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00:58 Beta Flight 06:21 Clear Flight 07:55 KISS 11:51 Flight One 15:29 EMU 19:50 INAV

Thank you Joshua, for not putting 10 adds in every one of your videos. Please don't change that. Please don't

This channel is such a dangerous work killer. After a year or two of avoidance, i finally decided to jump into fpv drones for video work. I've probably lost 15+ hours in the past week to these videos. It's been super helpful and easy to understand. Thank you Joshua! My first drone may end up running inav now...

emu flys amazing tbh, def worth a try if all your worried about is ripping.

Ardupilot should not be missed. I have been using it for a long time and it only gets better and better

One thing to correct: Both Kiss and FlightOne hardware can run either Betaflight or Emuflight without problem, you can also flash back to the original firmware if you don't like BF or EMU.

Thank you for all your great videos you have taught me so much over the last couple weeks. I’m brand new to fpv and anytime I have a question you seem to have a video with the answer. Keep it up! It is people like you that make it easy for newbies like me to learn and get into a awesome hobby.

Thanks for another very informative video Joshua, I learned a lot again.

You became really good at starting your videos in a fun and exciting way! 👍🏽

Thank you, that was very educational, been using Betaflight only, now I understand that there's options (which I knew about, but now understand).

Eloquently described magic. Lots of very complex things made understandable. Ya did good my guru!

Thanks for best introduction!.

Good job man!

Been running Betaflight, very happy with and used to it. Your videos helped me get started. 👍 I'm going to try iNav on my 7" build. And I have the Fettec F7 30x30 fc, waiting on the 45amp esc so I can try Kiss. I love all the options. Happy flying everyone 🤓

You nailed it👌. I started on betaflight,and as I progressed. Diving into the code. Especially with 4.2 tuning, and all the ff comands,filters. The better my quad flys. It flys so smooth. I love learning betaflight with so many people in this community

Thank you man you're the best !

About EMUFLIGHT, what attracted me into it has been the 0.3.x version, and its “dynamic rates”. I love them because they can change the feeling of a quad, for example a Cinewhoop with correct dynamic rates “almost” doesn’t need stabilization in post to make cinematic stuff (pilot skill-wise) since it feels so effortlessly smooth!

No Ardupilot ???

Like most of your content, this was worth watching till the end. As a beta flight user from the start an haven't yet branched out to anything else (even after building 7quads). I'm happy with spending the time to understand all about one software program an all it has to offer. An after flashing 4.2.2 an adjusting the tune an filters (thx to help from a homie on DroneNation for some indepth help) I feel locked precision flight feeling. This video was nice to watch, an gave me good insight on the other programs running out there. I would like to now learn more about inav.

Thank you i have a betaflight compatible fc so i have tried emuflight and will be testing inav on my 5" because i bought a fc that supports the features you talk about in this video thanks

TY Joshua.

Joshua is so pleasant to listen to...I could listen to him hours and hours. Clear and structured. Joshua could have been a successful sales representative. :) Keep up the good work!

Great video, Joshua! 😊 I guess the best depends on what you want to do and how you want to fly. There's no wrong choice without considering this part. 😊 Anyway, stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

awesome JB ... after watching to the end .... I agree with you at the begining - I just want to lfy the fricken thing. lol - - - but it was good o listen to what goes on behind the curtain about this topic. Cheers JB.

Great summary, for a video of this type that's honestly hard to achieve a useful and informative balance, and you did it.

I’m the beginner that you keep referring to in these videos. Thank you so much Josh. Incredibly helpful. Please keep it up buddy.

Good summary ! 👍

Great, informative video Joshua. I learned some things. 😋

Love your work!!!!

thanks for all that useful info

Excellent job @joshua Bardwell, I own a couple Betaflight quads but love my Kiss and FETtec quads. The new FETtec OSD is incredible, so much better than the other options for Kiss.

Putting betaflight on flight one flight controllers is pretty good as well because of the filtration that those boards use. Great video as always 👍

I have the up most respect for cleanflight, even though I use betaflight. Thankyou Dom.

The new Dynamic Rates system makes EMU worth a try, it really lets you tune the stick feel to your preference.

