Joshua your skills have come so far very impressive. Appreciate you reaching out to everyone getting into the hobby or those furthering their skills along the way. You're definitely our quad Guru when it comes to just about anything we need to know. Keep it up brother very much appreciated.

Thnx JB, took mine out yesterday, really surprised, soo light compared to my usual birds, fast and smooth

Dam fast, now I`ve got a drop in my trousers. Very good flying. Thumbs up!!!

Great flying show, Joshua! Awesome! 😀

Very impressive sir, seriously checked my KZfaq playback setting twice to make sure I was on "Normal" speed, that thing is cooking!

60 years of experience and your smoke stopper still saved my butt! Thx for the tip.

Damn Joshua I didn't know you had it in you. I'm liking the idea more up tilt. Way more aggressive. Thanks man.

I can't wait to get mine in the air once and for all , you ripping it , nice property man. keep up the good work

never really seen you fly like that either you're getting really better or I'm just used to watching you do tutorials this was great I loved watching you fly and I love watching you land that was something!!

Nice flying Josh!

Awesome flying !

Can't wait to get my hawk 5 in. Great video JB!

Nice, I usually lower my camera angle down on a tight track and raise it on a fast track

Wow, you have jumped up a level or two on your flying skills. Impressive. Good job

Damn good flying bro, love the bug splat, looked like a big'n

Awesome flying ridiculous how good you are

Something I'd be interested to see would be a lens comparison between the classic 2.5mm GoPro lens and these new micro ones to find out which are equivalent.

Some pretty nice flying there JB :-D

I have also noticed a difference in where your camera is positioned makes a difference in how much angle you have ie if you have a frame where where the cam is closer to the Center of the frame you tend to want more uptilt than if it’s on line with the front motors

Thank you sir. Very informative. Also nice rippin' !

Joshua, thanks for all your help..👍 I was wondering how you blended in the stick overlay. for me this is a great tool for analyzing my own flying. I'm struggling with turns and holding altitude, and I'm not sure what I'm doing on the sticks when these problems appear so, can you share the secret about this overlay?

Yeah JB rip those packs! I can't wait for the review! Could you do a quick once over of the baby hawk 3in? (i'm thinking of getting one and i'm wondering what batteries I should get as well) Thanks!

perfect flying and track ...

Great proximity Rippin', Liftoff does a really good job at letting you change camera tilt. I tried 50% tilt and I crashed on takeoff, Liftoff has been a great way to practice tilt changes.

Loving your videos

GREAT FLYING That is one fast drone!!! GREAT CHANNEL!! 👍👍👍

You were blasting around there matey, your going to need a bigger garden soon. To quote Stew that thing RIPPED,, Just check her out at banggood she not only looked and sounded great in your vid, she looks very cool and comes with the Magnum F4 Tower System and Dshot 600 esc'c .... This Beast has gone to the top of my to buy list. Great flight JB

Fuck yes. Great ending, I liked the dicussion, then the "see for yourself" awesome vid Joshua 👌

I keep mine around 55-60 degrees. I just cant bring myself to oitch forward to accelerate hard and I start ballooning corners at lower tilt, I found when I had my camera angle up to those higher angles I was a lot more consistent in keeping the quad low to the ground and at the same altitude around corners for how much roll / yaw I seemed to mix. I can keep a steady altitude with lower cam angles but I just cant really pitch the nose forward for whatever reason, its like a mental block, I just fly to the speed the camera angle carries as I seem to just prefer keeping an even level horizon and not tipping forward

Just added to my wish list.. Time to work some Overtime$$$.. Good video as always... Cheers 🍻🍻🍻

Love the audio woshes, too.

Hey Josh.... I think you do a great job on your videos.... I've been real busy and haven't been following the hobby to much but now have just a little more time.... so anyways I wanted to comment on your video of camera tilt since I just saw your video.... I've been flying at 72degrees and I must say it is the most controllable of the tilts once you get used to the speed... please try it out... I just bought a Hawk 5 and I'm re-drilling the holes to achieve this angle.... Happy Flying!

