DJI Mini SE - A Beginners Guide To Your First Flight - Tutorial

[Music] hey everybody marcus crawford here with the idaho quadcopter channel hey i've got a drone to show you today but it's a drone that's been out for quite a while and a drone that's become near and dear to my heart this is the beginner's guide to your first flight with the dji mini sc this is a drone that i have really grown to know and enjoy for a lot of people this is their very first drone not only because it's very competitively priced reasonably priced it's also got a lot of features on it that make it very friendly and very easy to use for a first-time droner or somebody that just is a casual drone flyer right you want to take one with you with your with your rv when you're out camping or whatever and you just do what i want to do an occasional drone flight this is the perfect drone for it or many other things so anyway what we're going to do today is i am going to show you how to get everything together and get started get the drone in the air for your very first flight let's start now by showing you what's in the box so as i said uh this is my first time opening this box i just put it back in there for this video i had this drone for nearly a year i can't remember exactly when i bought it i do know that i took it in november last year it was the only drone i took to spin up in austin texas because it's so compact and easy to use but when you open your box this is what you're going to see now i've put all my uh decals and such that were on the drone on the top lid there that's not the way yours is going to look i've already taken all that stuff off of my drone so that's why that's there but you're going to see the drone itself on the left side here and you know you can see it's a very compact unit folded like this i named mine johnny mini essie after my friend johnny drone flyer and then the controller is right here and i have that in there backwards it sits in there like that uh there's the controller right there we'll go into uh detail on this guy in a few minutes uh but then also in the bottom of the box here you're going to see a box of parts and you're going to see all the documentation and the documentation i'm going to tell you this quick start guide is probably the most important one i would look through that the rest of this stuff is probably uh uh something well new to flying drones i'm not you know you may want to look at that one as well uh but most of this are things that you can probably just put back in the box but i'm not going to tell you i'm not telling you not to read the manual take a look at the quick start guide but what i'm telling you to do is go online and download a pdf of the owner's manual for the mini se and i will put a link in the description below as to where you can find that pdf file you will find it much easier to read on your computer or on your mobile device i suspect rather than one of these little manuals so in my case those end up going right back in the box so let's show you all the other accessories so when you open up that little box that's underneath the rc or sometimes called the ground station or the remote control you know whatever you want to call most people it's commonly called the remote control but what you have is a what comes in that little box is a screwdriver here what's this screwdriver for it fits these little screws on the propellers if you never damage a propeller you probably won't need that screwdriver other than to maybe check these for tightness once in a while and then you have an extra set of gimbal sticks for your controller those screw right into there we'll show you the controller in a little bit but it also comes with a set right in there in the controller that you can unscrew from the gimbal itself and then you get an extra pair of props one clockwise and one counterclockwise so if you damage a prop you've already got some to repair it with if you damage more than one of the same rotation you're probably going to want to you would have to order some more and in fact if you're worried about that you could probably order some from the dji website or off of amazon right now uh but the uh your it also gives you a couple of usb cables now this one is a usba to usbc what's that for that is for charging the drone you've got a usbc slot right there and you would simply plug the usbc end into the drone the usba and into a charge block and i guess that's a good time to mention the kit does not come with a charge block so for instance a charger that you would use for your phone or your laptop any usb charger probably a quick charger is going to charge the battery the fastest so that's probably what you'd want to get a hold of if you can and that will charge the battery inside the drone we'll show you the battery itself in a few minutes here so then it also comes with another cable this is a usb a to micro usb well what that is for is the controller here and what i want to warn you about about this controller is i you should be able to see that it's kind of a it's not really shaped like the end of the micro usb see the micro usb is smaller on one end than it is the other so when you be very very careful when you're putting it when you're inserting uh the cable into the controller itself because you can break that in there and then you would have to send it in for repairs so the larger portion of the micro usb plug there is what goes on the bottom so the smaller portion on top so you would plug it in and like i said i would say very very gently when you're doing it and if you feel any resistance don't force it because you'll end up breaking it uh but it will plug right in there and there it plugged in and and then you'd have plug this into any kind of charge block this doesn't have as big a battery as the drone so you know like your cell phone charger or something would work fine and and will charge it up probably one of the most important things are in this bag right here so depending on what kind of uh mobile device you're using uh to run the fly app with the drone you'll use one of these and you know i call them uh otg cables i've heard people call them other things now uh this is the micro usbn that goes into the controller and you can see this one it's square just like in the controller and you can kind of see the end that should be on the bottom so this is going to go in just like that and in fact well let me show you these other cables first so you also have a micro usb to micro usb and look they shape this one like a regular micro usb cable this one is square i don't know why they do that and then this is if you've got a phone that uses a usbc connector so usbc that would go to your phone and again micro usb on the other end in my case i'm going to use