Practical PID Tuning - Part 8 - Getting From Good To Perfect 

Nice education video. I've been using KongKong props for a period of time and found that they are well balanced by the manufacturer. Learnt from your videos, I raised up the P and D to remove oscillations. Based upon the stock PID, I raised the P term by 0.5 steps while the D term by 5 steps to test the best settings.

Joshua, aside from your PID-tuning prowess, your flying is really sharp. I have been watching your videos since last year, and I must say that your acro skills are top notch. And that is one sweet muumuu......

Great video! This is a tough area for me! Thanks and great work as always!

Very nice, Joshua! Very helpful! Thanks!

great information as always .

ive not tried raisen my yaw on p I will av a go see what happens thanks for the info and video helped me out a lot

It would be nice to see the PIDs that you used and adjusted, I am fairly new to PID tuning so the challenge for me is the starting point.

Drinking game: every "propwash" take a shot..boom headache the next morning. Maybe you should call it "how to tame propwash 2.0" Great video, keep em coming! Could you edit in your PIDs or changes into the video, like in your DVR videos? Its easier for us to follow your thoughts

EDITED: Mentioned the quick speech, but seems my youtube player had bugged out and played everything at like 1.5x speed. Weird. But nevermind ;)

@Joshua, I have yet to see it or hear you talk about it but when im doing some amature LOS and when I do a roll the quad looks like its "tick tocking" to try and describe it as I am doing a full roll the quad looks like its skipping every 20°. As I have said before you have been a huge help in the multirotor community thank you for your time and help.

Joshua, I have just watched your Practical Tuning series back to back and I have to say it is very cool how your flying has become more and more refined. In this video it really is wonderful to watch. You have much more nuanced control of the copter which is really nice to see in terms of progression from the earlier videos. I have a question about tuning out propwash. When you have a copter that handles propwash scenarios correctly, can you still hear surging in the motors as the copter rides the turbulent air? It appears not from this video but... I have been assuming that getting rid of propwash would mean the copter always sounds smooth and you wouldn't hear that classic fluttering oscillation sound as you descend through your wake with power on, but it occurred to me that perhaps you WOULD hear this but the copter would not physically oscillate. So the motors are rapidly changing power settings to deal with the dynamic turbulent air thus you HEAR the sound but your footage would look smooth. Like a car on a bumpy road - you would SEE the suspension working to smooth out the bumps but the chassis would be steady and stable. Is this correct? Trying to work out what I am aiming for when eliminating propwash through tuning

awesome! after watching all the tune videos, and trying it out, i can see and hear what you are talking about! and my tune has gotten much better! love your work! now i need to get some KingKong 5040 tri-blades! :) how do you feel about 6" props? on a 250 quad

Hi Joshua,is there a quick way of disabling motor filtering? i only ask as one of my quads i did it to is playing up,yes i did a dump of my old set up but for some strange reason it won't work when i try to put my old set up back in Betaflight, I also sent you an email but i understand if you are to busy to help. Much love and respect from the UK. 😉👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

Would you consider sacrificing smoothness for better lap times and a little propwash. I am asking because you mentioned that to be 95% tuned you shouldn't have propwash but i have found that when making full speed 90 degree snap turns that if tuned for no propwash the quad will wash out or drift out of the corner but with a lower d gain the quad digs into the air and jolts itself into the new direction more aggressively.

Hi. Can i see in pid tuning video your betaflight version and your final pids ? That could be cool ;-) . Thanks

Hey Joshua thanks always for your content you really helped me get into this hobby. I have a tuning question and I'm not sure if this is the place for it but idk where else to put it so here it is.. Just built a QAV-X having odd problem with pitch I term, nose pops up on throttle blips and drops after punches even with I at 85: Bflight 2.9. BB shows motor 1,3 output at 100% and 2,4 at 80% at full throttle which I expected meant CG was off and too much weight in the tail but this is not it. I tried everything even hanging the battery off the front, had to be like 70/30 weight distribution towards the front and the problem was exactly the same. Every part is brand new so idt the rear motors should be making less thrust. Any ideas? I was going to go as far as to mess with the mixer drop the front motors power but I feel like something else is wrong and that's not a solution just a crutch if that even were to work.

Thanks for this! You mentioned that you were closely monitoring the motors for overheating. How were you doing that and how would you know when it's a problem?

is there a way to eliminate the bounce from landing? I really want smooth landings without disarming...

When you say jump up the e.g. p gain. How many points are we talking. Just curious

when you say high D gains, how high? I heard that it's best to avoid high D if possible but I was wandering what is considered too high? And answer for betaflight 3 if possible :)

Thanks man, watched a heap of PID tuning vids (Inc all yours) and yours are helping me learn to tune the most. Just one question, how do you know if you're motors are too hot from high D? Mine come down a little warm but not hot.

Wouldn't More I term help with prop wash? What are your thoughts?

Hey, how are you doing, I once ask you if it's possible for your I gain to be higher than your P gain, but Betaflight 3.0 stock I gain is higher than the P gain on pitch, any input on this? thanks. ............d

have you tried blheli_s yet? I just got in 20a and 30a racerstar v2 (sunrise cicada rebrand) and I'm finding a lot of things I couldn't seem to tune out of my old lb pro are SO easy to get rid of with these. everything runs cooler and tuning is a lot easier in my opinion.

Hi there Joshua. I am currently having an issue with my quad slightly yawing to the right when I do flips and rolls. I am not quite sure what to change on my tune. It seems to do it more on rolls than flips. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks for all your videos as they have helped me out in the past.

What is prop wash? One question when my quad is in stationary it just does goes to the left? Why?

little question joahua, I'v been playing around with the notch filter, and its working butiful, you have any advice on dterm_lowpass and yaw_lowpass settings when using notch ? thanks in advance

Hello Joshua.. I am using PIDs close to 90 on my HQ 5x4x3 and I am still having some prop wash. I am really concerned of having D gain too high, so I usually try to keep D at 25ish... What would you say that would be the ceiling for P and D ?

Hi Joshua, do you know if raising your P can result in a smoked ESC? Just went for a test flight and after about a minute it burned mid-air...

Yeah yeah yeah, this is all very good but what are your PIDs :P

hey josh, what are your thoughts on the Flip 32 Omnibus?

What are you wearing

What the heck are you wearing