5 years later and youre still helping new guys! cant thank you enough josh!

in few words...with low throttle and sharp movements it increases throttle temporary to do the movement fast.... ;) thanks for your explanation...

This video is 3yrs old and the best explanation of air mode I've encountered to date. Thanks Mr.B

EVERY TIME I search for anything drone related, here you are, Josh. I'd say it's getting annoying but you're always so dang informative and clear.

Perfect explaination! I was personally tired explaining the difference between idle up and saying that people are throwing away some throttle and still have scenarios where you lose some authority.

Excellent explanation of _how_ AirMode does what it does! Also appreciate the bit about jumping on landings. I noticed this, but wasn't sure why it was happening. Thank you!

I love that these old videos are still so educational. I had it in my head from years of other people saying that airmode was just that the PID controller stays active when the throttle is cut. Which isn't quite what happens. This video brought it back! Thanks JB!

I have watched a lot of your videos now and you are a genius. you must spend hundreds of hours on this stuff. im completely new to the technology. I am an old time flyer that learned you could fly a brick with a big enough motor. I love this stuff and I will continue to watch

If you aren't a teacher or instructor you should be... great job!

This was very helpful. When airmode first exploded into the world there was a ton of hype around what it did. Also, as it developed, I know that the definition has evolved. It's been a confusing topic in my circles. I always just stood by my idle up function and was rather agnostic about whether airmode was really doing much; at least for me and my flying. Very recently, I've felt a handling difference with airmode on. I think that started with 2.2 but haven't taken the time to understand why. ---- TLDR ---- Makes a lot of sense now. thanks.

Just wanted to thank Joshua from the bottom of my heart for being the man he seems to be and shows that he is on his channel. He is the first KZfaq personally that actually took the time to truly help me figure out what I was doing wrong without referring me to some obscure video or site. You have earned a true fan and soon to be patron. Keep up the good work sir!

You don't fully understand a topic until you can explain it to someone else. As far as I can tell, you are the only person in the youtube/drone world that understands Air Mode! Now why I didn't just google "bardwell air mode" sooner, that's on me!

I know this video was posted almost 1 1/2 years ago; but I am just getting started in multi-rotors and have a lot to learn. The tricky part is that I do not know anyone that can help me understand all of the programming/setup aspects. You did a great job of explaining it on paper and making it very simple. Thanks!

excellent explanation. Thanks for making this (nearly a year ago haha) You spoke primarily about error induced by input (stick movement) and only touched on outide inducers of error. Air mode effectively improves the I term at low throttle as well. Effectively you can reduce the I gain an have very stable low throttle angle hold with Air Mode. Especially now that flight controllers have 2DOF, theres even more that can be said about this. I'd love to hear all your thoughts on this as well as the improvements that have been made to air mode (such as preventing "freakouts" on landing) Thanks again Joshua for always informative videos

Definitely the best and most explaining video on this subject. Just a side note, manual focus is your friend.

Explained well! No wonder my minimum throttle doesn't control as well as I would like. Air mode is worth trying now!

Very good job explaining air mode. I thought that I understood what it did but I was wrong and your video totally cleared it up. Thanks!

Very very VERY nice explaination! Big thanks to Boris for inventing this and thank you for explaining!

A fellow lefty! An ah ha moment to be sure. Just had this happen to me. I will never take off in idle up mode again. A gentle breeze cost me a cracked camera casing. Still works but now I know why. Your the guru of guru's.

Now I understand why guys (today... 3 years later) are setting airmode to a switch so that they can turn it off before attempting a wall bump, rail slide, or ground skid. Great explanation!

Really good and simple explanation, made perfect sense to me! Also Air Mode is available in Cleanflight as of v1.12.0 (20th Feb) for those not using Betaflight. I need to start remembering to disable it before I land though, but not had any mishaps yet.

This makes so much sense, beginner pilot here, I was really confused as to why my quad was bouncing like a basketball when I try to land even though my landing wasn't as bad in simulation. This makes total sense. I'll probably stick to air mode off for indoor flying. I did watch your landing in airmode video too and I'll practice that outdoors too. Thanks for the detailed explanation. 😁

really loving this channel. Your so good at explaining all of these things that would normally confuse most of us. Keep up the great work!

OMG you are a excellent teacher, the FTV community is so lucky to have you. Thanks for the great videos.

Great explanation! I knew what it was doing for me but never understood how, this is an awesome way of showing exactly what is happening; thank you.

