Assalamu alaikum, welcome to virtual university. The title of today's lesson is word choice and this lesson is going to be in two parts. In the first part you shall learn about the use and choice of words and expressions and in the second part you shall look at a number of words that are often mistaken for one another because they are homonyms that is they are words that are pronounced the same or almost the same but are spelled differently and are different in meaning. To be a good writer you must learn to use words and expressions that are suitable to the subject to the occasion and also for the audience you are writing for. Even the most casual of English students of English they soon become aware of the fact that there are several different speech levels. Some words are unmistakably bookish or literary, some are informal or colloquial and you will notice that every trade and profession also has its own technical jargon. Then there are words that are used only for humorous effect and there are words that are never used in polite situations. So you realize that there is a great variety of situations and an equally great variety of words to go with them. Now not all writing problems involve grammar, a sentence may be grammatically correct yet fail to communicate effectively because the words that the writer has chosen are not appropriate. The student of writing must take an interest in words, slang, cliches and wordiness are three enemies of clear communication. Now slang expressions no doubt are very lively and they add color to our everyday speech but it is generally out of place in formal writing. Most slang terms are often vague substitutes for more exact words. No writers avoid weakening their writing with slang. Slang is a living language no doubt because new slang expressions and words keep coming in and keep going out as well and as new words and expressions are coined almost daily and most of these die out equally quickly. Students especially young children are very fond of using slang they coined these words but let me repeat that they are not appropriate in formal writing. Listen to this sentence I actually heard a student of mine say this when my mother saw me zonked out on the sofa she lost it very funny when my mother saw me zonked out on the sofa she lost it. Now of course you understand what is the meaning the student meant that when his mother saw him stretched out on the sofa she lost her temper or she lost she became angry and the sentence can be revised and written in proper English. It could be when my mother saw me sleeping on the sofa she became angry fine. Slang by its nature is informal and it is commonly used in talk amongst friends, colleagues but it is not suitable for good writing or even for formal occasions. For instance if you are in an interview you go for an interview it would be better for you if you did not use slang words because maybe it is your colleagues understand the slang that you are using but the persons who are interviewing you they might be old fashioned and they might not understand the terminology the terms that you are using. Then there is something else about slang that it is typical sometimes it is typical of one class of persons such as you may have prisoners a prison slang you may have excuse me. Army slang and as I said earlier slang may be appropriate in casual conversation but it is not appropriate in formal writing. Now this is not realized by foreign learners of English that slang is used by limited social groups slang in the USA is quite different from the slang that is in the UK used in the UK in Australia and other English speaking countries. And foreign learners of English should be very careful for instance slang expressions of the 1960s they sound out of date or are meaningless today use slang only when you have a specific purpose in mind such as being humorous. Now we shall do an exercise I shall show you some sentences and you change first you spot the slang expression and then you change the expression by using more effective language. Take the first sentence all the viewers trashed the new Tom Cruise film all the viewers trashed the new Tom Cruise film now I do not have to tell you which is the slang expression you I am sure have spotted it easily you can rewrite this in effective in a better way and that could be all the viewers condemned the new Tom Cruise film take another sentence I was really cheesed off when Rizwan called me a liar a very common expression cheesed off you can write this you can revise this and make it I was really angry when Rizwan called me a liar another sentence working in the library has been a real drag a real drag. Now you can correct this you can say that working in the library has been boring working in the library has been boring those were slang expressions now we shall look at cliches that is the second type of expression that are very common in writing and even in spoken speech now cliches are expressions that were lively and interesting a long time ago with the passage of time these expressions have been used so often and they have been used so much that they have become predictable and thus they are dull and boring and good writers try to avoid using cliches in their writing you should when you are writing try to use fresh expressions and I shall show you some examples of cliches we have all come across expressions like after all is said and done a long felt need avoid like the plague bored to tears better half which means the wife or the husband bolt from the blue expression like busy as a bee cold as ice cool as a cucumber in this day and age clear as crystal then you have expressions like light as a feather well you can use another word you can have another comparison but it need not be a feather it could be something else make ends meet pretty as a picture red as a rose well you can say red as a tomato I know the word the tomato is not so romantic as the rose but you can compare it with something else that is red sick and tired that is another cliche tried and true time and again these are all cliches and see wherever it is possible try to use another expression now we shall look at some sentences and I would like you to pick out the cliche that is used in these expressions number one the boys in my class were down in the dumps because they were fighting a losing battle with their discrete maths course a long sentence but there are cliches in it down in the dumps fighting a losing battle these are expressions that have been used in other contexts and I would advise you to try to break away from such writing you can rewrite this sentence in this way the boys in my class were depressed because they were not doing well in their discrete maths course simple straightforward English you do not have to use words like down in the dumps and fighting a losing battle what you have to say say it in simple words and it will be very effective take another sentence she speaks loud enough to wake the dead she speaks loud enough to wake the dead now this is this sentence could be rewritten as she speaks extremely loud and that is it you do not have to wake the dead number three take another sentence the children in the nursery class have been busy as bees all day but they still seem fresh as daisies tried cliches cliches that have lost their freshness words expressions that have lost their freshness and this could be rewritten as the children in the nursery have been active all day but they still seem energetic now the third type of expressions that should be avoided by all writers is wordiness that means that you use too many words unnecessary words to say something that could be said in a few words and some people think that it is a way of showing off their knowledge of the language they think that by using big words difficult words they are creating an impression actually this this can be quite annoying for the reader and even for the listener now I will show you a few examples and you notice that for each of the wordy expressions you can replace it by one or two words it is a small list otherwise there is a very long list and if you pick up any good grammar book or vocabulary book you will notice pages and pages of these expressions the expression a large number of you have a simple word many you can use the word many you do not have to say a large now sometimes fine yes but try to use simple words a single word at an earlier point in time these expressions are very common in writing you can say before instead of saying at an earlier point in time say before at this point in time that is a single word for it and that word is now and the expression due to the fact that it is so common in writing due to the fact that