Fly Line Of Sight LOS With Drones Quadcopters Like A Pro! 

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I flew 6 channel Helli's for many years before I got into quadcopters.. and I flew LOS for the first year of having a quadcopter.. FPV was way out of my price range then.. I did find that putting bright colored props on the front of my quad really helped me keep track of its orientation when it was a bit farther away.

Hello Andy, I bought the Tyro79 shown on your channel. Im an old fixed wing pilot. Every part, without esc and flight controller, I had to change because they quit working. Just within two months. I tried LOS first, because I was a little bit afraid of fpv. But a 3inch is too small for longer distance. So I did fpv with my planes first. Then I was comfortable with that and I changed to the kwad. Sometimes I get seasick from drone flying, but it's so much fun to me. Now I build a 5 inch on my own.

Thanks for this Andy! I have always marvelled at your Los abilities since discovering your channel! It's definitely a valuable skill worth developing, Even if one only predominantly fly's fpv. Cheers Andy, your appreciated.

I remember after a few times trying LOS I got too confident and flew way too far away. I literally lost the quad and was only able to fly it back by being insanely lucky. I couldn't see the quad, just hear it getting louder/quieter. That was intense...

Thank you so much @AndyRC for the tips when your quad is facing you. I never thought about thinking I'm behind the quad when it's facing me. I'll have to try that and hopefully get used to it.

From someone who made the mistake of doing my 1st slight (and sending it!) via line of sight. ESP. Coming from traditional camera drones. Don’t make that rookie mistake. Use the goggles when starting out. Then move to line of sight flying with FPV. Without the goggles I lost orientation 2 sec. after take-off. Nice job on the sponsorship Andy! 👍

oooh, a Skillshare sponsorship, you've hit the big time now :) Thanks for the Sim shoutout, it was most useful you flying LOS in it that time as we found that odd error about where the pivot point was and allowed me to fix it. I don't know if you'd agree with this, and I really don't do acro LOS, but I always find that when starting to fly LOS that keeping yourself flying forward when starting to nose in flying (or circuits) is a lot easier than attempting to hover. I always find it much easier to imagine myself from the quads point of view that way (similar to how you imagine standing behind it all the time)

Thanks for this Andy👍! I have flown line of sight for many years. From sailplanes to now collective pitch helicopters. I totally agree that LOS flying is a must have skill. I built my first mini quad in 2012 to help me learn coordinated turns when I was struggling to fly helis. It made all of the difference in the world! I even set it up later with reversing motors to practice inverted flight, much less stress than practicing with a 550 size heli ;) . I mostly fly my quads fpv now but test fly LOS first. Now I'm practicing fpv inverted flight 😎

i love los i flew los with an fpv drone with no camera gear on for about a year when i firsr got into the hobby mostly because i had no money for googles this was back in 2017 but i still fly los sometimes a tip is keep your fpv googles on your head and if you lose oreantion pull the goggles down fly back these day i fly dji for freestyle and sharkbyte/hdzero for raceing but los is how i got into it i can fly los acro great video andy

been flying my quads for around 7 years and never found the need to fly los , but i do appreciate people will get smoothing out of it . i enjoy flying my jets and warbirds los but thats because they look good

That's a great concept Andy thank you. I'll try that imagining I'm in the back of the quad when flying acro los.

This is awesome, Andy! Thanks for making this video. I especially like the tip about not having the quad face you directly to help visualize standing behind it!

Just realised I place my view behind the quad and rarely fly directly towards me for LOS too. I enjoy flying LOS rather than all this FPV GPS phone nonsense 😂 it's the skill of flying that's the challenge for me, although I find my thumbs really ache after a while and find it quite draining after around 20 mins due to high levels of concentration. I use old school Phoenix flight sim I grabbed at an RC convention probably 12 years ago now and a cheapo FlySky i6 with one of those 22 in 1 USB dongles to practice and learn. Then take out my self designed and built quad (similar size to the one in this vid) using the FS-i6 and Cleanflight too. Fun!

