A few months ago I have been really into drone flying and I rocked my DJI Mavic 2 Pro a lot. But since the freaking rules on where you can fly got more restricted and I was not able to fly it anywhere near here I decided to quit the hobby and sold my drone.
2 Weeks ago I binge watched videos of a freestyle drone guy named botgrinder on youtube and I almost instantly changed my mind. Quadcopters are just too much fun and I will not restrict myself just because some people in suits think I should do so!
So I've researched a bit and I ordered an Eachine Novice 3 v2 from bangood and since they got a storage in the Czech Republic the drone got delivered very quickly to my place. After 5 days I was technically able to fly but the weather crossed my plans for almost 7 days in a row with rain and wind. In April we have very wierd weather from snow to rain to sunshine and all that. Yesterday I finally was able to fly it in person on a huge field and it was a blast!
The flying mode I wanna learn is named acro aka rate mode and this is extremely different to the horizon leveling mode on the dji mavic series. Every stick movement counts and is not automatically balanced out by moving the stick back to center.
I need to learn acro because it is needed for doing loops, rolls and other cool tricks you can't do with cinematic drones.
The quad is a very powerful toothpick racing quad and I had to turn down a lot of things in Betaflight. It was just too much power for me as a bloddy beginner. I changed rates to around 600 degrees/s and the throttle to 50%. Of course I will experiment more with it when I am comfortable enough to do some basics.
Thanks for watching my first video of a new series where I document my progress with this little quad. My goal is to land at least 1 powerloop by the end of this year. I think this is 100% achievable!
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