User Manual

Selecting a Flying Site
Selecting a ying site is critical to a successful ight. Airplanes
require a lot more room than other R/C products, therefore, a
neighborhood or parking lot is less than ideal. A large open eld
with short grass and generous overy area are the best candidates
if no AMA eld is available in your area. Know your overy area -
ensure that there are no houses, playgrounds, or other buildings
that may be damaged if the airplane were to crash.
Takeo
Taxi or place the aircraft on the runway centerline, with the nose
into the wind. Select Mode 2, then set throttle trim such that the
motor spins over smoothly at its lowest RPM without stopping.
Smoothly advance to full throttle while maintaining directional
control with the rudder and slight back pressure on the elevator.
The airplane should lift o gently before the throttle is fully open.
Fly in Mode 2 until the aircraft is fully trimmed (see special
trimming instructions), and you are comfortable with its handling,
then explore the other modes as desired.
Flying
Altitude is your friend on the rst ight. Briskly climb to a safe
altitude and trim the airplane out. The airplane should y straight
and level a 1/2 to 3/4 power with no hands on the transmitter. Try
some basic maneuvers, and slowly progress into the airplane’s
ight envelope as you become more comfortable with the
airplane’s ight qualities and perfect your setup. Note: If at any
time, such as after gain adjustments, you experience
unexpected control system inputs or oscillations, switch to
Mode 1, and land and troubleshoot the issue. (Mode 1 turns
the sensor inputs o with default programming)
Landing
Be mindful of your ight time and allow adequate battery reserve
for a couple of go-arounds, if necessary, on the rst few ights.
Select Mode 2 and slow the airplane and align with the runway,
into the wind. The airplane should descend smoothly in this
conguration with proper airspeed. Once you are close to the
ground, gradually close the throttle fully and begin to smoothly
apply up elevator as required to arrest descent and the airplane
should gently touch down with a short roll out.
Aura Quick Trim
The Aura 8 features a Quick Trim Mode that eliminates the need
for mechanical linkage adjustments during test ights. Aura will
learn the trim values from your transmitter, and apply them to the
control surfaces at power up when enabling quick trim mode.
FLYING YOUR MAMBA 10
Trimming
The rst several ights on your new Mamba 10 should be
dedicated to trimming and setup. Fly the airplane at 2/3 power
in Mode 2 and trim for level ight. Land, adjust linkages
and return the trim and/or subtrim to zero and y again.
Repeat process until the airplane ies hands o, straight
and level.
Transmitter trim or sub-trim will cause trim shifts when
dierent ight modes are selected. To eliminate this trim shift,
the model should be mechanically trimmed, or Aura “Quick
Trim” may be used instead.
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CAUTION
USE CAUTION WHEN FLYING YOUR MAMBA 10 IN MODE 3
AT HIGH AIRSPEEDS. DOING SO CAN INDUCE CONTROL
SURFACE OSCILLATIONS AND MAY CAUSE A CRASH.
NOTE: Quick Trim can also be used BEFORE ying to make small
changes to center the control surfaces before ight.
1. Fly the airplane in Flight Mode 2. Trim the aircraft with the
transmitter and land. DO NOT CHANGE FLIGHT MODES.
2. Power o the Mamba. Insert a bind plug into Aura Port S3 (you
will need to remove the servo lead that is currently in S3).
Check the transmitter is on and repower the Aura.
3. Wait 5 seconds for the Aura to completely initialize. Conrm
Quick Trim mode is active by checking the Blue LED is slowly
ashing.
4. Remove the bind plug from Aura Port S3, and re-install the
servo that was previously removed into S3. Removing the bind
plug stores the current trims in the Aura. The Blue LED will
ash quickly after control surface trim values are stored. While
the trim values are stored in Aura, they are not applied to the
control surface(s) until the Aura is repowered.
5. Remove power from the Mamba and center all control surface
trims on the transmitter.
6. Repower the Mamba. The control surfaces should be unchanged
even though the trim has been centered on the transmitter.
7. Switch between other Flight Modes to ensure you do not see
any changes in trim.
NOTE: QUICK TRIM MAY BE REPEATED AS NEEDED FOR
FINE TUNING, OR IF CHANGES TO THE AIRCRAFT
ARE MADE.
NOTE: ENSURE AILERON/ELEVATOR/RUDDER
SUB-TRIMS ARE ZERO BEFORE FLYING FOR
QUICK TRIM PROCESS
NOTE: QUICK TRIM IS NOT AVAILABLE TO PWM
CONNECTION USERS. IF YOU ARE USING A PWM
CONNECTION TYPE, YOU WILL NEED TO
MECHANICALLY TRIM THE MODEL