I am pretty new to the hobby but I spend more time fixing my drone after a crash than actually flying. I don't mind the building I enjoy it but I would love to fly more that 3 days in a row. After my last repair i flew it 1 time and crash, looks like burnt esc haven't taken it apart yet. Anyone else have this issue when they were starting or tips how to avoid crashing.

Crashing is inherent in this hobby, especially at the beginning. I used to feel like you. Couple tips, fly a little higher when you first start. Be in an area with less obstacles. I also recommend getting a second or third quad. Fly one, while you repair the other.

More practice you get, the less you crash. But at some point, you will get more daring and you will crash more again.

My issues I get bored just flying around I need obstacles lol. Other thing is I'm in vegas there is no soft surface it's all rocks it's hard flying in parks where there is grass they are usually too crowded. The 2nd troje seems like a solution I have one that's almost built.

VooDoo gave you some good advice.  We used to teach noobs in the helicopter world to fly 3 mistakes high (have enough elevation to recover from 3 mistakes in a row).  Yes, taking baby steps when learning can be boring sometimes.  But if it saves you anguish and money on the road to being a great pilot, then it's worth it

I feel your pain on how unforgiving mother earth is in this area.  I too am in the Greater Las Vegas area.  If the rocks don't get you, the sand and grit in your motors will.

You didn't mention if you fly with people that know the area.   If not, and you're on Facebook, this is a group that might give you ideas where to fly.  Vegas Goggleheads

Good luck, and welcome to the world of FPV!  Even with it's challenges, it has to be one of the best hobbies.

If you don't get bored with it, just practice on a nice sim. Velocidrone just saved me time and money and, like you, I started with trees and freestyle flying. I have few flights since I finished my build and started flying but never had to replace a component. Try it.

I've tried sims I cant get them to behave like real drones it's either like laggy not enough gravity or too much gravity cant get them right. But I will start flying higher and keep practicing like that. Just got my other drone fixed so if I crash one I'll fly the other and no down time while waiting for parts.

You really need to find a grass field, I'm looking at a satellite view of Vegas and see a few parks, UNLV intramural field, etc.

Your actions in a crash can change how many parts you break also.

For example if you disarm as or just before crashing you will almost never burn a motor or ESC and it reduces the number of broken frame and prop parts.

I have seen so many esc's fried from people waiting a second after their crash to disarm, and they generally take a motor with them too!

yep I did for sure. almost gave up. but I gota admit that I am obsessed. so I didnt . I kept repairing and built some of my own. it shortens the learning curve.
Do you use acro trainer in betaflight, that might help to get used to it.
F.K.

Oh I've learned my lesson on trying to recover when it's too late burnt some motors. So if I'm going down I just let it go shut it down.

Flying in parks is almost impossible. I have a park 5 minutes from my house but no matter what time i go there or what day it is there is always people and pets running around I just dont want to take that chance of hitting someone. When i first started flying it was in this park and I had a close call. My goggles shut off i couldn't find the drone not hear it so i shut it off mid flight came crashing right next to a woman walking on the sidewalk so i just dont risk it.

There is alot of desert with nothing around I'll just go fly higher until i get better.

I have not heard of acro trainer. Is that a sim?

(17-Apr-2019, 08:29 PM)LvFPV Wrote: I have not heard of acro trainer. Is that a sim?

It's a mode you enable in Betaflight. It gives you the manual control of acro while you're learning to fly in rate mode but without allowing you to invert the quad so you can't inadvertently flip it. It does mean that you can't do rolls and flips but you can progress from acro trainer to full acro mode to that once you feel sufficiently competent flying in rate mode. Baby steps

Have a watch of the following video...

I just realised I forgot to mention that if you decide to use acro trainer mode, the default maximum tilt angle is set to 20 degrees by default which is way to shallow IMO. I suggest bumping it up to at least 45 degrees (80 is the maximum). To do that, go to the CLI and type the following commands:-

(16-Apr-2019, 04:34 AM)voodoo614 Wrote: More practice you get, the less you crash. But at some point, you will get more daring and you will crash more again.

No kidding!

It really does get better as you build your skills.  We all get to start out and that is where we learn the most!