been on the simulator for probably 60+ hours at this point. velocidrone mostly. i can do basic stuff, split s, figure eights, keeping reasonably smooth lines through gates. but when i get on my actual quad it feels like starting from scratch every single time. the muscle memory just doesnt transfer the way people say it will.

i think part of it is my quad is way punchier than anything i can replicate in the sim even with the physics tweaked. running like 2306 motors on a 5 inch with a pretty aggressive tune and the sim just doesnt really capture that snap. also crashing in real life is extremely different mentally from crashing in the sim, i tense up and overcorrect.

not really sure what im asking. just feeling frustrated. been doing this for 8 months and i feel like progeny who started after me are already flying better. anyone else go through a long plateau like this or did i just hit my ceiling already

8 months is not that long, and sim hours dont translate 1:1 the way people hype it up. the physical feedback loop is completely different. in real life you can feel the prop wash through the controller, you can hear the motors, your spatial awareness is different because you're actually standing there. all of that affects how you fly.

the tension/overcorrection thing is super common. what helped me was deliberately flying slower for a while when i got on the real quad. like annoyingly slow. just cruise around, do gentle banked turns, nothing sharp. it lets your brain sync up with how the specific aircraft moves without the panic of trying to do something technical. after 10-15 packs of just cruising i felt way more natural and my sim muscle memory started actually showing up.

also what props and rates are you running. sometimes the issue is the setup fighting you more than your skill.

yeah i went through like a 4 month stretch where i genuinely thought i just wasnt built for acro flying. could not get rolls to feel clean, kept porpoising on split s exits, the whole thing. what eventually clicked for me was someone pointing out my throttle management was the root problem ? i was focusing so much on the rotation axes that my throttle was all over the place and it was making everything else feel wrong.

also 60 hours in velocidrone is a lot but if youre just freestyling the whole time you might not be ingraining the right things. i spent a couple weeks just doing identical repetitions of single maneuvers. like 50 consecutive split S entries until it was automatic. boring as hell but it worked.

dont compare yourself to other people man. some of them are lying about how long they've been flying anyway.