FPV Newbie / DJI Controller / Sim unknowns!

Racing Quads, Self-builds & FPV
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Hi. I am drone newbie who bought a NEO and loved the new expereince.

I have since bought an Avata 2 , Googles 3 , Motion Controller 3 and FPV Controller 3 .

At the moment I just want to play with manual FPV on a Simulator

I have started working through Joshua Bardwell’s lessons which are great.

I am using Liftoff and I have configured the FPV controller as he said. I had to “invert” the sticks as they were working in the wrong direction and I had to add “Deadband” as the drone was drifting. Everything seemed to be working fine

So I thought all was good following the lessons for throttle, pitch , roll and yaw…until I got to Lesson 4 for Turns

I dont know whether the problem is me , the simulator or the DJI Controller with the Simulator.

I roll into a turn then add yaw (as the video suggests) but the drone pitch down increases massively so I need to correct it to put it into a more moderate slightly nose down pitch.

Is that what should happen ?

Any ideas ?

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Firstly welcome to the mad house :crazy_face:
My advice in liftoff is to go in the control setting in the workbench i think it is and change the rates and expo setting to the numbers that are on your avata in the googles
you can make profiles for the rates expo etc and save them

There are also copys of the avata in the liftoff community workshop you just click to subscribe the drone or course you want
hope this helps

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Thanks :grinning::+1:

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I believe a lot of us use Liftoff mainly or Velocidrone.

Also we do organise virtual meetups to fly sims some times so keep your eye out here:

Simulator Rip (Lift off, Velocidrone) Evenings 9/9:30pm

feel free to post a reply and bump the thread as it’s been a little while since we did a virtual meet :+1:t2:

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Thanks. Early days :slight_smile:. I will keep an eye on it :grinning:

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So after much practice and re-watching JB’s video …it’a my own Cack-handedness causing over-piching. Nothing wrong with the controller or Liftoff !

I’ll ask Santa for some finesse this year :wink:

Not sure if I will ever be capable enough to attempt manual in real life. Maybe too long in the tooth to be trying this :thinking:

Thank for the tips and advice

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It’s normal to have to correct with pitch up slightly in a turn. It might help to visualise it physically by holding your drone/laying your hand out flat. Hold it still in a pitched forward position, add roll to one side, then add the yaw change. You should see that the nose is now pointing lower than how you started.

With practice this just becomes muscle memory. :grinning:

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Thanks, yes that penny gradually dropped!

As soon as I grasped there was nothing wrong wirh the Simulator / Controller and it was just down to me I could happily practice.

It’s slowly getting better

Hats off to anyone who learned to fly without a simulator :rofl:

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I’m doing the same course he expands on what he introduced in part 4 in the next video. He also later on gives some tips on making less wild stick movments.

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Hi Ian, welcome from the Black Country mate.

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Cheers :+1:

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Yup I watched 5 …:.where it then made more sense :joy: