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16. The First Flight
Before the rst start, the ight battery must be charged according to the instructions in the section „Charging the Flight
Battery“. The residual capacity of the transmitter batteries can be tested, e.g. with a battery tester.
After once again briey reviewing the motor function and deections of the elevator and rudder, the model is ready
for its rst ight.
Select a suitable ight room to operate your model. We recommend a large storage hall or gym or a large meadow, a
sport or model ight eld for your rst ight attempts.
If you perform your rst ight outdoors, wait for a perfectly windstill day.
Once you have your model well under control, you can y it in your garden or in smaller rooms as well.
a) Take-Off
Generally, it is easily possible to start the model on from your hand on your own and even from a smooth oor. For the
rst ight, however, we still recommend using a launch helper to launch the model from his hand. This way, you have
both hands free for steering and can focus fully on the model.
If you are ying outdoors, always start and land away from you and towards you respectively. Do not start from the
centre of the room indoors, but from a corner. This way, you have enough space for ying a large circle in the room.
Our advice:
In order to be able to distinctly see the ight attitude of your model, you should stand to the side and behind
the person assisting you and look into the ight direction of the starting model.
The start helper carefully takes the model at the fuselage behind the undercarriage with his thumb and rst nger.
Accelerate slowly and then let the motor run at full output. The launch helper then releases the model straight forwards
with a gentle push.
The model should now rise at a at angle. You may need to reduce the motor speed a little for this. Try to steer as
little as possible. Only steer the model if it changes its ight attitude by itself and e.g. ies a curve, ascends too high
or is about to nose-dive.
To sensitively correct the ight attitude and to carry out specic changes of direction in normal ight attitude, short and
limited movements of the control stick on the transmitter are sufcient.
Once the desired ight altitude is reached, reduce the motor performance and initiate the rst curve.
b) Curve Flight
Curves are initiated with the rudder; the model angles to the side. If the model has reached the desired inclination,
the rudder is returned into centre position. Now, the curve can be own at a constant altitude by gently pulling the
elevator control stick.
When the model ies in the desired direction, a quick sideways deection into the opposite direction will bring the
model back to a horizontal position and also return the elevator to the centre position.
Try not to take too narrow curves in the beginning and observe even ight height even in curves and ight speed.