Use These 15 Drone Training Exercises to Learn How to Fly a Drone
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- Опубликовано: 9 май 2024
- Our hands-on flight training instructors have taught hundreds of drone pilots how to fly over the last few years - in this video, you'll see 15 of our favorite exercises to put new drone pilots through.
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0:00 B-Roll Footage & Introduction
1:27 Hovering at eye level
1:59 Hover & yaw
2:45 Target practice
3:27 Square pattern with no yaw
3:58 Flying in a circular pattern with no yaw
4:42 Out, back & land
5:48 Square pattern with yaw
6:11 Flying at a maximum altitude of 400 ft. (120m)
6:48 Bird's-eye view (or the top down)
7:27 The orbit effect or point-of-interest
8:35 Triggering return-to-home (RTH)
9:03 The Dronie
9:25 Flying close to objects
10:09 Flying in Tripod mode
11:18 Flying without a GPS signal
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I'm 61 year old and got my very first drone for Christmas (no laughing now!) It's not a fantastic drone it's the Holy Stone 175D, but had a lot of good reviews here on RUclips it didn't cost a fortune obviously, neither did I want it to, I was worried about writing the thing off within a couple of flights. I find this video invaluable as a learning tool and watch it before every flight as a kind of what airline pilots call muscle memory, which basically means remembering a procedure off by heart without having to refer to documentation. Thanks for taking the time and trouble to put this together. You have earned a new sub and bell notification. Greetings from "across the pond" here in England.
Are you still flying your drone? Wondering how’s your skill level now and if you still like your Holy Stone
@@goldiegoldenbear7282 I am a more confident pilot I would say, I crashed a few times and had to replace a couple of blades but all in all, I haven't done badly, it's still in one piece!
Same here! Lots of fun.
Allmost 50 and just bought my first 😊 good luck
I'm 80 and got my first drone Christmas 23, this is a great video
We need a lot more videos from this guy! He's clear, gets right to the point and doesn't waste a lot of time on filler content. His straightforward method makes me feel like he's a serious pilot who knows what he is doing and wants you to get it, not some kid who is just giddy to show off his drone flying skills on RUclips under the guise of teaching.
I agree with you...I get so tired of people who are just trying to get their 15 minutes of fame so they talk about nothing for the first 5 hours of their video and then give you 2 minutes of ACTUAL, relevant content...
Thank you for that comment. This video has been instrumental to regaining my confidence in flying since I’m a bit out of practice. There’s nothing wrong when going back to basic flight skills!
Hear! Hear!
What I like about this is that the Coach understands the challenges and confusions that can happen. Too many teacher/coaches don't remember what it was like to learn. This is very well done.
That means a lot, Jeff. We spent a lot of time on this one, thank you for your comment! Blue skies & safe flying to you.
Agreed - these are some of the best instructional videos for pilots learning to get a handle on drone flying.
Very true
This Video was very informative and I'm glad I found it here on RUclips. I'm 62 years old and I want to become a professional drone pilot if possible so I will keep at it now because this video just inspired me even more big time, thank you.
As a 14-year RC pilot, 7 with drones, this is an excellent guide. As an aside, the no-GPS mode is actually as close to being a pilot in this computer-assisted flying world as you can get with todays drones.
Appreciate your comment, thank you!
Thank you so much for this video.these drills are invaluable and at head height is brilliant as Iv just bought a drone . Keep them coming 🙏
Thank you for the practice tips. Looking forward to practicing these maneuvers.
That was my personal starting point for doing my first steps with my drone, because the exercises are well explained along with a reason why in particular they make sense. Thank you so much for this helpful video!
Great training video, especially the learning to fly at eye level, I’m going out today with the drone and will be carrying out all the eye level training exercises. The close up to the tree was excellentlent. I look forward to the clear no nonsense dialogue and footage in future training video’s. Well done.
Appreciate your comment, George. We spent a lot of time on the script to try and be as no-nonsense and clear as possible. Blue skies and safe flying out there!