Thanks for the explanation. That makes a lot of sense! I stopped using airmode not long after trying it and reverted to just idle up - this vid has made me want to try it again. If fact, I think I'll configure it now!!

Hi Joshua, really nice explanation. I really like all this stuff since I'm a coder and are really into all this RC-Stuff I love how all this comes together and let these little thingys fly so well!

Thanks so much for this Basically Airmode = Floating idle up!

Joshua thanks for clearing that up Air Mode it's not the same As idle up Have a nice weekendt

After your explanation, it got really easy to understand this feature.

As always in all your videos,your explination's are easy to understand.Thanks

huge fan of these educational vids, great job !

Yet another brilliant video and now I finally understand air mode! Many thanks good sir.

I just wanted to say thanks for all the knowledge I just got in to quads adout five months ago and I have spent countless hours on youtube. you and a small handful of guys and gals really no what your talking about! "Hold fast"

cool explanation. now I think I understand it better. Not having problems with landings - but I use a throttle to 0 switch and I also disarm the motors instantly on ground contact.

Thanks Josh for such a fantastic and intuitive explanation! Would be great if you could do some uploads giving the same treatment to some of the other features of Cleanflight/Betaflight, such as the various rates and expo's that users can set.

Great video. Really appreciate this kind of videos. You help the community keep up with all the new things : )

Wonderful explanation, thank you Joshua! Going to check out the rest of your channel now. :)

first time i'm having trouble following mr bardwell ... MOAR COFFEE!!!!

Incredibly helpful video! Thank you very much for creating this kind of quality content!

You also forgot.... That before air mode, if you throttled all the way down, your props went into a set idle mode, with no pitch, yaw or roll controll, and bypassed the PID controller. Which also meant that if you throttled all the way down, you start to drop out of the sky.

Awesome explanation! Might be a good thing to put on a switch where you can turn it off when coming in for a landing.

Yay, Joshua is the best at contribuating to fpv, hope his work pays off one Day when fpv gets as famous as Football or something like this

Very good explanation! Thank you!!

All my questions leads to your answers - thanks

Ah, ok! So I van cover the complete range, allocating the flight modes. Great! Thanks!

Thanks! Best explanation I've seen. I do have questions ;) 1) Does airmode give the same behavior near max_throttle? If you hit full aileron at full throttle will the throttle automatically be lowered to give max roll authority? 2) Was it tried to give max unbalanced authority when throttle set-point is low? That is don't "throw away" the excess rpm increase just because the decrease was not available on the low end? It would give an off-center cyclic thrust but might not be significant?

Well done sir :) You are quickly becoming my favorite drone KZfaqr. I didn't like you at first because you came across as arrogant but the more I watch, the more you grow on me.

Always more information than we deserve. :-)

Thank you very much for this detailed explanation! It was very helpful for a newbie like me. Best regards from Germany!! :-)

Hello Joshua, Thanks for all your good video's. I have a question. Is it okay to have two modes going at once like air mode and horizon mode? Is that advisable?

Airmode understood perfectly!! hm. Ah so 'Airmode' has no place in a single motor Fixed Wing??? Keep up the good work, thanks.

Do most flyers that do stunts turn on "air mode" permanently or do they put it on a switch? As you can tell I haven't been doing this very long. Looking forward to doing my first roll. TY

Great explanation. Very well done.

Another great explanation video Josh!

Why I've never had problems like unexpected flip etc. while landing in airmode? To tell the truth - your videos is the first place I've heard about this trouble. Full season in airmode with betaflight and nothing like this.

Lesson learned. Do not land in Airmode. I have linked my Airmode to Acro and switch into hover right before touchdown. If your copter is acro only with everything else disabled than you should have airmode disabled before landing with a switch. The Airmode idea is brilliant, once again I am really proud of my fellow countryman Boris for Betaflight development.

Good explanation - thanks for the video! Looks like I need to start using Airmode.

When Airmode is ON, the power consumption is a bit higher?

Thank you again bardwell. Just downloaded betaflight 4.4 and air mode was one of the mode set ups and I'm used to just removing angle on all my quads so I don't accidentally enable it. And I thought what the hell is air mode get that out of here lol. Well needles to say my quad was swaying everywhere and could not figure out why until I watched this. Just clicked permanently enable air mode so going to try it out now fingers crossed it fixed my issue. Almost 100 percent sure it did

awesome , looking forward to upgrading my CC3D board to Beta flight with Air mode. Now I understand how those guys on youtube can pull off those float stunts. very cool. Thanks . Now a Subscriber.

