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Yup it's weird how you go from having to think about every little correction to being able to just fly and think of where you want to go and have it happen, longer term can practice tricks in there like power loop or split-s and get the stick motion down before tinkering around in real life...

Bummer your FC isn't supported there but good to be aware of that option I think. Practicing throttle control to maintain altitude while flying is definitely a challenge, but once you get the hang of it it becomes part of the fun being able to dive or take banking turns etc. but is a somewhat...

Yup the expectation of altitude hold is just not a thing without some considerable work on the part of the person building and configuring things. You may want to check out iNav firmware as well can normally flash it onto modern betaflight compatible FCs but it is focused more on things like...

Suggest watch this series or some other betaflight based quadcopter build

Basically two motors spin one way (diagnol each other on the frame to same direction) other two spin opposite way so the force of the spinning cancels out when all motors going at same speed.

The motors need to be spinning the direction indicated on betaflight configuration or motors tab near the top there is a diagram the 1,2,3,4 positions need to match and direction needs to match for things to work. You can remap the signals if 1 on motor tab isn't in right position for motor 1...

Yup it happens, just had a when it rains it pours, week of things breaking. Couple new FCs should get here today though so should be back up in the air soon (new motors probably Friday or early next week to renew my old backup quad too)

Thanks yah trying to get out to some new spots even if local to get some variety in. Unfortunately I busted both my 5" quads in the last week so down until new FC and some new motors come in. Guess just how it goes sometimes but first time since getting a second quad both are down for the count.

You could always use do not disturb option too pull down on Android. Also regarding range you can get usb-c compatible vid output receiver then don't have to rely on built in wifi could use some more advanced receivers but yah effectively ground station which can be a little cheaper but still...

If want to throw money into a pit and don't care to know why if a thing fails and not learn to diagnose and fix problems totally fine that's one option and sometimes better to save the time and spend the money but depends on the person and what background and how much extra cash they have.

There is a USB connection used for doing all the betaflight configuration on every flight controller that works with betaflight. So you would connect the quad with a USB cable to the computer then download and install betaflight configurator (this is necessary for any diagnostic or adjustment...

This should help at least understand what blackbox is but for now would just be looking for warnings or events in the log playback that indicate why it disarmed.

Often helps to take a look at the blackbox log or on screen display (osd) "warnings" option to see if can get some more info from the FC on why it's cutting power. It sounds likely it thinks there's some kind of runaway and so is cutting itself off but it will similarly "failsafe" if the...

You don't need fancy goggles they are nice for blocking out glare if they fit your face better though and will typically have more options for receivers, some are also higher def than most smart phones and/or have higher refresh rate which can help reduce latency (in general less latency since...

Nice does look like good practice spot even some little gates to mess with. Only thing I'd worry about there is all that tall grass but just make sure have a switch for activating beeper mode and/or vifly beeper and should be good.

The more generic or prebuilt stuff will usually have a receiver which is the component that gets the signal from the transmitter/controller you hold and passes the signal along to the flight controller component that handles the actual self levelling and motor control. Quads sold as a ready to...

This one claimed to use the cam. Skydio does actually do object recognition on board but is way more costly and advanced I'm sure. That said there are little pi cameras with object detection built in for basic colors etc. and I've seen some cheaper quads here that use optical flow for position...

Oof just noticed my c value examples were off by factor of 10 but I fixed hopefully that isn't terribly confusing... Anyway regarding prop changes suggest go to ecalc.ch pick out the quad calculator and adjust the pitch or prop sizes in there to see what kind of effect that has on everything...

For 5" quads I typically fly 1500mAh 4S batteries with 75-100C rating from the mfg and tend to work well but this is a bit of a lottery with which mfg you get cells from and if they can actually deliver the current advertised.