the one with the lightning connector for the for the iphone so anyway that's all what comes in the kit so on your mobile device and you can see i've got several different drone apps on my phone here but you're going to want the dji fly app and let me open that up real quick so i'll put a link in the description below to show you this it's telling me that i've got firmware available for my mavic 3 and it will if you need firmware uh for your mini se it'll do the same thing it'll tell you that it needs a firmware update and we can talk about that in a few minutes but that's what the fly app looks like and again i will put a link in the description to where you can download the fly app if you have an android device you you won't find it in the google play store it's something that you have to download off of the dji download page and i'll see if i can find it and i'll put a link there but if you have an ios device an apple device you simply go into the app store and you'll find the the fly app in there dji fly app and get that downloaded to your phone and ready to go okay let's talk about how you're going to charge the batteries in both the drone and the controller so first let's show how you can check the battery status if i short press the power button look that's really it's fully charged right now you see all four lights lit up that tells me uh the charge state of the controller and it is essentially fully charged and then on the drone uh the power button is on the bottom of the drone here and if i do the same thing just a quick short press that'll tell me the state of the battery in the drone and you can see that it's over half full that third light was blinking there so you know it's the charge state is somewhat over half full so let's show you what happens when we plug it in so i'm using a charger from my mavic 3. i did that because it's got the it's already got the usbc connector on one end quick charger and then it has a usba port so i can charge the controller at the same time and this is just a cable that i have and it's got that micro usb on the other end so as for the drone let's show you how to plug that in and usb c port right next to the [Music] micro sd card and we'll talk about that a little later but when you plug that in you're going to see this guy start to charge and you can see those lights strobe and they will continue to strobe till it gets all the way to the fourth light there and i can't remember if all four lights stay on at that point or if they shut off one or the other however when it's you can check it to see if it's fully charged again by short pressing the button and it will tell you the charge state of the battery so we're just going to leave that charge and then again to to charge the controller you know i explained to you earlier about the about this port how it's square and this micro usb port is not so you want to put the long end down and again be very very ginger when you're putting it in there there it just slid in very easily and you can see yeah it's showing it's charging and you can see it's strobing all the way to the to the fourth light there and again what i'm going to say is once that is fully charged i can't remember if it either shuts off or all four of those lights just stay on but it'll be one or the other and you'll know that it's fully charged and you can test it just by pressing the power button and tell the charge state of the device okay let's take a look at the drone itself and and how you're going to get this guy ready for flight so let's take a look at the battery real quick in the battery compartment on the drone i can see i've got i've numbered this battery number four in here and this is a a lithium polymer battery so it has a very high density for power to weight but there you go i can't remember what milliamp battery this is and that is too small for me to read but suffice it to say that it gets you about 30 minutes flight time and if you had a fly more kit you could put this in a a battery hub and you could charge it along with other batteries at the same time but in this case with this kit you're just charging it inside the drone and it just fits in there you can see the connectors at the top and it'll only fit one way you couldn't put it in backwards if you tried in other words it won't fit in that way so you know with this tab up and you want to push it in until it snaps and you heard it snap there and when you're pulling it out you push up on that little tab right there push in and it'll pull out and then let's snap it in again and you can hear the snap there and then just simply close the battery door uh and that's about it for the battery then the uh the micro sd card fits in right there press in let's pull that out you're going to want to use a fairly high speed card even though this drone only shoots in 2.7 k it does have a 40 megabit bit rate in other words how it transfers to the data to the drone itself i've got a 32 gigabyte card which i think is plenty uh for this drone and i use a sandisk extreme so i could recommend that and i that is one of the cards that dji recommends as well so to slide it in it's just like you know anybody that's used to sd cards in this case it goes face down and you just push it in until it clicks maybe there we go and when it stays in there you know it's locked in and be careful because it's spring-loaded so i have spent a lot of time hunting for micro sd cards if you don't get it clicked all the way in it'll shoot back out of there and where it lands nobody knows so just a word of warning there okay let's take a look at how you unfold the drone it may seem simple but it's worth talking about front front arms first you just simply pull those straight out just like that they fold out and you can feel them click into place when they come out now the rear arms are a little different and this is typical of dji drones they kind of fold down and out and again you feel it kind of click in ultra light 249 gram drone right there uh and then same thing on the other side just pull it out and you can feel it lock into place uh and then the next thing you're going to want to pull off is the gimbal cover it's got a little tab right here you simply pull that out you heard that click and it pulls right off and there is the camera gimbal on the drone uh this guy can be a little tricky to put on there i typically i try and get those two hooks latched first and you know the key you can saw me there straightening out the camera the key sometimes is to keeping that camera straight while you're doing it but uh but uh anyway lock it in there and you heard that click and it's locked into place and that holds the gimbal in place to keep it from getting damaged while you're transporting it there's the little gimbal