I just call it the “making sure no one is screwing with me” move

I like how calm the dog is, hes used to this thing flying around.

Joshua, thankyou for being awesome and wearing those FRESH white socks. they kindof stole the show for me as they sat atop and beneath those CRISP shoes you got on my man. as always a great tutorial

Wow! As a newbie, exactly what I was looking for. All the videos talk about this, but only show the results. With your stick inputs showing, that, at least to me, is the most important part never, or very seldom shown. Thank You! Thank You! I'm now subscribed.

Thank you Again....I LEARN soooooo much on each of your videos, I have to go back and watch them over. Joshua, you are awesome for this INDUSTRY TITAN of KNOWLEDGE! You have earned my respect...look for me as a new patron

i think centering the object is the basis for a trippy spin, thanks JB🙏

Keeping the target in one spot near the edge of the screen is exactly how dragonflies hunt.

Back in my Quake days we called it a circle strafe.

I learned so much

If the centre points stays the same, it's a funnel dude. Always been a funnel, always will be a funnel. It existed before quads, long before the delightful MR Steele did one, even before he knew what a heli or quad was. If sideways and centre points moves, it's funnel turns.

Like always when watching a Bardwell vid, I learned something today.

You have a way of explaining things that has no equal in any channel that I know of.

Got to love how chill ur dog is why ur flying! lol

this is one of the many things I need to learn, love this trick

Josh, you are an excellent teacher, keep it up.

Very educational my friend. Will be practicing these moves more. Thanks ✈️😊

Been struggling to perfect this for ages, this really helped

This is soooo the best Orbit tutorial!

Great tutorial Joshua - thank you so much! Will be practicing lots more in Liftoff with this. I’m aiming for 100 hours before I start flying my drone in full manual in real life 🙌

that's kind of what my bedroom looks like the morning after a night at the bar..lol. Good lesson Josh. Keep up the great work!

Really great tutorial! Thanks.

Thanks I will give a try again. Great explanation.

nice work , love your trick tips .

Excellent tutorial.

Thanks Joshua. Really help a lot.

Great video and breakdown, going to try it next time im flying.

The thing about circling yourself (or whatever you want to yaw spin around) in kind of your "peripheral vision" seems key to learning this type of trick and I wonder if I would have ever figured that out myself. JB is amazing with figuring out how to break things down so that inexperienced pilots have a much easier time learning moves. Thank you so much, Joshua! 👍👊👏🙏 Now if someone could make flying with uptilt click in my head...lol. I MUST have my uptilt at 0. At zero uptilt, I'm not horrible. Everything makes sense, I can put the quad where I want it, I'm working on flips and rolls and I'm definitely improving every time I fly, but I hate uptilt. Whenever I try to fly a quad with uptilt it's like I'm putting my hands on a transmitter for the first time all over again. I suck, there's no other way to say it. I can't judge altitude, and because upward thrust is no longer perpendicular to the direction I'm looking in, it completely hoses the control I feel at zero uptilt. At zero, I'm on my way to hero, but with uptilt, I AM a zero! 😉 Sorry for writing a book here folks. It's an attempt to see if by writing about it to explain it might make something click, which often seems to work for me. I realized my obvious next step in troubleshooting my Tiny Hawk just yesterday, while talking to a friend about it. Somehow, trying to explain something to someone who speaks the same language (techie) , more often than not, causes me to find the answer or at least ideas in the right direction. But back to my issue. So when uptilt enters the picture, the "misalignment" of the plane the camera is oriented in, and the control axes (is that the correct way to spell the plural of "axis"?) of the quad throws me for a loop (sorry, bad pun couldn't be helped 😂). Oh well, no clicks in my noggin so far, and I've run out of ways to keep droning on about it. I got nothing. 😐 I guess I'll just keep flying zero uptilt for now. As I improve overall, I'd hope I'll also get better at wrapping my brain around compensating for uptilt. If not, I'm more into the idea of freestyle than racing anyway. Maybe if I'm stuck at zero uptilt, I'll end up with really unique looking video that makes people wonder how I do certain moves, since everybody's used to seeing video shot with significant uptilt. I'm starting to think I might have to change my "handle" to ZeroUptiltFPV... 😜👍😁👊

Learned to do this alone, then found your video :) typical of me LOL. Good stuff!

Great video Joshua.

Awesome! Training... That is very helpful!

Thank you for this awesome tutorial, I will try it out on the DRL sim. God bless 🙂🙏🏼❤️

i'm dizzy but i love this! happy weekend, my master :)

your dog is soooo relaxed .. nice flying and explain.

Joshua, I assumed everybody just called this "sideswiping." Anyways, you break it down really well for those who learn this way...but I learn differently. The way I learned was to just go out and try...started out very uncoordinated, like in jerky steps, with jerky corrections (some yaw, oh, then some roll, one after the other instead of coordinated). Eventually you practice enough, and watch enough Steele videos for inspiration, that suddenly you realize you're sideswiping with almost no visible corrections apparent on video. Achieving a smooth sideswipe will make you feel like a reasonably accomplished quad pilot, and really allows for some fantastic throttle control exercises--cheers

Thanks for the lesson this has helped me

really well done Joshua, the tip on circling is one I have tried to describe to others, now I can them to your video.

you answered my question thanks Josh....

