Title says it all…
I found a great routine (to practice) of manually circling and fixed point but I really want to learn how to fly a relatively straight chosen path and yaw at the same time… I can do it automatically with RTH… but it is restricted to a certain path the base… and I don’t know how the RC/app does it… LOL
any pointers/YT?
Thanks
Have tried this and not got it right yet.
I don’t see how anyone can pull this off to perfection without a VLOS spotter so you can concentrate on the imaging, composition, and framing while you yaw the aircraft. It’s basically the opposite of panning, something else I’ve never really mastered…
Might be worth trying flying to a heading in a straight line on Maven and looking back & forth between the drone and the screen.
thanks everyone… didn’t think it was going to be easy … LOL
agree… same with circling… the drone video is not looking the same direction as the drone is moving…
However even with quick shots you need to know where the path is going to be beforehand to avoid obstacles.,
I am inspired by dronery from films and tv, which is of course shot by professional pilot who have all sorts of advanced gear to help them; they are, by and large, going to do better than us. This is not a reason to give up trying and doing the best we can for our own satisfaction.
I am by no means a natural at this flying business, and am still struggling with the difference between right and left when the drone is flying on any other heading other than away from me. It’s like rubbing your stomach and patting your head at the same time; I can do it, but it takes extreme concentration and falls apart at the least distraction.
The answer is obvious, same method as getting to the Albert Hall; practice practice practice. This is A Good Thing because it is a reason to go flying beyond taking photos or videos, just go up the park and do some moves. Hopefully they will eventually become ‘muscle memory’, which will improve your flying skill level and lead to better photos & videos, and be more fun as well! And frequent flying will enable you to be more aware of your drone’s condition and what jobs need doing, almost by default.
Though it’s hard to practice meaningfully in weather like this!
I think you read my mind…
I saw one video that remarked about muscle memory.
There’s no short cut. It’s nice to see people free hand and do what they want. I really like the photos and videos i got from the last one… Mini 2. Regretted selling it but the 4K was a bargain to buy again.
As you say the weather is not great… Understatement. I got some prop guards coming and may try it, to get the memory working, indoors.
No that’s not true,
I was at the RHS Garden Bridgewater a few months ago and they were filming an episode for BBC Blue Peter using a DJI Mini 3 pro
Yeah, but they’d probably set the shots up with waypoint apps and were flying certified BVLOS. We can’t do that in the same way.
Indoors with the prop guard is better than nothing, but you really need to practice flying when the drone is far enough away from you to make seeing which way it is pointing difficult. If you can afford the sort of castle where this could be done indoors, you can afford someone to fly the drone for you…
FFS no they weren’t, do you make up this in your head, I was there watching and talking to them
OK, point made.
Can I have some of whatever it is you smoke please John 
What’s the fascination with bvlos ?
Take off closer to what you want to shoot.
With landscape and scenery it’s all about the edit.
BVLOS, if it was available to me, would greatly extend the availability of shooting positions. If you think of the drone as a flying tripod with about a 4-mile range and 400’ elevation, well beyond the limits of VLOS and IMHO perfectly safe with common sense and the live screen and map provided, it would mean that it would be quite practicable for me to shoot video within that range from my patio. I’d need to be fairly high to ensure good control signal connectivity and clear obstacles, but it would be perfectly practicable and safe.
It would be even safer with all-round obstacle detection, which is a feature I believe will be standard on even entry-level consumer drones within a few years, by which time the rules will have changed, probably to allow BVLOS at a minimum height, probably 200’. Good practice will be to rotate the drone frequently to visually check for other users in the airspace with the camera.
I agree that a lot can be achieved with editing in landscape & scenery, and digital zoom will bring things in apparently closer, but you can’t always get close enough to shoot what you want within VLOS. Especially if you don’t have a car, something I really can’t afford and have to manage without; suppose I want to shoot something 4 miles away from a bus route and the other side of a river?
There are indubitably drone pilots who are unconcerned with the rules and fly BVLOS illegally, and it is likely that a good number of them do so without causing any particular issues so long as they don’t buzz other aircraft or make nuiscances of themselves. They mostly get away with it, as the use of drones to deliver drugs inside prisons shows; I’m not aware of anyone being caught and punished for this in my local area, where there are certainly drones flying drugs over the wall BVLOS, perhaps from a couple of miles away, I’ve seen 'em. As pilots who act illegally are unlikely to draw attention to themselves, it is difficult to assess how many of them there might be, and I would not wish to encourage such activity until it becomes legal (as I think it will), nor do I do this myself.
But I want to; I’d love to be able to fly BVLOS. Up over mountains I’m too old and feeble now to climb because my knees pack up coming back down, round headlands, out to sea to film ships, all sorts.
Your largely missing the point
VLOS is so you can see what’s going on around the drone , not what the drone sees via a very limited screen view.
Imagine you had known exactly where your drone was before the seagulls allegedly took it, you may have seen them and been able to take avoiding action, difficult if you canny see the thing
Set up your drone expo and braking sensitivity and speeds - that’s step 1 for controlled, smooth flying…and ‘visually’ try to get ahead of the image you’re seeing on the controller as you’ll adjust yaw as soon as you see any drift…and avoid it becoming obvious on playback. Practice is king!
Think I opened up a can of worms here… 
I will practice… just for the fun of it - for sure… However I have used RTH to very good effect so far and it is a predictable path back.
If i could practice moving the Home point too all the better. I have learned to scout properly for obstacles and height usually on the out run.
… you never saw the seagulls coming when flying VLOS - with BVLOS you got no fekkin chance 
… ain’t going to stop you flying into cables - you won’t see them within VLOS let alone BVLOS. It also won’t stop you being taken out by seagulls 
… whooaa Tiger - you need to learn to fly VLOS first - you’ve just said you need to develop muscle memory to get the drone to turn the right way when its flying towards you. Your pension ain’t going to survive if you start flying BVLOS - you’re on drone #6 already
… nah that’s TheJohnster’s job 