that's that little 2.7 k little bit of genius camera that dji puts on there these are vent holes on the front there those are not sensors the only sensors this drone has on it is it's got optical flow an optical flow sensor right there and these are infrared sensors that are next to it that tells the drone if it's moving in space and it also tells it how close it is to the ground when it's landing so that's why those are there so this is simply a light right here on the back of the drone so that's about it for preparing your drone and getting it unfolded and so forth and ready for flight and then when we get out in the field i'll show you the how to do a compass calibration etc before you fly but that is essentially it right there okay this is the mini se controller uh a little uh genius bit of device that it is so first let's uh take a look at how we plug in that otg cable to use with your mobile device and again in my case i'm going to use this one with a lightning connector for my iphone uh but on the uh left side here again you're going to look at that little micro uh usb port there and it's pretty it's pretty easy because on this one because you're not going to put it in this way because the cable would be pointed the wrong way so you point it this way and as you can see the lower part of that square is is coincides with the little lower part of the part that's sticking out of that plug and again i am very very gentle when i put this in i never force it i always make sure that it's perfectly straight and and just be very careful when i put that in okay there you felt it snap in there and it went in real easy so then this is the end that plugs into your phone so that's going to tell you that the phone is going to go down here right so if we open up these arms and then i pulled that out so i can thread this cable in and let's open up the other arm and before we try and put our mobile device in uh let's let's grab the the gimbal sticks and they simply screw right in hopefully you could see that and here's the other one for the other side and just a few twists it's in there you don't need to put them in real tight but that's how you're going to control the drone and then your phone itself the sides of the phone go in both sides here and then in this case i'd be plugging this into my iphone let's take a look at that real quick if you've got an iphone or any phone you're going to want to take the cover off and i'm going to tell you this is an iphone 13 pro max so it's it's a big phone and you'll see that it'll still fit in here and in fact i think this controller i've used these controllers with an ipad mini before it just barely fits in there but it does so you could use like an ipad mini if you wanted to so again uh i've got the lightning cable that i'm going to plug into the into the end of my phone here so plug that in and then i kind of just line it up and you can see the grooves in the bottom of the controller there and then i have to you know make sure that i've got this thing on on this side that i'm missing the plug there but i can push it in and you can feel it push in on the phone and then same thing on this side i never worry about if it's if it's perfectly symmetrical or not but you can obviously get it right in the middle and that's going to hold your phone and it holds the phone very very tight and you're going to be kind of holding on to these things too so don't so don't worry about that and then the you're all you're going to want to put out your antenna i always put them at a 45 degree angle you know some people put them clear up some people put them out like that here's what i'm going to tell you the most important thing is to have this flat part of the antenna pointed towards your drone this is a wi-fi drone this flat part is what is going to send signal uh to the drone i've already showed you this this is the on off button we can press it real quick and it'll tell us the battery state but a short press and a long press is going to turn on the controller short press long press and you heard the the controller beep there and those lights will blink until it connects with the drone so we're not going to see that on right now and you can see it just fired up my phone here because the phone saw that there's something hooked up to it and uh you know sometimes it'll it will turn on the the the app itself anyway so this is what it looks like with the uh with the fly app uh open uh on the controller and again these lights will blink until the controller is connected to the drone okay this button right here is the return to home button so if you were out someplace and you wanted to and tell the drone to come back to its landing spot you would hold that button down and you'd hear that beeping that you just heard and it's only beeping like that because it is not connected to the drone but it would give you a double beep and i press it again to shut it off so for instance if you hit return to home and you decided you didn't need it anymore you'd press it again and it would it would stop it also works as a pause button in other words any time the the drone is engaged in anything and you want it to stop short press will stop it from doing so so it'll be this button here to stop and start recording now on the left hand side as you're looking at the controller on the right hand side take a picture with uh with this button right here now you've got a thumb wheel or a finger wheel right here that controls your gimbal that pushes the gimbal the camera on the drone up and down so in other words you could look straight forward with the camera i think it does have a little bit of an upward tilt but you could look 90 degrees down if you push scroll this down and we'll see that as we fly the drone and then you have the gimbals themselves we can we can go into exactly what the gimbals do when we're flying the drone you'll see that but just quickly i can tell you this this raises the left gimbal will raise the drone in altitude pull it down and the drone will descend go to the left and the drone will yaw to the left go to the right and the drone will yaw to the right when i say yaw left right and then this then will pitch the drone forward so in other words send the drone moving forward or if you pull it back it will pitch the drone backwards have it come backwards and then left and right bank so you go to the left the drone's going to bank to the left you go to the right the drone is going to bank to the right but we will look at that when we get the drone out and fly it so that's the basics of the controller hey okay now you've had a good look at the drone and a a good look at the controller there's only one thing left to do let's go out and let's get this bird in the air all right i am out at