and this can be substituted by the word because during the time that that again is a very wordy expression and all you have to do is substitute the word while because that is that is what this expression means each and every day means daily it is the same meaning daily maybe you may use each and every day for the sake of emphasis but too much use of such words can be quite boring few in number that is another expression another wordy expression and you can use the word few just simply few because few when you say even you use the word few you mean number less in number so use the word few green in color why they have to use the word color when you are already using the word green green is a color so just use the word green you do not have to say green in color in order to this can be substituted with the word to there is another one that is very common and that is in my own opinion in my own opinion opinion is your is your thought is your idea what you think so you do not have to say in my own opinion you just say I think and another expression in the event that in the event that something happens you can use substitute the word if again there is another expression in the near future well maybe if you are comparing in the near future and in the distant future but if you just say soon because the word soon means in the coming days ahead the expression made the decision to it means decided just say decided we decided on a count off again you can substitute the word because postponed until later you can just use the word postponed you do not have to say until later small in size small just use the word small all right now we shall do an exercise and you notice and decide for yourself which of these communicates well which sentence communicates well take the first one due to the fact that the printer ran out of the toner they went to the local store for the purpose of buying some look at the other one because the printer ran out of the toner they went to a local store to buy some which one is better decidedly it is the second one all right another one at this point in time we have not yet scheduled the date of the next meeting at this point in time this can be a better version could be we have not yet scheduled the next meeting or we have not decided on the next meeting take another one in my opinion I think the quota system in jobs is totally unfair and uncalled for the other version is I think the job quotas are unfair you said the same thing but in in a way that is more clear now to help you develop your skill in choosing words effectively we will do a short exercise see if you can identify errors of cliches or wordiness in the following sentences and if you feel like you can rewrite the sentence number one my neighbors conversation is too gross for me my neighbors conversation is too gross for me you can rewrite it as my neighbors conversation is disgusting because gross means bulk take the next one the audience was bored to tears by the lecture there is no need to have the word bored to tears you can just say the audience was bored by the lecture that sentence owing to the fact that buses are on strike no one arrived on time you can say because of the bus strike no one arrived on time listen to this one the boys are pulling your leg when they say they can't be at your party don't listen to their teasing they won't miss your party for the world notice the slang right you can say that in a better way the boys are joking when they say they can't be at your party don't listen to their teasing they really want to go to your party they wouldn't miss your party for the world very common all young people say that there's nothing wrong with it but a better way would be that they really want to go to your party take this one you can't believe what my neighbor says he's a gas bag during the time I've known him I've heard him tell many lies a gas bag actually what is meant is that my neighbor you can't believe what my neighbor says he's always exaggerating right during the time since instead of using the word at the phrase during the time use substitute it with the word since since I've known him I've heard him tell many lies right take this one she was as happy as a lark when she learned that she'd got an A on her term paper but her happiness didn't last long due to the fact that there had been a complete mistake there had been a mistake in the compiling of the result now again cliches happy as a lark you can just use the word she was happy when she learned that she had got an A on her term paper but her happiness didn't last long because there had been a mistake in the compiling of the result you don't have to say it didn't last long due to the fact that wordiness that sentence suffers from wordiness right now that was the first part of today's lesson and we talked about very common mistakes that writers make the use of slang the use of cliches and wordiness using too many words to say something that can be said in a straightforward manner now we shall look at the second half which consists of homonyms these are pairs of words that are frequently confused with one another because they sound alike sometimes they are spelled in the same way and people mistake one for the other and they are commonly confused the first one it's ITS and IT apostrophe S a very common mistake students are may be they are not very clear about it ITS this is the possessive form of the word it and IT apostrophe S is a contraction a contraction of it is instead of writing it as two words IT and IS the word is contracted the second I is taken out and instead an apostrophe is inserted look at this example when she saw my dress she said it's an unusual one but I like its color notice it's the first it's is with an apostrophe S it's an unusual one but I like it's color number two now these are very common words some of you might say oh well we are familiar with this but when you are writing students often confuse the one for the other there and there T H E R E there it has two meanings one it means in that place there it is there over there and it is used with IS or WAS or and other forms of the verb to be the other word is there T H E I R which means belonging to them them and that there is a third one over here there are three forms of this word their T H E R E their spelled T H E I R and there is the third one which is they their T H E Y apostrophe R E which is a contraction of two words they are now look at these sentences the teacher told the students that there was no excuse for their failing in the test they are going to sit for another test the first their T H E R E the second excuse for their T H E I R and the third one is a contraction of the word they are they are going to sit for another test the second example their belongings were scattered over there on the hillside tomorrow there will be an inquiry in the accident right now except for the first one the first is T H E I R the other two there are T H E R E meaning over there in that place now there is another pair another pair of words that are frequently confused and these words are your Y O U R your meaning belonging to you and the other one your which is a contraction of the words you are the A is removed and you have the apostrophe and R E listen to the example if you are going out in this heat take your umbrella for protection now the first your is Y O U apostrophe R a contraction of the word if you are if you are going out in this heat take your umbrella meaning the umbrella belonging to you for protection another example do you think your family will be upset when they learn your migrating to Canada the first one is your belonging to you do you think the family your family belonging to you will be upset when they learn you are second one is a contraction now the fourth set of words that are that are confused are the words past P A double S E D past and the word past students do not know when to use which one now the word past P A double S E D past means past is the past tense of the of past it means handed to when you pass something to somebody he passed me the ball number two went by he went past the rose bush and number three it also means to be completely successful or to complete something successfully he passed the exams and the word past P A S T it means time before the present right take this example as Sahaja the leap walk pasts the fire he passed his hands over it the first one is went by meaning went by and the second one is he passed his hands over it right let us look at the next pair and these are the words whose W H O S E meaning belonging to whom and the other one is whose H W H O apostrophe S which is a contraction of the word who is or who has right example the headmaster