X-3D-BL User’s Manual
for the height control if you still want to fly with it at
empty battery conditions.
4.4 First flight
We recommend to wait for a dry and calm day to do
the first flight. The best training area is a big field
with grass. On the soft ground your X-3D-BL will
survive crashes much more likely than if you crash
on tar or concrete. Do not fly above tar, concrete or
other hard grounds unless you are an experienced
X-3D-BL pilot!
Check the functionality of your X-3D-BL before
your take off! To do so, you can hold your vehicle
by holding the lower part of the X-CSM Core. Make
sure you do not touch the blades. Start the motors,
move the pitch and roll sticks and see if the vehicle
turns into the desired direction. Turn the motors off
again after the test was completed successfully.
Now, place the X-3D-BL on a flat ground. Turn on
the motors and lift off by pushing the throttle stick up
a bit. Attention! the X-3D-BL is extremely powerful!
If you give to much throttle it will rise up into the
air very fast. However, make sure that the vehicle
does not touch the ground any more after you started
to push the stick up, because the controllers can
only work as intended once the vehicle is airborne.
Try to keep the X-3D-BL hovering in a height of
about one meter. Make sure that the
front marking
is always
facing away
from you and correct the
orientation accordingly using your yaw stick. Only
if the front is facing away from you the vehicle will
fly in the direction you push the pitch and roll stick.
In any other case you have to rotate the helicopter
mentally to know where to push the stick for a
desired reaction, which requires some practice. If
the vehicle continues to yaw in a certain direction
without any command you can use the yaw trimmer
on your R/C to compensate for that.
Once you know how to hover in a constant height you
can start flying a few meters away from you and come
back again. After that, you can try to fly to the right
and to the left hand side and thereby turn the heading
in the direction of travel using the yaw stick. Of cour-
se, this requires some practice. With some more prac-
tice you’re even able to do 3D-maneuvers like loops
and flips. Good luck!
Enjoy flying your X-3D-BL UFO!
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