Hi! I found LOS to be a must the first time I lost video signal. To improve acro tricks I decided to dedicate the temporary switch to toggle between acro and level. When things are about to get complicated I flip the sw to recover in level mode, understand the situation and release to get back to acro. I had the idea after watching a video about DJIs freeze button 😅

Fantastic tutorial, Andy! Thanks a lot! 😃 As soon as I get a new PC I'm going to try it out on the simulator! Anyway, stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

Hi Andy Just a note for anyone like me that don't have a pc for a simulator and uses their phone I use FPV Freerider. I can use my frsky xlite or the pads on the screen of the phone. Was good enough to learn the basics. Where I come into trouble is I only have speedybee and therefore all my models and the xlite are stuck on the firmware they are sold with. I have no way to flash a fc or install the latest bf etc. Anyways I hope this helps anyone in a similar situation.

flew gas powered rc heli's in the 90's , used trueflight sim back then , mechanical gyros were pretty crude. then solidstate.. 3D was real challenge , setting up dual rates etc for inverted flight

I'm half competent at forward flight, light freestyle, and hovering back-in. I haven't yet gotten muscle memory for back-out hovering or more aggressive freestyle. Also, my VTX is broken and I have no antenna, so it's REALLY easy to lose orientation when I get a little further out! Particularly with acro, where you need to know orientation just to not immediately crash into something...

I am a newb at flying rc’s. But after 8 drones and 2 planes in the last 2 years I have to say planes are a lot easier los. I really never fly my drones los. Last time I did was a cheap 35$ banggood special. I almost lost it it’s maiden. Lol. I think I’ll try and rip my nazgul5 lol this year tho. Great vid!!

Thanks andy

A good useful video, that I did not realized existed. Thanks Andy, for posting a refreshed edition. Been wondering how to fly LOS beyond basic hovering and flat turns, or horizontal moves. Do you have any suggestions to what maneuvers to practice first and if there is an order of natural progression in skill level?

As an absolute rookie who has just managed to get their first quad bound and flying, this couldn't have come along at a better time!

Finally ! Acro LOS flying only. Its such a adrenaline rush flying los thats the only way i fly now

Fking genius Andy. Hope the recovery from the sickness is coming along quickly.

2 point roll and knife edge cheers for the ideas! and lesson! head tracking glimpse looks fab. - head tracking on a quad ? - Good Health Cheers

I suck at LOS. Nice tips, though. And congratulations on the newly acquired skills.

That was very helpful. I have been going from Angle to Acro, will try Horizon, the power loop is my goal.

I love LOS flights!

Good stuff, LOS is fun, how i started

Excellent controlling, Andy

Thanks Andy ..it'll save me quite a bit of detergent(from no skid marks)😉👍🍻

Finally someone else who actually likes vlos is cool with FPV drones. I'm at the about to get a simulator stage. I have a good powerful laptop but want to connect it hdmi to my smart TV. Would that dongle still work ? I have same radio as you. Cheers Andy

Great job, Andy!

I subbed as soon as you said you fly in mode 1. I thought I was a amongst a small group surprised.

Looks good.Line of sight no problem for me seeing i fly helicopters.

Forward and backwards and side to side where my bread and butter for quite some time 😅😊

Often the fpv beginner's temptation is to land in line of sight and thus remove the mask inflight. I think the transition inflight is pretty disturbing and end up in a crash. Is it something you do often?

Keep up the good work # freestyle drones✌

I've been flying LOS since way back with planes and helis and can do LOS somewhat with quads but the orientation is what always gets me because they look they same no matter which way they're facing, unless you have some LEDs or something.

Thx mate👍👍 Mikey

@14:18 That's a great point.

Hi, thank for video 👍🏻 Which dron did you recommand to practice LOS flight ? Regards

@8:42 George Washington's face is in the clouds, center screen above the trees. Is this a conspiracy? Is this real life?😆 Thx Andy! Great video!