heroes park to show the flight portion of this video uh i've got the johnny mini se of course uh before we get into it too much i thought i'd talk about for just a second some of the features of this particular little drone you know that you can buy at such a reasonable price on amazon or direct from dji for about 299 dollars it has a one over 2.3 sensor shoots 12 megapixel pictures uh 2.7 k 30 frames per second video so yeah it's not 4k video but i'll put the 2.7 k video of this little guy up against a lot of other drones 4k it's that good uh it's it's got a transfer rate of 40 megabits per second so it's not like it you know there's a lot of data in that video if you're somebody that likes to do a lot of color correction and and tweaking of your video however if you're that kind of person i suspect you're going to have probably a more professional drone for this one for most of us the video on this is just going to look darn good as it is right off the sd card and that i guess is worth mentioning that is where the drone will record the video is to the sd card that we talked about earlier so speed wise this thing will ascend at four meters per second which is about nine miles an hour it will uh it will go forward uh about uh 13 meters per second which is about 29 miles an hour that's plenty quick and that's faster than the original dji mavic mini and uh and i just you know most of us are not going to have any problems with speed on this guy and it actually cuts the wind uh pretty good as well it's it's got a level 5 i believe wind rating you know there's not a lot of intelligent features on this drone like you'll find on some other drones it does have quick shots though which is pretty handy and i did a video on that some time ago and it is a wi-fi drone in other words this isn't an occusync drone so range-wise it's limited but honestly a little mini drone like this how far are you really going to fly it anyway so i think the wi-fi on this drone is better than 90 percent of them out there so the other thing that i wanted to talk about is uh the weather today we've got a little bit of a breeze a uav forecast which is an app that that i can recommend to you look it up in the app store or the google play store you'll want it because it'll tell you your conditions at takeoff wind speed etc and you can set it to tell you wind speed at altitude and you know satellite conditions temperature and so forth and that's another thing worth mentioning this drone in particular i think dji has the minimum temperature i believe it's 32 degrees i might have to look that one up if it's less than that i'll put it on the screen but the high temperature is 104 degrees so if it's hotter than 104 degrees understand that you could end up overheating your drone if you're up flying it and you know these little drones don't have fans in them so keeping them moving is a big deal to to keep them cool and operating as they should and then also i use the fas before you fly up to make sure that i'm flying in a place that's legal to fly if you're in someplace other than the us i'm sure your civil aviation authority will have a similar app for it to use and i would encourage you to do that uh so anyway enough of enough jibber jabber let's uh let's get this drone in the air and let's take a look at uh at your first flight with the dji mini se okay i know i showed this before but uh i want to remind you that uh obviously before you fly you fold out the arms uh fully front ones go straight out bottom ones fold out down and out and then you don't ever want to forget to take off the gimbal cover on the camera that's an easy thing to forget to do so again you can see how i have my phone uh mounted in the controller i have the uh the antenna set at a 45 degree angle remember the flat part of the antenna pointed towards the drone uh and you know you just squeeze these arms together to hold your phone in there and you know i always hold it from down below just to make sure that i you know i don't lose my phone uh you know and drop it uh but i honestly i've never had that happen with this controller but it's just something worth talking about you're going to want to squeeze those arms in there fairly tightly so this is the order that i uh turn everything on i first i fire up the drone and as i told you the drone the the button to turn it on is on the bottom so you've got the uh you've got you've already got your battery installed clicked in and you can short press and yeah i can see i got four lights there i got a full battery so to turn on the drone it's a short press and a long press and those batteries strobe all the way up and you can hear i don't know if you could hear the the the tone from the drone and then you saw the gimbal go through its uh calibration and then i'm gonna set that out here on a landing pad so the next thing i do is i turn on the controller so again uh that's a short press and a long press and you'll hear it beep and and it'll turn on and those lights i don't know if you're going to be able to see it here i'm i'm hoping so those lights blink until it gets a connection and then we'll know that it's connected to the drone and they they went solid there so we know we're connected to the drone i'm starting a screen recording here so you can see what i'm doing on the app so uh the next thing we're going to do is fire up the app and it's the dji fly app so i'm turning it on and look at that we've already got uh it's the drone already has satellites and it's saying uh if you look up in the top left there it's saying take off permitted so i'm kind of i'm so i've got another tripod set up here with another action too so i can show you the stick movements that i'm doing on the controller as we're doing them so we're not going to go through the fly app completely but we'll go through some of the basics if you look in the top left there it says take off permitted well that's once the drone has enough satellites and we can see on the right hand side there it shows 17 satellites the next is the bars of signal we have and we have full signal battery there 99 percent you can touch on that battery mode and it'll tell you once it's in flight it'll tell you how long until return to home how long until forced landing et cetera and how long till battery depletion but the first thing i always do is i open up this safety menu and i look at the the max altitude so i have it set at 120 meters and that is uh the max that you can fly that's about 400 feet i have distance set at 2000 meters that's two kilometers you're never going to fly this drone that far you can set it up to unlimited if you want now the return to home is set way too high here so i'm just going to use that slider i'm going to move it down to about 30 meters that where