yelled who is responsible for the destruction of the painting whose fault is it the first whose is W H O apostrophe S who is responsible for the destruction of the painting the second one is whose W H O S E the next one is weather and weather one always remember the one with a there is the letter a in the first one weather which means conditions outside rain when temperature etcetera and the other weather is another word meaning if example to illustrate the weather won't spoil our holidays whether it rains or not our days will be passed our days will be spent fishing and boating the first one is weather with an e a with an a and the second one is weather with an H right the next very common commonly confused words are already two words a double L all and ready these are two different words and it means to be completely prepared the second one is one word already a L R E A D Y right and that is an adverb which means previously or before or prior to some specified time example they were all ready for the work to begin they were all ready meaning that they were completely prepared for the work to begin second sentence we were surprised to find the woman already there when we arrived right the next pair of words are all together and all together again all together is one word a L T O G E T H E R which means meaning wholly or thoroughly it is one word and it is an adverb the other one all together are two words all and together meaning simultaneously or at once all at once example the customers were all together satisfied and here you would use the word all together which is one word meaning thoroughly satisfied and the other one they were all together in the waiting room by 8 o clock all together the next one is now these are not homonyms it is the word angry and I have included this because sometimes people do not know how to use the word angry you can be angry about something you can be angry with some somebody and you can be angry act not homonyms but it is the word angry being used with different prepositions and it takes on a different meaning you are we are angry about occasions about situations or with situations you are angry with people you are angry about occasions or situations and you are angry at things at animals for example you can say we were all angry about the increased taxes angry about the increased taxes you can say she was angry with Mr. Khan for supporting her rivals angry with she is angry with me these days and he showed his dissatisfaction by becoming angry at his dog for barking you are angry at things now there is another pair and again these are not homonyms but I have included them because sometimes students often not sometimes often do not know when to use which one and these are the three words liable apt and likely now liable and apt are sometimes used for likely something is apt if it is suited for or appropriate to do something else a person is apt if he has a tendency to do something or is ready to learn and liable means answerable for and it is often and often suggests an undesirable possibility likely means probably likely means probably listen to this example that was not an apt remark that was not an apt remark he is liable to arrest you would not say he is apt to arrest and you would not say or you can say he is likely to be arrested he is liable to arrest and the word likely it will very likely rain tomorrow and then we have the words accept and accept with the double C A double C E P T accept which means to receive willingly to agree to something and accept E X C E P T means to leave out or it also means but all the workers except the part timers voted for a 5 day week except meaning all the workers excluding leaving out the part timers and the second one the management accepted the proposals of the workers accepted agreed to the next pair of words is advice and advice the first one advice means suggestion or suggestions and advice means to give advice or suggestions to somebody right they advise their clients in such a way that they become dependent upon them for guidance right and here it is advice V I S E most astrologists or most astrologers advice is worthless astrologers advice the next pair is effect and effect effect with an A means to influence it is used as a verb effect to influence the other one is with an E effect again used as a verb and it means to cause to cause something and it is also used as a noun meaning result the heavy down pour last night and I will use these in an example the heavy down pour last night did not affect the success of the trip the rain had the effect of clearing the air of dust right the first one is with it with an A right which means to influence the heavy down pour did not influence the success of the trip the second one is effect meaning result the effect of the rain the result of the rain was that it cleared the air of dust right and we have got other examples as well now let us look at the next one the next words that are confused the group of words that are confused are desert desert and desert three variations two of them are spelled exactly the same way the third one is a double S has a double S the first meaning of desert is dry and sandy right sandy place and the other one is desert to leave behind the third is desert which is the final course of a meal the boys were lost in the thar desert the thar sandy place in southern Pakistan the other one the soldiers deserted the army meaning they left the army and the third one the hostess offered rice pudding as desert meaning as the final meal there is another pair of words very often confused by students and these words are dose and does dose is D O S E meaning a measured amount of medicine and the other one is does it is it is spelled D O E S and it is the present tense of the verb to do now listen to the example does a double dose of medicine cure an illness quickly does a double dose does D O E S E and dose D O S E the next pair is course and course one is spelled C O A R A C which means rough not refined and the other is course a unit of instruction you can take course in linguistics course is a part of a meal the last course and it is also used in words like it is used with off such as of course example the secretaries are required to take a course in handling telephone calls so that they do not treat even irritating customers in a course manner that was a long example take the next one which is shorter some of the boys on the computer course were very course in their manners the first one is course the computer course a unit of instruction and the second course is being rough not refined next are the words lead and lead right lead I am sorry it is the words lead and lead lead E A D is a metal and the other one is lead L E D which means influenced or persuaded to be influenced or persuaded it also means to be guided and it is also the past tense of the verb to lead example the lead based is dangerous for your health lead right L E A D the other one the other example is you must lead the child by the hand another example I lead the old woman by the hand last week and the words plain P L A I N and P L A N E again very often confused by students P L A I N means not fancy something that is plain nothing very fancable about it something that is obvious straight forward and it also means flat land the other word plain P L A N E plain of course there are other meanings but I will just confine ourselves to one meaning and that is the short form of the word aeroplane aeroplane is rather a big word and everybody uses the word plain these days P L A N E it was plain to see the plane had landed in the field the first one is P L A I N and the other one is P L A N E and another example the heat in the planes is unbearable and it is the word P L A I N S meaning flat land and we have got three versions of the word quiet quiet quiet and quit sometimes students just do not know how to differentiate one from the other quiet I E T means silent Q U I E T silent quiet means very and quit means to give up to stop doing something right. The last one is Wanda and Wanda Wanda with an A means to move with no definite of X course in mind or to be unclear in speech he is wandering in his speech the other one is Wanda which means to be amused I am sorry to be amazed and this Wanda is spelt with an O W O N D E R and it is used to introduce polite requests for inquiring and it is it also is used to show when you speculate or you ask yourself right now in today's lesson you learnt about selecting the right words and their importance in good writing you also learnt about words that are often confused with one another just because they sound similar so try to avoid such mistakes till next time Allah Hafiz.