Damn I’ve noticed a huge improvement in yo skills that was rippin

Checking in everyday to see if there is a review of the Hawk 5 :D

Josh! I don't know if it's just me but it seems like your piloting skills have increased 10 fold in the past 2 months. Great flying brother. 😎

Nice flying!

i keep mine on about 40 deg used to do about 50 but after using 40 i love it

Hi, i have been following your channel for quite some time now...and i would like to ask you what battery size would you use/recomend for a 150mm quad?

Joshua Bardwell Farm Race Track. Just get it into the simulators plx. Awsome to watch, JB.

Jesus man, send it! that 45 degree run was nice :)

That thing duckin diggs cant wait for mine and question are all theses flights with emax hawk 5 i've heard that you are limited on the camera angle with that model is that true? (was the 60 degree flight the hawk 5 as well???)

Wow, Pretty fast! Did you want to race when you started? I do even though I know Im not fast enough it would be fun to see where I stand with other with about the same experience.

i have been using 35deg for a long time but since trying steeper angles on the velocidrone simulator I'm finding 45deg makes throttle and altitude easier to manage, hope it translates into reality when i get the time to test it.....

Wow outstanding performance! Great flying. And I think somebody should call the lipo authorities because you are obviously abusing those batteries minute and a half, destroying them. Keep up the great work I love it

Looks great! I thought you were going to roast another pack there for a bit on that last run!

Looked to me like cornering, response, punchout, and propwash were also affected. Love the content, thanks.

well looks like its time to upgrade my uptilt since my crashes arent half as spectacular at 40 degree uptilt as they would be at 60 degree uptilt :P did you leave a link where to buy uptilt at? :P i totally want to buy some now!!!

Great video bud

I have a hawk 5 and I made the mistake of buying a micro eagle cam . It's a great camera, but the connector bumps into the FC at 30 degrees (ITS DRIVING ME NUTS). I plan on doing some drilling to move the camera forward, but I'm afraid I'll lose my camera protection. I still think everyone getting into FPV should buy this. It's a little powerful for a beginner, but it's durable as hell and you can't beat the value. There were some OMG crashes that only resulted in a slightly bent prop. Just buy the thing. It's smooth and fast out of the box. This video is what sold me on it. After flying for a couple weeks, I can tell you that this flies even better than the simulator. It turns like it's on rails. That's what people keep saying, and it's true. Very easy to control. I do notice slight prop wash at max throttle punchouts, but I'll be dealing with that later while watching another Bardwell vid. : )

I'd be down to see a DVR pull of the same.

Sweeeet! So far I've only flown this bird in our open field while I try to keep up with my Hawk 5..sadly I'm still flying way behind my "Bad Girl". Fantastic flying Joshua! We've had such crappy weather here in "Bravo Foxtrot" Colorado It's been to windy to get in any meaningful practice. Now for my Cam tilt question, Since the guy that bought our land took down all the trees, I now find it to be very difficult to keep my situational awareness at high tilt angels any tips on that? And to what Space Cowboy FPV posted, That's how these Colorado people are, bloody rude and worse. This month is crawling by and I have to part way through May until I can blow this pop stand for a better state and the house I'm paying rent on just to keep. (Yea this move is costing me lots of good money I could be spending on...hum..erm.. More FPV gear :) Thanks on the great video on what my new "Bad Girl"

just preordered one via your affiliate link. Keep up the good work :-)

Greetings Mr. Bardwell, I come to you hat in hand in hopes of solving a problem I'm having with my Emax Hawk 5. I'm relatively new to the game of drone piloting but am a fast enthusiast. I have to also say I've learned a lot watching your you tube videos, from using simulators, learning to fpv, beginning acro flying, etc. Having picked up an Eachine EX2 mini, JJRC Heron X9 and a couple of other toy grade quads in a years time, I figured I'd go ahead and get real and purchased the Hawk 5. However, after several months of wrestling with it still no maiden flight. The problem I'm having about $500 in after purchasing quad, a Taranis QX7 and all the peripherals, is I can't get the control sticks to register in Betaflight. The switch and beeper settings move the graphic bars just fine in the Receiver tab but I get nothing for throttle, yaw, pitch and roll when I manipulate the sticks. Everything else checks out in the other tabs, ports, config, etc. and the motors spin up just fine too but after meticulously creating several clean models it does the same thing each time. Apparently the the flight controller is receiving commands from the XM+ receiver since the AUX channels are working. I also just bought a Tinyhawk Freestyle just to ensure it isn't a problem with the transmitter. The Freestyle worked swimmingly minutes out of the box and flies great. I'm stumped so I opened a service ticket with Emax and the nice gent working with me although diligent seems close to his wits end calling the problem "very strange", so I'm hoping you may have an idea or ideally just know what the solution might be as you are heralded in the community as the go to guy for knowing it all regarding UAVs. Any ideas O wisened sir? Your grey matter would be greatly appreciated in this matter. Thanks much.

