to cross it perfectly perpendicular. Second, for the orbit, you might need to adjust your control inputs based on the wind's direction and speed because the wind adjusts how fast the drone is moving over the ground. Here in southwest Texas and in other flat, somewhat treeless states, winds of up to 20 mph with gusts up to 25-30 mph are common, making such adjustments even more important, especially on the lighter drones like DJI's Mini series. Every time I practice orbits, I remember how my flight instructor for manned aircraft always emphasized these two aspects in our lessons as I was preparing for my private pilot license.