 What's up guys, welcome to Road to Ride, I'm Let's Fly RC and I'm Bubby FPV and we are here in Staten Island, New York with Xavier, who's a Simadrone pilot, is that right? That's right, also known as Drone X Factor, I come from the background of cinema drones, one inch sensors, half inch sensors, cinematography, Mavic Mini 2, Mavic Air 2, Mavic 2 Pro, the Autel EVO 2 Pro, 8K, 6K, you name it, Inspire 1, Inspire 2, all over New York City. I started FPV when the DJI FPV was released. I promised everyone on my channel that the DJI releases an FPV drone, I will get into FPV and I didn't expect them to do it, but when they did it, I was like, crap, I gotta work this, it looks really hard. Did you see any of our videos on Road to Ride? Did that get you inspired at all? Yes, I did, I saw some of the Road to Ride videos and I was like, I need to do this, I need to do this. I started with the simulator, second flight, I crashed the thing, the DJI FPV and I was like, this is not going to work. Did it break? Yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh, four arms. Oh my gosh, that's crazy. So then I bumped into, I think it was Stacy online and then she referred me to the drone and was like, hey, they build drones over there at Road to Ride, I was like, give me something. So you've got a scaliner also? I have a scaliner. Oh, that's awesome, that's the thing that I fly and I fly because of the same reason, you can't break the scaliner, it's awesome. So have you flown the scaliner yet or this is going to be your first time here? It's going to be my first time flying anywhere outside of Flushing Meadows Park. I've never flown anywhere else except the FPV. I've flown the GPS stuff, but FPV. So this is like, I'm a little nervous over here. No, this would be great, it would be a good, exciting, but change for you. I have, I crashed 50 times. Oh my gosh. That's what kind of what you'll learn with like this FPV drones, be like, send them really hard and we crash them hard. So these are going to be really durable. Well, I have a brand new GoPro, so hopefully I don't wreck it. Hopefully. It's a Hero 9. At least this is not. Oh, wait, wait, wait. Oh, that's where you print it. Okay. I, okay, I thought that was real. So this is something we hooked him up with. This is a GoPro ballast, because he, he was wanting to start practicing flying without risking an actual camera, but he wanted it to feel the same. So he didn't want to have like, okay, so I'm going to practice flying, and then when I add the GoPro, it's going to be all this extra weight. So we work with Newzil 3D to make a ballast that. So it's the exact same. Oh, whoa. So is there like rocks in here or something? There's pennies. There's pennies? There's pennies. I don't know if you're printing. So he prints it halfway, then stops it at a point where the, there's slots are deep enough, puts the pennies in. Oh, that's cool. And then hits resume printing, and then it keeps printing. So the pennies are like built into there, you know. He's a lot better than I thought. He just went up and did a flip and just crazy stuff. I don't know how much I can teach him. He's doing really good. Wow. Like, not going to lie, I went into this expecting you to like, be not, know the controls in acromote too much, but you seem very in control of everything you're doing. Have you ever done a power loop before? What is that? A power loop is like, so you know like a plane will do a loop? Yeah, like a roller coaster, how does a loop? Like you just keep going back and up. You know that? Okay, I'll try it. Just keep powering and flip. Like a power flip? Kind of, yeah. Like a backflip. Like a backflip, but you're giving power to it. Underneath it, yeah, like that. Yep, like that, it's perfect. Yep, that's a power loop. And then you gotta, yep, sweet. Oh, shoot, that was close. There you go. That was sick. So you see, you see those like big gaps in the pipes over there? Pipe. Yeah, right there, straight ahead. Try to power loop one of those. So you're gonna go under it, go back. Do a backflip. Do a backflip? So with a power loop, you kind of have to give throttle when your quad is perpendicular to the ground so you can shoot yourself back. You lost me there. Come back and I'll show you. Come back? Yeah. There we go. Nice. So let's pretend his hand or arm is one of the pipes, the top part of the pipe. For a power loop, you want to go under the pipe and then throttle up and go like this over the pipe. And then come back through it? And then come back through it. So it's like, you remember how you were doing a backflip? Yeah. It's very similar to that, but instead of giving all of the stick movement at once, so it's fast, it's basically like a slow backflip with a lot of power. Okay. Got that? Yeah. So what's gonna happen? So I guess like one big tip I would have for you is when trying to clear the gap is you're gonna have to like, when you're like this, give throttle so you go past it. So I'll just demonstrate it to you first. We're gonna try to go through this gap over here to do the power loop. See this one right here? So with this power loop, like I said, I want to go up and back over it like that. And what my stick is, what my sticks are doing is I'm using only the pitch axis. So that is the right side, back and forth. Okay. And then when I am, when I'm pitching back, I'm giving throttle to shoot myself back over the gap. Okay. So you kind of see like how when I am at like the top or pitched like that, I have to give throttle to make sure I go back over the gap. Now a question, you're going awfully high. Can you do it like smooth and low? Is that a thing or it's not possible? Yeah, you can do it as tight as you want. Let me see how tight you can do it. Like really tight. So it's all just a feel thing. Once you start doing more power loops and more tricks, you'll get a feel for like how far you're going and stuff like that. So you think you kind of got an idea? I got an idea now. Let's do this. So I guess just try to do that same gap that I did or