i'm at here that's higher than any tree or anything else now next thing you're going to see is the sensors and it has the imu and it says it's normal and it says the compass is normal but often on your first flight i would recommend calibrating the compass no matter what that says if it's not normal it will tell you to do it but i simply will click on that where it says calibrate and we'll do that but before we do that i want to show you what else you have on here you've got the battery info and that tells you the cell status on your battery i look at that every time you i don't think that's absolutely necessary but i just wanted to point it out to you in advance safety settings tells you what to do when signal is lost and i've got it set to return to home and emergency stop and this tells you how to do that both sticks down and in or both sticks down and out will stop the propellers now understand that if you've got in the air the drone is going to fall and hit the ground so that is an emergency situation only i've never had to do that then you have payload mode down there that's if you've got uh sometimes you'll put a prop cage or something on there that's nothing we need to worry about right now uh but let's uh let's click on uh calibrate and and i'm going to go calibrate that compass so i'm going to click calibrate and you can see it's telling me i've got the start button there and it will tell me exactly what to do so i'm clicking start and it's telling me to hold the drone horizontally and turn it uh let's see i guess that would be counterclockwise and now it's telling me to hold the drone up and turn it counterclockwise and it says uh that we have a good calibration so i'll set it back down and when you set it back down it'll take a minute for the for the gimbal to stabilize again and it has so now really we're ready to take off but there's a couple things that we need to talk about first and one is you can see there's a map in the bottom uh left side that'll show you where you're at like if i push that out you can see right where i'm standing at heroes park and then if i click uh on the on the picture again i'm back to my fpv view which fpv stands for first person view you'll hear people talk about that quite a bit but there's also what i prefer is what they call the attitude indicator so i click on that little in the bottom uh right of the of the app and this gives me the attitude indicator and that's kind of a compass and tells me the attitude of the drone in the air and you'll see how that works once we get in the air now secondly and it's a little hard to touch sometimes when you got your phone in here but you can see on the right hand side see where that little film strip and it says 2.7 k and i'm in video mode so you have in that menu i could put it into photo mode and that's just to take a picture i can take a single shot or a time shot and then there's the quick shots and the drone has to be in the air i guess before i can get into that but let's go into video back to video mode and you can see it's in 2.7 k i can change that at the bottom here there's things that you can adjust on this uh and and yeah it's showing 24 frames per second but i could go down to 1080p if i wanted to i was shooting the max and i always go to the max frame rate which is 30 frames per second so now if i touch on ev i could change the exposure value in other words lighten or darken the picture i always leave it in at zero in ninety percent of the time a few cases i'll change it other people will tell you different uh and then on the left hand side there it tells you the status of your sd card how much uh room you have on there to record video you can also put it into manual mode if i click on that little button that's auto you can see yeah you can see how the picture changed there and you can adjust all of that stuff so if you're you know your white balance your iso shutter speed f-stops etc so i am not i find the drone knows better than i do most the time so i'm just going to leave it an automatic so because i primarily shoot video that's the first thing i'm going to do i'm going to start video and off on the right hand side there's that big red button boom and the drone is now recording video to the sd card so the next thing we can do we want to do is take off so there's a couple ways to do that first i'm going to show you the uh the manual way and there's also an automated way but if you put both sticks down and in you the propellers you can see the propellers turned on on the drone and then in the left stick i slowly push up and the drone takes off and you can see it there hovering and i just let go of the sticks and the drone is just hovering but let's land the drone and let me show you the automated way so i'm holding the left stick down and the drone just landed right back on the pad there because i didn't move it off so there's an automated way to do that as well and uh that is that on the very left hand side you see that arrow pointing up i'm going to touch on that and it's going to give me this take off in the middle i hold that down and as soon as that green ring closes the drone does an automatic take off and also i want you to point out to you that it just recorded its home point and it told you so on the screen if you saw that little dialog box in the upper left hand side of the screen so so let's turn the drone around here and let's get it face facing towards the camera so you can see the drone up close and i just did a yaw there and i did that on the uh on the left stick so let's let's go back if i if i if i push it to the right the drone is going to yaw or excuse me i went to the left the drone yaw to its left so i'm pointed straight back out there don't know my right from my left okay let's go to the right this time and you'll see the drone yaw to the right and that just means it's turning in place right and the further to the right i pushed that the faster that it would yaw but now the drone is facing us and and so let's bring it into the camera so to bring it into the camera uh i'm going to what they call pitch forward and that is on the right stick so if i move that right stick forward and this drone has no obstacle avoidance so i could crash it right in the camera if i kept going uh but there we have it let's get let's go a little bit higher and that's i'm doing that on the left stick and so you're looking at the drone there and if i want to back it up i'm going to push that left stick down and the drone is going to what they call pitch back and you can saw it back up there so i'm going to do some some swifter movements here and show you so back and forward and back and you can see what they mean by pitching so let's move it in again and and i'm going to show you uh how the