been flying line of sight for about a year and a half, recently switched to fpv and im kind of relearning everything. i can do basic stuff no problem, rolls, flips, banked turns, whatever. but every time i try to learn something like a split-s or a juicy dive into a recovery i either chicken out too early or misjudge the altitude and it gets real close to the ground real fast.

i dont have a simulator setup right now (i know i know, everyone says sim) but im just wondering if theres a way to build up to these moves systematically or is it really just reps and occasionally eating dirt. flying a 3inch cinewhoop right now so at least crashes are kinda survivable but still.

sim is genuinely not optional for this stuff, sorry. i know its not what you want to hear but the problem with trying to learn split-s on a real quad is that you need altitude to practice it safely which means you're also dealing with FPV depth perception issues at height, and then you get squirrely and pull out too late and thats how antennas get snapped. velocidrone or liftoff, even a few hours in the sim and your muscle memory for when to pull out of a dive changes completely. your 3inch will thank you.

i learned split-s by first just doing half the maneuver over and over. like fly level, roll inverted, and immediately roll back upright without doing the pull. just get used to being inverted for a split second. once that stopped feeling scary i started adding a tiny bit of pull before rolling back. kind of snuck up on the full thing rather than commiting to it all at once. took longer probably but i didnt crash learning it which felt like a win. also do it way higher than you think you need to at first, like embarrassingly high.