I put emuflight on a beecore v2 bushed whoop and on a mobula 6 PMB and I love how they fly. I'm still fairly new but I did noticed a difference and prefer emuflight

I enjoyed watching this video. Very informative. 👍 As far as I you know don’t have to have a barometer or compass to run iNav. But when you want to use the full GPS functions, then you do. I run Silverware on some brushed tiny whoops, iNav on the Tyro129, Betaflight on my ET115 and EmuFlight on my Mobula 7. And I need much more time to tweak them all.... 😶

Good breakdown of the main differences. I think the biggest reason I use Betaflight is because it came pre configured on both my flight controllers (I got a Tinyhawk RTF and a Tinyhawk Freestyle BNF), and it's good enough for me. Go with the flow, I guess.

Great video Joshua! I think you missed that you always need an external OSD for KISS hardware. For me it's the wolf PDB or the TBS unify evo.

With the combination of price, user friendliness and ripping performance silverware whoops are just plain awesome who can deny? Got my first with the armor65 lite and it is able to handle zippin around and bouncing off objects without crashes and when it does it can't be destroyed only a little dinged up a real tough little bugger it is.

All I want is having my model to do whatever it is best at. So my big 7 inch long range cruiser is running Inav, my smaller and faster 5 inch runs Betaflight, my trusty old Mini Talon wing do better with Ardupilot and my next build, a micrquad 3 inch screamer will be governed by Betaflight with turtle mode, of course. The learning curve is painfully slow but the rewards are well worth it. And thanks to all the masters on RU-vid an RC forums and groups, I can always count with invaluable information, feedback and help. That includes you, Bardwell. Thanks a lot.

KISS came around when we were still running the Hobby King KK flight controllers lol Definetly pre BetaFlight, and right around when CleanFlight was getting bigger, if I remember correctly. They were sooooo expensive when they first started coming around, like $32 per ESC! My homeboy built a BlackOut with KISS ESCs, Cobra motors, and the newest Naze32 and that thing ripped.....until it got lost in a feild 😩

I do watch all the videos all the way to the end.

Whenever I fly a quad I’ve tuned with Betaflight 3.5.whatever I am reminded of how good it was

Awesome video no honorable mention of kk boards, openflight, multiwii and the infamous baseflight though, seems like centuries ago😂

There is a tempting answer that the RevoltOSD and MillivoltOSD are ideal choices - not because of FL1 specifically, but because they're actually really good Betaflight/Emuflight/Cleanflight targets, and can also run FL1 (just need to rewire certain receivers)... provided you can find them. Just run different (more available/affordable) ESC's, the budget ones work just fine, and you'll end up with a great quad that is super flexible.

Clean fight is probably my favorite just because I've been using it for so long. Since back win the cc3d first came out

I don't have enough experience but that being said watching a couple of videos somehow I feel my drone is tuned perfect and has survived in the air after some amazing crashes. Betaflight

CHORIPAN FIRMWARE JB !!!! CHORIPAN

Love simplicity but it always turns to be the most complex as well and exactly like you said there’s no tutorial videos in abundance

Great job Joshua. Betaflight, all the way. Mostly because you have educational stuff on it. Keep making sure I learn something today.

Stock BF PIDs are best as a starting point for 5inch X- and elongated X-frames, with a conservative pitch 2-4 blade prop on 2000-2400kv motors and a 1200-1300mah 4s pack mounted on top. Three or four years ago, that covered most basic introductory setups, save for high end RTF and BNF kits. I remember my first betaflight whoop board, it came tuned with PIDs over triple stock BF values and felt perfectly locked in, right around the same time UAVFutures was giving almost all the new eachine 5-inchers a "pretty good" out of the box tune rating.

Inav is always my goto.... but i fly fix wing. I finally picked up quad parts and tossed betaflight on it. Oddly wouldn’t arm or work, but inav worked. This pointed me to why! Inav doesn’t use bidirectional esc, but betaflight does... damn wiring!

I am in this hobby for around 15 months. I started with Naze32 + cleanflight. Then immediately came into my rig Emax Buzz with betaflight 4. It was flying pretty good, as what I can tell based on my small experience then. I have already get rid of buzz and I have been flying other 2 kwads. Few weeks ago I decided to switch all my betaflight stuff into Revolt FalcoX and Kiss Fettec. Also bought TBS Tango 2 and HDO2 (switching from Attitude v5 - there is huuuuuge difference). With all this stuff I am feeling that I am entering this hobby once again, from scratch, from zero to hero xD Thanks Joshua for sharing. Keep posting great stuff. Take care and stay safe and healthy! Btw, good to mention that FlightOne is working on H7 new boards! Check Wild Willy channel! Cheers m8!