I would call this more of an orbit. When I think of a "spin" I think of a rotation on axis within the boundaries of the object that is spinning, not the act of circling around a different object. Think of planes doing flat spins, or snowboarders / skaters / bmx doing 360's etc... rotations of that nature are always referred to as spins. The name you gave this maneuver is more confusing than the maneuver itself :-p When I think of a yaw spin I'm picturing a 360 on the yaw axis. Naming conventions aside, great tutorial! I'm sure this will help a lot of people.

Thank you very much

Great video

I've been practicing this. I thought the sticks would be like a gps camera drone with opposite yaw/row.... Thanks for clearing this up.... Now I'm getting it! HA hA, I've been doing this to my dog and she chases me!

You described in and instructed it better than Steel did

Beautiful yard

just getting the hang of these. going both ways is important to not learn a directional bias.

What do you use to stick this pretty overlay from black box (i assume you grab stick pos from blackbox)? And how do you syncronize it with video?

The amount of different stick inputs is also dependent on camera tilt. The more your camera is tilted the more aileron you will use. Also throttle control is a huge part of getting locked in.

Look at you with white pulled up socks, you gangsta!

great job one day I may fly like you

thx sensei !

What part of the country are you in? It looks gorgeous there!

Which camera do you use in this drone ?????

Thanks Joshua! Let me ask you, how do you sync the main video and the sticks layer? Which technique do you use?

I love to do an aggressive yaw spin leaving that trick

you are amazing! and I hope one day I could fly with my dog staring calm beside me, but first times he just barked all the time and try to litteraly kill my drone 😅 however, I noticed that your right stick of the black box point exactly at you when you're orbiting, so next time I'll practice I'll try to point my left stick exactly in the direction of the object I'm orbiting, could be a good tip 😁

how is this possible tho :( has soon as my ya goes below the center of the left joy stick it falls to the ground :( yours is below the center and still remains above the ground. I am using lift off simulator

That's pretty hard at the beginning but your trick is perfect :)

I've been working on this. It's not as easy as it looks!

Good dog. Thanks !

Thank U

Nice video 👍💗....

Nice video. Not to offend anyone, but is this move really that difficult for most people? Seriously asking because without realizing until this video, it was a move I automatically started practicing and doing when I began flying less than a year ago. Mainly because I wanted to learn turning around objects, plus it's just fun. - Victor @ MWQ

Thanx BOSS!:-)

Your battery lasts for quite long, is this 2200mah on 250 frame?

I am really confused now. I found two videos of guys showing how to circle something and one way both joysticks are inward. The other way and both sticks go outward. Works on simulator too. Wasn’t able to circle till I tried that. You have both sticks outward right. Or outward left. Been too windy to fly here. Going to test on simulator

Josh, what are you using to overlay the stick inputs?

this is a great tutorial, my biggest problem is rolling out, now I know why thank you! is there any way you can do a tutorial on the "Matty Flip" that would be awesome.

Joshua, any chance you could do a video on how to do 2 things: A slow roll and a fast roll where in both cases the copter rolls along the camera axis as opposed to rolling along the copter axis? Apologies if this has already been covered, I didn't see it.

thanks for all your videos !! As a beginner, it's a gold mine for me !! But this orbit move is very tricky, and as I don't remember where is your yaw axis, I have difficulties to understand your moves. Do you think it's possible to add your fliying mode in all your videos ? Thanks again from France !!

Bards, I need help orbiting a moving object. Tutorial... please?

from Battletech it was called "Kerensky's Circle of Death" :D

Man, you have a nice property. Must be nice to charge some batteries and just fly outside. I bet it helped with your skills a lot. Thanks for the videos.

I call it "orbit"

Lol, I'm an idiot! The pooch comes bounding up and for a second, when JB said "Hello, puppy dog", I thought "How did he see the dog with the goggles on!!!" .

in the 3D helicopter world this move is usually known as a nose-in funnel

Well that clears things up... I have been trying to replicate this so many times but I alway rolled into the move and messed it all up.

what i suggest YOU do, rip the springs from your gimbals. its all natural after that.

Which lens on the camera?

Me IRL watching you fly in circles. Now I'm dizzy.

This is different than Steele's. In your case the quad is always rolled a bit to the right so the horizon is tilted, while Steele can orbit around with horizontal horizon.

I am so jelly of Josh's property...GOALS!!!

we call that a funnel on helicopters

A revolution, or orbit. Revolving around a centerpoint.

I'm sorry, the video is great, but the dog is REALLY cool!

Wow. If I can learn to fly half as proficiently as you I will be a happy bunny. :O)

Was this in self-level mode, or was it in acro?

interesting as to touch the sticks lik this looks more as angle so autolevel mode, I do it at autolevel by roll and yaw

does air mode make a difference in this?

Funnel! its a long time 3D helicopter move. Copter Dog is much more chill these days!

Thank you for this tutorial. I would love to see "How To Fly A Quadrocopter" series in this style. In Reality.

Have to dust off my old 3D helicopter skills for this move...lol

3:10 if you cover your left eye with sunglasses, it looks 3d

you fly so often, that you dog is not looking anynore .. real funny

I actually thought I was watching Steele, until I saw those socks, Steele would never wear those socks with those shorts.

Whoa I'm dizzy.

You call this trick orbit in your email newsletter so you should probably change the title of this video to call it an orbit too.

very nice. if I ever get confident enough to fly acro mode.. still flying self level mode.. having trouble doing this in self level mode.. lol

Orbit with rolls :P

OMG thats map from LIFTOFF... :D

Forward pitch!!! I should have known