This first piloting exercise is designed you help you get familiar with the controls and responsiveness of the vehicle.
This first piloting exercise is designed you help you get familiar with the controls and responsiveness of the vehicle.
After making sure everything is ready to go after your pre-dive inspection, or remedied if not, launch the vehicle. This can be done by slowly lowering the vehicle into the water by its tether. Before piloting away from the deployment point, get your bearings or ask your tether handler for assistance. Navigate the vehicle slowly into an open area.
For this exercise, the goal is not to accomplish anything other than getting familiar with how the vehicle responds to your input. Maneuver in all directions getting familiar with the response to the joystick and depth control knob. Keep the vehicle in the open so you do not accidentally run into anything.While piloting, someone should be managing the tether.