So I'm putting FedTech on all these guys' quads, but the catch this time around is they're running their traditional ESCs that kind of the catch for these guys not wanting to switch is not because of the way it flies, but because of the durability. And generally speaking, the FedTech and KISS ESCs have been notorious for braking. So if we take that factor out of it and let them run their own ESCs that they're used to, like Drew's individual ESCs, Bubby's Foxy or ESC and just run it with the FedTech G4 fly controller, which seems to work really well with Bill Halley. In theory, they can still get that amazing flying quad but with what they're used to. So I'm curious to see what Drew thinks, what Bubby thinks and what Shaw thinks. This is the Moxie Prospect build except for the fly controller. This is a FedTech G4. And I'm really excited to try it out because yesterday we had a little flight session right after some filming and I got to fly one of Alex's quad. He was flying a pirate frame and he had this exact fly controller. That was the best quad I've ever flown.  The biggest thing is the quad he flew was a FedTech board and previously had a FedTech ESC. That runs its own software. Our pilots primarily fly Bill Halley. It's what the majority of the crowd flies. It's the common software. So this quad is a hybrid. So what you flew yesterday was a hybrid between FedTech and Bill Halley and we built that on your quad. This is just a slapped on tune that's kind of like the golden starting point. And I'm curious to see what you think of it. Yeah. Oh, it's a take off. Still locked in. Give it like a nice, just in a straight line punch out like into the air. Oh heck yeah. Nice and smooth. Oh, okay, that though. That's just you letting off. It needs a little tuning. Yeah, for sure. How's it flying though? Compared to your actual setup you normally use now that you're in the air ripping it. What do you think honestly? You know, I kind of get what you mean by feel. But yeah man, I kind of like it. Like I think after we get some tuning I think I'll like it even better. As is though, where does it like compare? Same, slightly better. What do you think? I think like in terms of like flying wise and like a little jitter we saw I think my quad might fly a little bit better. But like in terms of like locked inness like that's so straight. Like mine still had like a slight little fling every now and then but like that's hands off. It is worth noting though that this quad that we put the FestTech board in is not a new quad by any means. Yeah, it is very, very good. I think it's worth making it fair.  Yeah, I think we could raise the pins a little bit. I gave him a tune that was off of one of my quads which is about 120 grams lighter. So I think we could bump the pins up and you might make it a little bit more locked in. But it looks smooth. That's the biggest thing with KISS is it's a smooth feeling in the stick. You don't really, I don't think get a ton better flight performance. But I do think that people who fly KISS notice how smooth it is and how well it tracks. More, but it flies great. Yeah. I like the feel. Yeah. It's the M1, literally Betaflight. All the apps do this except for my KISS Ultra. Apple. I can edit videos fine, but I mean, I'm really not good at editing. That's M1 optimized. KISS is not M1 optimized. Betaflight's not M1 optimized. I know. Oh. Stop. I'm really frustrated. Oh man. You move the sticks and the bars move. That's sick. What's your arm? What's your arm? If you're ever looking for any of our rates or tunes or whatever, we try to keep updated information on the Rotor Riot Store. I just find my rates because I don't have a memorized. So, here are my Betaflight rates. And you can convert them to KISS rates? Yeah, they're the same. Oh, it's just the same? Okay. It'll feel slightly different because the KISS PID controller is like. I've actually been thinking about going even lower. Remember when my rates used to be considered low? Right. Everyone dogged on me and now I actually have high rates and I'm like, they're the same rates. By the way, minimum command at 1,000, that just like enables air mode. Steel has a video which shows like how to basically have air mode on a switch. I just don't. So it's just air mode all the time? Right now it's air mode all the time. I do kind of want air mode on a switch. We'll figure it, we can go. Oh, good, we can do that. Let's get it flying, let's get it. This is how these awful motors. These are beautiful motors.  Sean actually like built a new quad which is like going to give it a fair shot. Drew and Bubby just took used gear. At least Drew used a new frame to be fair. Bubby just used. I used a prototype V3 Moxie that I've had for months. So it's ready to fly now? It's ready to fly now. Pretty quick. That was so fast. All right, you're actually flying KISS on your ESCs, your frame, your motors. It looks really good. Something I'm feeling is it's a lot easier to stop where I intend to stop if that makes sense. Yep. It just points where you want it to go.  Well, let me just see if I want that Rubik's nice and locked in. Yeah. That was nice. That was good. Oh, it's smooth too on the punch. That feels good. Hands off the sticks. Look at that. That's locked man. That is locked in. Woo, that just feels like really good float. It looks good. It looks really good. You just want to toss it over the trees. Oh yeah. Beautiful. It looks good. It looks really, it sounds really good. Hey, you're looking really locked in with it too. Oh my. You just went for it, you just went for it. You're doing everything you would normally do. I guess my question is, is it better than what you fly? I don't know. I mean, it needs more time with it. Like, I'll tell you, it doesn't immediately strike me as worse. And I mean, that's a really good thing. Like, I don't know, like. I think you have to fly back. I got some of those bunny hops. I'm getting more of those bunny hops than I get with Betaflight. Yep. But I do feel like when I just go, whee, boom, hands off the sticks, Betaflight shakes a little bit more. Yep. Like this just feels like, just feels like it's not locked moving at all. Like, I don't, you know, no prop wash. That's just a base tune as well. Yeah. For a base tune, this is very nice. Yeah. And I got really frustrated with tuning Betaflight. I don't even do it anymore. I just use Tyler's tune. I would love to see you, Juris, since you come from doing more traditional PID tuning, because you've been in it for a minute. Boom. I would love to see you actually go into the Kiss Pids. When we talk about bunny, I feel like is that just raising pitch-eye? I think, yeah, raising pitch-eye and even the pee a little bit on pitch. We know it flies really good with this tune. I think. I think you should start tuning it the way you would try. I bet I think you should try tuning it the way you would. It's just been so long and it just felt like Betaflight got to the point where tuning didn't do anything. It was all about like, if I wanted to actually feel into difference, I had to do some crazy filter settings. Oh, nice. Yeah, cool. Those are fine. What I want out of a PID tune is I want the Pids to be just high enough to take care of all the bad flight characteristics I want to get rid of and no higher.  