4 Flying Elios
ELIOS USER MANUAL
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The Drone can also be disarmed in mid air, resulting in a free-fall. If
perfomed at an altitude of more than 1m above ground this will
seriously damage the drone.
The camera operator controller is also capable of disarming Elios by
using the same sequence.
Aircraft control
Elios' orientation and flight direction are defined regarding to the inner frame. It is very important that the
operator ignores the motion of the cage whilst piloting.
By default, the control of Elios is mapped to the control sticks in mode 2, this can be changed to Mode 1 via
the Cockpit App.
Controller
Aircraft
Explanation
In Automatic Altitude control:
Moving the left stick up and down
altitude.
Up increases altitude.
Down decreases altitude.
Centered Elios maintains its altitude.
In Manual Thrust control:
thrust.
Up increases thrust
Down decreases thrust
In this mode, keeping the stick centered will cause
Elios to descend slowly. The pilot has to give
constant inputs to maintain the aircraft at the
desired altitude.
Moving the left stick sideways controls the rotation
(yaw) of Elios.
Left makes the aircraft rotate counter clockwise.
Right makes the aircraft rotate clockwise
Centered, Elios maintains its orientation with a drift
of max. 1°/second.
The pilot should stay aware of Elios' heading at all
times, as the right stick
heading, i.e. where the front of the drone is pointing.
