5 best tips before you fly your drone. Brett Garamella here, super pumped up for today's video!
let's jump right into it number one check airspace to make sure you can fly
legally now i put this at number one because you don't want to get in trouble with the faa
you don't want to get a fine a ticket you also don't want to put planes helicopters or anyone at
risk so make sure you check the airspace now where do you check the airspace well i use an app called
aloft last year they changed their name from kitty hawk to a loft so if you don't have it already
grab your tablet device whatever you use to fly your drone and download the aloft app now in the
app you'll be able to see all the different air spaces now you'll get way more out of this app
if you have your part 107 license which is your commercial drone license here in the
united states so i recommend if you haven't done so take the part 107 exam pass that exam then you
get your part 107 license and then you can ask for permission so you can fly in restricted areas
and on top of that it also looks way more professional and it's actually legal if you're
going to make money with your drone you need your part 107 license here in the united states and if
you want to pass that exam on the first attempt i highly recommend you get my part 107 video course
which comes with the money back guarantee i'm not going to go deep into that course but the
links are below if you want to check it out number two know the wind speed at different altitudes the
wind changes at different altitudes so you don't want to be flying and then all of a sudden you go
up to a certain altitude and your drone flies away or you have a tough time bringing your drone back
because now you're going into the wind so not only the wind speed but the wind direction is
very important and you also have to look out for wind gusts so the wind may be 20 miles per hour
but maybe gusting to like 27 miles per hour that means all of a sudden these gusts of wind can come
and go up to 27 miles per hour and that can blow your drone over if it can't handle that
wind speed so make sure you know the wind speed that your drone can handle usually it's a little
below the maximum speed of your drone so if your drone can fly up to let's say 35 miles
per hour i would only fly in like 25 mile per hour winds or less that way you play on the safe side
now more robust drones can handle wind up to 30 40 50 miles per hour so you have to know
your drone and test that out now in order to tell the wind speed i use an app called uav forecast
and this app is great because it tells me not only the wind speed at different altitudes but
also shows me the wind gusts the wind direction and other weather conditions like visibility etc
so i highly recommend you download that app and i'll put a link below in the description
number three calibrate your compass now i know this seems obvious if you've been flying for
a long time but it's amazing how many accidents and things happen just from not calibrating your
compass so anytime you go to a new location make sure you calibrate your compass and then take off
now if you go out and fly from that location and you land in the same location and put in
a new battery you don't have to calibrate your compass again you could if you want to
however you only need to calibrate your compass when you go to a new location number four turn off
your bluetooth when you turn your bluetooth off on the device that you're using to fly
you're gonna get better signal strength and less interference and as i added tip here i often fly
in airplane mode because it avoids me from getting notifications or phone calls or interruptions
while i'm flying now i do recommend the device that you fly with has cellular data because if
you're near a restricted or prohibited area in the device it will ask you to take full responsibility
so you need the cellular data in order to check those box to take that full responsibility so
that's why i recommend you get that so you'll need wi-fi to check those boxes and take off but at the
very least always turn that bluetooth off number five adjust your gimbal speed and smoothness this
is one of the most important settings you can change in your drones app because it'll make the
difference between having professional cinematic footage and amateur looking footage so i'm going
to use the dji fly app to show you the gimbal settings that i use so we go over here click on
the three little dots and it says safety above and we go to the next heading which is control
and the most important thing here is advanced gimbal settings so this is really probably
the most important thing other than getting our exposure right is advanced gimbal settings now i
already have it on my settings so what i use is the pitch speed at seven pitch smoothness at 15
the yaw speed at 20 and the yaw smoothness at 35 so let me explain each one of those this is a good
starting point but you can change it for what you want and as we can see right here it says normal
mode so these are all your settings for if you're flying in normal mode which i do most of the time
and if you go down here it says cine smooth mode so these are all your settings if you fly in city
smooth mode so you can change those if you want it slower faster for certain things you can change
it in there and then these are your settings if you're flying in sport mode sport mode and city
smooth mode these are the default settings but really the setting i use the most is normal mode
and cine smooth mode so i can change this to what i like to my normal settings here the cine smooth
mode okay i'm going to change it to my settings my preferences the pitch speed is how fast the gimbal
goes up and down that's your pitch speed right there so you can make it faster or slower okay
if we go all the way up to 100 see how fast it goes so fast man aircraft detected nearby okay so
we should probably lower our drone seen the lower right hand corner you see it's to the right of me
so i'm gonna move it to the left a little bit but it looks like i should be fine i'm at 250 feet we
should be good thank you air sense for letting us know that if we go back here now that's our
pitch speed so if we go all the way down to one you can see it's moving so slow all right so
i like it on seven that is my preference so we'll leave it right there now pitch smoothness if we
bring it all the way down let's see let's bring it down to like two it just stops where it is
see i let my finger off the gimbal and it just stops let's just bring it up a little so you can
demonstrate it a little better see how just stops in place now i don't like that i like
it to stop a little more gradually now if we go all the way to 30 you see how it stops very
gradually it like kind of keeps going so i like it kind of in between so that's why i leave it
at 15. so it doesn't stop right away but it doesn't keep going happy medium right there
and then the yaw speed how fast your drone pans over so you can see to me it's still kind of
fast even at the slowest setting which is 20 that's why i always use it at 20.
if i go up to 90 look how fast it goes way too fast we want our movements to be slow
and cinematic that's going to look the best for our clients so we put it on 20
and then the smoothness that's the same thing it's not going to stop right away so we put it on one
you see how it just stops right away that doesn't look right it just looks too abrupt too sudden
we look at at 100 it'll just keep going okay so it stops too gradually
i like about 35 to 40 i put it at 35.
yeah it keeps going a little bit but it doesn't stop right away so that's why i use the settings
that i do so those are very important settings those will dramatically give you better results
right off the bat leave those settings 7 15 20 and 35 for our pitch and yaw speed
and smoothness all right so if you enjoyed this video i made an entire dji drone course
just like this video explaining everything you need to go from complete beginner with no
knowledge whatsoever to flying like a professional and you'll save a ton of time with this course
because it'll take you only a couple weeks what took me a couple years links to that course are
in the description below along with a free dji drone webinar that gives you some of the lessons
and secrets you will learn in the full course again the links are below in the description
thank you for watching. I'm Brett Garamella, and remember, fly like a pro!