15 Beginner Drone Maneuvers (Sharpen Your Skills)
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Published 2021-10-20
Join Greg in this video for an introduction to practice maneuvers for your GPS-enabled drone such as DJI, Autel, Skydio or Parrot. We’ll cover basic movements, climbing and descending, and work our way up to basic tracking and orbits. We’ll also discuss some basic cinematic drone shots along with your basic maneuvers.
These basic drone maneuvers are perfect for beginners and will make you a much better pilot.
00:00 Introduction
01:07 Straight Flight
02:47 Vertical Box
04:15 Climb & Travel
05:52 Reverse Sensing
08:59 S-Turn
10:43 Rectangular Pattern
13:07 Rounded Corner Rectangular Pattern
16:27 Vertical Triangle
18:15 Follow with Yaw
21:19 Orbit
24:11 Forward Reveal
26:19 Corkscrew
28:22 Zoom Reveal
29:34 Yaw & Reveal
30:29 Tracking
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All Comments (21)
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I'm sure you are tired of hearing this but...... this is the best video I have found for a newbie. I flew R/C planes and especially glider for years. 40 years ago! These things are different because they fly sideways. These exercises will give me a good handle on this skill. Thank you for your excellent video!
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With this detailed training i can secure a drone certificate with an ace! Thank you Sir. God bless you.
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Wow, I was looking for an instructional video of different things to practice and this is absolutely incredible, you guys nailed it! Thank you so much for everything you do
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This is just amazingly well produced and presented. Thank you for this introduction.
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Greg is so unbelievably patient. I imagine that he is a master at dealing with five year olds!
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This is the best learning video that I have ever watched. Thank You!!!
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Very well done video Greg - I’ve had my Mini I for almost a year now and after taking your Part 107 Course passed the FAA Test early this year. I’m gaining experience flying and starting to use 2 stick maneuvers - It really makes better video! Thanks so much. Steve
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Great tutorial this is the best I have found on U-Tube. As a new Drone flyer I will use this as a refferance to help me learn to be a better pilot. Thank you.
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30 minutes of good stuff. These are good reminders of what the drone can do. I learned these maneuvers before the quick shots. Great information here!
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Thank you, Greg, just what I needed. As always (for me), the learning curve is a long slow struggle. From setup to first flight, disappearing connections, mishaps, etc, I'm surprised that I am not bald! Poor Rubi Redd, my DJI Spark, OMG, I think she hates me! I managed to nick her front blades even with the propeller guards fitted during first test flight...indoors. Oops! Gave her a break as I refreshed my memory over a few days and then took her outdoors for another attempt. Success! But, I am taking baby steps while working inside the 'box'. Motor memory takes time but I did manage to capture a few stills and a couple of three minute video clips which I process and infused with music. Thanks, again Greg, for this most helpful class. You rock!
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Love haw you show this maneuvers not too easy, no to hard but very nice to practice with your drone . Very more technical
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Internal and external cameras really help with perspective and what drone is doing!
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Very good teacher , a very good pilot in drone indeed , i can really sense even the smallest details of things , he even explains it very well heheh
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I’m new at flying Drones I found pilot Institute by a search of learning to fly drones. I’m blessed to have found pilot Institute, which I took the test from pilot Institute. Great learning video Steve. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and teaching how to fly UAS safely
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Great learning tutorial on maneuvers with a drone. Practice makes perfect. Awesome in person guide on how to perform these tasks. 😃🚁
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Thankyou for this tutorial ❤ I’m new to drones and it’s so helpful having the view of what stick movements you are doing superimposed over the drone’s view.
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Just bought a Mavic 3 with the fly more package and the DJI RC for my 1st drone ever. A bit nervous about flying it 🤣. It should be here this week, so I've been watching every video I can find. I believe this is one I'll be watching over and over
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Highly recommended channel for Drone enthusiasts!
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This is so great stuff ! Im really hard of hearing when people talk to fast but i was able to keep up with you and understood all you said! Thanks for my first lessons 😃
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Great video, I took my drone out on my first fly not knowing what to do but after watching this video AND practice, I’m much better pilot now…one thing I was doing wrong, I was controlling the joysticks with my thumbs only, like a video game controller, and it didn’t work well, now that I’m controlling them using two fingers I can get much better control on my drone.