 Hey guys, welcome to Rotorite. This is first flight to freestyle episode five We're taking Eric a new pilot to freestyle and we're teaching him how to fly using the DJI FPV drone All the way from episode one where he you know did his first flight in normal mode to most recent episode where we Taught him how to do Rubik's cubes and try to get him flipping through gaps And then I did great guys if you look behind me here You can see that beautiful DJI FPV drone That's that's in perfect condition and is currently updating its firmware and probably will be until tomorrow but I Crashed it. I crashed it back Eric crashed the first drone we had so we have a second one that we're updating now getting ready for today's episode Where we're gonna keep you on freestyle journey. We don't want you to be discouraged So we're gonna come in hot with a new trick and that is the inverted yaw spin So last time we learned a Rubik's cube that's probably the most famous FPV acro trick you can do It's alive. It's almost ready. It's almost ready And now we're gonna do the inverted yaw spin another very well-known FPV trick and why I want to Work towards that trick today is because in the last episode where we did the flips and the rolls and then worked You up to the Rubik's cube all of that was on the right stick the stick lick stick It was all just with pitch and roll right you didn't use a whole lot of yaw other than to turn and set up For the trick right so I want to get you used to using yaw in a more aggressive way And I can't think of anything more aggressive than an inverted yaw spin So it's pretty self-explanatory trick. You're gonna go up You're gonna flip inverted and then you're gonna give it some yaw and rotate it. It's it sounds very simple, but it's scary because For a number of reasons it's a lot of hang time right you're gonna hold it upside down and when you yaw You end up thrusting down a little bit The way yaw works is it speeds up two motors that are spinning the same direction and that Rotational inertia forces the drone to spin in the opposite direction right got you so if you spin up the two motors Across from each other the drone can spin but by speeding that up you kind of inherently have a certain amount of thrust So it kind of driving myself toward the ground as fast as I can a little bit spinning and upside down. Yes All right excellent. Let's do this thing All right, we are all plugged into the matrix. We got the goggles controller stick cam I've got the coolest thing. This is the coolest thing about the DJI PV because you can take someone along for a ride along There's been tons of questions on Rotorites videos about this and it's just the dongle that comes with your goggles Yeah, and a standard Now unfortunately, this only works with the full DJI drone Some people are wanting is there a way to get video off from the goggles to the phone using the DJI air unit Which we use in our custom built so they won't you can't at this time. You can't do that I'm out But for now with the full DJI drone you can ride along this way And if using an air unit you could always have like a second set of goggles if you're a baller So this is a fresh drone and we're gonna go straight to acro mode Again, if you're maybe new to the series link in the description of the full playlist You can follow along because I definitely recommend if you want to follow along with Eric and learn yourself Start with some of the earlier lessons where we learn the basics because we're already in an advanced mode here We've got no flight distances. We're in full control of the drone. We can flip it up upside down It's not gonna save us and you can crash it really hard in the concrete. You can tap tap to arm Yeah, nothing like a fresh drone with a fully charged battery it's got power and So now I'm using yaw here to turn which is how you're gonna be familiar with your Eric This is how you've used it mainly for turns But I want you to start doing just yaw and seeing how remember when you were doing Turns initially and you use just yaw and if you didn't roll it you ended up looking at the sky and flying backwards So if I'm tilted forward and I don't roll and my thumb is off the roll stick and I just yaw I'm looking up at the sky. That's scary. That's cuz you've got a you got a either Compensate by using rolls and I'm gonna use enough roll to keep the horizon flat as I go around this turn or Get the drone level so that as I yaw I can just use yaw on the horizon doesn't change too much and In the case of doing an inverted yaw spin That's where it's gonna be really important to find that Level spot while inverted so that you can give it just yaw and do the trick more easily But let's say if you're gonna do maybe a upright yaw spin through a gap or something That's gonna be where you're gonna cheat it and actually you're gonna be doing roll and yaw together So like this one we go through this gap and as I go through it. I'm gonna do a little bit of like a whoo Through the gap. That's yeah, it's a little sloppy, but you get the idea. I use yaw and roll together But now I'm gonna show you what we're gonna work up to Get nice and high lots of room for error. We're gonna flip. I'm gonna do it wrong here I'm gonna flip upside down and when I yaw all look how wonky the horizon got you see how I got all wonky Yeah, yeah, that's because I didn't actually have the drone even so this time I'm gonna find an actual even point for the drone and Now when I give it yaw The horizon stays more more flat and it's tough it's tough to get it perfect You don't have to get it perfect, but the more flat you can get it The better your yaw spin is gonna look that's a pretty good one and you want to stay low on throttle I don't know if I lowered my throttle all the way on that one, but that you really should As you go through it, we're gonna go boom Full cut throttle yaw Bail. I'm not getting the full a proper inverted yaw spin should be a full 360 So I'm gonna go more heavy on