You can switch on Atti once at altitude to see direction and speed of upper winds, the drone will just drift with the wind, so you can know what you're dealing with.
It should also be noted that atti mode is what you should preferably fly in for video shots.
The less computation, the better the smoothness of the shot. Some shots you just MUST be on a GPS mode (I.e. Follow me) but if you are looking for that "silky smooth" look some photographers speak of, you need to be in some flavor of atti mode as not having to compute the GPS coordinates on every frame will let the bird just glide better. This is changing with every iteration and not every person is aware of it, but it screams at others.
You just have to know how to fly and your surroundings.
For example, I got in a crash a month ago where I didn't feel it was my fault completely, or at all frankly, because I was in WP mode and hit a tree. DJI was kind to me and fixed it at a very good rate when didn't charge me labor or shipping so I lucked out but then next crash was this.
I was in the Valley Flyers field which you have to work REAL HARD to crash there as it's just open nothingness.
So I was testing the bird there because it was setting wayward waypoints dynamically for no reason and it set one that was literally 8.7 miles away. It would not let me change the coordinates and so it went in to auto RTH as it should if it thinks you're 8.7 miles from home.
I turned it in to sport mode (which is the atti mode with full speed) and was just flying the bat out.
Finally as I was bringing it in once at storage level, I came soaring back at full speed, and because I'm in the habit of flying in GPS mode, stupidly I didn't have the forethought to come in slower. % stupidity on my end.
By the time I realized I was in atti mode and being dumb it was too late. I pulled back on the throttle but it still glided it right into the tree (I was going like 45mph). Luckily I just had to re-case it as there was magically no damage to any other parts other than a nasty case.
Moral of story: Try to make your posts shorter than this (sorry ADHD), and also learn how to fly in atti.
Flying in non-atti is almost as good as calling yourself a pilot for engaging auto-pilot. A blessing and a curse.
As said, learn to fly on the X5C. Few reasons. You'll make some repairs which is always good to learn and it takes a beating! You can crash it to the ground from 100 feet up and it will probably go right back up. They keep coming out with other ones but Syma X5c is always a bird I have in my house. If I'm feeling funky, I'll break out my x5c or one of my favorite things 180-280s but the x5c for my money is the most fun bird to fly out of ALL of them. It's a pure joy and fantastic for flying around the house.