Right. I want to have a little bit of headroom because I am flying with bent props. Yep, so that's a feature I want to tell you and Sean about. So this is set, point, weight and D term. I have it at 100, that's where it maxes out. When you guys flew my FetTech quad, I had this set at 85. The lower this number, the like more, it's almost like feed forward or something. We're kind of just the feel of the quad. So right now it's just like I'll leave that at 100 so this should be the most locked in feel. But if you get the Pids at a certain point, but you want the quad to still feel soft a little bit, you can lower this to like 90 or 85 or something like that. I know Steel uses like 80 or something. He likes the quad to almost like be a little bit loose. That's just another feature you should know about because you can play with that. But you know, I leave it at 100 and it seems to fly great. Ultimately the biggest downside I feel like there is to kiss FetTech is the durability.  When I first started, I burned 50 of the kiss 18 and a half ESCs in the very beginning and that was, there were 25 bucks a piece. That was expensive. And I mean like for me, I run the FetTech ESC and for the most part I have no issues but I predominantly fly around trees and soft grass. So it's like not really an issue. But you guys, I crash in a concrete and I need something that's going to take a lot of abuse. But the ESC has been the failure point. Yeah, it's always been the ESC. I've never really had a problem with a flight controller before. So if we remove the ESC variable and just use your guys normal ESCs, which is also nice because you can use any ESC or not like a lot to one thing. Even if you have to maybe jump through a few hoops. Yeah, you know, I think Drew's biggest complaint, he couldn't use his individual ESCs. You know, me and him for the longest time switched to individual ESCs because the foreign ones just couldn't take the abuse. I'm trying to get away from the individuals just because it's a lot more effort to build the quad. And I'm trying to go back to foreign ones. I'm trying to see if the new foreign ones that are out now can take the abuse that I put them through. And so far so good, but I haven't done a whole lot of flying. All three quads are different. So Bubbies is using a Foxier Reaper ESC. It's a foreign one ESC with the Fetek G4 flight controller. Yours is using a T-Motor ESC with the G4 and his is a new quad. And then Drew's is running, what ESCs are you, the individuals? T-Motor individuals, the F-35s. Okay. Yours looks really smooth. I felt a little bit of oscillation there, but I think I did. Maybe I'm imagining things. Yours looks really locked actually. Like it looks like you can raise the pins to make it a little bit more, but like it sounds smooth. Yeah, it sounds really good. That was a really awesome power loop. Yeah, like no prop watch. Yeah, that felt really good. But like, I don't want to speak for it. Like ultimately, like what do you feel with it? You feel like it's... Yeah. I'm doing a race course right now. It's not really what I usually do. I should just try to freestyle and see what it does. Like that was pretty awesome. Oh yeah. You hear that flick too? I like when I drop the throttle completely, I love the way it felt. That's what Drew said as well. It just stayed on track. Exactly where I thought it was gonna go versus like veering. Sometimes Betaflight'll veer. I think the best thing I can say about it is that it always goes where I tell it to go. Right. Like I haven't crashed into a gate yet. All right. Yeah, I definitely love power loops better with this. I struggle with power loops and it seems like every time I try to do a power loop and Betaflight, my power loops veer a little bit. Like when I go to power loop, it'll kind of go off axis a little bit and I don't have that at all with this. Like it's just exactly where I tell it to go. I was able to power loop the first try from the bottom gate over into the top gate right through the second hole. No big deal. It's hard to explain, but it just feels like it's more locked in, I guess. Like it's doing what I'm telling it to do more accurately. Keep trying it. I haven't crashed it yet. So we don't know if it's gonna last the durability test yet. It's like really hard. Or like really hard full speed into the tree trunk from a trip from a magic flip and do it again. It's fine. The flight controllers don't really break often. So like I didn't really expect it to break, but we'll see. I'm thinking that the flight controller being more less abused will probably make this work for me. Now that I can use my own ESCs, I think it's actually usable now that I don't have to use a kiss ESC. I'm not excited about having to switch everything because I don't like having to change everything that I'm used to. I know Betaflight, like they're back in my hand. With all the projects that I do, Betaflight definitely has a lot more switches to press and a lot more functionality capabilities. I don't know how to do any of that with Kiss. So I have to learn it all over again. And I'm not really psyched about learning everything. Well, maybe Kiss can be your freestyle stuff and then you can have your Betaflight, which you know. I do love learning new things. So I'm excited to try it. I'm excited to take this out to like a real like freestyle. Yeah, they gotta take it somewhere like a park field. We gotta go somewhere with concrete. All right guys.  