As the title suggests.  
  
How do you feel when flying your drone? I've just flew my drone roughly 50ft away from me and started to feel anxious. Worried i'll lose control and it will just fall out of the sky. I brought it back and landed which seems to be fairly rough but it survived.  
  
I thought i'd give RTH a try.... Yeah fuck am i ever touching that switch again! The drone flew up a good 20ft or more before i switched it to manual mode and brought it back down. A little hard this time and caused the drone to bounce and break one of it's landing legs. No major damage to anything else. I'm currently super gluing the plastic landing leg back together.  
  
I just can't get that anxious feeling out my my head/body. I'm filled with adrenaline and shaking right now having flew my drone for the first time.  
  
Any advice no how to relax and enjoy the flight? Any advice on actual flying?  
  
If it helps my drone's total weight is 2532g. I'm very tempted to look in to the parachute launchers as a safe guard.  

Should i focus on building a much smaller quad?

I assume you're talking about the DJI NAZA V2 you have installed. Unfortunately I have no clue how reliable that system is, or how the RTH works, but if it works like any other DJI RTH system (i.e. the one used on the Phantoms and Mavics) then you set an altitude that you want the RTH to work at and when you initiate RTH, the multirotor will climb to that height before then turning around and heading for home. This is done to enable you to set the altitude high enough to clear any tall trees and other obstacles in the area so your drone doesn't crash into anything when it is on it's autonomous journey home. So I think what you saw happen is perfectly normal.

As for being nervous, we've all been there. It's all about gaining some trust in your equipment. It's always difficult when you have a $400+ investment up in the sky which is flying purely by RF signals. Over time and through experience, you begin to understand the capabilities of your gear and will start to relax. There are however times when you might get a knockback which puts a dent in your confidence and have to start building that trust all over again. That has happened to me a couple of time by way of failsafes on the 2.4GHz system. I'm now using a much more reliable 900MHz RC link system (Crossfire) and it has restored my confidence ten fold. If you switch to iNav capable FC then you will have a number of RC link options and a whole load of comprehensive configuration available to you.

I get nervous still all the time. But usually when I am flying out a distance I have not flown before or if I'm flying a new spot. For the latter, the anxiety stems more from getting hassled by drone haters than from actually flying. You get used to it though and the anxiety decreased every single time you fly. But also keep in mind that adrenaline is what sharpens your senses and keeps you flying safe so a bit of it is a good thing.

Yes anxiety is part of the hobby
The nervous part for me come with the 2.4ghz radio signal (like Snow said) because I had failsafes and warnings even at 300/400 meters. That gets me off a bit because I'm always afraid of getting behind stuff. Also, I'm always alone on some unpopulated area, that's tricky too!
With a 2Kg quad like yours I would try to fiddle a lit more with the GPS stuff, and put a GPS failsafe into it..
For the flight, try to go into an open area, grassy or dirt/sand at least and don't go too high. Get to know the environment before take off, because sometimes, with the rush, you get lost in the air and panic
If it's possible lower the fpv camera angle so you fly slowly.

LOL I missed the 2kg part. Yea that is a big bird man. Most people start out with a tiny whoop which, as the name suggests, come in at like what 2grams. lol

lol that's how ur supposed to fly.... HAHA Seriously every time I charge my batteries I KNOW I HAVE TO DISCHARGE THEM... and then I'm like DAMN... I actually  have to fly this thing now..... then I tentatively go out and fly even though I kinda don't wanna cuz there is always a risk of breaking something. When my final battery is finally discharged there is a huge wave of relief. ;D

RTH is supposed to make it go high into the air, so that's a good thing..... It goes up to avoid any trees etc... you can set how high it goes. But ur supposed to feel that adrenaline.... why do you think we are all addicted.... haha getting ready to fly is like the same feeling you get waiting for the crack dealer.... I mean..... ummm.... yeah. 

Seriously though that's hwhat's fun about it. ;D You shouldn't get that feeling as much BEFORE you break/lose your first drone though ;O

BTW.... Get ur RSSI reading so you can see your signal so you can be somewhat confident that it's not gonna get a fail safe.

Maybe I missed something. Are you flying LOS or FPV...if FPV are you using goggles or a monitor? Sounds like  you have a huge quad; what are you flying? 

I started flying with a tiny whoop in the house. I really wasn't anxious because I couldn't loose the thing and it bounces off of everything without damaging it or what it hits. After learning to fly LOS, I switched to FPV and never looked back. FPV all the way for me.

When I moved to flying outside, I got (and still do) very anxious. Even in my back yard, I almost lost the quad several times. We live in Florida and the brush down here is murderous. One time it dropped less than 30 feet away and it took me (and my wife) over 30 minutes to find it. Yeah, and bLoWsMoke knows about getting stuck in trees. I now run a buzzer on my quads which helps. Also, if the quad drops very far away, you still have to go get it...or more like find it when you get there. 

But excitement is part of the fun. It is exciting when you are in the air and all you can see is what is right in front of you. No peripheral vision, no back vision, just forward. By the way, what I fly doesn't have any automagic features like hold this position, return to home,  fly level, or what ever else. The control is all manual; take your hands off the transmitter and you can loose control pretty quick...or loose the video signal (even for a short time) and your anxious excitement pushes that heart rate right on up there. Yeah, I like the excitement.

