Innoflight GALAXY 1080HL, Operating Manual

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INNOFLIGHT INTERNATIONAL GALAXY 950 / GALAXY 1080HL MANUAL
| Version 1.5
Navigation mode
Once NAV Mode has been selected the pilot should simultaneously monitor the aircraft
location in the real world as well as look at the GCS to monitor the flight profile.
Landing
Landing the Galaxy requires care and concentration, landing is the most important part of
the flight, following the below procedures will ensure safe landings every time. For the
autopilot to complete the landing and disarm (shutdown) the motors the vertical velocity
movement must stop and the altitude control from the GCS be held in the lowest position
until the motors shutdown. Never raise the altitude control until a clear confirmation of the
Galaxy rotors shutting down has been observed.
There are dual landing sensors installed on the Galaxy to detect when the aircraft has
contacted the ground, these assist with the landing procedure and must be working
correctly for take-off to initiate, more information on the Galaxy landing sensors can be
found on page 19 (
Landing Sensors ) of this manual.
As the aircraft lowers the rate of descent (-Z Velocity) must be lowered (the throttle moving
closer to the centre position) to ensure a gentle touchdown. Once the aircraft lands
reduce the altitude control of the GCS to minimum position (fully down)
immediately, both autonomous landing and landing in GPS Mode the motors will
automatically shut off after 5 seconds. It is important to note that allowing an
autonomous landing may result in the Galaxy not shutting down the rotor if the
landing sensors do not detect the ground, this could result in a boom strike
occurring. When landing, the Altitude control MUST be held at the lowest position
until the Galaxy “disarms”. Do not raise the altitude control until the rotors have
slowed down RPM (approximately 10 seconds after landing), disarming will be
indicated by a message on the flight planning screen, a solid white LED on the
autopilot GPS and a noticeable RPM decrease of the main rotor and tail rotor.
It is recommend the pilot shuts down the Galaxy manually when landing, to manually land
the pilot must press the Motor Start/Stop button from the GCS while maintaining
downward pressure on the Altitude control to shut down. This method is
recommended to insure a fastest possible shutdown on landing. Once touch down
has occurred hold the altitude control down firmly and press the start/stop button
on the GCS for 1-2seconds, maintain holding the altitude control down at all times
until the Galaxy RPM has decreased confirming that the rotors have shutdown.
The aircraft is capable of autonomous landing as a failsafe measure, it is not recommended
to use autonomous landing for the Galaxy for general landing practice, the disarm
protocol to ensure that the aircraft has landed takes additional time and can result in
an unstable landing or possible blade strict. We recommend that the auto landing
function is only ever used as an emergency procedure where a command link from