(Drone humming)
- I'm Chris from Poles Fishing Systems.
I'm here to run you through all the steps
to flying your Aee Condor drone.
Firstly, we gonna open up our package here.
Get the lid over, and as you can see.
We got the drone sitting here ready.
We have two types of drones now.
We have the manual legs,
and we also have the electronic legs.
On this one you will see its manual.
I've put it down.
On the new version,
there's a button here that will
bring the legs down and back up when you need to.
On the electronic version,
you'll need to have the battery placed inside the drone,
and the drone turned on.
Once you've done that
there's a button here
that will bring the legs up and back down.
I'll show you later.
It's got the same button on the remote.
You can do it from there.
With this version,
you will see there's buttons here.
You press that button.
The legs will come down.
And bring them back up.
- [Man] This is the electronic version.
And you can see the press the button
Legs come down, press it again,
legs retract.
- So here we have your battery slot.
On top you will notice there's a catch,
that as you lock and unlock the battery,
it is crucial you keep this lock free of sand.
Make sure you get a solid click
on the battery as you place it in.
So, you have the battery here from the case.
You'll notice the bottom here,
which is your power button for the drone.
Also the chip, the battery life.
Which here we have 100% on the battery.
Place the battery in the slot.
Slide the catch over. Bring it in.
What you wanna make sure
is you get a solid click from the catch.
Now the battery is in.
To remove the battery in reverse.
Open the catch.
Press the battery out here from behind.
Then you can release the battery.
Since we are gonna fly.
Solid click back in.
Once you have placed the battery back in,
and you've clicked it in place.
Make sure that this
catch has come back to the lock position.
Give the battery a press.
Make sure it's not going to move.
We have our drone out, ready to go.
We will go straight in and get our rotors out.
So, you've got the two types that come in pairs.
You have one which you will see here.
Has a P on the prot.
And you come to the second.
They don't have a P on them.
So, when you come down to the drown.
You will notice, we have a P here and a P here.
Come down, one thing to always remember.
P is anti-clockwise, your plain top goes clockwise.
You only need to go finger tight.
Don't run it in to hard.
Now we go, another plain top.
Again, its a little note of finger tight.
Now finally it's a clockwise.
So, now we are ready to turn the remote on.
We have a button on the side here.
We will lift that up out of the way
so we can see the display.
Underneath the remote we have the power button.
So short press, long press hold.
So we have a short press, long press hold.
We wait for that beep
which confirms the remote is on and ready to go.
This was 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.
Will have the lights flashing to green.
You will here 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.
As with the remote, we get some lovely sounds.
(drone beeping)
You'll notice, the crescent shape of the rear.
Release at the front.
We will have a solid white light in the front.
Wait for these flashing colours to stop,
and you will get a solid green light.
Once you have a solid green light.
We are ready to set our home point,
and calibrate the compass.
(wind blowing)
we now have a solid green light.
You'll notice, both on top,
and underneath on both rear arms.
What you need to be weary of,
is even though we have green lights,
that's telling us its powered on,
and it's ready to be calibrated in the GPS mode.
Now that we are powered on.
You will 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.
You'll notice in the middle of the screen
up top that will tell you this GPS.
So you will notice the GPS in the centre of the screen.
Also at the top of the screen,
you'll have a green R and a green D.
Those give you the connection to the satellites.
So at present, we are at fifteen with both.
Here into the centre of the screen,
we have our nineteen minute flight time.
We move to the bottom of the screen.
You have, distance in metres,
height in metres, and speed in metres per second.
Also at the top, you have a white battery symbol
which gives you the remote battery life.
The green bar is the drone battery life.
So, now we are all powered up, connected to the drone,
and we have calibrated the GPS.
Firstly, lift the antenna at the top of the remote.
They will click into place.
And we rotate them to create a V.
It is imperative that whilst flying,
the drone stays within that V.
Now we can enter the calibration mode,
between the drone and the remote.
You take your lift stick straight down.
Here we have the home button.
We press the home button at a rapid speed ten times.
(Clicking)
Now we have a prompt on the screen
calibrating compass.
From here, we go through rotations with the drone,
and we calibrate the drone.
(Sniffle)
We bring the drone up, straight arm.
You'll notice that the moment it's a slow yellow flash.
After one complete rotation,
that will be a slow green flash.
You'll also notice that 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 are now calibrated to home
and we are ready to start.
So, now we are ready for our test flight, to test home.
The controls, uh, 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 humming)
Now we have started up, we will go straight up.
Once you're at your desired height,
you can let go of the stick
and it will maintain the hovering position.
Once you wanna go forward, forward with the right stick.
(Humming fading)
- [Man] We can make the drone fly right
by moving the stick to the right.
Left, by moving the stick to the left.
Forward by moving the stick up.
Backwards by moving the joy stick down.
- [Man] amazing
- [Chris] we can fly the drone to the right
with the right stick by pressing right.
And alternatively left by pressing left.
We can go forward with the right stick,
and backward with the right stick.
- [Man] Moving the left hand lever from side to side
causes the drone to rotate.
You need to remember that
wherever the white lights are facing,
that is where the drone is going to head
when you hit the forward lever on the right hand side.
