I try to fly every day. My practice routine consists of:
- Flying low-level figure 8's around some trees in the field.
- Flying circles around the RTV that I drove down to the practice field. When I'm circling the RTV, I fly camera forward and circle for a few laps and then turn the drone so that the camera is facing the RTV for a few laps.
- Flying at speed a couple of feet above the ground and then accelerating rapidly into the sky at a 45* angle until I reach a couple of hundred feet.
- Doing figure 8's while I'm up there.
- Then descending rapidly (left controller pulled full back and right controller full forward) back to where I'm piloting from.
- When the drone is almost back home I slow it down, spin it to where the back is facing me (and I can see the battery lights flashing), and then back up to where the drone is beside me.
- Then I walk across the field with the drone flying circles around me. (This is tougher than it sounds!)