Thanks for this video.

LOS is stupid hard! For me i just cant keep the orientation of a quad (front vs back vs sides) even using your body orientation trick. Planes are a bit easier for me to fly LOS with, but still difficult. Thanks for your great videos and tutorials!

Hi Andy. Have you seen Quadmovr's Quad rocket. He is the L.O.S Master. Peace out man.

Hi, great video as usual. It was cool to see the old warhorse X220 out there (I've still got mine, but 5 inch quads are harder fly in the parks now!) It's great to see you've got some independent sponsorship too. Would it be possible to not put unskippable in-video ads in the middle of you videos, but rather at the end like a lot of folks do? I pay to not see ads on RU-vid and I find mid-video ads really break my interest in a video.

I can fly pretty good FPV but not LOS. My biggest problem is getting the orientation right. I can do LOS if the back is facing me. I can even do that in acro but the minute I try to face myself the quad gets a little too close, I panic and disarm. I need to practice in Velocidrone. The physics in that sim suck in my opinion.

I definitely need to do this! Is it easy to find los mode in Curry Kitten? I haven't checked yet, but I've used that sim a few times in the past.

I wonder why you didn't mention Freerider as a Sim ?? It's been around forever .. it was the first sim I got. I did install Currykitten but haven't tried it yet. Another Sim, which also requires 'Steam' is the DRL Sim .. but I think that one is more geared to racing than acro/freestyle. I think there's quite a bit of disparity in the 2 flying styles. Those who are good racers are not necessarily good freestyle pilots .. and vice/versa. A long time ago, there was a good freestyler named 'Charpu' (still some YT vids of his online). He's the one who got me to build my 1st quad (ZMR250 - 3S - 1806 motors) and, of course, I had to have a Taranis X9D+ to go along with it (which I still have). I'd had a break in my flying from my competition fixed wing days (where I flew Mode 1) .. so when I started flying quads, I just went with Mode 2 (all the toy grade TXs were set up that way). I flew a lot of toy grade quads (all LOS) which helped when I flew other quads. Still not good at Acro .. need some more time on a Sim. Perhaps its too late for this old dog to learn new tricks, as I've been flying RC craft for 60 years, going back to single channel days. Cheers!

I'm halfway where you are. I can do some tricks los sight, powerloops all directions and even the "suicide trick" (blip the throttle when upside-down) but somehow I can't take a corner properly los. But switch it to angle mode and I race across the field a foot above the grass making orbits and corners like a pro. Put on a goggle and now I can't fly in angle mode.¯\_(ツ)_/¯

When you "get in trouble" you don't need to disarm .. you can just switch to Angle mode instead and the quad is perfectly stable. Why would you crash it into the ground instead ?

when doing a nice turn do you use just roll or yaw and roll together?

Nothing on the market like this anymore, hard to find something similar

As a UK pilot, how did you end up flying Mode 1 Andy?

is this a re-upload im ive seen this video already

Weird how a tx16s is used for simulators but for irl los its a flysky. Amazing line of sight tho!

Looks good bro, greetings team #bckflp

still sucks on LOS :( Lost orientation too fast lol

Are you using same rates LOS as FPV and what rates?

flying LOS acro is really hard😬

That is not true, RU-vid recommends older videos a lot for me!

the difference between drone and plane los is that the drone doesn't self align forward to forward that's why it's harder

Yep.. los on quad is easier compared to heli..

Can't and won't Los lol

Theres no such thing as LOS!!!!! Its a myth!!! Lmao! No, not really, but damn is it hard. Now I am learning fixed wing so I am figuring it out. But after flying FPV, LOS is very hard.

Wow, paid ads...good to see

Great video as always, but if you want to see pure witchcraft Los flying, Check QUADMOVR... pretty sure you,ll be holding all his beers.. Thank me later.