Am I crazy? Question about pitch

[New_guy_cant_fly]

I just recently got a Flywoo CineRace20 and was flying it for the first time with what should be the stock config and I noticed something very odd when it came to pitch.

When flying away from me if I move the right stick (mode 2) up, the quad would pitch the nose down and the quad will move away from me as expected. Here comes the weird part, if I rotate the quad 180 degrees (with yaw for example) and have it facing me and I do that same action and push the right stick up, the quad pitches the tail down and the quad moves away from me.

I am pretty new to all of this so please excuse me if this is normal thing for some setting that I am unaware of. I've tried searching for this and can't seem to find anything that documents this online. Thank you in advance for any info you can provide me!

*I don't have any video of this but I can record one tomorrow if anyone wants to see

 

[Earthman]

Sounds like you are flying in “Headless Mode.” Google “quadcopter headless mode.”

In Headless Mode the drone has no “head” and will move away from you when you push the right joystick away from you and toward you when you pull the stick toward you regardless of which direction the drone is facing. If you are facing the drone, right and left work the same way; i.e., pushing the right joystick to the right will make the drone move in that direction with respect to you, usually in an arc of fixed radius with you at the center, so the drone will be moving clockwise around you.

In Headless Mode, drone direction of movement is relative to the pilot’s position. In other flight modes, drone movement (fore, aft, port, and starboard) is relative to the drone’s orientation/point of view.

Headless mode requires a quadcopter whose flight controller includes GPS and magnetic compass sensors. The flight controller probably records the takeoff location, so don't move far from the takeoff location during the flight.

Headless Mode is an attempt to make a multi-rotor easier to fly for beginners.

I teach a lot of summer drone camps for kids, but I don’t teach using headless mode or first person view (FPV). When flying line-of-sight and "Mode 2," where the left joystick is throttle and yaw and the right joystick is pitch and roll, I tell newbies to face the same direction the drone is facing, even if they have to look over their shoulder, to avoid getting the controls confused. This works with multi-rotor and fix-wing RC aircraft. I also tell them when flying line-of-sight to fly multi-rotor aircraft back to them with the aft end facing them to reduce the risk that they will get confused with port/starboard turns during the critical landing phase of a flight. Multi-rotor aircraft generally fly equally well in any direction.

Headless Mode is probably covered in your drone’s manual.