This video was extremely well done. I love how you Illustrated each example with multiple camera angles. This really gives me a foundation to learn before I break or lose a new drone I'm thinking about getting.
Glad you enjoyed it, Hector. Thank you for taking the time comment!
Brilliant! This is exactly what new pilots need.
Outstanding !!! Great exercises. Doesn’t waste time, very clear and to the point on what he wants you to learn.
I found this 2 years late but very helpful for a new operator. Thanks for sharing
Excellent video. I've viewed multiple training vids before, but this was, by far, the most helpful. Your narration, the music, and the camera work are great as well. Thanks so much.
John, your comment means a lot, thank you!
i totally agree.
As a 61 old, I am a beginner. This was very informative, and was such good practice. Thanks for the tips. All I can say is, practice, practice, practice, and have fun.
We're so glad you found the video helpful! Blue skies and safe flying!
I love this Coach. This is the best video I have ever seen on DRONE SCHOOL. I really appreciate the time you put into making this
As a total newb flying my brand new Mini Pro 3, I'm so grateful to be able to watch videos like this to understand some core principles, to be able to fall back on. Thank you so much. My first flight was both exhilarating and nerve-wracking, so learning from experienced pilots is vital. Watching the videos however is limited, the key is to practice, practice, practice. Thanks again. 🙂
Great to hear! Thanks for sharing, Colin!
Seconded! My DJI Mini Pro 3 arrives today and I'm planning on using this video as a guide for my first test run.
This is genuinely one of the best videos on beginner exercises I’ve ever seen! Thank you!
Thank YOU for taking the time to comment, Amelia!
The only Drone learning style that works. Ask any teacher why.
Thank so much for the training exercises! I just started a few weeks ago with my cheesy beginner drone off Amazon. Santa brought me it for X-mas lol
I actually think that me starting off without all the extra technology has been most beneficial to me learning how to control the drone at its most basic level. I never realized that until watching this video.
Thank you again. Looking forward to trying out these exercises after work today. 👍🏽
Great tips for boosting piloting skills. Mastering these maneuvers is a must! Great explanation and tutorial, thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it, Keith! Thanks for your comment.
New pilot here. I've only been flying for a couple of weeks and would do my own little things to improve my flying some of them similar to this video. But watching this gave me a whole new set of training tactics that I can now use and have some fun with. Thank you!
Good stuff, thanks for your comment! Glad these tips are helpful.
Amazing... Thank you for those training trips 👍🏽
Excellent tutorial which took me back to the "drawing board" on practicing controlled flight.
when i was learning a few years back i would have found this helpful
Thank you Greg. Excellent and to the point video without unnecessary details. Great tips!
Glad it was helpful! Very welcome :)
Thank you! What a wonderful job. I have been flying for a little while but I must act on these exercises. They're great. Cheers!
What a great video. I’ve been flying a drone now for about 6 months and am starting to get pretty comfortable with it. Thanks for doing this video. A great way for a beginner to learn and someone with a little experience to become even more skilled.
Awesome beginner tutorial. Wish I saw this 14 month ago, when getting started...
Liked, subscribed, activated bell and commented. ✅
Thanks for the support!
I can't say thank you enough for making this video! As a new pilot, this really put the foundation in my drone control.
Yahoo! Thanks for the comment, R.O.
Hello this is Michael
I got a holy Stone s17 and I having trouble flying up in the air I don't know what I'm doing wrong you can get me a
how are your skills doing now one year from this comment?
@@mikefundis Mike, can you give more detail? Does your Holy Stone drone have GPS, are you flying in high winds, or with interference between the drone and remote? Without GPS, flying outdoors can be challenging and quite frustrating. A Holy Stone drone is a really nice toy, but for not that much more you can get a used DJI Mini, or even a Mini 2. I recently saw a used Mini for $220 on eBay. The drone and camera abilities of the lowest cost DJI is miles and miles beyond slightly less expensive Holy Stone drones.