Great video, I kinda knew what it did, just not how it did it, now it makes sense in my tiny mind. Acro+ on the other hand I have not a single clue what that is, if you ever feel like shedding light on that it would be appreciated.

So do you switch to angle mode when landing ?

Maybe you can help with an Airmode problem I've got with a Babyhawk R 3" quad. Airmode works fine at times but at other times the quad will rise uncontrollably when airmode is on. For example the quad will lift off fine and when it gets 2-3 feet in the air it takes off at a high rate of speed straight up in the air. By the time I disarm its 20-30 feet high and drops to the ground. When it does occur it might be connected to a bent or damaged prop but I can't be sure. At this point I don't feel comfortable turning on Airmode on for fear of what is going to happen after I take off. This behavior has occurred under both BF 3.2.2 and BF 4.0 Performance Edition. As a note I've running on a 4s battery with my throttle scaled to 30%. Is it possible that the throttle scaling is not working with Airmode such that Airmode is not limited when upping the setpoint? Any other ideas what would cause this behavior? Thanks for your help!

completely makes sense. 1 question though, so how do you land the drone on airmode? thanks

Interesting as always, learned again from you, keep it up and happy flying!

Hi. Thanks for the video!, But I think I got lost somewhere. Could we say, that Airmode could be as to have a "sonar" in order to provide more stability to motors, ESCs, and of course to all the Quad? This was my first question. The second one, is how does it work with all the Flight Modes? I mean, do I include it as a complete "flight mode" covering the min_Throttle to max_throttle range, living together with Angle, Horizon and also Acro? Thank you in advanced. Regards.

to land cut direct the motos (arming switch down before touching the ground ;) very well explained ;) thank you ;)

Good teacher...Thanks a lot..!

Thanks for great explanation

Excellent explanation. Thank you for making this video!

Well explained! Funny, my exact min throttle is 1024...

Awesome thank you...... Knowledge is power 👊😎👍

Very well explained! Thanks!

+Joshua Bardwell, I assume that the same thing occurs at the top end of the throttle range as at the bottom end like you show in the video.

I don't get it. Why can't you just raise the throttle on the "right side" and leave the left side at 0? You can't go lower than 0, why do you artificially raise the throttle to go back down to 0 anyway? This whole concept doesn't make sense to me

@8.33...I can hear the Princess Bride character trying to break through lol....."Inconceivable!".

I'm having a problem on a new build. No matter what I do 1 motor just wants to keep spooling up to max, on the bench or in the field.. Running a Matek f405 fc, Any help would be appreciated

In a sum up. You recommend having Air mode on an aux that can be tuned off when landing? right?

I'm not lost anymore. Thanks

wow, this is an excellent lesson. thanks.

Good explanation!! Thx again! Learned something new

One question. Last part when you talk about why drone flips on landing. Is that with air and angle, or just air ? Sounds to me that just air won't do that in acro ?

Great explanation. makes sense now.

amazing explanation! thanks a lot

Thank you so much, great instruction.

very clear description !! 👍👍

Brilliant explanation, thank you for sharing!

thanks, Mr.B most helpful video

Perfect explanation, thank you!

Hey Josh,I was having a discussion with a friend last night regarding how the accelerometer and interacts with the PID controller. We run the accelerometer disabled in betaflight to save on CPU headroom. Where does the PID controller get its input from so it knows how to respond to external forces with accelerometer disabled? My thinking is that the PID controller would not do anything, but that is obviously not the case. Actually, as I type this I believe I have answered my own question. It's the gyro, not the accelerometer.

joshua, thanks a lot for another great valuable video. i really like your channel and learned a lot from you even though I am in FPV for a while. i have one question concerning air mode: I do not understand, why a copter on the ground either with props on and holding it or without props just sitting on my table shows same behavior: with airmode activated and giving a quick throttle punch, the motors are spinning pretty fast but do not calm down anymore. doing the same without airmode motor speed is going down immediatly again after the throttle punch. how come? thanks a lot and best regards from vienna, austria! christian

that's awsome, it explains why PID thuning wont get rid of full throttle wobble.

Dude, you're wrong handed👍

Thank you for all of your work! If I enable it as a feature in 3.0 do I still get 1000us to 1350us normal, and not need to put it on a switch?

Great explanation, thank you!

Great explanation, thanks mate :)

Excellent! Well explained, sir. :)

Could you accomplish this with some mixing used on the radio allocated by a separate flight/rate mode?

Excellent explain. So air mode affect most when throttle is too low or too high? Thanks.