10.1 Gamepad: Throw To Fly

• To turn on your airplane, insert a fully charged battery to your airplane.
• If the battery is inserted, press the red On/Off button once.

Important: leave the airplane on a flat surface for the first 3 second after the LEDs are green! This will end the sensor calibration process.

• Connect ot the app.

Preflight checks:

• Setting - Throw To Fly - Enabled.

• Setting - Wi-Fi channel: make sure the channel you use is clear on the spectrum by observing the Channels page. Change channel if necessary!
• Battery level

Note: If the battery level is less than 25%, you have only about a minute left. Recharge the battery.

• Wind direction and speed; if wind speed is more than 5 m/s, abort!

• Airplane’s Control surfaces - keep leveled, or slightly up

Note: Do not raise the control surfaces too high, as they will function as air brakes!

• Face the wind

Note: Your throttle and Roll stick are locked in the minimal position until you press Launch

Prepare for Launch

• Press the Launch button

Note: recording will commence automatically. (This feature is not available in the Beta version)

• The main LEDs will flash rapidly. Your airplane is ready for takeoff!

• Throw To Fly message will appear.

• Your throttle is unlocked - slide the throttle level to maximum

Note: The motors are not running, as a safety feature, until the airplane sense a takeoff

 

Takeoff!

Hold the airplane level and launch it forward in a slight descent vector (like pushing a boat in the water)

• Right after the airplane senses the G force of the launch, the motors will open to maximum and the airplane will start to climb

Note: For the first few seconds keep the heading constant until you gained some altitude. A roll at this stage will cause the airplane to lose altitude

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