Flying The Model; A) Testing The Range; The First Start - Reely SKY Cessna 182 Bedienungsanleitung

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13. Flying the Model

After having checked the centre of gravity, the functioning of the motor as well as the direction of the
rudder surface travel, your model is ready for its first flight. However, we recommend you contact an
experienced model airplane pilot or a model construction club in your area if you are not sure how to
fly an airplane model.
If this is not possible, find an appropriate flying area and fly your model airplane under weak winds.

a) Testing the Range

Before the first start-up, you should charge the flight battery and an eventually inserted transmitter-
rechargeable battery according to the specifications of the manufacturer.
First carry out a range test of the remote control on the flying site. Put the transmitter into operation
first then the receiver. Ask an assistant to hold the model and check the range by moving slowly away
from the model airplane.
Up to a distance of at least 100 m all rudder functions should be controllable even with running mo-
tors. The transmitter antenna has to be pulled out entirely for this. The receiver antenna, which pro-
trudes from the end of the fuselage and is simply dragged along in flight, must not be wound up,
turned over or cut off.
b) The First Start
If no hard runway is available for starting from the ground, ask an assistant to launch the electric
model in a straight line forward or slightly upward against the wind with a gentle push at full motor
speed.
Our tip:
In order to be able to identify the flight attitude of your model, you should stand at a little
distance behind your assistant and look exactly in the flying direction of the launched
model.
If the assembly was carried out correctly, the model should rise up quickly at a flat angle. Try to steer
as little as possible during this operation It is only when the model modifies the flight attitude auto-
matically and e.g. flies a curve, rises too high or is about to plunge, that you can start correcting the
flight attitude via the necessary control commands.
For a sensitive correction of the flight attitude and for selective direction modifications of the normal
flight attitude, only few or momentary control stick movements on the transmitter are necessary!
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