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Setting up a BetaFPV racing drone and getting it into the air.

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Yesterday I had the chance to play around with a drone for the first time. More precisely, a Beta65S with a TX02 controller and an SPI receiver.

Game of Drones @ dataformers: A bit of playing around has to be part of it! Side program at yesterday’s internal “dataPlauscherl” (data chat) - a whoop racing drone. :D

– Posted by dataformers on Friday, July 12, 2019

Calibrating the drone and getting it into the air isn’t that easy at first. The same drone comes in different versions - and binding it to our TX02 controller wasn’t self-explanatory either. Since the description in the BetaFPV knowledge base veraltet is outdated, here are the steps I took in short…

  1. Put the batteries on the charger and charge them. ;)
  2. Download and install the “Betaflight Configurator” software.
  3. Connect the drone via USB, connect to the Configurator and calibrate. Philipp Seidel’s blog post describes the process in detail (in German).
  4. Put the battery into the drone and place it on a level surface. The green LED on the underside blinks, i.e. the drone is in “binding mode”.
  5. On the TX02 controller, press button “H” and slide the power switch “I” to the right.
  6. The controller beeps for about 3 seconds. Then move the left stick “G” all the way down. The controller chirps the Star Wars theme and the drone is bound. :)
  7. Turn on the receiver and press “Scan”. After a few seconds the drone delivers a picture. The status of the drone is “disarmed” - this is also shown on the display.
  8. Use the lower left shoulder button on the controller to switch “down” until the channel 5 indicator “F” lights up red.
  9. Press the upper left shoulder button once. The indicator “F” turns green and the drone is “armed”.
  10. GOOOO!