# m500 Autonomous Flight

Source: https://forum.modalai.com/topic/653/m500-autonomous-flight
Category: Development Drones (https://forum.modalai.com/category/44/development-drones)
Tags: m500
Posted: 2022-01-12 23:41:45 UTC by Moderator (ModalAI staff)
Replies: 3 · Views: 607

## Moderator (ModalAI staff) · 2022-01-12 23:41:45 UTC

We've purchased a VOXL m500 kit recently, and I've been looking at the getting started documentation for it and I'm not seeing a lot of information on how to get up and running in autonomous mode. I see the steps to get to first and second flight, all with an RC radio. I did see some demos on the youtube channel, like the one here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj1EZ_eTGPI&ab_channel=ModalAI. I'm hoping to replicate this. I also took a look at the some of the content on the VOXL Flight and VOXL Flight Deck sections to get some insight, but still unclear if I need to purchase an RC radio to get started on my development. Thanks in advance for any insight you can provide. I'm relatively new to this whole platform.

## Reply by Chad Sweet (ModalAI staff) · 2022-01-12 23:47:30 UTC

Have you looked at this [document](https://docs.modalai.com/voxl-lte/)?

## Reply by Bharat Srini · 2022-01-13 20:53:36 UTC

I will try those steps ASAP. It looks like the RC radio is more of a nice-to-have failsafe in this mode, is that accurate? Thanks for the tip

## Reply by tom (ModalAI staff) · 2022-01-13 21:44:58 UTC (in reply to Bharat Srini)

@Developer-Evaluation Exactly. If you're using an alternate data link for motor control such as LTE or Microhard the RC radio is purely for safety purposes.