drone uh banks here so uh if we want to bank to the drones right and remember this is going to be to the drones right i'm going to push this right stick to the right and you saw it move there and now i'm going to push the that right stick to the left and the drone is going to bank left so remember that's going to change whether the drone is facing you or away from you that's going to change the behavior and you see the drone moving around we had a little gust of wind come up but it's a because it's a gps stabilized drone it copes with it quite well so what i'm going to show you now is something that i do in in virtually all my videos and that's a droney so with the scroll wheel down here i'm going to point the camera down a little bit and i'm looking at the fbv on my screen so i can see that's pointed down and i'm going to do what they call a droney and i want to move the drone backwards and i want to raise it in altitude so i'm going to move the left stick up and the right stick down and the drone is going to move away from me and rise so let's do that right now so as i move it away and i'm raising an altitude at the same time and i can adjust my camera i pick the camera up a little bit to kind of center us in the center of frame and what i want you to notice there is if you look on the bottom uh left-hand side of the screen and i let go of the sticks and the drone is just gonna hover when you let go of the sticks the drone will hover uh and you'll see in the bottom uh left-hand side there it's telling us the height of the drone it's 30 meters high where it says the h there right next to the attitude indicator and right next to that is the d for distance that's 81 meters away and above that is the speed so above the h would be the horizontal speed and above the distance would be the vertical speed so you can see those are both at zero uh let's bring the drone down and bring it back to us so to bring it down i'm going to move the left stick down and forward i'm going to move the the right stick uh up so just the opposite of what we did before so let's move the drone back in and i'm coming down pretty quick and you can see that height is dropping and i'm clear at the limits now and i'm slowing down and you can see the meters per second and let's bring it in closer here i'm going to get it right down to the height we need it at here just a couple meters off the ground and then we're going to bring it in here for you to look at so there's the drone right in front of the camera again and and so that's essentially how you move the drone forward and backwards so let's look now at uh if if you want to uh i guess what i'm going to suggest is if this is your first flight if you're new to flying drones you practice and one of the best things to do is to practice moving in a square so let's do that uh without using the left stick at all and we can show you how the bank and pitch work so i'm going to move it to the drone's right and that's moving that left stick to the right and then and then i'm going to pull pull the stick down and i'll move it backwards and then i'm gonna go to the drone's uh left and we're moving to the left and then we'll move it forward by pushing that uh right stick up and then we're going to move to back to the center of us here and so we're going to move that right stick again to the right and the drone will move to its right and there we are back in front of the camera again uh so we can also do that with banking right yeah we can do that with banking i didn't mean like a right turn so we can also we did it with banking we're going to do it with yaw excuse me i'll get my terminology straight here so again to y'all the drone that is on the left stick so if i want to turn the drone to its right i'm going to push that to its right and you'll see the drone go to the right okay so then let's push forward on that right stick and the drone will move forward and then let's move right again we're going to turn the drone again uh to the right on that left stick and we'll move forward and as soon as i let go of the stick there you saw the drone put the brakes on i uh it it'll try and stop as soon as you let go of that stick the drone wants to turn go into a hover okay so let me again then i'm going to push to the right again and then push forward on the right stick move the drone up we're going to push right again get the drone pointed back towards us and then on the right stick move the the right stick forward and then the left stick to the right again and forward and then i'm going to yaw again let's just go to the right and we'll go almost a 360 well i guess a 270 and we'll get it pointed right at us here so there we are so there's the drone pointed right at us again okay so let's do the same thing with the drone uh yawing to its left and moving the drone backwards so we're going to pull that stick to the left and the drone is going to turn to its left and then i'm going to pull back on the stick and go to the corner and then i'm going to have to uh i'm going to have to do another 270 so i'm pulling the stick to its left and then i've got the drone pointed forward again and i'm going to pull back on the stick and we're moving out so in other words and just instead of doing that 90 degree that we did when we're turning right we're having to do because we're doing left hand yaws we're having to go 270 270 degrees and we've got the drone pointed where we want it to again i'm going to pull on that rise stick pull down the drone pitches backwards and let's do that again we're going to do another 270 till we get the drone pointed where we want it to and you see that i did that one a little quicker and you will too as you get used to it pull down on the stick and you saw there the drone put on its brakes so let's do that again we're going to do another 270 and we're going to get the drone right back in front of the camera again pull back on the stick and let's uh then do another 270 and we'll get the drone pointed at us so that's a good place to start now as you develop confidence uh you can do things like you can start to use the the pitch and the bank and the yaw to do figure eights you know those are all things that you're going to do as you get as you get confidence so i'll just let you watch the stick movements that i make as i do that and i'm doing it all with the yaw and the pitch here i'm gonna just do a figure eight and now i'm gonna move the other direction and do the the top of the eight well i turned a little bit too fast there but you get the idea and now we're gonna close that eight cross the eight and we're gonna come back here stop and get back in front of the camera move it forward here for you to see it so that's the other thing is you know you'll notice that the drone will