I have a 5" quad with Dys F4 FC and a 4-in-1 Esc. Everything works great; betaflight connection is good, with a few tweaks to the rates as I'm a complete novice (only a few weeks in).

However, learning to fly LOS (before I get an FPV setup) practicing, I cannot get the quad to do a yaw turn. Going forward with a bit of pitch, then adding some yaw, I expect the quad to start turning, but it continues in the same direction at the same angle; eventually sideways at 90 gegrees of yaw then backwards at 180, and so on.

I'm flying acro/roll mode, and headless is not enabled. I can't find a setting in Betaflight. Is there something I'm missing?

Any help appreciated.

--SJ

You need to apply both yaw and roll to do a turn in acro mode.

If you connect the FC (DYS F4) to your pc with the micro-usb cable and connect to betaflight configurator, go to the recievers tab, does yaw input react to stick input?

EDIT; my bad, that does sound like the correct behaviour of yaw.

Mr. Joshua Bardwell to the recuse.

Oh! That makes sense, now! Knowing that yaw operates on the z axis of the quad, and not 'up/down' in rate mode was the key to this!

I think it is confusing because of the conflicting advice regarding rate and horizon (self leveling ) mode and starting to do turns (yaw turns and coordinated turns). Yaw turns work in self leveling mode, it seems - the z axis is up/down, correct?

As an aside, my attempts at coordinated turns are currently messy, so was trying to back step to follow some 'advice' to try yaw turns first. I'm used to rate mode, which is much more fun

Thanks, the video really helped!

--SJ

In self level modes, you would keep holding forward, and the quad would eventually turn when using yaw (well, more like drift, but it would change flight direction eventually).

In rate mode, you don't keep holding pitch forward to fly forward - instead, the quad keeps the last commanded angle. If you apply only yaw now, it will still stay at that angle, so you have to roll into the turn.

Here is another video that may help. I used this one as I was learning early on and it helped a lot for me.  



I would actually recommend the entire FPV Academy series. They were very useful