- Hey guys, what is going on?
In this video we're talking about
some of the biggest mistakes for new drone pilots.
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- Alright, so I'm putting this video together because,
I know there's going to be a ton of
new drone pilots this holiday season.
There was a ton of Black Friday deals
and I know, just ramping up towards Christmas
there is going to be a ton of new pilots.
And I know a lot of you are going to be getting
the Spark or the DJI Mavik Pro,
because those two are great drones to start with.
The issue is you see a lot of people who
are getting these new drone and then doing
something really dumb, and then they post about it.
So, they put the video online.
And you're going to see these videos popping up
all through the New year, of people crashing
their Mavik Pro for the first time.
Mavik Pro fail, Mavik Pro crashed into the TV.
Like people doing really, really dumb stuff
with their drones for the first time.
So I'm hoping this video will help
a lot of you new pilots, because
I've got a ton of questions, I've got a ton of comments.
I've seen a lot of these videos,
where people are destroying their drones
and it's easily avoidable if you know
how to handle your drone properly.
Alright guys, so let me give you 20
of the most common mistakes so that you can
avoid them when you're flying.
Alright, so number one is just not
preparing your drone properly.
So when you get your Mavik Pro,
there is a gimbal clamp on the actual gimbal.
There is a cover over the gimbal.
I've seen so many people who, are trying to fly
and they just take the drone out of the box
and start trying to fly it, and then they'll take off.
Well there's clamps that hold things
like the gimbal in place.
So make sure you take all those off.
Also with that, is the different stickers all over.
There's stickers over your sensors,
there's stickers all over the drone.
So make sure you remove everything.
So that your drones clean, it's free of any stickers,
it's free of any clamps.
That way when you start flying
you're not going to have any issues.
Alright, number two.
This is one that I tell people all the time.
It's update your firmware.
Even though you're getting a brand new drone
make sure you set it all up and
update to the newest firmware.
There's a reason they keep updating the firmware,
is because there's bugs.
So if you don't update your firmware
then you might have an issue with the drone
that could cause it to drift off,
fly away, crash, I don't know, do something.
Alright when you're first getting your drone
your going to have to calibrate your IMU,
and you're going to have to calibrate your Gyro.
So if you don't know how to do that,
go through the manual.
If you have the DJI Spark, I have a
beginners guide on my channel.
I'll put a link in the description.
But then also a tip for those guys that are traveling.
I reset my IMU and Gyro every time I get off a plane
or I'm doing a long trip or something like that.
Because you don't know what has happened
in the process of moving from one place to another.
Alright, so the next one is important,
because you don't want your drone
to return home to the wrong spot.
And that is make sure your GPS is set
before you start flying.
So when you flip on your drone,
and you're sitting there waiting for it to connect.
Don't take off and start flying.
What you need to do is let it sit there
because the GPS will take a minute to kick in.
And once it locks in on the map, then you can start flying.
Otherwise the GPS might say you're in Hong Kong
and the drone will try to fly there when it
goes, return to home.
Alright this one I see way too many videos on.
And I don't know why you'd think this
would be a good idea, but.
Flying indoors the first time you get a drone.
I know you're excited, you just got your drone
from under the Christmas tree.
You're sitting there with your family.
You're going to pull it out
and you're going to want to try it fly, right there.
And a lot of people are doing this.
So they're going to fly up and they're
not going to know what's going on.
The drones going to take off, crash into the TV,
chop someones arm off, you know like there's
a lot of things that can go wrong.
You're going to want to fly it
in a big open space for your first time.
So people often assume that, you know
drones are easy, that they're made to just pick up and fly.
But in all honesty it is a high-tech piece of equipment.
So make sure that you treat it like
a high-tech piece of equipment
and don't just brush over the manual
or brush over, you know a guide.
Because if you do that, that's when you're going to crash.
You got to know your drone
and you got to know how to fly it,
before you even turn it on and take it off.
Alright and that goes into the next biggest mistake.
And that is just not knowing your drone,
not understanding your drone.
You know the worst thing that you can do
is not understanding how this object works
and how this object flies.
So you need to know, like what everything on the drone does,
what everything does on the controller,
everything in the app.
So really take time and learn all those different pieces.
People that don't take time and learn the pieces,
they get up in the air, they start flying,
and then something crazy happens
and the drone will take off.
And you have no idea how to fix it,
when it could be a very easily correctable thing.
You get fly-aways all the time.
It could have been a setting that
someone just put in there wrong.
And it caused them to do a fly-away.
Alright, so the next biggest mistake is that
people will fly without a spotter.
So what a spotter is, is a person.
Another person, not you, that is maintaining
a visual line of sight the entire time.
Whereas you're focused on the controller
and the actual screen.
People don't have a spotter the drone
will like hit a tree or something.
You just got to understand your space,
and if you're a first time flyer,
you're not going to know from off the app.
So you're going to want someone to watch
the drone as you're flying it,
especially for the first few times.
Okay so this is a big one for first time flyers.
And because of this there's been a lot
of rules and regulations that have been changed.
And that is flying in restricted areas.
You see, people go and fly in
these places that they're not supposed to be
just because they don't know the rules.
And then because you posted that video on Youtube,
you're now going to get charged with a fine.
You're going to have some sort of regulation change
because you flew where you didn't know.
And being ignorant about the situation is not a good thing.
Just because you haven't flown before doesn't mean
you have the right to fly where ever you want to fly.
So like there's a story about someone who flew
in a national park, that was before the national park rule.
And like caused some major issue.
So make sure you understand the laws
and regulations before you fly.
Alright and this goes into this next one.