make a lot of moves to stop and you have to kind of keep that in mind when you're flying you don't want to hit those brakes at the last minute so i'm going to go i'm going to go full stick backwards and then let go of the stick and you can see what's happened what what will happen so full stick backwards and you can see the drone pitch and i'll let go of the stick and you saw it pitch forward there to stop and we'll do the same thing going forward i'm going to push that right stick all the way forward and then let go and you saw it pitch back to stop but you saw it takes some time for it to do that so remember that don't get it you know right in front of an object and expect it to stop on a dime because it it simply can't okay so we still if you look at our battery meter in the top uh right hand side we're at what i think about 48 battery if i click on that that shows you what i what i said before tells you time until return to home which is saying zero minutes i'm not sure that's some kind of an error but nine minutes and 48 seconds until return landing and 11 minutes and 23 seconds until battery depleted so return to home i think it maybe it's because it's too close to its re home point i i'm sure is probably why it's not showing anything there because it knows it's already at its home point uh but i'm going to show you something else i'm going to take the drone back and we're going to stop recording here for a second stop recording and remember i talked about those quick shots i'm going to click on that film strip again we're going to go into quick shots and i'm going to do uh something called a droney and you'll see there's an x on me i'll i'll set myself as the dronie point and it we have a little dialog box there that tells us distance i'm going to put max distance which is 40 meters so that'll be as far as it goes and but i'm going to show you how to use the the pause button on this drone so we're going to i'm going to click start and the drone is going to automatically do that maneuver and it will start recording automatically as well so let's click start and you'll see a countdown three two one and you'll see the drone start to execute the droney and it's looking right at me right but let's say you're doing this droney and the drone's moving along and you see something behind you that you don't like and you want to stop the drone that button in the top left of the controller i hit that and look at that it stopped it right there in midair that's called the pause button and the pause button is your friend anytime the drone is in any kind of automated function and you want to stop hit that button once and it will pause and stop so let's go back into recording i'm not going to go into all those quick shots that's i've actually already done a video on that and let's go ahead and start recording again and let's bring the drone back to us i'm going to do something else here so the other thing that you need to know about is return return to home and i was busy looking other ways someplace else instead of at the drone there but that's why it's important to keep your focus so return to home is important now obviously i could fly the drone back uh and and land it right and land it on the landing pad there one of the one of the tricks there is you can point the camera straight down and so again on that camera scroll wheel on the left hand side i'm pointing the camera down well i can back it up here yeah you can see that landing pad i could center it up on the landing pad and then i could just pull the stick down and land but but often i know some people say return to home is for emergencies only i don't know i like it i use it all the time so let's show you a couple different ways that you can do uh return to home and again you when we first took off you saw where it said it recorded its home point make sure every time you fly the drone that it successfully returns uh records its home point so so i'm going to back it up again and so i'm going to go the right stick down and the left stick up and we're going to move the drone out away from us uh another thing to mention to you is if the this we can see the drone is out 52 meters if the drone is within 20 meters it's only 20 meters away from you and you hit return to home it's simply going to land in place why is that important to to you well let's just say you were over a pond or something like that you wouldn't want the drone landing in the water so that's just something to be bear in mind if the drone is closer to you than 20 meters and you hit return to home it's just going to land in place and maybe if we have time here we'll demonstrate that but let's do a return to home and we're going to do it on the app first so we're going to click that on the left hand side the little h with the arrow pointing down i'm going to push on that and you'll see it gives me two things i can either land or return to home i'm going to click return to home as soon as it closes that green it starts coming back and you see it raising to its return to home altitude that you may remember we set at 30 meters so you'll see it go up to 30 meters and then it'll start coming back to us and i'm going to drop the camera down so you can see what's going on that's me with that scroll wheel on the left hand side dropping the camera down and let's see how close it gets to its home point here camera is pointed straight down and the drone will start to descend and it is now i see it coming down and it's quite a ways off uh from uh from uh the takeoff point this drone does not have precision landing so what you would do in a situation like that is again you remember that pause button you can stop at midstream in the top uh left here if i push that button it stopped that you heard the beeping stop and the drone paused so uh so let's go ahead and land it here and uh i'm i'm going to manually land it and then we'll we'll try the the other form of gotta back it up here a little bit we'll try the other form of return to home so i am right above the landing pad to in order to land and i'll put the drone in landing mode i'm going to pull that left stick straight down and you'll see the drone say it'll say landing and yeah i was a little bit off the pad there it it's a little bit on the grass but let me get it back on the pad let's take off again okay i'm going to do a manual takeoff both sticks down and in and those motors fire up and i'm going to push straight up on that left stick and it should yeah it says home point updated you'll see it there uh in the top left of your fpv screen so uh let's let's fly out let's do it let's fly it a little bit further this time i'm going to go straight up and i'm still recording oh it's telling me low batteries so it's going to want to come to home