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No. Try a cheap quadcopter without any auto stabilization. it takes more than 10 minutes. Maybe 8-12 hours of flying time to become proficient enough to, say, risk mounting something breakable (like a camera) onto it.

Less time than a normal helicopter though, so I get your point.




I have two quadcopters -- that both have auto stabilization: Parrot AR Drone and DJI Phantom, and it did take around 10 minutes to learn to fly them.

Is it even possible to fly quadcopters without stabilization? Would they not start spinning out of control as soon as they take off?


He probably means "stabilized using gyro and accelerometer" (ie, release sticks = evens itself out) as opposed to "just stabilized by gyros" (ie, release sticks, copter stops any rotation but keeps pitched/rolled position).

Sure, learning to hover in one general spot is doable in 10 minutes. I wouldn't call that "learning to fly".

What about very basic maneuvers like landings (no bouncing around, no dropping from too high, and at the spot where you wanted to land) or circles/eights, dealing with ambiguous orientations when your copter is high enough (~ 6m ?), nose-in flying / dealing with control reversal and recovering from orientation loss?




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