So, thee rotation is only used to set the corse
where you want the drone to head,
and then you should never touch
the left had lever while you are in the sitting process.
If you lose any idea of where the drone is heading,
you will then need to hit the home button.
- [Chris] 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 its going to return to your home location.
(beeping)
The drone will ascend to a safe height,
and then will return.
After you have pressed the home button,
and heard the two dings.
Check your screen.
It will say, auto return to home.
The drone with then orient itself to face forward,
and return back.
(Drone humming)
- [Man] If the drone does not go into autopilot
that will likely mean
that you have not calibrated it correctly.
Then fly it back manually and recalibrate the drone.
Wow that's a strong gust. What a kick!
(wind blowing)
- [Chris] We are now going to us
the auto return home function.
To do this, you hold the home button down,
and listen for two beeps.
You will now notice on the screen,
it will say auto return to home.
The drone will fly to a safe height,
orient itself, and return.
You can see the metres between the drone
and it's home location will begin to reduce.
And you can keep an eye on it. aight.
- [Man] And this is the drone safely coming back,
and doing an auto land from an auto pilot return.
(mumbling)
- [Chris] Yeah, but, we are now going to press
auto return home, hold the button.
Wait for your two beeps.
(controller beeping)
two beeps, it will now say on the screen,
auto return to home.
The drone will reorient itself and fly back.
To cancel the auto return home.
Same again, press and hold the button.
(controller beeping)
two beeps and it's now cancelled.
It shows six minute flight time
no longer returning home.
And we are now back in manual control,
so I can bring the drone down.
So, to land the drone manually.
You take the left lever, bring it down.
Try to maintain a smooth motion.
Once the drone is on the ground,
you continue to hold the lever hard down,
and that will stop your rotors from spinning.
We are now gonna prepare the rod for fishing.
Take the large clip from the hand spool.
And we connect it to your swivel.
When running out your hook section,
you want to allow the spool to run freely
through your hand, so that you don't get line twisted.
(birds chirping)
Once you get to the small clip,
you can lay it here and attach to the drone.
This is your Newton release wire.
This end clips to the newton release on the drone.
This end is the business end for fishing.
You will see we have two weights here.
Be sure after each set, you give these wires a squeeze,
and make sure you reset them to the sinker
so your line doesn't pull.
We'll now connect the wire to our hook section.
And we are now ready to connect to the drone,
and run out our first set.
- [Man] Yeah
- [Chris] So, this is our choice rack.
Once you've baited your hook.
Unclip it from the end,
and we will find, two crimps.
Make your way along the line,
and you will find as we have here,
first crimp, second crimp close together.
You take your clip, line between two fingers,
and pull it on.
And reverse to remove them.
Bring the line under the clip, and pull away.
After you've connected all the baited traces,
we will come and get the drone.
Turn the drone over.
You've got your newton three release clip
in the front of the drone.
We then come back to the release wire.
We have an empty loop.
Simply click that in.
Flip your drone back over,
and lay it down,
with the weights in front of the drone.
- [Man] The newton release is set for
nine hundred grammes to one point one kilos.
It is adjustable with the screws on each end.
We advice to stay under a kilo while you're learning.
So, we are ready to go.
A few last minute checks.
Are we in GPS mode.
Do we have sufficient battery.
Is the line clear of the props.
Then we are ready to go.
- [Chris] Now we are ready to send out our first set.
The ideal fishing altitude is between
thirty-five and forty metres,
to cast out five hundred metres.
Be sure to have the drone in front of you a little bit,
as you don't want to go directly overhead,
on the rest of the weights dropping out.
Now we'll power up the drone, and send it out.
(Drone humming)
- [Man] Stand near the rail.
Release.
- [Man] And here's a view of the release from thee
other end, from the end of the cast,
and if you just keep your eye on the drone
you will see the point of release.
And here is a slow motion view
of the release in progress.
This is around about 10%.
You will see the line tightens,
the way it releases,
and there's a little tiny
bit of a kick up there in the drone.
Quickly recovers and flattens out.
We believe its crucially important
to learn how to calibrate your drone
safely in a pack somewhere.
So that once you get to the beach,
you're not in any kind of a panic.
We suggest run two or three batteries flat,
and practise the calibration at least a dozen time.
Once it become second nature to you,
then the fishing part is really easy.
Pick a deserted pack.
Never fly drones over people,
particularly if you've got the waits on.
If a weight fell out of a drone,
and landed on someone,
it could cause series injury or worse.
Always do your best to keep sand
off the drone and the remote,
and use a landing pad.
Sand can damage or jam some parts.
If you get yourself a small point brush,
or something with soft brussles,
then when you're at home,
it's fairly easy to brush any stray sand out of the remote.
out of any buttons.
And out of the landing gear on the drone.
So, keep the drone clean and you will have no problems.
The Condor drone is rated for wind speeds of up to
fifteen knots.
On this day it was fifteen gusting twenty and a bit more,
and you can see that we did actually
get a couple nasty kicks and gusts.
If you always fly under fifteen knots.
You'll find that everything just runs
far more smoothly.