the yaw and see what this drone is capable of Whoa Whoo, there's some serious prop wash there But it's a great trick that whoa Be careful that concrete is not very forgiving that's gonna get this is a great trick That's gonna get you familiar with using yaw to do tricks and not just rolls and flips Yaw is a really powerful tool for expanding your tricks and how you can mix things together too So another thing to work on is let's say I'm really pitch forward. I'm gonna do a half roll Look how I'm looking at the ground there That's because I was pitched forward. So as I flipped upside down I ended up I Have to show you third person, but you end up looking at the ground So in the case where look at this, I'll be pitched forward again and now I'm gonna keep the horizon Centered through the roll and the way I did that if you look really closely at the stick cam I'm moving roll and yaw in the opposite direction. I was doing that in the last episode Hey, yeah, it's a really good thing to practice because if you can get good Control over not just mixing but also counter mixing roll and yaw you'll have full control over How you want the roll to look whether you're doing a split s and maybe you do want the roll to turn into more of a dive So in this case, I didn't use any Yaw I wanted it to turn into a dive or maybe I'm doing something snappy You know I want to do more of like a kick flip looking thing I want to boom counter mix it so that the horizon stayed nice and flat catching through that sort of trick There's all sorts of things you can do with yaw and the ultimate would be, you know the classic Inverted yaw spin that was a pretty good one. That's clean But yeah as you learn it We're gonna have you just get nice and high and like we did before when we were learning the Rubik's cube where we broke it Down into very discreet steps and really had long pauses. We're gonna get you nice and high We're gonna put you upside down and we'll give it some yaw And then we'll bail Now it's just a 180 and you could start you could start even less You know you could go upside down do a little 90 and then get out of it and just work your way up to the full 360 So again upside down 180 get out of it and we'll go upside down 270 get out of it Look at the lake Stop looking at the lake and then roll out. That's actually a stylistic thing. I tend to pitch into them and roll out but You know, you can find what you're comfortable with you should probably You might find it better to pitch in and pitch out so that you end up going the same direction, right? So this case I'll pitch in roll We okay, we're okay, dude. Yeah, you want to have more room for air Again, I was you know, you basically throttle yourself down Man in long-term long-term goals and I'll if we'll push you on this one today would be to You know, you can work inverted yaw spins into things like power loops, right? So we go up yaw spin Finish the power loop One of my favorite tricks to use an inverted yaw spin is to track an object as you pass it like check this out We'll do like a so I'm gonna go past this chimney and as we pass it. I Kept it in frame as I passed it well. Yeah, it's awesome favorite tricks to do it's landing even four seconds I got four four seconds one more. Oh, nope. I wanted one more wanted one more. No, why do you have to ruin my fun? It told me I drew you've had enough fun. It's time for Eric to have fun. I'm actually excited about this one. It's somehow less slightly less terrifying You know, it does look simpler, you know with the Rubik's Cube it was Forward pitch roll backward pitch. It's all it was a lot. This one seems simpler, but I'll tell you it can be very Disorienting and that getting that horizon level so that when you yaw you don't get walked out is Is a very practiced skill You're totally capable of doing this You've been doing awesome this whole series and I would just keep that finger on the panic button So if you go inverted and you're all around and all of a sudden all you see is sky Save me save me save me So I want to just give a little third-person perspective on what we were working on before you go up and how you mix yaw Right, so when you yaw the yaw will always be Flat relative to these arms just yaw is only going to do this right if you want to do anything else You're gonna have to mix in roll same same with just roll Rolls always going to be relative to the body of the drone So just rolls gonna do this and where that comes into play if you're going forward means you're pitch forward And if you just give half roll that means you're gonna do This right now I'm looking down so again when I was doing split S is over that I would go It was pitch I was pitch forward going at it and roll Now I'm in a dive And I can pull right under and we'll get to split S's in a later episode But that's a that's a place where you might not want to mix it But if you're doing more of that snap roll where you want to keep the fries in Nice and crisp in the center and proper then you want to as you're going around Mix in opposite yaw and the effect will be the drone will Rotate like this you basically wag the tail right around a circle and the intended effect is to get the drone rotating about the axis of the camera, so you're Staying with it right getting something that looks like the horizon is staying flat when in actuality The drone is doing a lot more complicated of a maneuver, right? So same thing with doing a yaw spin if you are going through an obstacle And you want to yaw spin as you go through that obstacle if you just yaw You're gonna end up flying backwards make your cricket you want to do that But if you want to do a complete yaw spin keep the horizon flat You're gonna need to add roll together so that you essentially spiral That as you go through okay, or where do you maybe not want to mix it the inverted yaw spin? You know nice and high get the drone flat and the effect is you'll actually be looking more at the ground Right when the drone is