This is the latest G4 flight controller and it comes with a few sets of cables right here which we'll talk about in a minute. But one thing this flight controller does not come with that I wish it did come with are these little gummies right here. These are little stack grommets and I love using these in my quads because typically we run in our flight controller stacks, a stack screw all the way through the frame, ESC and flight controller. But on the Kiss flight controller I don't really recommend doing that for a few reasons. First off, this flight controller does not come with gummies and in fact in order to use gummies you would have to enlarge the hole size. That's no problem except for I found in the past that really runs the risk of damaging the flight controller or as you'll see it's really fit on the outside so not necessarily the best idea to use that sort of method to drill out the holes and put gummies in there.   The other nice thing about doing this too is it gives the flight controller some more space above the ESC than normally. In my opinion that improves the performance of the quad greatly because you have less noise from wires and other things running in between your ESC and your flight controller. Another tip that I like to do with this flight controller in particular this is the G4 flight controller from FedTech is you can either solder to the board or you can use the connectors. Now I like to use a mixture of the two sometimes depending on how I have my quad arranged. So I like to obviously use the connector to go from the ESC to the flight controller and then I like to use a plug for my receiver and then a plug for my video transmitter. That way if I ever work to kill one of these in a crash I just unplug everything, bring a new flight controller in plop it on, plug everything in and then transfer the information and I'm good to fly once again. Super duper easy, really reliable and I love this flight controller because it's very, very versatile.  The biggest hoop you're gonna have to jump through is you will not be able to use BL Heli pass through to change the motor direction or your ESC settings with the Kiss flight controller on. So if you're gonna use a BL Heli ESC you need to plug in a normal beta flight flight controller into your 401 ESC to go ahead and reverse your motors and change your ESC settings or you have to manually reverse the motors with the solder joints as well. Once you have all that set up however you simply put your Kiss flight controller on check the motor directions and everything like that and you're good to go and you're good to fly. In fact, I think Kiss flies incredible on BL Heli almost as good if not as good as the Kiss stuff does. So don't be afraid to try it. Just take an old flight controller you have laying around make sure the pinout and everything is right plug it into the ESC do what you need to do and then just hook it up. It's not that big of a deal and hopefully by the time this video is out there will be a firmware for this flight controller that has BL Heli pass through included. Unfortunately right now at the time I'm filming this that isn't something that exists. So if you're gonna use a BL Heli ESC you're just gonna have to jump through a one or two extra hoops in order to make it work. If you're using the FetTech ESC combined with the FetTech flight controller however you can use the FetTech configurator it's super nice and reliable. You can go in there change your ESC settings your motor direction and everything else that you need to do. And in my opinion if you wanna get the best performing quad on FetTech I would recommend combining it with their ESC. I think it's time we jump back out into the field and see what the boys are up to see how they're enjoying their quads what they think about them and who knows maybe we'll have some converts here by the end of this video. Flying it I've actually been really liking it like I don't know why I'm like I'm kind of mad that I don't like it as much as I do. Why? I don't know man like I just put together like what I thought was in my opinion was like my perfect beta flight quad like it flew really good but like.  He was like fly this.  It's good. I mean I've always liked the way Kiss flies when someone who knows what they're doing can get it flying right for me. The problem has always been the like some of the technical issues which you work through and the durability. I've had no technical issues with this it's been rock solid for me. And I've had like a lot of hard crashes and like I know flight controllers don't break but I actually. I would say like to add to what you're saying yeah it definitely does help to know someone who knows Kiss like there's a few little tricks that we did on your quads like for example building your quad on these rubber standoffs like that's something that I found works consistently and so I made all you guys this time build it all like that and all three your quads fly great just little tricks like that which there's no manual for so I do think you have to jump through a few hoops and then but like the tune wise it's just it's a tune that's in the configurator it's just called the golden starting point anyone can do it. So now it's time me obviously keep flying it crashing it pushing it but then if you really like it and you're thinking about switching try it you know in another bill with like different configurations see if you can repeat it you know because if you can only get one quad that's my problem with beta flies I can only get one quad to fly good and then it's not consistently flying well like this just flies well. I haven't crashed it enough to know for sure but I my props are pretty mangled up. I still haven't crashed to the level I normally crashed to know if it's durable enough but so far so good. I love the way it flies. What's even better about it is I didn't have to tune it. You did it for me so. Well I just put a preset on there too so I mean I didn't really do much I just went into the configurator quick to preset. I mean there's presets loaded in there because you could build a quad similar to someone else's build get their preset as a starting point and honestly it's probably gonna be fine. I just use your golden tune thing and change just the P and the I on the pitch axis and it was like a teeny tweak and I do think that tuning Pids is a lot more intuitive than tuning filters just my personal opinion. You know I think that there's a lot more information out there on what you could do that so I think Kiskin with these presets now can get you to a better starting point and you're probably gonna have to tweak it but if you need to it's not so hard. And you guys are all on stock filtering as well so you could in theory push it more I don't touch the filters. But they set the filters