one of those big ones. So you see how you didn't go over the gap? I didn't. Give more throttle to push yourself back over the gap. Yes. I don't think I hit the right gap. But you did a power loop. That was a power loop. That was a power loop. Yes. That was a very clean power loop too. Wow. So this time try to go back to the same gap you went through, you know, when you started. Wow. Oh, oh, oh, oh, so we'll go get that. Here's the thing. The drone is probably perfectly fine besides maybe a prop. Briefly, when you're, when I was flying, you touched on tight power loops and that power loop you did was really tight. So you, I think you just hit the top. You hit the top. Yeah. So yeah, only damage would pick a prop. Based off the skill level that I'm seeing of him already, I think we can get him to matty flip. What? He just did the power loop like first try. That'd be, that'd be pretty legit. He's going to go from not even knowing what power loop means to do matty flips in one day. Yeah. That'd be insane. That would be insane. There's this other trick I kind of want you to do after seeing your experience and how Gil drew on the stick. It's called the matty flip. And it's essentially the reverse power loop. What you're doing is you're pitching forward and going through the gap backwards. Whoa, that sounds wild. So remember with the power loop, you were going like this. Right. Back through with the matty flip, you're starting on top of the gap like this and you're going like that. Whoa. It's a really difficult trick and it takes like, I did my first one after a year of flying FPV. After a year. But here's the thing, it also took me like six months to do a power loop as clean as you did. So I think you have the skills like an extremely advanced. But in between power loop and matty flip, there's like so many things that you could do. Rubis cubes, split ass, barrel rolls. That's good. Just go straight for the matty flip. Let's do it. Let's do it. Because you know what? This is a good matty flip obstacle. You're going to fall into it. So the more vertical space you have to play with, the more you can fall and pull back out of it. So you've got good height with this, which is nice. Like when you get good, like you could matty flip something small, like one of those railings. If you get really good at timing it. What railings? Like those rails? You could. Someone could. What, with that size thing? Yeah. I mean, I could do it with enough. I might have flipped my straws. I wouldn't need it. What, with a micro straw? With a micro. But seriously, no, the micro. So I'm going to go ahead and find the biggest gap I can or like the one with the most clearance. So let's just say this one right here. Okay, middle. Yeah. This one right here. So with the matty flip, we're going to start on the top of the gap and we're going to push ourselves forward and back through it. I'm not going to talk while I do it because, yeah. Oh, shoot. Yeah. So you kind of get the idea. Oh, shoot. Kind of get the idea. Like you want to see them. Okay. But that was tight. So with this trick, you have to do it pretty tight or else to hit the ground. Okay. I'll show you again. That wasn't, I guess, I'm not doing them very good, but I'm doing them sufficiently. Like there. That was a good one because I can see the object the whole time. So a really difficult part about this trick is if you're lined up awkwardly like that or whatever, you won't see the object and you won't know if you actually went back through it. So it's kind of blind. It's blind. You got an average. Yes. So like. Oh, that was nice. Yeah. Yeah. But I'm asking you, when you come out of it, why are you turning around? Why aren't you like flying backwards or something? If I keep going backwards, next thing you know, you hit something. Okay. So why aren't you going forward? Why are you like spinning around because you're not sure where you are? Is that what it is? Yeah. I'm just turning around to get out of it. Okay. To get out of them. Okay. So I should turn to get out of it too? Yes. So the only part of the the matting flip itself is the over and going back through the gap. That's that's the matting flip. It's done. Okay. Now this is just me getting away to reset. So do the matting flip again. I want to see. Okay. It's just that momentary thrust. Yep. When you think that you're at that point to kick out. Yep. Okay. Wow. That was nice. And what I'm also what I'm doing is so you'll kind of notice how the pipes are not in the middle of my screen visual the whole time. So I'm almost looking to the side a little bit so I can see where the pipes are. So like you'll see how like in the middle of the screen the pipes are not visible. But if you look at in the top left you can see the pipes. Okay. Just as a just as a visual. Got it. Just as a visual. Wow. That's yeah that's tight. That's some tight flying right there. Got it. Cool. Ready to try it? No promises. Right. But I'm going to give it a shot. There's a point when you're about to try something. And you got this voice at the back of your head that just says it's a really stupid idea. Yeah. This is one of those moments. You're ready? I would try to manage with the same one that I was doing because it's the easiest. Which one are you doing? The middle one. Yeah right there. Straight ahead. That one. Oh what was that? So what happened was you didn't throttle back. You throttled forward. So I didn't get the flip. Yeah. So it's you did a more you did more of a fast flip. So I would do more. So wait a minute I was supposed to throttle backwards. Yeah when you're backwards. Throttle backwards. That's there's no throttle backwards. Well what I mean by throttle backwards is the orientation of the quad. The quad is going backwards when you give it throttle. Okay. And so oh oh oh. That's not good. That's not good. So yeah it's probably fine. So what happened was you were trying to do the the matty flip way out here and instead you want to kind of have it tighter to the pipe. I'm having a hard time finding out how