MA DRONE 3, Quick Start Manual

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Caution: ensure your throttle stick and throttle trim is all 

the way down on your transmitter with the other sticks 

centered. 

The receiver remembers these stick positions and if the re-

ceiver loses signal from your transmitter it will send these stick positions 
to the Pixhawk. The throttle trim needs to be lower than usual minimum 
throttle to tell the Pixhawk to go into failsafe mode.

whilst holding the bind/switch button, power on your 

transmitter (see your radio transmitter manual for 

details). Continue to hold the bind switch/button, the red 

light on the receiver should go solid after a few seconds. 

the receiver light muSt go solid for the bind process to 

be successful.

Optional:

using a Spektrum remote (satellite) receiver

you can now release the bind button on your transmitter.

unplug the bind 

plug from the receiver 

and plug the sig-

nal cable back in the bind/Sbus port. the bind process is 

finished.

Put the bind plug somewhere safe for if you need to bind a different transmitter to 

your hoverbike Drone.

•  A DSm2 receiver that supports a satellite receiver is currently required for bind-

ing.

•  plug the satellite receiver and the bind plug and the pixhawk into the DSm2 receiv-

er.

•  Connect the hoverbike Drone via the uSb cable. the receiver should be blinking 

rapidly showing that they are ready to bind.

•  Caution: ensure your throttle is all the way down on your radio transmitter. whilst 

holding the bind/switch button, power on your transmitter (see your radio trans-
mitter manual for details). Continue to hold the bind switch/button, the red light 
on the receiver should go solid after a few seconds. the receiver light muSt go 
solid for the bind process to be successful.

•  you can now release the bind button on your radio transmitter.
•  unplug the DSm2 receiver from the pixhawk and unplug the remote receiver from 

the DSm2 receiver

•  finally, plug the remote receiver into the pixhawk Spkt/DSm on the front face.
•  Place the receiver somewhere safe for if you need to bind a different transmitter 

to your remote/satellite receiver. 

Note: The channel mapping is different for the Spek-

trum Satellite receiver and will require changing in Mission Planner. 

Return the throttle trim to centre.

Receiver:

Contents

System overview  4

in the box 

5

Caring for Drone  6

you + Drone 

7

Safety first 

8

first time setup  9

batteries 

12

Controls 

12

warning signals  14

First flight 

15

Every flight 

17

flying modes 

19

About Drone 

20