Great informative video, straight to the point with 'no fuss' clear instructions, valuable for new drone users.
Many Thanks.
As bellow, coming back to flying drone’s again, this is very helpful! Many thanks 👍
Thanks Greg! You got some of the exercises I teach along with some points I mostly don’t have time for in one of our 2-hour sessions. However, this will now be included in my follow-up email to UAV Coach students. 😎👍🏽
Thank you, Elliott! Yes, great idea to include in our follow-up emails :) :) :)
Did my first drone flight today, and after so many mistakes, I realized I needed to really practice certain moves, particularly how to control the movement of the drone. Can’t wait to start using your exercises tomorrow.
Yahoo! Blue skies & safe flying to you :)
Thanks- as a newbie this is a very valuable training vid. I appreciate that you took the time to make this tutorial.
A professional and disciplined Drone Pilot. Thank you and God bless you.
Glad I’m seeing this now, I got 14 mins flight time on my Air 2S. And this is my first time flying ever, and a professional drone at that. Thanks a lot man!
Yahoo, I love the Air 2 - love what DJI did with the 2S improvements, blue skies and safe flying to you!
Excellent walk-through of basic exercises. Not the most exciting flying, but practicing techniques will lead to outstanding performance.
Fundamentals are everything! Thanks for your comment.
Thank you for sharing! This is very informative. Keep safe always.
This is excellent! Thank you for posting this video!
I've never flown a drone, but I used to do the square pattern, no yaw, circular turn, no yaw, square pattern with yaw, in a real helicopter, all while following the taxi lines on an airport, while going sideways, backwards, following the curve lines too, all without stopping. These exercises made me incredible smooth when flying in confined areas. Good video.
Thanks for your comment, Mo! Wishing you blue skies & safe flying.
Awesome tips! I'm also fairly new to my Mini 2, and while it doesn't have POI mode other than through an automated Quickshot feature, I'll definitely be trying a lot of these next time I go flying
Appreciate your comment, thank you! The Mini 2 is a great drone and packs a powerful punch for something so small (and great price point too). Blue skies and safe flying to you!
Really excellent- appreciate you posting!
Thank you for this man! As a flight instructor I do really appreciate the lessons you have put together and I am going to follow your routines to get dialed in with my drone. Fantastic work!
Glad to help, thank you for taking the time to comment. Blue skies & safe flying to you!
That was really helpful, thanks!
Glad it was helpful, thank you for the comment!
I am fairly new to flying a drone, this video was exactly the type of instruction I was looking for. Great video, it answered questions I hadn't even thought about.
Really helpful for this newbie. Many thanks
Not boring at all. The exercises are great and I'll do my best. Thank you!
I really like your presentation style. It is easy to understand and you explain the reasoning for each drill. I will use these to become better piloting my drone. Thank you for this video.
Thanks for the comment, Buffalo Chips. We had fun putting this together.
Had the Mini 2 a few days and due to weather indoor flying has only been possible, never flown a drone before. Slid down the wardrobe once but now know why after watching this fine video - no GPS so it was wondering around a little when it should have been stationery.
I have learnt more with this video for the style of flying I want to achieve than anything else I have looked at to date - at seventy four the learning curve is near vertical at the moment!
Thank you very much indeed for the professional way the video has been put together and specifically for the way you have imparted your obvious skills to others.
Thank you for your comments and for sharing your experience so far, Barry!
Great instruction video. Just started flying a drone two weeks ago. These topics make for a great checklist to take to a flying field.
Thanks man, ill practice these exercise.
Very helpful! Need to stop watching RUclips now, since I have to go and practice :-) - Subscribed. Thank you!
Thanks for the sub!
Hey coach, Just bought my First drone. Really excited about this. Haven’t flown it yet. Wanted to learn some basics first. Enjoyed this video, really informative to help me get started on the basics of learning the drone and flying it. I save this video to and to keep going back to it. Thanks for sharing your experience as a learning tool for a new drone flyer like me. Thanks again.
