Well before I started driving I had driven RC cars and ATVs for a while and they gave me a much better understanding of what to do, how to respond while driving on the highway. I think the same principle applies to drones.
I think that anything that flies and can be controlled is bound to be super fun
! Enjoy your E58 and all those batteries
!-CF
Go to a totally safe and open spot such as football field or parking lot on a Sunday morning when no one is around. Practice, practice, practice EVERYTHING. Get so that you can completely control the drone without looking at the controller--simply with your fingers. ALWAYS keep your drone within your line of sight. Practice Return to Home. Remember when you learned to drive? You didn't go out on the street until you had practiced in parking lots. Do the same thing here. I spent at least 4-5 hours of practicing at safe areas before I ever took my drone higher than 100 meters and further than 200 meters. And read these postings every weekend to see why others lose or crash their drones. Listen to the comments from the experienced users. Last week I was flying my drone over the ocean and was about 300 meters out and about 50 meters high. I lost my connection between my iPhone and my MP. Remembering what I had read from others, my first action was to get the drone to a lower altitude and over land and because it was within my LOS I could easily do that. During the flight back it reconnected with my phone. Practice and keeping a clear head are invaluable when using a drone. Good luck and welcome to the fun times of owning and using a drone.
The mav Pro is a great little quad. I’d just start out in beginner mode and just stay in that mode for as long as it takes you to really feel comfortable with the quad. That’s what I did and I felt great that the mp is the type of quad a newbie CAN grow into and then expand their skills as well! Just....be sensible. Use the beginner mode to get used to all the controls then again,move on slowly to flying a bit further and higher, etc. also like others have mentioned,read the manual,watch the videos, then read and watch again. You’ll still have a ton of fun while u learn.
Funny read, it then I thought about it. Most teens have driven something basic, maybe not a barbie car, but a billy cart or something similar as kids. They have also been passengers in cars and get the basic concepts.
I do not think that a cheap "toy" drone will gain you any skills to master the Mavic, but you can certainly get one like a HAK912F that has a camera to understand if video is what you will enjoy, if you want to "zip around", a Mavic may not be the right toy.
In addition to, or in lieu of a toy, use the tutorial in the app. I crashed my DJI P3S on the first day. Once it was repaired, I used the tutorial for about a month. This really helped me learn to fly. A big challenge is that when the aircraft turns away from it's initial orientation, the intuitiveness of the sticks is lost. Forward is still forward, but forward can now be 90 degrees away from the original bearing. Very confusing at first, but you can learn it. Also, when in doubt, hover. Get your orientation on, and then proceed.
The E58 is not good in the wind at all and I certainly wouldn’t recommend it going to that height in a breeze. Wind and maybe a disconnect as well.
Learning To Fly, good Pink Floyd tune.....
both, I lost my very first (cheap) quad 5 years ago exactly the same way, in the second flight. It's now somewhere on the bottom of the lake. It is totally different from flying anything else like fixed wings planes or even collective pitch heli's. Once you get into the wind you get surprised by the drift and before you know it it is out of RC range.
I agree with others on this site about buying a practice Drone. Everyone of us has a different learning ability's