So...DO I get anxious...Every Single Time    

(12-Apr-2020, 01:41 AM)iFly4rotors Wrote: Maybe I missed something. Are you flying LOS or FPV...if FPV are you using goggles or a monitor? Sounds like  you have a huge quad; what are you flying? 

The OP is flying this beast, by LOS at the moment I believe. In the other thread he/she was still debating whether or not to get a VTX, so that means no FPV link at present...

https://intofpv.com/t-access-tx-and-accs...7#pid88467

"Should I just focus on building a smaller quad"

The answer is yes.... Yes sir, you should.

I have been flying for years and every once in a while there will be some hiccup that brings back a fear of some failure induced hiking...I LOVE FLYING! I usually fly within a few hundred meters in my neighborhood, but have begun pushing out to multiple kilometers and once I cross the 1000 meter line, it is like a dose of being in the moment...nothing else exists, just the spot I am occupying and the spot that the quad is occupying OUT THERE in the big world.

I fly my 3" long range quad instead of my larger ones most of the time and the feeling is the same. If both are reliable, there is no difference really...just one is smaller. Know that the smaller one is less visible and most folks will overlook it I guess.

Really, as you start making many successful flights the familiarity and confidence will grow on its own. Eventually you will push this limit or that boundary and then you will have a new normal as your starting point for the next flight. It is likely easier to do this with a smaller quad for many pilots.

Welcome to being a pilot!

That is one of the best parts of FPV, the range of emotions during a single flight.  It can go from pure relaxtion to extreme terror, and eveything in between in one flight and in an instant.

But if you want the full meal deal, you will want to start flying FPV.  The sensations of really flying are very distinct, and FPV improves the experience significantly.  

You can never fear the worse in this hobby because one thing is for sure, the worse will happen, but if it does you just build again.

WOW! Thank you all for the replies.

Sorry it took me a while to come back and see all of these. What an amazing community.

To answer a few questions,
Do you fly LOS or FPV - At the moment LOS but i have ordered everything video related altho i won't have googles anytime soon so my phone screen will have to do. I feel having some sort of view from the drone will help my confidence in flying.

2.4mhz or 900mhz RX/TX - I'm using an R9 paired with R9M which is 900mhz (868mhz EU) so i know i've got the range. I feel if i had RSSI telemetry data showing my sat lock, and signal strength that might help. I've just found out about N3 OSD which seems to bridge over the GPS cable allowing dome data to be sent to the R9 RX.

Naza RTH function act's correctly - Yup! I watched a video of someone with a f550 flamewheel activate the RTH function in multiple ways. If you activate the RTH at a low altitude it climbs 20m to try and avoid tree's and houses while it returns to home. In the assistant i should be able to change this to a desired height.

The feeling are mutal - Well i'm glad i'm not the only one experiencing these feelings while flying. It's such a thrill but at the same time the sense of fear as you cross your safety boundaries are insane. That adrenaline rush when you hit the stick a little too hard and watch as your drone tilts way to far and having to try and get back control. I might stick with GPS mode for now and get a feel for the drone itself before switching to ATTI mode then once confident back to manual mode. I'm pretty sure i was close to rolling my drone yesterday. Definitely something for a smaller drone not large.

You're going to break stuff - I'm already ahead of you here. I broke a blade the first time i ever attempted to power up the drone. I ended up making a mistake with an order and bought 24 set's of blades (6 each set) so i'm pretty confident i have enough 10x45 props to burn through. I've also just bought 8 new arms. (F450/550 4 screw type) they're a little smaller than mine but only a few mm and my 10x45 props have a 1/2 inch gap at the closest point. Unsure if i can get 9x45 tri blades. I can't seem to find anywhere that does large drone parts anymore. Everything is designed for 3-5inch frames these days.

I think my only other question would be, Where do you out the OP number on your drones? I've placed sticky lettering down the side of my battery as it's the only location long enough to have it in view. Unless i put the letters on the top of my frame or inside the frame.

Again i want to say a HUGE thank you to all of you guys here for giving such amazing advice and help. I joined originally just to ask a couple of questions and it looks like i might be sticking around for a while because of the amazing community feeling you guys have.

I guess I am sort of "one of the guys" at this point, actually started on this forum to just ask a few questions regarding a repair and found a wholesome group that opened my eyes to the FPV world! I know we are rare, but women fly as well and while I will never be the next Patty Wagstaff, but this will have to satiate my need to be in the air

I don't get nervous or excited anymore in this hobby, but I've been building and flying these things since 2012.  I think this hobby is like most things, once you are familiar with everything and fully understand how the aircraft is going to react, the nervousness subsides and you can just enjoy it.

I started with a Naza based aircraft like yours, and although reliable, was fragile when I made a mistake.  You may want to consider building a freestyle multirotor as they can take several crashes without breaking anything but a prop.

Not sure if this is normal but, a few months ago I bought my first FPV drone, an Eachine Novice III kit. Any attempts to fly LOS freaked me out, I thought I would never be able to fly something that didn't have GPS, RTH, etc. I got a tiny whoop and I flew LOS and I would still have tons of anxiety. A friend of mine suggested I just put my FPV goggles on and give it a go and the strangest thing, I had zero anxiety and now I am fully enjoying this hobby. I can still struggle to fly LOS but the moment the goggles are on, it's just so relaxing!