4. Start flying in Stabilize mode. Make sure you can take off, fly
comfortably, and land. If you find it tilting, land and run the “Level”
command in the Mission Planner. Fly through a whole battery like this,
getting a feel for the controls (this will also calibrate your compass).
5. Now change batteries and try the auto modes. First, try Alt Hold at an
altitude of about 10 meters. Your actual current throttle position is
recorded as the “hovering point” when you switch to an altitude holding
mode so it is important that you are not ascending or descending when you
switch to Alt Hold. You should be able to fly around with the copter
maintaining the same altitude, plus or minus a meter or so.
6. If that’s working well, try Loiter. Just fly to a safe spot with lots of
room around it and an altitude of about 10 - 20 meters and switch into
Loiter. It should try to stay in that position.
7. When you have finished flying in Loiter or Alt Hold modes (or if anything
unexpected or undesirable happens) switch back to Stabilize mode and
land.
8. Disarm your copter and record a log by holding the throttle down and to
the left for 5 seconds
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