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This series of lessons uses the free FPV Freerider simulator to teach a complete beginner how to fly an FPV multirotor in acro (no autoleveling) mode. You can learn to fly a quadcopter at home in front of your computer for almost no money. You can learn to fly without any fear of crashing and breaking an expensive toy. And yes, the things you learn here WILL translate over to real life.
The simplest way to avoid crashing a racing drone is to be high up in the sky, where there is nothing to crash into. Unfortunately, most races are held down near the ground, because it’s harder that way, and people like watching expensive copters crash. If you intend to fly a racing drone, you’ll need to be able to maneuver close to the ground. This lesson is more or less an extension of what you’ve already learned, with an emphasis on altitude control. The closer you are to the ground, the less leeway you have to drift up or down.
Joshua! After watching Le Drib, Rotor Riot and your video’s I bought a radio and jumped into the sim. I thought oh no, what have I done? All I could manage was how to crash. After getting to this point in your tutorials…I am finally able to stay in the air, corner tightly, and make it through race’s! Thank you so much! I have been wanting to fly drones for a while now but have thought oh I could never do that…too complicated. I now find myself instinctively just reacting to the feel of the copter. I’m thinking maybe it’s time for an Armattan Quad! 😀
Stucking at this lesson. Is there any tips for controlling the speed when you turn? I always fly faster and faster, especially when I turn, and difficult to control the turning curve
Thank you josh for this series. I’m just starting out and I can see definite improvement on the sim thanks to your vids.
Just started learning acro. Thanks so much for these tutorials Josh!
Hey Josh, I just started FPV last year. This learn to fly series is really good. Great work, thanks very much.
Awesome, JB! Sorry for commenting an old video, but I want to register it here. I’ve been following your tutorials until I got to the past one. Then I stopped to practice a bit more… And I’ve been trying to stay as low as I could, but I always ended up gain altitude. Also, I’ve been putting more throttle, to get more speed… And it’s being great! Now I’m going to try this one. 😊
BTW, I learned how to do a power loop before I learned to fly, because that was the first tutorial of yours that I saw! 😂
best: 36sec 1lap after this lesson.
I’m back in time woo, how many subs did you have here
I learned to control my attitude during this lesson, lol
0 persons hates FPV lessons!
Just to second for said Thanks for your hard work.
Thanks! It is much help. I bought the paid version and my desert does not have the ridge that you were flying over, nor the track poles.
Great video series, thanks for taking the time to put it together.
big thanks for you brother…. thank you… your knowledge is very usefull for me… big hugs..
having a super hard time staying low. Using turnigy evolution. settings maybe?
Thanks for these videos! You were channelling Bob Ross a bit in this one. 🙂
I’ll be switching from using a PS3 controller in this sim to a Devo so the controller might be my problem but I find when adding throttle my fat thumb ; ) has a tendency to add a slight amount of yaw. Is that normal?
A huge thank you from me too. Unique and inspirational 🙂 I’m finding my ‘instincts’ as a fixed-wing pilot is to pull back to climb, hard to overcome that.