Joseph, thanks for taking the time to leave a comment. Hope you're flying has been going well and that you've put in some good stick time these past couple of weeks!
I also bought one few days ago and took it out today for the first time and this video gave me so much confidence thank you so much Coach.
Thank you great for making this video for new Drone pilots. Very informative.
An excellent and thorough tutorial!
Thank you! 💫
fantastic exercises 👍
This coming week, I am expecting delivery of my first drone ever. As i have never flown anything RC before 🎈💨💥 I will definitely be putting these training exercises into practice right away,
...oh, and i have subbed and look forward to going through your content
Thank you for the support. Blue skies and safe flying to you!
I am A newbie with my DJI mini 2 and while some other videos offer how-tos, I like the specific, get to know your drone, flying exercises. I'm a far way off from flying instinctively, but I know with THESE types of exercises, I'll improve faster than my "winging it" technique! And yes, that was an accidental pun!
This industry is full of fun puns! Thanks for your comment, Dale. Wishing you blue skies and safe flying and hope that your skills "take off" quickly!
You speak incredibly clearly. Great Video!
Excellent video. Best one so far. Clear, concise and the instructor is articulate and knowledgeable. Bravo, well done
Thanks for a very helpful video. Although I've been flying for over 4 years, I will be doing these exercises just to stay in shape. However, I do have one of my own exercises that I practice often. It's a figure 8. I do it about 30 feet high, to avoid hitting anything, and so that I can observe the 8 pattern. But as I'm flying, I'm keeping the camera pointing forward. This means that I'm using yaw and roll to control the direction, but also using pitch to control the speed. This get me to use most of the controls. This has helped me to react to drone moves without thinking. It's second nature and muscle memory.
YES, love this addition, Mike. That's a great exercise for folks who have mastered the basics and looking to warm their thumbs up for an upcoming mission. Keeping the camera pointed forward is tough!
When you say forward, do you mean always in the direction of travel or forward as in camera always pointing North regardless of drone position in the 8?
@@robertdoran7387 I point it in the direction of travel. Just like you were driving a car and always pointing in the direction you are headed.
Camera forward figure 8 is probably the hardest move of all. Very dynamic. Harder than orbit or even spiral or heiix, due constant movement of sticks through center. The only way to make it harder is to aim at center of each (orbiting each leg center) and/or combine with level changes.
Great video. I've done many of the exercises you suggested. I just think that the altitude of the drone should be a bit higher than your head. The only way to mess up your eyes is a combination of joystick and thrust, but there is a considerable increase in safety by not being at the height of the eyes.
Yes, good feedback, Roger!
Thank you sir for all this information. These are the basic fundamentals on how to fly drone or any remote UAV. Well done sir.
Thank you for that, very helpful.
Great video. Would love to see you break down flying in Atti mode with some basic skills much like this video. What are the best exercises to practice with? What pitfalls should we look out for to avoid? Thanks!
Yes, flying in ATTI mode is great for training, and a required skill for many pro drone pilots. I always found it annoying that certain drone models don't allow the pilot to switch into ATTI mode.
@@uavcoach Maybe the best way is to get into an hangar and see if we can get no satellite, the drone will go "max 30 meters height mode" and voilà, we have our spaceship freedom.
Thank you! Have about 2 hours stick time on my Mini 2 maneuvering around in "C" mode - tripod is fast enough for now :) These exercises are just what I need.
Ooh, the Mavic Mini is fun, and I love Tripod mode for filming and for close / proximity flying.
Thanks a lot Man I just both my Air 2s and since I have never pilot a drone in my life this is gold info for me . Thanks for taking the time
Great exercises! Thank you!
Neat... thank you for these exercises... I needed this kind of guide... One comment though, I don't think flying at eye level is safest, I would fly say 1 foot above eye level to protect my eyes (just in case). Many thanks.
Yes, agreed, thank you for the comment!