flat like that, and then now you can use just yaw to get a clean yaw spin So there are times where you do want to counter mix there's times where you want to mix them coordinated There are times that you want to mix them Opposites oppositely right and then there are times where you don't want to mix them Gotcha, and we're gonna practice all these things and the ultimate trick for today It's gonna be an inverted yaw spin nice and high nice and crispy. Let's get it done do it All right, so the first thing I'd like to see is the thing you can already do very well Which is nice coordinated term. Let's you yaw and roll mix together to do a nice beautiful turn. Look at that Let's do it a little lower you You see you know what you go so fast all the time. Let's go nice and slow And how about that that burn right there turn left right now? Yeah, look at that orbit beautiful. You lost it a bit. See if you can go back and do a nice turn around it Really do like a full 180 turns so you get kind of like an orbit around it It's gonna move the sticks together. You need more roll there. You more roll. Whoa nice bail When in doubt power out nice coordinated turn here we go a little pitch forward pitch forward through it While roll there that was perfect. That's perfect Look at that. Look at that Look at you champion all right now That's skill that you've been practicing where you've been very good to coordinate all your turns. I'm gonna have you break that Let's get low again. Maybe like just below the tree line. That's a good. That's a good height right there now Just yaw. Yeah I know it's scary looking backwards. That's nice backwards flight You see what happens when you don't coordinate, but now if you bring the drone flat don't fly forward Just bring it flat and now just give it yaw It's not so bad So when we get up to the inverted yaw spin, that's what we're gonna have you do We're gonna have you get the drone flat We're gonna break your your memory and your training to always be coordinating and just use yaw After getting the drone in an inverted and flat position Nice That's good. It's fun. Do you want to try some of the rolls and the non-coordinated rolls too? So, you know get up higher While flying forward give it just roll just roll boom see you ended up looking down. Yep right away So now counter mix them Remember to chop throttle whoa There you go Nice that's pretty cool. Yeah, see the horizon said almost perfectly in the center You can do a lot with how you mix and how you don't mix so you're ready to go for the inverted Alright, up to 350 feet turn it around. I'm not aiming over water anymore. Mm-hmm a little high. It's a little high That's good for this trick So now I'm going to cut throttle. So you weren't flat and you got a little wonked out. Oh boy. Nice use of that panic button Nice use. I kept too much bit too much power into get back in manual mode All right, so let's get you some altitude so you got room for error Let's get you upside down See, it's really sloppy when you're not even and it's hard finding that even point So that even you mean There this oh That was really close That was really pretty good You just use a lot of the things that we practice all at once He counter-coordinated his roll and his yaw to do a roll that offset His angle so that he ended flat and then used yaw that was very impressive very impressive That's pretty fun I find it easier to do yaw spins if I pitch into them because then you naturally have a way to get the drone even if you pitch then you can Use more pitch if you're going forward. So I'm gonna try a pitch this time Yeah, so pitch until you're flat and upside down because you can use more Then 180 basically go like 195 to end up flat. I love that button Well, I guess it actually be less So if you're flying forward and you want to pitch into it, you're not gonna do a full 180 You're gonna stop just short of it So rather than going full 180 you'll go like 165 and you'll end up flat So I'm gonna go I'm gonna go like this so pitch forward and stop stop a little less you went too far Whoop nice panic I'm just I'm not even ashamed of it anymore. It's like, you know what? So remember your camera angle is up. So when you're inverted and flat You'll actually be looking more at the ground So why don't you try this try to get inverted and have the ground taking up three fourths of the screen That's a little bit of offset. Yeah, I ended up using a little bit of roll accidentally there There it is now y'all look at that boom boom, baby That's like they have to totally think again. I'd like I have to literally think to myself, okay Now I have to get right side up again. Yeah I knew it was coming. I knew it was coming on It's like dagnav it. You're just sucking these batteries down Using all this power getting up there and all this acro man. That's crazy. That's so flipping fun. It's fun, right? That is that's wicked So with the with the Rubik's Cube and now with the inverted Joss bin you can do them up in the open area But really a power loop needs to be around something really a good split-ass is going to be over something So in the next episode, we're gonna have you work on power looping around an obstacle We all saw how well obstacles worked out last week. You don't need to be afraid We're gonna we're gonna break it down just like we did today into pieces and then the things that you can practice We're gonna make it stop talking about breaking things in pieces. Okay, I've done it one Take all the skills that we've learned in all the episodes so far and you know, just keep working on all the different methods of turning rolling Power rolling barrel rolling all those different things that you can do out in the open area because in the next episode We're gonna start intentionally spending more time around obstacles and we're gonna get you doing power loops. All right I'm done. I'm done. Not my job. Not my drone. That's awesome guys. 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