am I oriented. I feel like when I went over here and I lost the pipe which is not good. I didn't know where I was. I kind of just guessed to push some more and then kind of hoped that I was there and powering up. In a case like that if you don't see the pipe bail just don't you don't need to try it every time. You can always bail out. So like if you don't see the pipe and you're like oh crap where am I just bail just bail. Okay. And then but so I guess something that can help you without hopefully is so let's say the gap. This is the pole. I think you're starting off like way up here. Go closer. Try to do it closer. So you so it's more of a tighter thing. I'm like you know how you lost visual of it. Yeah. It's because your drone was not pitched for enough. You were like this when at this point you should be like that. Like that. So got it. So basically just the use more pitch into it. The goal with this matty flip to make it easier is you want to have the pole the pipe or pole whatever you're matty flipping in sight the whole time. So you're seeing the pole all the time you go around. Got it. Got it. Got it. So remember you can always bail if you need to. Okay. You don't have to try it every time if you don't think you're lined up properly. Almost did I almost work close. You were close. I was so close. I felt it that time. You did the pitch perfectly. Right. But you dropped too far. Okay. Like you're doing the pitch you're a perfect but then you just didn't give throttle like to catch yourself. To catch myself. Got it. Because I got to go. Oh. This is going to be my last. It's not where never. So unfortunately he has to go like after this pack. So it's like do or die right now. Let's do this. I'm going to try some. Are you going to try it? What are you going to try it? Oh yeah. Let's go try it. That's the kick out. No that's not the kick out. I'm going forward. Yes. So you want to that's the problem. You want to have your flip level out so you're level and you're not facing forward. So I just have a hard time visualizing it like okay. Tell me when to power up. Let's just say I'm going through the flip now. That's when you would. Maddie flip. Take one. And remember you want to be kind of tighter. Because yeah. Now up. Whoa. Oh man. We're out of time. We're out of time. Well. So do you think you'll like with this experience of learning the Maddie flip you think you'll go and try it again and maybe. Yeah. I think the next time you see me I'll make it a point. Yeah. To show you that I won't let you down. You sent it for us. You did amazing. I appreciate it guys. You're nothing to be. I had fun but I've got to take it to the next level. We ended off with him kind of not doing the Maddie flip but getting really close. He was getting really close. He was getting really close. So we challenged him to keep working at it. And I've really been hoping that he would take everything that we worked on that day and keep working at it. And actually get it down. And the Maddie flip is a really difficult trick. It took me like two years. I mean the fact that he was able to get Power Loop so cleanly and just like one day of coaching was really impressive. And he got like way closer to doing Maddie flips than I ever would have expected. But definitely was going to take him some more practice. So it's been a couple of weeks. And last night he sent us a clip. So he told me he'd been going out for a while and he's been on a couple of tries. That's awesome. Hasn't had luck but he seems confident today. All right guys. That nervous. Next you can see. I remember like I felt the same way the first time I was like when I was learning Maddie flips I felt the same way. Yeah. It's like oh boy here we go. And right into the crash. He's so ferocious with that take awesome. Yeah. Oh he's getting so close. That was really good. Look at this. Oh my. This third person shot is awesome. Yeah. He like built a gate Xavier. I'm so impressed with the effort he's putting into this. Dude he had like a that curve looks really good on the drone. He's got the fundamental down for sure. Let's give it another go. Oh that's he that's a nice bailout what he did right there that's the way you bail out of it right. So if you're flipping forward and you lose sight you can just continue the front flip and fly away from it. I appreciate that thus far he's really been going full commit. Yeah. And saying well I'm either going to smash the ground or I'm going to make it. Yeah. But it's good to see that okay he's learning that you can bail out of it. Yeah. And even that I mean he touched he touched me. I feel like I almost had it. You did have it battling. So relatable. Yeah. This battle it's it's such a Yeah. Oh he's free and you see that. Yeah. That was sick. Here we go. Your eyes totally relate to that. Oh man. I'm so happy he did it. Oh man. Yeah. Let's go. I'm stoked. I did it you know you got to build a little rhythm hey whatever it takes right. Big shout out to the guys that wrote it right. I feel like I still got a long way to go but this is definitely a good start. That was so cool to see his progression. Yeah. I mean we just totally built on all the progression he was making that day with you and he was I think really lucky to get to have you right in his ear coaching him because he got really close that day put the commitment in built an obstacle to make it happen. And he did it. He did it. I'm really proud of you Xavier. Big shout out to Xavier. Thank you so much dude for putting in the work making this happen and sharing this journey with us. I really think it's going to be inspirational to a lot of people. If you guys want to keep up with his story make sure to go check him out on YouTube Drone X Factor. Hope you guys enjoyed this episode. If you want to continue to follow along with all our content of course hit the subscribe button if you haven't already smash the bell while you're there so we can notify you every time we post something. Guys I'm LaDrobe. I'm Bobby F.B. And we will see you next time on Rotoride.