up for like normal five inch stuff. Yeah and I will say Kis this is a good note to make Kis is generally built around freestyle so it's not necessarily something that I have raced much cause it's almost like it can't keep up with the speed of a racing quad. It's really intended for freestyle. We're like Betaflight you can do anything you want with it. Flight controller is awesome. It's got eight motor outputs. Yeah I really like the eight motor outputs. I like to tinker with things and I like to make weird projects and motor outputs is one of the things I look for in a flight controller. It's really cool that it has eight motor outputs. It doesn't even care about this gigantic heavy GoPro mount. That I'm surprised about. I'm shocked about that. The flight is great even with all this weight. Talking about the flight controller really quick one thing I love about it is it's a built in 3030 and 2020 flight controller which is really nice and in the 2020 configuration it's got M2 holes but you just tweak it with your little exacto knife and then you have M3 holes. I was wondering what that was. Yeah I really like that. So that way you can run M2 screws or M3 screws you just tweak it out and so I love that cause like if I had times where I burn a 3030 ESC and I have a 2020 I can throw it in there and fly the exact same. Like I don't need to buy different flight controller. The only downside to KISS Fetek is you have to buy that flight controller.  And it is a little pricey. And it is a little pricey. So if you see this video and you're interested in trying it unfortunately there's no way that when you're like yeah just flash this on the board as you already have like no you gotta buy this. It's a $75 board. But there is a lot of power in that board. Yeah that's a lot of money. Oh look at the description. To be fair all flight controllers are going up in price right now. That's true. And KISS boards beforehand were the same price as the flight controllers maybe a tiny bit more. But unfortunately due to the chip shortage the Reaper ESC is a $100 ESC. Like it's the whole industry right now. So there is a lot of power in that flight controller. There's a lot of features in it. And I think the direction that KISS is going right now where it's trying to be more compatible than with just like KISS ESCs. I think it's really exciting because I think you're gonna start seeing a lot more pilots trying it because of that. Not being like locked into one ESC and one flight controller. At least you're only locked into the flight controller. I don't know. I think we've gotten a little spoiled over time. You know as prices have come down. You know when I first got into freestyle drones the amount of ESCs I had to put on a quad add up to a hundred bucks. So I mean it's come down and now it's going back up a little bit. I mean it'll fluctuate a little bit. What if I did want to throw one of these FCs on it like a Cinewup or even like a two inch little microgatherer presets in there. Yeah. And there's actually some really awesome. You guys haven't even seen this yet. But this is the Fetek 326S all-in-one board. It's a 2020 mounting board. This all-in-one I have in my Cinewup and KISS flies incredible on a Cinewup. You're probably not going to crash this that hard too. No. And they recommend that you keep it on either ultra light five inch quads like and I'm not talking racing quads.  They don't really recommend you push this stack on like a 6S or but like I've seen some for it. So you might be able to get it. But again it's really more geared to the micro side of things and they even have a smaller all-in-one which is like a little 15 app which is great for your whoops or your two inch quads on like three cell. I mean they actually do have a variety of fly controllers but they're all built kind of for one purpose. I love this all-in-one. So will that fit on like a dribblet because I'm kind of wanting to build it. Yeah, this is 20 by 20. So the dribblet's 20 all-in-one? Yep. And a lot of people are going to say, okay well this isn't new. You guys are four or five years behind time like KISS has been around forever but the reality is a lot of people including myself have had issues with KISS in the past mainly with durability being the biggest thing and also just compatibility issues. Now we're starting to see this breakthrough. We're all running different ESCs, different setups and configurations like and they're all flying amazing. Couldn't do that beforehand. I'm happy right now. We'll see how long it lasts. Yeah, I'll see how long it lasts Mr. Sean.


Hi and welcome to the session. Let us discuss the following question. Question says, given that A vector dot B vector is equal to 0 and A vector cross B vector is equal to 0 vector. What can you conclude about the vectors A and B? Let us now start with the solution. Now we are given dot product of A vector and B vector is equal to 0. This implies A vector is perpendicular to B vector or A vector is equal to 0 vector or B vector is equal to 0 vector. We know if dot product of two vectors is equal to 0 then they are perpendicular to each other. If they are not perpendicular to each other then one of them is a 0 vector. So dot product of vector A and vector B is equal to 0 if they satisfy any one of these conditions. Now we are also given that cross product of A vector and B vector is equal to 0 vector. Now this implies A vector is parallel to B vector or A vector is equal to 0 vector or B vector is equal to 0 vector. We know if cross product of two vectors is equal to 0 vector then two vectors are parallel to each other. And if they are not parallel to each other then either of them is equal to 0 vector. So we can say cross product of these two vectors is equal to 0 vector if it satisfies any one of these three conditions. Now clearly we can see if vector A is not equal to 0 vector and vector B is also not equal to 0 vector then vector A cannot be perpendicular and parallel to the B vector. So we get dot product of vector A and vector B and cross product of vector A and vector B is equal to 0 if either vector A or vector B is equal to 0 vector. So we can write A vector dot B vector is equal to 0 and A vector cross B vector is equal to 0 vector if vector A is equal to 0 vector or vector B is equal to 0 vector. So we conclude that either magnitude of vector A is equal to 0 or magnitude of vector B is equal to 0. This is our required answer. This completes the session. Hope you understood the solution. Take care and have a nice day.


