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During the arming sequence, always be prepared for the motors to turn on! If they do come on, the
fact that you are carefully holding the helicopter will prevent injury or damage. If you can’t throttle
the motors back, turn the helicopter power switch “Off” and disconnect the battery. If review of the
Troubleshooting Section of this manual does not identify the problem, contact Draganfly Innovations.
• Throttle up and make your trim adjustments. It’s better to move to a hard surface to do this so you can observe
the helicopters movements without lifting off. The more time and care you take in setting the trim the more likely
that the helicopter will lift off into a stable hover. Keep in mind that the trim adjustments may interact. That is,
when you trim out yaw movement, it may cause a previous adjustment to worsen. These are very subtle effects
and it is easy to over correct. With experience and flight hours, this process will get easier. The goal of this step is
for the Draganflyer to lift straight up and not drift significantly in any direction.
• Use your experience with the simulator to guide your first flights. On the initial flights get a feel for the controls.
Develop an understanding of what the helicopter is doing and how you should react. By not using Thermal Intel
ligence, the helicopter will be reacting only to your manipulation of the controls. However, use of Training/Video
mode will make the helicopter react more gently to your movement of the controls. After the experience of sev
eral flights, you can move to the Active mode position and get a feel for more instant reactions to your use of the
controls.
• On a fully charged battery, the Draganflyer will stay airborne for about 12 to 15 minutes. As the battery nears
discharge, the Draganflyer will automatically begin to reduce its power consumption. You will notice that it will
take increases in throttle to keep the aircraft at a given altitude. When you notice this, prepare for landing imme
diately while you still have sufficient control.
• At the end of your flight, this shut down procedure MUST be followed exactly.
Caution: The following endofflight sequence is mandatory. Failure to follow these steps can result the the
Draganflyer powering up suddenly and uncontrollably. This can injure you or others and damage
the Draganflyer.
• Turn the Draganflyer power switch “Off.”
• Disconnect the Draganflyer’s battery.
• Turn the Transmitter power switch “Off.”
