# First Flight Help On VOXL Flight Deck.

Source: https://forum.modalai.com/topic/1666/first-flight-help-on-voxl-flight-deck
Category: Flight Core and Legacy VOXL (https://forum.modalai.com/category/9/flight-core-and-legacy-voxl)
Tags: flight-deck
Posted: 2023-01-05 19:06:00 UTC by mirasul
Replies: 2 · Views: 1428

## mirasul · 2023-01-05 19:06:00 UTC

Can someone please help me with my first flight? I setup a roskinetic docker and used the mavros_test example that was provided online. However I am unable to fly the drone in figure eight motion. I am able to see the rostopic list from host pc but nothing is being published on the topics.

My goal is to run a custom Python script that uses motion capture system to provide pose data over vrpn_client_ros for hover and land. I started with the tutorial first but because I could not get the drone to take off I am now stuck. Any help would be highly appreciated. 
Thank You.

P.S My drone is able to arm via QGroundControl over UDP connection.

## Reply by Chad Sweet (ModalAI staff) · 2023-01-05 19:19:25 UTC

If it is VOXL Flight based, the M500 Getting Started should be useful 

https://docs.modalai.com/voxl-m500-quickstart/

Definitely first test the drone out very carefully using manual mode. It's a big jump to get start programming it with a script. A lot could go wrong!

See https://modalai.com/safety

## Reply by mirasul · 2023-01-11 17:34:46 UTC

I have done a first flight using a controller and the drone is responding fine. I wanted to use Motion capture to provide the Pose data, is there a way to do this on the VOXL?