Ty and Well done sir, well done ^_^

Nice summary. I'm a fixed wing guy but watch a lot of your content as it's relevant to what I do. Glad you brought up the fixed wing component. Struggling with the iNav/DJI issue. Do I use betaflight? Sounds like I don't. I know there are ways to configure an arduino to translate iNav to DJI but I'm not sure I'm ready for that. So I'll have SFA for OSD with the DJI system. But damn does it look good.

i just started flying FPV, with BF for a beginner like me it's madness. FL1 save me due to it's wizard, but i am looking forward to try BF , just need more time

I was a big fan back in the day of OpenPilot CC3D boards -> They had a great setup wizard and my favourite part; the user made templates for some 5-inch 1806/2206 quads, 450mm quads etc. And it flew pretty damn well... I came back to flying recently and found its forked to Dronin... but don't see many people using it? Where is the Dronin love.

Joshua, have you ever considered doing an arducopter build video series? I think you could make some very cool videos where you start with the very basics and then cover advanced topics. For example: RTK GPS, optical flow, precision optical-based autonomous landing, and (if you reaaly want to show off your engineering skills) implementing a companion computer running a custom python script developed using DroneCode that adds custom sense and respond capabilities.

Wow, it took you a while but you finally acted on my suggestion to compare FWs. Thanks!

Gyro vs Setpoint is all we need to see from all of these. Betaflight can prove how good it can do the job.

I startet flying with a cc3d and openPilot. But i changed it to cleanflight and later to betaflight. I think betaflight has the Best tuning settings.

I'm really looking foreward to a school-project for upcoming schoolyear: building a copter with GPS and variable payloads, including different cameras and so on. We are planning to use iNav.(With experience in Betaflight) Great overview, thank you for the video!

I use all of them Have a kiss quad 2 on beta 1 on emu (with helio spring) 1 quad with a H7 with falco And a plane on inav I like to play with all I agree with the kiss thing that its difficult to trouble shoot wobbly wobbly stuff I think I like the feeling of emu flight the most And the ease of setup falcoX (as long everthing works because when you have trouble its very very closed source)

Also, only CF, BF, PX4 and ArduPilot and FalcoX have support for the latest H7 processors where as EmuFlight and INAV currenly support upto F7. Though INAV is currently working on H7 support.

I have quads on BF, Inav, Silverware and Butterflight. I'm pretty well versed in the first 3. I like inav the most and if you wonder why it doesn't have turtle mode "IMO" is because inav if for level flight i.e. like the DJI systems you mentioned. SUPREME Agility and acrobatics are not the vision but nice and easy, long, level endurace flights are. We need GPS more than propwash handling. This whole expectation of having a FW that just does it all on a push of a button is redonk

Great job as usual 😎 if I’m a fan of a RU-vid channel, I’ll sometimes just let it play through even if I’m not paying attention anymore 😁 not in this case of course 😎✌️❤️

I built a badger and marmotte hd.. had wobbles. Tried everything couldnt fix it. Went to emuflight. Was less wobbles. But lowering tpa I fixed it. Was set too high. Flies like a dream now. I love emuflight.

I agree… I personally started with libre pilot, then CF then BF.. tried Emu and FlightOne and eventually found my way to KISS and never looked back! That being said everyone I fly with runs BF

Betaflight can be overwhelming and a lot of pilots don't want to go so deep in the configuration. As you say they want to fly! In my opinion, Betaflight should introduce "layers of complexity". One simple GUI more oriented to ask what do you want to achieve ed another more for fine-tuning. The first one dedicated to quick preset settings for different kinds of quad, maybe asking the user some basilar informations needed to elaborate the setting (as type of quad, motors, props diameter, intended use, weight etc) and, why not, different presets of pilots who want to share their setting (like EMU). It's not simple to do it, but it would be very useful for a lot of people. Thank you Joshua.

I wish you would have covered silverware in here also. Very interested in your opinion on this compared to the others. Whoop Whoop!

