We developed Fly Alongside for helping you fly by sharing how we learned to fly!
Everyone starts somewhere. We started with no experience, then started flying camera drones (DJI Phantom 4 Pro) for aerial photography & environmental planning applications.
After some experience flying self-leveling/GPS-based quadcopters, a deep desire developed to learn to fly with expertise, precision, and immediacy.
Flying simulators was helpful, but to a limited extent. Flying tiny whoop quads in angle mode helped significantly, but was also limited in helping gain the expertise in piloting. Racing and freestyle drones came next with my maiden voyage of a quad I soldered together myself happening on July 4th, 2018. I started in angle mode in this Maiden Flight Video on that day and never looked back.
All flights now are in ACRO mode (aka Rate mode) and will be captured as the progression continues. I plan to dump raw videos on our YouTube channel for you to see our current stage of learning and will compile a progression video whenever a new benchmark is reached.
We developed Fly Alongside to encourage other pilots to fly with us, whether physically, or virtually, as we continue along our journey of flight, share what we learn, provide direction and feedback on various aspects of flying. Whether its skills you are wanting to learn, component choices you are considering, or if you just want to fly with other pilots, hit us up by clicking on the Contact tab above!
Thanks for visiting!
Everyone starts somewhere. We started with no experience, then started flying camera drones (DJI Phantom 4 Pro) for aerial photography & environmental planning applications.
After some experience flying self-leveling/GPS-based quadcopters, a deep desire developed to learn to fly with expertise, precision, and immediacy.
Flying simulators was helpful, but to a limited extent. Flying tiny whoop quads in angle mode helped significantly, but was also limited in helping gain the expertise in piloting. Racing and freestyle drones came next with my maiden voyage of a quad I soldered together myself happening on July 4th, 2018. I started in angle mode in this Maiden Flight Video on that day and never looked back.
All flights now are in ACRO mode (aka Rate mode) and will be captured as the progression continues. I plan to dump raw videos on our YouTube channel for you to see our current stage of learning and will compile a progression video whenever a new benchmark is reached.
We developed Fly Alongside to encourage other pilots to fly with us, whether physically, or virtually, as we continue along our journey of flight, share what we learn, provide direction and feedback on various aspects of flying. Whether its skills you are wanting to learn, component choices you are considering, or if you just want to fly with other pilots, hit us up by clicking on the Contact tab above!
Thanks for visiting!