Thank you SO very much for your response. Can you please recommend a good cheap drone that will take a beating and one i can learn good habits that will translate to the larger, more expensive drone. Also thinking that I don’t want a toy, but something with realistic controls and handling that will show me how it supposed to fly.
PS Just got my Mobula 7HD and followed the steps to configure the BetaFlight.
Thank you so much in advance.
Jake
I have a Mobula 6, which flys better than the other cheap quads of its size that I have. I
Thank you SO very much for your response. Can you please recommend a good cheap drone that will take a beating and one i can learn good habits that will translate to the larger, more expensive drone. Also thinking that I don’t want a toy, but something with realistic controls and handling that will show me how it supposed to fly.
PS Just got my Mobula 7HD and followed the steps to configure the BetaFlight.
Thank you so much in advance.
Jake
I have a Mobula 6, which flys better than the other two or three quads of its size that I have. Watch this review of the Mobula 7 by Joshua Bardwell:
You may be able to find additional videos online that help with learning.
I suspect that you do not need another drone, you just need lots of stick time and to figure out how to learn to fly without getting discouraged or breaking your Mobula 7.
I suggest that you stick with the Mobula 7 and try flying in Angle Mode, which will limit the pitch and roll angles and I think auto-level the drone if you let go of the sticks. You can learn how to fly without Angle Mode later.
Take small steps to learn. Don't try to do everything at once - you won't be able to.
Start by practicing to hover a few feet off the ground in a big room indoors or an open field outdoors to get a sense of how difficult it is to fly a quad that doesn't have GPS and position hold like the Spark (I own a Spark). Hovering is easier if the front of the drone faces away from you, but you'll notice that you will never get the quad to hover in one spot hands-free, and you have to constantly control it to keep it hovering in a small area. Rather than react to its movements, be proactive, and make it fly from side to side, fore and aft in a small area as it hovers. Stay ahead of the aircraft, by getting it moving in one direction then make it fly in the opposite direction, then repeat. You'll be doing this for all directions at the same time - fore/aft, port/starboard, and up/down, so it's not easy.
You'll find that smaller control inputs are better than big inputs.
Staying close to the ground allows you to cut the throttle and land when you get into trouble.
Learning to fly the drone in any orientation is another skill that you have to learn, but learning each skill separately is easier than trying to do them all at once.
Once you can hover reasonably well, try sliding small distances to port, starboard, fore, and aft without changing the heading of the aircraft. Once you get that down, add changing the heading.
It's much easier to learn each skill separately. At some point, after tons of stick time, stuff will click and you will progress faster. But, you still have to put in lots of stick time to get to that point.
Having difficulty with this is normal. It's more difficult than flying a Spark or similar drone that's equipped with an altimeter and GPS. It sounds like it's more difficult than you may have expected. In any case, don't get discouraged.