Intel Falcon 8+ User Manual page 61

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Starting and flying an AscTec Navigator Software mission
1. When you are ready, take-off and climb to the approximate height and position of
the first waypoint.
2. Tap on the play button (see before).
Warning: Objects between starting position, the first or a resuming waypoint and
objects between waypoints have to be considered! The UAV will approach
waypoints of the matrix in a straight line, ascending (or descending)
continuously by itself if necessary!
3. The Intel F8+ UAV starts to fly the mission.
4. Completed waypoints will be marked green on the preview of the touchscreen
tablet.
Note: A green waypoint indicates that the Intel Falcon 8+ UAV successfully passed the
waypoint, sent a trigger command to the camera, and a tag was created in the log. It
does not necessarily mean that the camera successfully triggered, and stored the
image.
5. When all waypoints are done, the UAV will stop at the last waypoint at the actual
height.
6. The UAV can now be landed to change batteries, and be prepared for the next
mission.
Interrupting a mission
A planned flight may be interrupted at any time, for example to change the batteries
during larger survey missions. There are three ways to interrupt a flight manually:
• Tapping on the pause button (see above): the upload of new waypoints will be
stopped, and the UAV will stop and hover in the air, until you tap on the (blue) play
button again.
• Tapping on the stop button (see above): the upload of new waypoints will be
stopped, and the UAV will stop and hover in the air.
• Taking over manually, and giving the UAV a command from the CTR. This will stop
the flight of the UAV immediately, as well as the flight mission.
Resuming a mission
If a survey flight needs to be interrupted e.g. to exchange the flight battery of the UAV,
it can be resumed at the position where is was interrupted.
If you interrupted the mission by tapping on the pause button, resuming a mission is
easily done.
1. Launch the UAV up to the minimum height of 10 m.
2. Fly close to the waypoint from which the flight shall proceed.
3. Tap on the play button. 
The UAV resumes the mission automatically by heading for the next waypoint.
If you had to abort a mission by tapping on the stop button, you have to note the last
waypoint passed when you tapped on the stop button. The number of this waypoint is
shown on the right side of the map area on the touchscreen tablet. The number of
already passed waypoints in comparison to the total number is shown right to
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passed:"
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located at the right side of the screen.
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