- This is the complete process
from powering on both the remote and the drone.
I recommend powering on the remote first,
as it gives you a better connection to the drone
when you turn the drone on.
From here, open her up.
Quick press, long press, hold.
You'll have the lights flashing to green,
(remote beeps)
you'll hear that beep,
that way you know the remote is on
and it's ready to go.
From here, we have connecting on the remote,
I'll turn the drone on.
Same again: Short press, long press, hold.
(drone bleeps)
As with the remote, we get some lovely sounds.
(drone bleeps)
You'll notice a crescent shape at the rear,
release at the front.
We'll have a solid white line in the front,
wait for these flashing colours to stop,
and you'll get a solid green light.
Once you have a solid green light,
we are ready to set our Home point
and calibrate the compass.
We now have a solid green light,
both on top
and underneath, on both rear arms.
What you need to be wary of
is even though we have green lights,
it's telling us it's powered on
and it's ready to be calibrated
in the GPS mode.
You'll see on the right hand side
of the top of the remote here,
is a little toggle switch.
Send that to the left,
that will give you GPS mode.
Now we're all powered up, connected to the drone
and we've calibrated the GPS.
Firstly, lift the antennas here
on the top of the remote.
They'll click into place
and we rotate them to create a Vee.
It is imperative that whilst flying,
the drone stays within that Vee.
Now we can enter the calibration mode
between the drone and the remote.
You take your left stick straight down,
here we have the Home button.
We press the Home button at a rapid speed ten times.
(home button beeps)
Now we have a prompt on the screen,
'calibrating compass'.
From here we go through our rotations with the drone,
and we calibrate the drone.
You bring the drone up,
straight arm.
You'll notice at the moment
it's a slow yellow flash.
After one complete rotation,
that will be a slow green flash.
You'll also notice our top light
is a slow green flash.
One horizontal rotation,
we have flashing green.
We now hold the drone vertical,
with the light facing down,
one full rotation.
You'll now notice we have a solid green light,
and solid green lights.
This means we're now calibrated to Home,
and we're ready to start.
The controls are up and down on the left stick,
forward and backward on the right stick,
left and right.
To start the drone,
left stick diagonally to the left and down,
right stick diagonally to the right and down.
(drone whirrs)
Now we've started up, we'll go straight up.
(drone whirrs loudly)
Once you've met your desired height,
you can let the stick go
and it will maintain a hovering position.
Once you want to go forward,
forward with the right stick.
We are now going to test the auto-return Home.
You need to hold the Home button down
until you hear two dings,
which means it's going to return
to your Home location.
(remote beeps)
The drone will ascend to a safe height,
and then will return.
After you've pressed the Home button
and heard the two dings,
check your screen, it will say
'auto-return to Home'.
The drone will then orient itself to face forward,
and return back.
And that's it, the drone's come back all by itself,
it's within a metre or so of where it took off from,
so we know that our calibration with the compass
has been successful.
If the drone does not go into auto-pilot,
That will likely mean
that you've not calibrated it correctly.
Then fly it back manually and re-calibrate the drone.