 What's up guys? Welcome to Rotor Riot. It's your boy Vortex, and I am Christian. I'm the editor. 99% of every Rotor Riot video This guy did it. So we're putting Christian on the other side of the camera. We're gonna get Christian flying drones I mostly fly simulator because when I'm editing if I ever watch a really nice drip flow And just get too inspired. Just get that itch. Just pull up lift off. A simulator is basically a Video game that simulates real drone flying. You plug in a real drone controller and fly just like that You wouldn't real life except in a simulated environment. Simulator technology has gotten really good at emulating real-world physics But I personally don't have a whole lot of experience flying in the real world So that's what I'm gonna try today. My personal favorite simulator is lift off, and I've flown that one 19-20 hours. 19 hours on the sim. That's pretty good. You at least know what the sticks are gonna do It's gonna be a little bit different. Yeah, I'm curious just like how much of that Translates. It's pretty close. There's a lot of weird variables Connection issues, batteries, like there's all these different things that are so like different each time Whereas every single time you boot up the simulator you are at that exact spot with that exact setup I don't know how much that affects skill level. Close enough to where I couldn't tell you exactly what's different It's just you know, that's not the same. It's different, but it's It's enough, but you can you can fly around it. Yeah, so we're gonna get Chris and flying today But before we do that, let's see what his skills look like on the simulator. This is the rotor riot sim PC We put this together in partnership with apex gaming PCs and worked directly with lift off to make sure that all the Hardware in here is specced out to run the game smoothly on full settings with the graphics maxed out This is something that we put together so you can pull it out of the box and rip on your favorite sim I don't think there's anyone that's quite in your exact situation, but there's no one else on the planet That has watched and processed so much FPV footage That is true and not actually be a pilot yourself You know all the tricks like if I say do a building dive do an animal man do a Rubik's Cube whatever you can do it in the Sim yeah, but you like just don't actually do it never tried it in real life the spot We're going to today has a parking garage try it less less high Maddie flippable obstacles So let's see if we can just get you navigating the parking garage a little bit Yeah, this is one of his one more warm-up one of my harder levels to There's something about like this the the scale and the speed of a sim that just it doesn't always It's not always one-to-one like I think simming really lends itself to I was saying that like big Hype throttle moves where you don't have battery sag you you don't have as much I don't even think about battery. Yeah Like you can't why to just be doing full throttle Maddie flips endlessly Yeah, you can't do that in real life your battery goes like but look at this you're navigating You're doing it if you can do this in the sim. There's no reason you can't do this in real life and segue I'm like a sim you have to arm the quad Okay. Yeah, so this is your arm switch down. That's all right. I can see it because it's red I'm I gonna see it one like I Usually sit and I don't know you got this you can do this you've been training for this Look at him go Tree there's tree whoa cutting it close. How does it feel compared to the sim? I don't know find a close it feels like altitude is not as touchy like I can less touchy right now Well, I can I can feather the throttle, but I'm not like going up and down like right Yeah, the sim is more touchy like you really see every little movement of the problem I'm moving the throttle back and forth don't go too far percent and Like I'm still staying it rough on the sim. You'd be like doing the bunny hops, you know, be careful up there Yeah, that's another thing like yeah, no, we're just kind of lying wherever I want. Yeah. Oh, yeah Oh, he flew away from it though. I just feel like I can't like I don't want to do anything Okay, okay Okay, oh man, this guy's a pro. All right, I think I'm dead dead battering That was fun But I'm I don't like having this when I look the screen moves with me So I can't like move my header and you know, you're like I keep doing like this It's like I keep expecting the screen to move, but it doesn't that's a rookie thing It's so weird like they call it the Stevie Wonder. Yeah, they're flying Which like I guess makes sense because it helps shut everything else out like I'm used to like looking at screen I'm used to sitting down at a screen in a dark room. So what you're saying is you want it to be more like a video game Yes. Oh, you want to monitor? That'd be funny to do one. Let's do that. You want to do that. Oh, we could do that There's a lot more stuff you have to manage you have to manage your battery life Like where you are, I think I might have like Why Is it still out there So the shark bite plugs into the HDMI input of the goggles like it's not electrically connected anywhere here This is just a physical mount and then you get the video from here and just power from the side So what I've done is I've unplugged this connector that goes to goggles and then I've got Micro HDMI cable here that will plug in on this side and then a full-size HDMI that I'll go into the back of our TV I don't even need the goggles plugged in. This is your happy place Christian. Why don't you fly like this all the time? This is awful. I Think that you've