4 Tips for New Drone Pilots - Less Stress, More Fun!

This is EXACTLY what I’ve been going though this week. I got my first drone the DJI Mini 2 three days ago and I’m slowly getting less scared of it by flying daily. Thanks for this.

I have owned drones as a hobby flier, for almost 7 years, just flying around my own neighborhood ,not bothering anybody ,but lately with all the rules they have come up with, it sounds more complicated than when I had my commercial helicopter license. MY Q500 4K homes in on the transmitter ,not the take off spot, on return to home it will come back, land and shut down with no input from me. I enjoyed flying and see it as a small plastic toy, not a full size airplane, like the rules seem to see them. I have not flown them in over a year because of all the scary rules. I am 75 years old now and it seems like every time I find a hobby I enjoy, they regulate it out of my budget.

Great tips; thanks Russ! Another tip for more control when landing is switching the fly mode to cinema on the last few feet. This allows for smaller and smoother moves to get it to land on the pad in case it's a bit off.

New to drones and a channel like this is fantastic! I really enjoy your delivery of the information and it helps to see I'm not alone in my initial nervousness to fly lol. Bought a DJI Mini 3 about a week ago and still practicing joystick moves to get smooth control of the drone.

As everyone knows, practice is very important for drone shooting. What can be recommended here furthere is while staying indoor you can get a drone simulator called SimuDrone. You can use your own DJI remote controller for practice. Thanks any way.

When I was a beginner, the landing pad was a great tool to practice manual returns and landings. One you get comfortable with that, hand launching and landing is much easier to do.

I heard the word “contrast” 11 times in the instructions and 2 more times when you were telling us about the give away. I’m located in Fort worth, TX. I have an Ecoflow plus Booster and the solar panels. They are great and they got me through several power problems during power outages from weather problems. Once again, Ecoflow is the bomb. Love your videos!

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Hi I'm a Pakistani immigrant American and one of your subscribers. I subscribed when I first started to learn about drones, may be a yr and half ago. I have learnt a lot through your passion for drones and thankyou for it. I have my own monetized channel, of course not anywhere yet, but it's just for my passion. I'm writing to you while watching this video as I can totally relate to all that you just said. I have been flying my Mavic air for little over a year now but since I don't get any practice being a resident of the NYC

Thanks! This is good! Even if just a refresher but new pilots I wish I would have watched a video like this before I started flying

Such a great topic/observation. I have been through this twice. First time as a newbie and a second time after I hadn’t used my drone for over a year. Now I am working up the nerve to launch and land my drone on my moving sail boat. I have almost lost my drone twice trying to launch, unsuccessfully, from my boat

I’ve been flying drones for a little over two years and didn’t really consider myself a beginner but did learn a couple of awesome tips from this video. Great job Russ and thanks for the help. I think I heard it 13 times including the two during your discussion of how to win.

Great advice. As a new pilot I couldn’t agree more, I will definitely be landing the drone manually. More control is better than relying on the drone doing whatever it wants to do.

Thanking you Russ for the tutorial. Am seriously thinking to get a similar to yours or the same and the word "Contrast ", you used 13 times.

Great Tips Russ, thx soo much (From The Netherlands)

Good tip. It’s also good to let the drone hover in place for a while to check its stability. I always do this.

Russ, I live in Corrales, New Mexico and I’m also saying 13 times for the contrast comment. Even though I have a year and a half of experience, I alway enjoy basic training because I always learn something helpful. Vince Lombardi used to tell the Packers at the first training session in the Spring, “Gentlemen, this is a football.” He believed and I concur, the basics are important. Keep up the good work.

The best part of a land pad is also accomplished by using my drone case for take off without grass or sand being involved with flight. I do hand landings from my Mini3 pro from the tail (grasping) battery section thus avoiding bottom sensors.

I use the high contrast blue mat and I do have a newer drone but it lands exactly where I took off pretty much every time. I like the pads because they keep dust off my lens. Also the new additions to the fly app are very sweet for RTH, and just situational awareness in general. It’s made me much more confident. Love the video though, I still get pretty anxious but it’s helped and mostly I am flying more than ever

Precision landing is not based on visual information but on GPS positioning. The reason for hovering over the landing spot is to give time for the Drone to calculate it's position by using the avalable satelites in the area. The more satelites it finds , better define the landing position.