Man I was hoping you’d close with “This brings us to the end of the video, and as always the question .. should you fly it?” Ahhhhhhh. I’m going to try Emu, thanks for roundup

iNav has come a long, long way but resource remapping is the only thing that lets it down, however, proper build planning will get around it. I run a 7 in Bandolero with DJI and xfire on iNav for mid/long range and it's awesome. I can push as far as DJI will go and have full confidence that I can flick a switch and she'll come home, EVER. SINGLE. TIME.

you should do a kiss and falco x tutorial, that would be great

Betaflight's PID has been an absolute nightmare, helped my brother with his KISS FC V2 build, literally assembled and soldered the quad, flashed firmware and it flew. I spent 1 whole week tuning PID's and I still need to do some fine-tuning.

Great video, its a very tricky subject. I believe you dont fly kiss all the time because you are a tinkerer. You love that betaflight command line too much :)

You can flash FalcoX on matek 411 targets. Not just F1 boards

Hi Joshua, could you ever do a video with a cinewhoop on different firmwares, especially emuflight vs betaflight :).

It would also be nice to note which do and don't play well with DJI.

I suggest beginners to use EmuFlight first as they have presets that tuned by pilot testers for some of their builds. If the default or presets is not good, then switch to BetaFlight for more deep dive! LOL!

thanks for all your vids keep it up 2nd

What is on the kk2 it was Amazing for its time

Silverware is the best for whoops! Look out for Quicksilver that is on the way and I can't wait for it to be out soon! 😍😍😍

KISS is out of the box the best FC for me and also in terms of using more than one Copter. Betaflight might be constantly updating and improving but you have to start from scratch everytime and it is difficult to make two kwads with the same hardware fly as the others.

One that I was hoping you would have had on your list to talk about is ArduPilot/ArduCopter. Do you have any options on this FC firmware ?

Good stuff. So why don't you fly Kiss more often? Not an issue b/c where else would we go for Betaflight tutorials!!

Imagine the world if you had only one flavour of ice cream? I like a couple of flavours, Betaflight for my 3 and 5" quads. Just works on a variety of FC's , especially the cheap ones. Betaflight just works. For my fpv planks and wings I use inav. Love gps, barometer and autonomous functionality for those flight controllers. I"m no racer or freestyler i just love to fly!

I fly Inav only because I fly wings and drones but this was very informative

Flight one's hardware can run all firm wears but kiss. However great video!!!

Good vidéo, im french ans il gonna Rey inav on my 8 inch drone, i tryed betaflight but it was jiggling ans unflyable, box i Knox why even if i was suspecting betaflight.

Betaflight🤩

KISS is definitely superior when it comes to ease of setup, flight performance and feel, however the hardware and build process is a pain point for me. I fly 6S and don't want to tediously add caps to every ESC, but also don't want to use the KISS 4-in-1 which explodes into flames. So, I used the Fettec ESC which works well, but you have to add extra spike absorbers to your caps to prevent it from popping. Additionally, KISS/Fettec FC's require external OSD's which is yet another part you need to buy and install. When the KISS V2 went out of stock I installed the Fettec FC which randomly died after disarming about 6 inches above the ground during my second flight session on it. The added time and cost needed to build a KISS quad (plus reliability and availability issues with hardware) has pushed me to go back to Betaflight. Although BF is not as straight forward to setup/tune, the build process is simpler, cheaper and in my experience more reliable.

It is maybe usefull for some people to know, that it is possible to use standard ESCs with KISS (save some money and get KISS stick feel)

Racing for me Betaflight, for freestyle or reliable long range INAV. Lately whoop EMUFLIGHT

I fly only on stock pids and Bidirectional DShot using my own rates with BF and I have no issues. 5in /7in all fly great in my view. Yes I can fine tune if i wish but instead of wasting time tuning, I prefer to go out and practice. No matter how good your tune if you can't fly well it makes no diff. Practice Practice and more Practice and you will be fine with BF 4... Plus out out of the box.

suggestion. What would a perfect DJI drone look like?

JB you can use kiss , and f1 boards with betaflight ...

Flightone 🔥

Eluflight all day for me. Just feels good.

You do not need a FlightOne FC in order to fly FalcoX... they support other F411 fc like Matek and Diatone etc, you just need to buy FalcoX license to install it!

What a great analysis JB, thanks for that one. What about butter flight ? isn't this a thing anymore ? Apart from the oppenness of betaflight, the words you used to speak about it sort of make it feel like the windows of FC. KISS and FalcoX follow Apple like strategies, and then a dispersed crowd of linux distributions with their specific flavors, try to innovate and survive.