My Hawk5 gone crazy, when i arm it just jumps and flips over, or if not i can fly for 10 seconds and then goes crazy rotating and failsafe. What could it be?

Is there any way to consistently and accurately determine the camera angle?

Hey JB i have seen lots of your vids and thry helped me build my first fpv 5inch but i still have one problem with the osd... i am running the matek f405 std and a matek fchub 6s and my cam is the runcam swift 2 also my VTX is a TBS unify HV race. See the problem is that it douse not show the betaflight osd (im running bf) but it shows the runcam one (betaflight osd is enabled). i found out that it was probably a grounding issue but changed the ground and it did not change! please help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That’s is great! Does it appear faster also because the angle of the GoPro is the same so we get more ground in shot?

Great video. I need to get one of this little racing fpv quads. I’m new to quadcopters in general just got a mavic Air about a month ago and love flying it in sport mode but really hate the delay and don’t want to crash it. What googles and transmitter do you use? This video feedback is amazing.

Dear Josh, Did I miss Hawk5 review ?! I cant find it in your channel !! please talk about it and New FrSky X-LIte Transmitter please, thanks

Hot flying! How many quads have "landed" inside the woodshed I wonder?

That was nuts

Rewatched and realized you explained the yaw at the beginning of video.

Is the hawk 5 still relevant? Found a good deal. I normally run Five33 switchback but for a good deal maybe a practice drone?

Hello Joshua, thanks for your video. I would like to see in your review, some things i'm interested in. First, do you use the stock receiver ( XSM+) on your hawk 5 ? Then, can you share with us your configuration ( filtering settings + PIDS ). I bought this qwad last week but as I cannot use telemtry I can't tune it on the field and i'm not so satisfied with the stock pids. And last, what Gopro mount do you use and do you turn on the stabilization on your Gopro ? Thanks for your work :)

Nothing like having a place to fly. My house sits on about 3 acres of mixed trees and field. Plenty to keep you busy. Only climbed about half my trees so far.

I need a bigger backyard lol Good rip’n!

I fly at 55 degrees or so, but I have to yaw left and roll right to make turns for the most part, but my yaw and roll is moving correctly in the right directions. Rarely do I roll and yaw the same direction... Any thoughts?

looking for a new freestyle rtf. what do you think about hawk 5 vs. Geprc khx5?

Hey Josh! its been over a year since you reviewed the EMAX HAWK 5! Would you still recommend it? Would it go well with the Jumper T16?...Richard

my personal opinion is the more up tilt the better for me to control n less yaw input for racing

Thank God for muscle memory! 60deg+, could help trailing the breadcrumbs to find your way home. Nice vid!

I want this quad. It looks great on every single review I've seen. Too bad I can't afford it right now :-(

Joshua, what are you recording from? The Hawks built in camera? Or do you have a GoPro sitting on top? Or, is it from your goggles? I just ordered my Hawk and I need goggles too, but was wondering how this crisp, clear video is being recorded. So many questions, as I’m completely new to all of this... Thanks and great video as always!

JB I NEED UR HELP!! I have QX7 my channel endpoints set up perfectly at first. Now their off by quite a bit. I know how to adjust it but I don't have enough. I went in and changed the rxrange on those but I won't to know if there's another fix. Thanks, love ur support to the FPV community.

