It's been a long time... a really long time, but back in my youth I had a Private Pilot's license, and flew single-engine planes like the Cessna 152 an 172 mostly. Eventually let my license lapse, around the early nineties, and got into RC craft. So.....
Did my first flight yesterday with the Motion Controller. WOW!!!! What an amazing experience. If you've ever flown a stick before, this will feel so natural. Even a typical yoke, like in a 152 this still comes naturally. Maybe even for people that have never flown a plane before, but only RC too: I'd like to hear.
In any case, controlling pitch by pitching the controller, roll by rolling the controller, is so natural that the brain (at least mine!) just connects this up unconsciously, reflexively, with very little practice. Took me about 5 minutes to get confident enough to switch to Sport and do some steep dives with sharp bottoms and zoom up with confidence; fly between trees fast and sweep a climbing turn.
I could control it better than with the RC, and this really surprised me because I'm no slouch on the RC. The MC (if you will ?) was just so much more intuitive, instinctive. Hand movements that mirror the aircraft.
Anyway, that was my experience. Turns are fully auto coordinated, so there's no yaw control, making this completely useless for acro flying. Also, it's basically an "airplane mode" way of flying the drone -- there's no way to simple slide left/right like you can with the roll stick.
Regardless, I'll be FPV flying a lot with the MC. It's a total BLAST!!!!
Did my first flight yesterday with the Motion Controller. WOW!!!! What an amazing experience. If you've ever flown a stick before, this will feel so natural. Even a typical yoke, like in a 152 this still comes naturally. Maybe even for people that have never flown a plane before, but only RC too: I'd like to hear.
In any case, controlling pitch by pitching the controller, roll by rolling the controller, is so natural that the brain (at least mine!) just connects this up unconsciously, reflexively, with very little practice. Took me about 5 minutes to get confident enough to switch to Sport and do some steep dives with sharp bottoms and zoom up with confidence; fly between trees fast and sweep a climbing turn.
I could control it better than with the RC, and this really surprised me because I'm no slouch on the RC. The MC (if you will ?) was just so much more intuitive, instinctive. Hand movements that mirror the aircraft.
Anyway, that was my experience. Turns are fully auto coordinated, so there's no yaw control, making this completely useless for acro flying. Also, it's basically an "airplane mode" way of flying the drone -- there's no way to simple slide left/right like you can with the roll stick.
Regardless, I'll be FPV flying a lot with the MC. It's a total BLAST!!!!