Crazyflie Tutorial Flying

[Redouan]

Hi everybody,

It is almost one year that I possessed the crazyflie. It for sure a very cool piece.

But...

It is still very difficult to fly straight or to direct somewhere, it is not very clear how you can fly the crazyflie. Nowadays I have the Bitcraze VM, and it is great improvement, but still to difficult to fly.

Request:
Maybe a video tutorial how to fly the piece (with the PS3 controller, the most common). Or maybe some tutorial on the Wiki page in stead of the reference to the forum.

I hope some day I can fly the crazyflie like the videos the team has posted last year.

Thanks a lot

[jaman]

hi everbody,

yeah a video how to fly that tiny beast would be wonderfull. I start, but with only trust is won`t stay a position but drift / fly somewhere (most time nearst furniture). if i try to stabilize it it will keep spending...
any help would be apriciated.

thanks & cheers
jaman

[whoenig]

A few tips:
1. Try to keep the orientation of the flie => Start learning how to control the yaw first while the flie is basically still on the ground.
2. Make sure that you trim the flie properly: http://wiki.bitcraze.se/projects:crazyf ... and_tricks
3. Make sure that the flie is on a level-surface when you power it on.

[chad]

When I first started flying I found it easier to turn yaw off. I did this by setting the "id" for Yaw in my controller input config to "-1." That helped a lot since I used a mapping that had yaw set to the same stick as thrust and I wasn't very good at controlling my thumb's side-to-side movement when increasing and decreasing the thrust. After I got better at piloting, I turned yaw back on.

[jaman]

thanks a lot chad and whoenig,

i changed the configuration of the controller; put trust away from yaw. now it works a lot better. i am not airwolf, but getting close to santini air

[chad]

Awesome! Keep at it. You'll be Stringfellow Hawke in no time!