Get your setup right

Liftoff auto-detects controllers and ships default mappings for well-known radios, so the documented first move is detection and calibration — not rates. This profile records the official support answer, including the two-stick minimum and the gamepad trade-off.

Simulator

liftoff

Flight style

Freestyle

Skill level

Beginner

Applies to: The support page states a device needs 'at least two stick inputs' to be likely to work. Game controllers are supported but the page describes them as a handicap: limited sensitivity and sticks that snap back to centre, so throttle behaviour will not match a real radio. Do not treat a recognised device as a calibrated one.

VelociDrone ships four flight-mode banks on the 1–4 keys. This profile documents the documented beginner path: fly Angle first, then move to Rate once you can hold a line without self-levelling.

Simulator

velocidrone

Flight style

Fundamentals

Skill level

Beginner

Applies to: Bank mode is a simulator-side mode switch, not a rates profile: switching banks does not change the rate values stored with the model. Angle and Horizon will not reproduce the attitude behaviour of a real quad in Acro, so treat them as orientation training only.

VelociDrone's Betaflight 4.2 dialog mirrors the settings on a real Betaflight flight controller and stores three separate rates profiles per model. This profile records where the dialog lives, what the profile slots are for, and the save behaviour that trips people up.

Simulator

velocidrone

Flight style

Racing

Skill level

Intermediate

Applies to: The manual warns against PID tuning unless you understand PID controllers — the shipped models are described as race-ready. Values do not transfer to other simulators automatically, and switching rates type converts the current numbers into the new model rather than preserving the exact feel.

VelociDrone accepts any transmitter that outputs all stick channels over USB, but the manual puts two steps before calibration: power the radio first, and calibrate the radio itself. This profile records that order and the gamepad throttle-curve workaround.

Simulator

velocidrone

Flight style

Fundamentals

Skill level

Beginner

Applies to: The manual documents a Windows driver regression that stopped FrSky and Jumper transmitters working as USB joysticks, and warns that a Windows driver update can reintroduce it — check the OpenTX version it recommends. A spring-centred gamepad will never match a real radio's throttle stick, so treat throttle-curve softening as a workaround, not a calibration.