YIKES! I'd be more shocked but after your Matty video mentioning his 60 degrees of camera up tilt, I tried it on the Free Rider FPV Simulator that YOU taught me how to fly quads on. THANKS!!. And was amazed. A tad horrified, At those tilt angles, you are COMMITTED to going fast when lapping a track. If you try and slow down, you can''t see where you're going. Nitpicking, it doesn't make the quad go faster. It just makes it have to go faster when holding altitude at the 55 degree pitch angle t that will appear level to the pilot. And altitude doesn't get tricky because of the throttle sensitivity, it's because when you have up tilt greater than 45 degrees, more of the lift vector from the props starts to go in the horizontal (go faster) direction, and less goes in the vertical (go up) direction. At 90 degrees, no amount of throttle is going to make you go up. At zero degrees, no amount of throttle will make you go faster. So now fine throttle movements aren't going to do nearly as much as with much less tilt, but yeah, it's gonna be really sensitive to pitch, and you might need to change pitch for a quick altitude adjustment, which could make for some nasty behavior with overshoot, and the pilot induced oscillations, as the pilot tries to correct. So fine altitude control is a bitch. You should have done some acro moves, because like your other video showed, it can put maneuver's in a different world, because as you pointed out, you're looking into looping maneuvers, to make rolls appear like rolls even takes some finesse, because of how much roll turns into yaw from the camera view, and when climbing vertical obstacles like buildings, a steep camera angle makes it look like you're flying up the buildingn, rather than climbing in a hover next to it. And flying up it is a cool illusion. When I first saw Matty do that loop following the square underside of that bridge, I was like WTF? QUESTION: WHAT UP TILT IS GENERALLY USED AT THE TOP LEVELS OF GP RACING? PRETTY HIGH BY NECESSITY, BUT THIS HIGH? OH AND THE GUY BELOW IS TOTALLY WRONG. PEOPLE ARE WATCHING BECAUSE OF YOUR GOOD LOOKS, BECAUSE THE CONTENT IS PRETTY LAME ONLY SO SO.. YOU FLY GOOD TOO. THE SKIRT LIKE OUTFIT PROBABLY ACCOUNTS FOR HALF YOUR SUBSCRIBERS!! LOL I have an extremely sarcastic sense of humor, BTW. LOL

at 60 degrees plus, pin the throttle to max and then its all 'right stick flying', roll to control direction, pitch to control height... the left stick is just to keep the picture horizontal for your youtube viewers ;) Nice flying!

That thing is insane! Can anyone tell me why I gey battery low warnings when I go full throttle even with a fully charged battery? I'm using tattu 1550mah 70c 4s and funfly 1500mah 100c 4s. Both do the same thing

Awesome

Dude I like to see 90deg tilt!! Would love to see Josh ripping around at that angle!

Dude! You need to try the same setup with 5s!!!

What Fpv lens r u using 2.1?

I have that one & she is one monster ripper!! Did you fly it with the stock Pids? Looking forward to the review of it

That's a tough batt in the 45 degree clip

Hi! Is it yourself fying? Nice one!

That's the most balls I've seen you rip in a while. Nice work. Are you done with the "you're going to learn something today?"

You were ripping pretty good dude. Get some gates in that field!

Is there a review video?

What camera uptilt do you ise personally

Top gun pilot yoo. Crazy skillz man.

Fooooook man at 60 I felt like my balls were in my throat...I love your videos bro! Imagine if we could really rip around in something like that Joshua lol

Hi JB, interesting video. I just bought a Hawk 5 and can't get more than about 35° uptilt before the camera connector hits the top of the stack. What did you modify to allow for the additional uptilt? Thanks.

Ya just gave "ghost branch" a whole new meaning!!! Looked like you went through it like it was a ghost???😱

Okay, now landing at a 55 degree uptilt can be challenging! That’s why we need the Bardwell bifocal camera lens, whereupon you the pilot can see a lower tilt for landing!

What up tilt do most racer prefere. Ive heard that some are going back to 45 degrees from higher tilts as of late.

Can you do a review on the quantum cyclops diversity please?

what battery are you running there? I'm impressed at the lack of sag even toward the end of the pack.

Hey, can you test and review Eachine EV800D goggles ?

Camera tilt is more than most think, if you have a very high angle, and you obviously are flying so you can see straight the whole quad reacts seemingly different due to the angle of the quad.

Joshua i have a challenge for you, fly with 90° uptilt ! 😃

What size is the Allen key to adjust camera angle?