Teal Sport, User Manual

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NOTE
: Conduct your first flights in an open, flat field, away from people, animals and obstacles.
• Verify wind conditions are below 15-20mph for your first flights.
• Bring a spotter friend with you when you fly. Otherwise, locating a crashed drone when
you’re flying FPV can be difficult when you’re alone.
• Check that the props are in the correct orientation, in good repair and prop nuts are tight.
Mismatched and incorrectly installed props are one of the most common reasons drones
are having trouble getting airborne.
• For your first flights it is recommended to have the FPV camera in the flat position. (zero
to ten degrees of tilt) You can tilt it more as you gain experience and want to go faster by
loosening the camera mount screws and adjusting the camera angle. Advanced pilots
often fly with 30-40 degrees of camera tilt.
• Always power on your Taranis QX7 Radio Transmitter before plugging in your drone’s battery,
move the throttle stick to the down position and move all switches to the away position.
Always ensure the Transmitter is turned on before the Teal Sport is powered on or you risk a
drone flyaway and/or unsafe drone misbehavior.
• Ensure the radio’s Arming switch is in the disarm position (away from you) before powering
up the Teal Sport.
• Plug in drone’s battery, place drone on a flat surface and wait up to 10 seconds for the
drone’s flight controller chip to calibrate. The Teal Sport will beep three times which will
indicate it has powered up and calibrated its sensors. The drone will not arm until the
sensors have calibrated.
• If conditions are safe to take off, the Teal Sport is ready to fly.
PRE-FLIGHT CHECKS
It is recommended for new pilots to start-off flying in “Stabilized” mode. “Acro” mode
gives the pilot more freedom and control to fly in all axis’ but is harder to master. It
is recommended to fly your first 10-20 full battery charges in Stabilized mode before
switching to Acro mode.
• In Stabilized (aka “level”) mode the drone will level itself when you let go of the
controls. NOTE: This is not the case for throttle.
• In Acro mode, the drone will hold the last position you gave it with the controls. If
you roll upside down and let go of the controls it will stay there which means you
have to concentrate on flying a lot more.
• Make sure yourself and other people are a safe distance away from the drone and
always take off with it facing away from you, especially if you’re not flying with
goggles.
• Ease up throttle in very small increments and slowly get a feel for the throttle
inputs needed.
• Concentrate on keeping the Teal Sport facing away from you and simply hovering
in one spot. Hovering is the hardest thing to learn, it can become tedious or
boring. You must learn to crawl before you learn to walk. Your patience will be
rewarded.
• Keep the drone low to the ground while learning. The lower it is, the shorter its
fall will be when you crash. You will crash. This is part of learning to fly. Stay with
it. Keep extra parts and batteries on hand when you go out to the field for quick
repairs and longer flight sessions.
FIRST FLIGHTS