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

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Lessons will be added as they are released!

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00:00:00 - Welcome back to the series!
00:00:31 - Make a custom drone to use going forward
00:02:10 - Fly over the fence
00:04:34 - Introducing coordinated turns
00:05:51 - Exercise: simple turn to follow the fence
00:07:54 - How to balance yaw and roll correctly
00:12:29 - This is where you probably hit a wall

[tomzeltwanger]

This actually came somewhat naturally. I can't believe that a few hours ago, I couldn't fly for 15 seconds. Now I am flying all over the place! Thanks.

[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 .

[PFriz]

I'm 2h of flying in Liftoff and I can now fly around the race track with no crashing!!! I can't believe it, 3-4 days ago I couldn't stay in the air for 10 sec, Thank You for that "Learn to fly..."
This is so fun that I can't even believe what I will feel when I get my first real flight. Still 30+ hours before that in simulator :D

[FredFlintstone-vm]

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!

[andrewhussey]

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!

[baldoyler]

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

[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 <driveletter and top level 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:
<camera>
<id>CameraRotorRiot01</id>
<selectedSkin />
<angle>15</angle>

Save the file, and from now on your camera will always start at the desired angle.

[FoolWithACamera]

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.

[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 🙏🏻

[APEXAerial-]

Thank you so much for these tutorials!!! I love that when you try and mess up, you can’t, LOL😂

[padn]

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

[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.

[avocado-notem]

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!

[Jarah]

Just found this playlist, and loving your content and style. Great honest simple instruction broken down to make things easy. Really enjoying this thanks

[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?

[nullfield]

Pure gold of a video!

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

[timransom]

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.

[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.

[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.

[brandon]

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!