got this backwards and I don't think you're gonna be able to fly like this I don't think I'd be able to fly like this. Really? Hell no, you should try it I'll try it, but I want to see if this is really your happy place Like there's a reason we all use goggles and you're just like no these guys don't know no I'm Nintendo boy. We were not planning on this episode. So this is just actually what he wears on the day There's a lot old guys at the field that fly like this yeah, yeah a lot of the old guys at the field That are just getting into FPV they fly like this. I get distracted though I try to look at the drone and then I get all screwed up I think that's because you come from a fixed wing line of sight background You would at some point in your life one look the aircraft in the sky like have you ever done fixed mean fly a long time? Yeah, so it's not really something that you might really occur to you, but it's not video games on the other hand So you're not struggling with you're probably struggle with that. Oh, it does look good Yeah, see this just makes sense. This is your happy spot. Yeah, imagine it This is really like if you really wanted to do FPV and this was the end insisted on Yeah, I was headed that way and I lost control and then I got it back turned it around and then it lost again Doesn't happen in the simulator Wow like does that I think that's a gotcha really I just need to turn up the power level on the transmitter I don't want to give it you want to try this try it out. You should try this How did this not bother you more? I don't like this at all really wasn't that weird to me. This just really bothers me. I feel so much less than Merced But I also don't feel like I'm playing a game either You know like hello, it's like this in between where I don't feel like I'm in the drone But I don't feel like I'm playing a sim. I just can't get in the right. It's just totally a mental thing I just can't get on the right headspace Area we're fine Are you gonna be flying? So these are ever I want you can't these are patch antennas want these pointed at the drone as best possible, so I'm just gonna point it this way my idea of range is a bounding box when you fly out you hit a wall or just turn back Yeah, it's not gonna happen You'll you'll just fly until it glitches out and then your flops gone You want a fresh pack? You already down to 5.2. I don't know what that means. Okay? He's smoothie groovy. Okay, so you can power loop and like come backwards between the two trees. You know I'm saying So you went to the moon there. Okay, so you're like if you can make it like a nice tight loop where you kind of like Oh boy, oh boy bail bail bail bail bail bail nice recovery Have to be way more cognizant of every leaf. Yeah branch because on lift off like you could just get kind of generally close no Pull back that's pretty good pretty good. Okay. Nice save. Nice save. Okay Oh boy Oh Are you kidding me think it's translating I think so I think this is if there was ever a question as to whether or not sims were a good tool You got it. You got it. Yes That is the craziest pinch I've ever seen I'm surprised this whole thing is that you're like supposed to be a gamer Yeah, so I don't you do not that is you do not pinch You're you play video games like this to know So you video game like a normal person. Yes, but you do the weirdest pinch I do think some like die hard What's going on well, that's what's called as a crash And getting you stuck also an issue that happens from time to time when you fly Reset We need to stick because it's not just about the like the money where like okay if I crash this is gonna cost some amount of money It's also like you're gonna take some time and inconvenience a bunch of people Very durable it's like you dropped your computer out of a tree It'd be fine right that's the real world that's what it's like flying in the real world Are you like hooked? Are you gonna be a quad pilot? I still don't want to build it. Uh-huh, you know well Thankfully in this day and age you don't have to build claws anymore. Just visit rotor ride calm We've got ready to fly drone. I don't even have to know how to you don't have any soldering No, you don't have to solder you can just get ready to fly. Yeah, no in this in this day and age There are It's easy It sounds so stupid We love the fact that we can offer ready to fly drones because not everyone enjoys every aspect of this hobby I personally think that once you've been flying for a while Repairing and eventually building is something that you you learn to love. It's an acquired engineering aspect of it Yeah, figuring things out like I'm into that I mean do you like working on your computer like you will do right, but did you start liking working on your computer? No, you just wanted a computer that works, but you like learn to get into that Yeah, I think drones can be very similar where buying a ready-to-fly isn't like there's nothing wrong with that and I think it gets you in the air and Maybe eventually you'll learn to to enjoy working on it or if not you can send it to us We'll fix it up for you. We'll tune it for you Whatever you need these things take a really good hit like the quad hasn't needed any actual repair today other than I heard you Needed your own goggle and transmitter set up to buy separately. Where am I gonna get those? All in one way too many of our videos. Yes, we got all in one bundles guys one click and you go out your goggles You're transmitting your drone your batteries your charge, you know what, you know, Lincoln just here. It's actually gonna take two of these Today's episode sponsored by Legends no Lincoln the description