return to home and it will do that automatically so let's fly it out i'm pushing it out and let's show you our speed we're at about seven meters per second there let's turn it around we can put it in sport mode if i push where it says p mode in the top left that puts it in s mode that is fast speed if i push full forward and you saw the camera pitch down there a little bit it's at about well it should be a top speed of about 13 meters per second and it's getting there we're going to stop right there it got a little over 13 meters per second and it's going to go into automated return to home here yeah so you can see on the screen here that is this is good to show you you will struggle to lose this drone it's going to put itself into return to home and i had it in sport mode but when it goes into return to home it's going to only go at normal mode speeds so the thing that i didn't get to show you on this battery was you can also push that what i call showed you as the pause button that will also put the drone into return to home but it's coming home right now and you can see it's moving at about ah that's yeah look it's moving right along well shoot it's over oh 10 and a half meters per second so it's not wasting any time that's faster than than p mode or which is the normal speed mode so i want to punch that button again that s mode and you can see that that puts it in c mode yeah and that stopped return to home uh it it stopped it from descending but c mode is the uh slowest mode and that you know often if you're on your first flight you may want to try that so i'm pulling down on the left stick i'm manually landing the drone and you can see it's it's when it gets down to 10 battery it's saying you know i want to land and i'm adjusting the attitude of the drone i'm yawing a little bit and i'm bringing it down and as we get closer i'll move it forward and we'll get right over the top of that pad so you can see we've got the drone a lot lower now i'm going to move forward a little more that's pretty darn close a little more forward and i'm going to pull straight down on that left stick and it should pick up the camera automatically and again i'm a little bit off the pad but you saw how the drone automatically pointed the camera back forward and so we're down and you know if i click on that battery again you know you can see well it doesn't show it once it was landed but down to six percent battery so uh one thing you're always going to remember is if you're recording shut off recording before you power off the drone that way it closes out the file if you don't do that you can corrupt a file and and there's there's ways that you can recover it but the the video file may not be readable so remember to always do that so let's talk about the shutdown procedure now i don't think that there's any particular order that you have to go in so let's turn off the the the remote control first or sometimes it's called the ground station and that's the power button on the right hand side let's hold that down short press short press and long press i should have say should have said and then you can see the lights went off and you can see then on the app it says rc not connected and then i'm going to go grab the drone and we'll shut it off so again to turn this guy off a short press and a long press and you see the light quits blinking down below there so we know it's off uh so uh yeah that's about it the other thing that i do is i i like to get the gimbal cover on right away and get the drone fold it all up right away you know that way you avoid potential damage so the other thing i'm going to kind of point out to you when you're taking your phone out it's so easy to drop your phone and so usually i do it over the grass or a table or something like that but i'll see if i can avoid that doing that now but but you know you could you could drop your phone i'm over concrete right now so just a word of caution there hey okay that was actually a fun flight i've got everything folded up here and ready to put away so now remember on the sd card on the back your drone here is where you're going to find those video files with the video that you recorded while you were flying or pictures if you took a picture we i showed you picture mode but i didn't show you how to take a picture but it's but it's very simple you either push that like we push the red button to start recording you the button would be white you push that and it would take a picture you can also do it on the controller here taking a picture on this side and on the other side starting a recording so yeah i mean we showed you kind of the basics of control there's a lot more to learn and what i would encourage you to do is get out there and practice do those figure eights do those squares and then these sticks and this controller becomes uh second nature to you and you're not even thinking about it while you're flying the drone and there's some really cool features with this drone and you saw some of the video it looks really good i mean it takes really good video and flight time is really good too i don't know how long we were up in the air there but it was quite a while and i got to show you a lot of things including return to home i did want to show you how to press the return to home button and get it come back but it went into a low battery i almost said emergency return home low battery return to home as it should so you don't need to be afraid of getting the drone out there and it runs out of battery because it's going to know it knows it's time to come home and it'll put itself into return to home first it gives you that warning but then if you don't come back it'll do it itself now word of caution there understand if there's an obstacle between the drone and its home point it doesn't know it this guy doesn't have any obstacle avoidance sensors it'll run right into it so that's why it's important to set that return to home height higher than whatever the tallest obstacle is around you so that you know the drone can get back to you so i guess that's about it i hope you've found this useful this is marcus crawford with the idaho quadcopter channel out and if you like this kind of content please consider subscribe to my channel most of all i absolutely appreciate you taking the time to look at this video uh the little dji mini s e just a really cool piece of technology you know especially if you live in canada you can fly this drone without any license or or you know you can just don't be stupid is what they say up in canada with a sub 250 gram drone so anyway that's it see you guys later

Channel: Idaho Quadcopter

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Length: 63min 24sec (3804 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 14 2022