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2. After the X-Drone lands, toggle the throttle joystick to the lowest position and hold for
3 seconds to stop the motor.
IMPORTANT:
Do not stop the motor during flight or else the X-Drone will crash.
7.3 Basic flight
1. Place the X-Drone on flat, open ground and ensure that the tail indicator faces
toward you.
2. Turn on the controller, smartphone range extender and X-Drone.
3. Wait until the tail indicator flashes slowly and the X-Drone enters a safe flying state.
Perform CJC to start the motor.
4. Push the throttle (left) joystick up slowly to smoothly take off. Please refer to section
5.3 for detailed instructions on controller operating instructions.
5. When landing, slowly pull down the throttle joystick to make the X-Drone descend slowly
to the ground.
6. After landing pull the throttle joystick to the lowest position and hold for 3 seconds or
until the motors stop.
7. After the motors stop, turn off the X-Drone, smartphone range extender and transmitter,
one after the other.
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7.4 Failsafe protections
If the X-Drone loses signal from the controller the Automatic Flight Control System will
return it to the home point* and land safely. This reduces the chances of the X-Drone getting
lost or crashing in case the controller signal is lost.
*The home point is the X-Drone’s position where the X-Drone successfully scanned and
connected to the satellite. To ensure that the X-Drone successfully flies back to the home
point if it enters failsafe mode please only take-off after the X-Drone’s GPS has successfully
connected to the satellite.
If you lose control of the X-Drone during flight the X-Drone will automatically follow the
procedure below:
1. The X-Drone will automatically slow down and hover in one location.
2. If the X-Drone regains signal from the controller within 2 seconds it will return to normal
flight mode and will not enter failsafe mode.
3. If the X-Drone does not regain signal from the controller within 2 seconds it will enter
failsafe mode and will initiate automatic flight control to return to the home point.
- The X-Drone will continue to hover for 15 seconds and will evaluate the vertical distance
to the home point
- If the distance is more than 25 metres the X-Drone will commence flying back to the
home point.
- If the distance is less than 25 metres the X-Drone will fly up vertically until it is 25 metres
higher than the home point and then commence the return.
- When the X-Drone reaches the home point it will hover for 5 seconds and then
automatically land.
PLEASE NOTE:
The X-Drone cannot automatically avoid obstacles in its path while it is in
failsafe mode.
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