Make sure you understand the FAA guidelines.
These are the rules in the U.S.
So if you don't know the FAA guidelines,
which is not flying above 400 feet.
Which is not flying above crowds.
Like, there is a bunch of rules that
they set out to basically keep drones safe.
And to keep other objects that are in the air safe.
And you'll see people fly like right next to planes
and then that is clearly violating FAA guidelines.
Okay, so this is another one where you see a ton
of crash videos online and that is
not understanding your drones sensors.
Just because like the Mavik Pro and the Spark
have sensors that basically stop you,
tell you if there's like and object near you,
doesn't mean that they're perfect.
So if you're flying into telephone wires,
there's a good chance that its not going to see those
and your drones going to crash.
So there's a lot of situations where, you know
something is thin, something is small and your
sensors are not going to pick it up.
You can't rely on your sensors.
So you see a ton of crash videos of people
you know, flying into an object just
because the sensors didn't see it.
And you have this cool crash video,
but they also have no more drone.
Alright so this is another one about your GPS.
And this is especially for,
and this is all about new flyers.
And that is make sure your GPS is engaged the entire time.
So when you start flying, some people want to turn
off their GPS for some reason, I don't know.
I never really fly without GPS.
But if you want to fly in a different mode
for the first time, understand your drone completely.
Don't go and start flying without your GPS, right away.
Because the GPS is what keeps the drone in this spot.
If there's no GPS it's going to drift, it's going to do this
like, it's not going to stay stable.
Alright so this is one that's really important.
And people glaze over this all the time
which causes crashes, and that is not understanding weather.
There's so many people out there that
do not understand weather and they try to fly a drone.
A drone is in the sky, sky has weather.
There's wind, there's rain, there's different
types of weather patterns going on at
different levels and different heights.
And you see people like fly over a gorge
and a gust will kick it and the drone will
take off or crash or do something.
You know, you get over a building there's
there's going to be a wind gust.
Wind dynamics change with different objects
and different types of places.
So you got to understand weather.
Alright you see these kind of crash videos all the time.
And that is people flying into trees.
Just don't fly into a tree.
People want to get those really cool shots
where they are flying next to a tree.
But they don't understand that you know
what you're seeing on the screen is not
exactly what you see up in the sky.
So they'll get close and they'll
hit a tree and they'll fall.
Just don't get near trees, especially
as a beginner drone pilot.
Just don't fly near objects.
Just stay away, big open field.
I mean there's so many situations where
someones going to fly into a tree.
Especially going backwards or sideways.
That's why you have a spotter.
And that's why I said you need a spotter
at the beginning because if you're flying
towards a tree, someones going to say
hey, hey, hey, you're flying towards a tree.
And then you can take your fingers
and hands off the controls and it will stop.
Okay, and with flying into trees, automation controls
also cause a lot of people to fly into trees.
So you have those cool automation tools on
on DJI products that allow you to,
basically set it into something like an orbit
or like a spiral going up.
You know, there's these cool things that DJI
has included in their software.
A lot of people, the first time they start flying a drone,
will start using these right out of the gate.
And a lot of them are setup for anyone
to be able tofly a drone with a push of a button.
The issue is there is limits to these.
If there's an object, if there's a tree
and you're doing and orbit, it's going to hit that tree.
Alright another thing that I see happen all the time,
is that when people start flying drones,
they want to test the range on it.
So the first thing they do is fly
as far away as they can.
But there is an issue.
You need to have battery to come back.
If there's wind combating the drone
as you're on your way back.
It's going to slow down the drone
and your just going to drop your battery.
So a big mistake that I see happen all the time
is people fly too far, and they don't have enough
juice to come back.
Alright another mistake which,
I don't understand why people do this.
You know, I have three batteries for my drone
so that I could swap them out so that I can
keep my drone going.
But a lot of people will drain their battery.
And a lot of people fly til the battery is completely dead.
I never let my battery drop below 30 percent.
Just because if there's an emergency
I can get the drone back still.
I mean the worst thing you can do
is run out of juice as your flying.
Alright, I know I already covered this a little bit earlier.
Flying backwards.
When you fly backwards, you're going to hit an object.
There's no sensors on the back of the drone.
So one of the biggest mistakes is people
will fly backwards and then crash the drone.
If you don't have a spotter, if your flying by yourself.
Make sure you keep your eyes on the drone
and not just look at the screen and then fly backwards.
Okay another huge mistake of beginners.
Is using your controller and just staring at the screen
the first time you fly, the first few times you fly.
And not actually paying attention the drone in the sky.
As soon as your just staring at that screen,
you kind of lose that whole connection between that
this is an actual object up in the sky
instead of just a video game.
You've got to learn the drone, and then
you can learn how to get cool cinematic shots.
Alright and the last mistake that I see new pilots
make all the time is putting it in Sport Mode,
and not understanding that Sport Mode
changes the way that the drone flies.
So, sport mode makes it very fast,
but it also changes they way in which the controls work.
You'll think that you have control, but you'll
try to pull back on a joystick and it will keep going
and crash into something.
So the biggest thing I want you to get
out of all these mistakes that people make
for the first time.
Is that, you need to understand your drone.
You need to understand the software.
You need to understand how it flies.
And then once you've got all that down,
you can start focusing on getting
more cinematic shots, be able to fly in those
smaller places.
Because if you're trying to fly but you don't understand,
but you don't understand your drone completely,
that's when there's going to be issues
and that's when you're going to crash.
Alright guys I hope this was helpful,
I hope this was eye opening for a lot of
the things that could go wrong the first
time as a flyer.
Guys, if you want more tutorials on drones,
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