@@uavcoach Safety glasses?
The eye level is only a first step for checking that everything looks fine when you hover with your drone. You look at your drone and you can spot any malfunction if is at eye level. After that, you fly at your safest altitude.
I think my favorite advice that wasn't specifically stated in the video was the initial exercises involve piloting the drone without looking at the drone camera footage, but through your own eyes. It does create a sense of discomfort, especially if you have to fly the drone in reverse, but it significantly helps with your personal awareness and spatial positioning.
Yes, great tip. For new pilots, the practice of looking at the drone and then down at your screen and then back up at the drone. That back-and-forth awareness / spatial positioning is really difficult to get comfortable with at first!
@@uavcoach Another thing that I've learnt on my training was to send my drone at the limit of Line of Sight, yaw it heratically just to lose track of its position and from there, without looking at the screen, bring it back to "home". I liked that, too.
@@driveanddive4173 Yes, another great tip! When I teach hands-on classes, I always do some version of that with the student.
Amazing video. What I was looking for.
Gotta thank my YT recommendations for bringing me here. Every minute of this video was useful! Thank you for putting this together, extremely helpful for folks starting out.
Shreyes, thanks so much for the comment and glad you found us!
This is what i really needed: i am 55! +je
55 years young!
I avoid flying at eye level, because of fear of something part breaking from the drone and smashing right in the head. I have not heard about such thing, but still prefer to fly at waist level or above heads.
Maybe an unfounded fear, but I definitely feel the same way. I wear goggles when I need to do that, at least my eyes are protected.
Yes, I wish we were more precise with our instruction. We didn't mean to encourage folks to literally fly at eye level. It was more like - please don't thrust up too quickly without hovering for a few seconds and listening/looking for any abnormalities. I prefer slightly above the head, standing about 8-10 feet away.
Safety glasses should be good enough
I'm new to Drones although I'm very skilled at RC Cars Boats etc
So my question is how does the wifi work if your away from your wifi network out in the hills for example? 😐
@@Barinthuss good idea
Thanks Coach for sharing this exercise..
Excellent presentation with a very professional & skilled presenter. Thank you :)
Informative for an absolute newbie, thanks.
Great job! I am a beginner, I followed your tutorial, and practiced every day! Thank you!
Greg, thanks soo much for doing this video. You have provided new pilots and people who may have been flying for a little while an opportunity to learn and improve their skills. This is my go to video every time I go and fly my drone and focus on each maneuver. One at a time. Thanks
Glad it was helpful, Paul! Thanks for taking the time to leave a comment. Blue skies & safe flying to you!
Great Job!!! Very informative and well presented.....Thank you
Nice thanku for the video, u have been so helpfull i orderd a mini 2 and look foward to becoming a drone pilot. Practice makes perfect
Brilliant - Thank you for taking the time to make this. Its now my daily/weekly reminder and program to improve.
Wonderful, thank you for your comment. Keep practicing!
Really excellent video. Looking forward to practicing.
Thank God, finally a Complete video drone training! You guys Rock!
Glad you liked it, Daniela!
Thank you so much for the tips tutorials it me a lot to fly my drone ,God Bless❤❤❤🎉
Excellent Training Video! Thank you!
Very informative instructions. 👏
Brilliant. Thank you.👍
Thank you so much for this.
Great video. I learned a lot from your way of different practice methods. Thanks.
Thank you buddy!!! Thx!!!
Thanks this was a very helpful article.
Thanks so helpful I'm will practice more
Hi. Brand new to DJI fpv and your videos is a huge help. Thank you for your effort
Well-explained, logical advice and exercises for new drone pilots, with explanations for the drills. Do the work and become a better pilot and learner.
Good stuff! 😃👍🏻
Love this bloody good job guys 👍
Thank you for these. 😃
Great instructional !
Thanks !
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Tq for the explanation for someone want to fly drone
Awesome presentation well done simple and to the point
Thank you so much, learned a lot.