Quadcopter Drone Flying Tutorial 3: Intro to Turning

Turning your quadcopter drone for the first time can be intimidating.  With a Mode 2 controller, it requires a coordinated and combined movement of controlling/maintaining the quadcopter's throttle setting, while applying yaw (rudder) control for the turn. It feels very awkward to do for the first few times, especially if you're right handed.  However, each time you practice it, it becomes more and more comfortable to do. Eventually you'll be doing it perfectly without even thinking about it.

Here's AliShanMao again teaching the basics of turning.  He again uses a RC helicopter, but his lessons apply equally to quadcopters. At this point, try to use your rudder control only for implementing the turns. I stress using rudder only especially if you own a 3-axis stabilized quadcopter. Rudder turns are also useful for steady and level aerial photography or aerial video (such as with your DJI Phantom and GoPro). We'll go into banked turns using both simultaneous rudder and aileron (roll) control in a later lesson (and here is that lesson, click here).  As mentioned previously, listen up. Ali knows what he's talking about.