What's up guys, and welcome back to the John and Q channel. Yes, if you're watching this video, you read the title correctly I'm no longer a police officer depending on who you ask you might be sad about that or You might be really happy that I'm no longer a police officer it depends on who you are and who you ask also Do you see this new kind of setup that I got this like podcast? I mean I'm kind of like in this look if you like it comment down below and Like this video and subscribe to the channel, but no I like this. It's a good starting point I got more things I gotta put in the background, but so far I'm digging it very quickly before we get into this video just so you guys know what to expect in the video I'm gonna tell you that I'm not a police officer kind of why and What happened and then kind of a glimpse into the future of this channel, okay? So it's no secret that Johnny Q was a police officer about a year and a half to two years ago, okay? You saw my tiktok videos Instagram videos YouTube shorts You saw everything that I did in the academy the idea was to inspire other police officers as To what I was doing in the academy post Academy field training and then as an officer and what they do Right and so that was my goal and that's what I did I thought it would be really fun and unique like a unique experience to enjoy online But boy was I wrong people especially police officers hated my Guts at first I didn't know why but now I do know why and honestly I don't care that they hated me. It was my journey not theirs They were salty old cops and you know newer cops that didn't like what I was doing that Was posting about what law enforcement is like becoming a tiktok cop, okay? So minus all the hate which I got tons and tons like thousands of DMs comments and hundreds of emails saying bro You're not a cop. You're a waste of space like these cops sergeants lieutenants captains Would threaten me over social media Crazy I know but it happens like that is just the nature of being a police officer and being a police officer is No joke whoever does it for 25 30 years.  I would come home sometimes and I would feel defeated I would feel like I'm not fit for this job And I feel like it was just too much to handle sometimes like you see some really weird crappy stuff every night every day And so you kind of have to just cope with it and I was Okay in those situations, but I had to learn right and as I was learning those things I would have posted on not the specific situations, but what I would be doing how I would feel how I would do in those situations people didn't really like that Unfortunately and so despite all the hate I was in field training.  I wanted to help serve help my community and Protect and help people like that just sounds so cheesy, but it's true that's why most people most men and women get into law enforcement and I was attracted to something like that and Once I got into the groove I felt like I succeeded but I couldn't show people that side of the success because it was like I can't just release body cam footage of What I was doing on the job like it doesn't work like that And so I kind of just started making like here's me as a police officer And then I started making kind of offshore content as to kind of mimic what it is like to be an officer And I would make videos Answering people's questions kind of not getting into like specifics But more of kind of overall general idea of law enforcement and what that meant to me in these videos and people hated that And so a lot of like meme pages came out and we're just roasting me every single day with the right me I mean honestly sexually harass me over the internet like there's some really weird stuff that people got into and We're saying about me and posting about me And I just thought you have so much time to think about me. That's just crazy So a lot of people think that I got fired a lot of people think that I got let go a lot of people think and want to Assume that I went to a different agency or I stopped doing the job because I couldn't handle it I'm here to tell you that's not true. That's not what happened. Okay We will touch more on what happened a little bit later in the video. Did it deter me? No, was it hard to go to work? Yes, because the same people at my department were the ones who hated my freaking guts Maybe it was because I'm some tiktoker with three million Followers which by the way got banned. Whatever. I had a million plus subscribers on YouTube Cool, but like I wasn't that guy with that was cocky and so I think people Labeled me as something without getting to know me first Which as we all know that just doesn't really work out and sometimes when you get to meet someone and talk to them they're actually pretty pleasant to deal with and The people who know me at that department and who got to know me and work with me would say hey at first I thought you were this but after going and you know Talking to you going to calls with you getting to know you you're not that guy And it was hard to convince people online that I wasn't the guy that they thought I was and So I kind of just stopped trying to convince people and I was doing me and if I offended people like Okay cool So fast forward, you know, I'm on my own. I'm doing it. I'm going to calls. It's going great I got some really cool things. I did some really awesome things I wanted to be on SWAT like that was my thing. I was training every single day Week and I was going to the gym. I was shooting a bunch catching up on like the laws the state laws Municipal, I mean all of that stuff trying to be like the best officer so that I can try out for SWAT and be a good SWAT officer too and last year there was just some family trouble some family issues and I had to choose it was more so I Could do what I'm doing now, which I loved and it was awesome But I should maybe think about family life and what that means and I chose family Over this job, which I really liked and I loved and I thought it was really good at and I was affirmed by people Who trained me saying dude, you're getting better. Good job. You're working. Well, you're doing this wrong but also you're improving and I was really pumped to be there I had built a really good friendship with another officer and You know, I just did not want to leave But I did and so I chose family over a job and I thought you know what maybe I could do this YouTube thing. Maybe I could do social media. I think I'm good enough People are watching my videos. They're successful. They're getting views So it kind of just makes sense to migrate in that direction Which brings me to this point of kind of a glimpse into the future of this channel This is it right here like more of this. I want more Maybe I answer people's questions in this kind of format Maybe we talk about certain things that are happening in the country like guns since you guys know I love guns firearms people Maybe not politics. I don't know about that. But for example should teachers have firearms Should they be trained with guns in a school my answer? Yes, they should be okay, and we can talk about that in another video But this is the future of Johnny Q. I will still be doing shorts Firearm content, but this is gonna be it. Okay, there wasn't some big Explosion at the police department. I wasn't let go. I wasn't fired and nothing like that happened So yeah, I'm here to tell you guys that I was not fired let go. I left the department on good terms. I Love that department. They treated me very well minus Some officers that I will not name that did not like me and I could tell and people told me but that's okay We're there to do the job if they were in trouble I would go help and I would go lay my life for them because that's what I'm called to do But anyway, this is kind of it And so if you guys kind of resonate with this video if you like what I'm doing on Social media, you know share this with your friends Comment leave a like subscribe all those things that you guys know But I'm gonna take it a little bit more seriously and make videos that I want to make and I Want to show you a different side like I want to challenge you to critically think about no firearms guns aren't dangerous They're not dangerous in of themselves, right? Like we can talk about more about it But they're just not it's the training or lack of training or people handling the firearms in a negligent way And so I'm very passionate that people should protect themselves and their family And I think this is gonna be a great way to talk about all of that. So with that being said guys, thanks for watching I hope you guys saw a little bit about me in this video. I'm a human too I do regular things and I just happen to have a YouTube channel that has a following And so hopefully you guys resonate with this message and hopefully with my future videos If there's something like wrong or you want to talk about and it's like pressing you comment down below Like let's talk about it, you know, maybe we'll have some good discussion in a different video about set topic So thank you guys for watching this video. Thank you for trying to understand me Thank you for even listening and hearing me out.  I'm just not an officer which makes you really Happy Maybe you want to applaud but that's okay. I am a little sad But that's okay because what's this? Well, that's crickets. Oh, no, I'm really pumped to be here And we'll be doing some more training. It's gonna be great. Thanks for watching and I'll catch you in the next Johnny Q video peace