I'm Joshua Bardwell and you're gonna learn something today
Today we're talking about a new feature of beta flight 3.4 called acro trainer mode a lot of people when they start to fly fpv
They want to start in angle mode Auto level mode. And of course the advantage of that is it makes it easier not to crash
but it also teaches you habits that eventually you have to break when you switch over to acro mode and
Most fpv and racing pilots do end up switching to acro mode eventually
There's some tiny what pilots out there who do race very well in angle mode
But there most pilots you see are flying in acro mode. So how do you learn to fly?
With still having sort of the safety net of angle mode, but you're not learning those bad habits acro trainer mode is the answer
I'm gonna tell you what it is and show you how to set it up stay tuned
In order to demonstrate what a crow trainer mode does I want to first demonstrate the difference between
Angle mode and acro mode and that may sound a little bit dumb because I mean we've all flown in acro mode in angle
Mode so don't we know what the difference is but actually a lot of people haven't ever really stopped to break it down
We just fly it we don't really pay attention to what's going on
so let me I'm gonna do it in the simulator because it will be easier not to crash and also it's raining outside and
Also, I just want to show off this new level and liftoff, which is my house. So right now we are in
Acro mode or what's sometimes called rate mode and in rate mode the stick deflection controls how fast?
the quadcopter spins
So if you look down in the bottom center of the screen
You can see my stick deflection
and
if I go way up high and then
Deflect the stick a little bit of deflection and the quad rotates out of an a crash see a little bit of deflection the quad
rotates slowly and a
lot of deflection in the quad rotates quickly
But the point is that the stick deflection controls how fast the quad is rotating if I Center the stick
The quad holds whatever attitude it was at it doesn't keep rotating
Here I am in acro mode and
Liftoff doesn't have an acro trainer mode as far as I know so I'm gonna actually demonstrate acro trainer mode in beta flight
But acro trainer mode basically means that you're flying the quad in rate mode in acro mode
so the stick deflection controls the rate of
rotation
But the quadcopter will refuse to go past a certain maximum deflection
So it's kind of like you're in angle mode in that the quad will only pitch forward this much
But you're still flying
Exactly as if you are in rate mode, so you're learning the right habits
But you don't have the ability to accidentally flip over and flip out and crash
So here we are in beta flight and we are in the modes tab now if you need a full tutorial
For how to set up modes. I have a video about that
Including showing how to set up your transmitter you and in my case of Taranis with to assign the switch and all that stuff
But if you know how to do that stuff then in order to activate angle trainer mode
or acro trainer mode
all you have to do is go down here to the bottom and add a range and what I would suggest you do is just
make it be
active 100 percent of the time or
you can have it switch on and off if you have a switch set up to switch in between
Angle mode and acro mode you can have acro trainers so it only turns on when you're in acro mode
But I'm just gonna turn acro trainer on I'm going to drag this so it covers the entire
Channel range it's gonna be on 100% of the time
We do not have any angle mode setup or horizon mode
So we are not going to be an auto level and I'm gonna be able to demonstrate to you how this works
This is the quad that I'm gonna use to demonstrate this feature
This is the newbie drone acro be with be brain v2. And I almost always fly little Tiny Whoop
sized quads like this in angle mode
I've tried them in acro mode, but they're just just - they're too crazy in acro mode
So, let's see if acro trainer can rein it in for me
okay, so I'm gonna armed the quad and I'm gonna lift off and
The quad is definitely flying in acro mode. It's not self leveling
I am having to keep it level
By adjusting the sticks and you see if I if I tilt it a direction and take my fingers off the stick
It does hold its altitude because we are in
acro mode but if I push the stick full forward it
Just goes to 30 degrees and stays there. It does not flip over backwards like it would normally again, I'm gonna do it again
Ah, I fly it so bad line of sight guys. I'm sorry
that's full that's full for actually I didn't even get to pull forward to be honest with you because the
Rates on this thing are so freakin high that it reaches. It's 30 degrees instantly, but
You see it just stops and locks in and crashes head questions. Yeah. Well, so well, there you go
That is acro trainer mode in beta flight 3.4. It doesn't prevent you from crashing entirely ah ha ha ha
But it does
Give you just a little bit of a safety net so that if you just deflect the stick a little too far the quad doesn't
Just spin and flip over and crash instantly
it'll let you get a little bit of practice hovering cold in the quad in one place and
Then once you get a little more confident
You can turn it off and you can or you could just increase that angle just a little bit but default is 30 degrees
But you could set it to 40 or 45 or even more 60 degrees like Maddie stands
Yeah, okay, so if you're learning to fly
Fpv and you've been thinking about learning to fly an angle mode try a crow trainer
Instead remember that there's a link down in the video description
To the video where I show you how to set up flight modes on your I think I used taranis
I might have even done free sky in spectrum. I'm not a hundred percent. Sure
I think is he anyway did sound the video description go check it out
If you need to learn how to set up flight modes, that's gonna do it for this video. Thank you for watching. Happy flying
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