FPV Flight Dynamics - Christian M. Mollica

FPV Flight Dynamics

By Christian M. Mollica

  • Release Date: 2020-12-07
  • Genre: Photography
Score: 4.5
4.5
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Description

<i>FPV Flight Dynamics</i> is the in-depth handbook designed to catapult Rookies and Intermediates into the Advanced levels and beyond.<br><br>Whether you’re new to UAVs, a camera drone operator looking to dive into Acro, or an experienced miniquad ripper stuck in FPV purgatory, this guide will arm you with the skills and knowledge that you’ll need to break through plateaus and master your instrument.<br><br>This visual manual spans <b>30 chapters</b> and features over <b>220 full-color illustrations</b>, including stick schematics, 3D diagrams, photos, and infographics. You’ll be presented with actionable strategies that can be employed immediately to make the greatest leaps in skill level with the least amount of time, money, and frustration possible.<br><br>Master all three of FPV’s disciplines (racing, freestyle, and professional cinematic) by learning what to practice, how to practice it, and, most importantly, in which order! This book offers detailed analyses on more than 50 unique tricks, maneuvers, and flight techniques, including:<br><br><b>31 FUNDAMENTAL MANEUVERS</b><br>Static Climbs and Drops, medial and lateral Dynamic Climbs, ascending Half-Loops, Convex Climbs, Pullbacks, Parachutes, Diving Helixes, Two-Dimensional Sweeping Turns (2D Sweeps), S-Turns, 180° Hairpin Turns, 3D Sweeps, Coils, Rippled Turns, Elliptical Orbits, Textbook Power Loops, Parachuting Power Loops, Aerial Corkscrews, Barrel Rolls, Stunted Barrel Rolls, Aileron Rolls, the Textbook Split-S, Vaulting Split-S, and Sliding Split-S, Level Orbits, Knife-Edge Orbits, Immelmann Turns, Half Cuban Eights, High Jumps, and Hammer Throws<br><br><b>19 FREESTYLE TRICKS</b><br>Frontflips, Backflips, Level Yaw Spins, Snap Rolls, Wallkicks, Kamikazes, Juicy Flicks, Vanny Rolls, Proxy Knockbacks and Slingshots, Rewinds, Wall Rides, Stall-Slide Corkscrews, Rubik’s Cubes, Inverted Yaw Spins, Mattyflips, Trebuchets, Inverted Orbits (aka Cyclones/Trippy Spins), Keeling Turns, and Windmills<br><br><b>Learn how to:</b><br>-Manipulate your quadcopter’s speed and momentum with techniques like Sprints, Coasts, Stalls, Short-Rooks and Full-Rooks, Rook-n-Rolls, and Blips.<br>-Negotiate advanced racing complexes like Chicanes/Slaloms, Gated Corkscrews, and coiled obstacles like Ladders.<br>-Manage your LiPo batteries, including charging, discharging, and storage strategies.<br>-Dissect your quadcopter, and understand each of its components, their technical specifications, and how they’re all related and interact with one another.<br>-Chase mobile subjects like drift cars and downhill skiers with advanced cinematic shot-framing techniques, like Sidewinding Sweeps via the quadcopter’s secondary flight stance, the Outside Stance.<br>-Prioritize visual references in your field of view, so you always know <i>what</i> to be looking at and <i>when</i>.<br><br>This is THE definitive guide to FPV, and a must-read for all pilots in the hobby! Pick up a copy today and take your skills to the next level!<br><br><b>BECOME THE MACHINE<b/>

Reviews

  • Game Changer

    5
    By KMart418
    This book is going to redefine FPV as a hobby and sport. Let me explain why. It seems as though FPV is a hobby best learned through experimentation and inspiration. FPV Flight Dynamics introduces concepts and understandings that take hundreds of hours of stick time to develop. Until now, You’d have to watch just the right YouTube video to get the info. Reading about these concepts and keeping them in the back of your mind as you experiment will guide your thought process and understandings. It’s a textbook, it’s a travel journal and it’s a philosophical understanding of the cause and effect that takes many sleepless nights thinking about FPV to acquire. Most importantly, FPV Flight Dynamics demystifies the stumbling block that plagues beginners like me - the input. Taking a Zen approach similar to “The Inner Game of Tennis” by Timothy Gallwey, Christian Mollica bypasses the hands and connects the pilot with the flight rather than the controls. I’m new to FPV, but if I were to give a beginner the first purchases advice it would be this book, a controller and a simulator. It’s a great introductory read and an invaluable resource to advance.
  • Save yourself HOURS online

    5
    By Ciotti
    The internet’s great and all but it would take hundreds of hours to hunt down even a fraction of the knowledge this book brings to the coffee table. If there is ever a college level class on FPV this would be the obvious choice for the text book, what an incredible resource!
  • This book is legit!

    5
    By FarisFox
    Do you like FPV Freestyle videos? Do you wish you could learn how to fly like that? Do you like big tutorial books with lots of shiny pictures? If you answered yes to any of these questions then this book is for you! I just got it, and I’m loving it! I have about a year’s worth of experience flying acro under my belt, but I still find this book to be very insightful, especially the detailed Freestyle tutorials! Instructions are provided for 19 different tricks, and I’m finding that it’s really effective to read a tutorial, study the diagrams, and then try it out for myself in a flight simulator. If FPV drones excite you as much as they excite me, then I know you’ll enjoy this book!

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