Learn to fly LineOfSight well before attempting FirstPersonView.
Take all your cameras, FPV gear, etc. off. It is just extra stuff to break when learning.
Learn about LiPo care. Buy some lipo alarms and use them, or time your flights so you land with at least 3.7 volts in your lowest cell:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/RC-Lipo-Battery-Low-Voltage-Alarm-1S-8S-Buzzer-Indicator-Checker-Tester-LED-/172595705357Always storage charge your lipos to 3.8v per cell at the end of every flying day. Basically, discharge them to that and don't recharge. Storage voltage in a baggie in the refrigerator if you aren't going to use it for a while (winter).
Fly outdoors, over grass, in zero wind; taking off from a level surface, not the side of a hill. Never take off from where the props might get tangled in grass. Go get it and bring it back.
Use auto leveling mode called Attitude (Stabilized #1). It is the default.
Always start with the tail pointed towards you. Every time. That way left roll is left and forward pitch is forward.
The one thing you must always remember is that zero throttle stops the motors. Chop the throttle to zero whenever it gets in trouble. I have seen several beginners stand there with the throttle at half after a crash with the ESCs or motors burning up. Don't let it fly away. Don't let it hit anyone or anything. Don't let spinning props get caught in grass. Chop the throttle needs to be a reflex.
Learn to control throttle first. Don't touch anything else. Really.
Start motors, and immediately do a mild jump into the air.
Don't slowly increase throttle. Start with small throttle blips that don't leave the ground and use larger and longer blips to find out how much it needs to get into the air, but not rocket upwards. Strive for knee high hover, no higher than waist high.
The first time you take off, it will drift. Expect that and chop the power quickly. Don't ever change your transmitter trims from where they were when you ran the transmitter wizard during setup. Use Attitude -> RotateVirtual to correct the drift:
- if it is drifting forward you subtract from pitch
- if it is drifting left you subtract from roll
adjust until it doesn't drift, or the drift is small and random. Learning is a lot harder if you don't trim it out this way. Take the time to do it and do it right.
Now that you can hold altitude at knee to waist high, you need to keep it in one place. Don't touch the yaw. Yaw is the last thing. You are hovering at knee to waist high, and using roll (left-right) and pitch (fore-aft) to keep it in one place, with the tail always pointed at you.
When you can hover as long as you want, start rocking left and right and while it is traveling left rotate the yaw
just a little to make it closer to flying nose forward to the left (same with right). Work this into a figure 8 where it is flying nose first the whole time. The kind of figure 8 where the tail is usually pointing at you or at least the nose is never pointing at you. Get good at this.
Learn to fly both left and right circles out in front of you. Learn the other kind of figure 8 where the nose points straight at you twice during each 8.
Experiment with other flight modes. To do flips use Rattitude with Thrust=CruiseControl. Rate mode is popular, especially with FPV flight, but it does not do auto leveling. I still fly mainly Attitude mode because I am more interested in autonomous flight.