First Flight; Throw-Starting The Glider; Setting Of Digital Trim - Reely DLG 650 RC Notice D'emploi

17. First flight

Prior to your first flight, you must charge the receiver battery according to the instructions in the section "Charging the
receiver battery". You can test the remaining capacity of the transmitter batteries with a battery tester. Once you have
again quickly checked the deflection of the elevator and rudder, the model is ready for its first flight.
For the first flight attempts, we recommend using a large field, a sports field or a model airfield. To be able to correctly
judge the flight characteristics, wait for a day when there is not much or no wind.
a) Throw-starting the glider
We recommend taking an assistant who can hold the model while it is started along for your first flight. This leaves
both your hands free for controlling and fully concentrating on the model.
In order to be able to identify your model's flight attitude precisely, you should stand behind and to the side of your
assistant and look exactly in the launched model's direction of flight.
Important!
The model must always be started and landed into the wind.
Our tip:
Even though the model can later be thrown in the air in a catapult start, for the first flight attempts you should start the
model like a hand glider. For this, the person assisting you holds the model with their thumb and index finger on the fu-
selage below the wings and releases the model into the wind with a gentle push at an angle of about 5 - 10° upwards.
If the model has been correctly assembled, the model should ascend at a shallow angle until the momentum runs out.
Then, the model should glide straight for a long distance, during which you can check the trim of the model. Do not
attempt to steer it more than necessary. It is only when the model modifies its flight attitude automatically and, e.g.
flies a curve, rises too high or wants to plunge, that you should start correcting the flight attitude via the necessary
steering commands.
Shortly before landing, the model can be gently brought down by carefully pulling the model's elevator.
Now set the trim on the transmitter so that the model flies in an absolutely straight line without any control commands.
b) Setting of digital trim
Rudder trim:
If the model wants to fly to the left, press the trim button for the rudder (see Figure 1, No. 6) to the right several times.
If the model wants to fly to the right, press the trim button for the rudder to the left several times.
Elevator trim:
If the model does not fly in a straight line and wants to descend too quickly, press the trim button for the elevator (see
figure 1, no. 5 or 11 depending on the transmitter mode) down several times. If the model ascends too steeply after
the start-up, adjust the elevator trim downwards.
By repeating the hand glider start several times, you can check the trim settings and at the same time familiarise
yourself with the control behaviour of the model.
The trim values are saved in the transmitter and are set to the last used values even after the transmitter
has been switched off and on.
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