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A quad X frame with four motors, ESCs, propellers and a battery. A radio transmitter, with its receiver on the drone. A phone for the setup page. GPS is optional. You can practise in FORGE Studio with a virtual drone before you build.

They fly only the virtual drone in FORGE Studio. Your real drone flies with a radio transmitter and a receiver (CRSF or ELRS, SBUS, or iBUS).

Answer the airframe questions on the phone setup page. It shows where your drone will hover, and what helps if it is heavy. Hovering below half throttle leaves power to spare.

Practise with a virtual drone in FORGE Studio first. Fit the propellers only to fly. Choose an open field away from people, roads and trees, with little wind, and fly in ALTHOLD. After arming, raise the throttle within 10 seconds, or it switches off by itself. If anything looks wrong, throttle down, land and disarm.

Yes. Create an account and download FORGE Studio, free until 31 December 2026, then 14 days free. Its virtual flight controller flies like the IFC 1.3. The lessons show you how.

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Rs 199 a month or Rs 1,999 a year, GST included, for all of Studio. Verify with your college e-mail (instant) or your student ID (checked within 2 working days). You confirm again every 12 months.

Your drone keeps flying its programs. Studio still opens for flying, setup, tuning, updates and flight analysis. A subscription adds test flights with a virtual drone, testing on your board in simulation mode, and building and uploading programs.

Two months of Studio for the account the board is on, starting the first time you connect it to FORGE Studio, added after any time you have left.

Yes, that's what FORGE blocks are for: your own guidance, landing or logic. You build it without code, test it in FORGE Studio, and it runs on the flight controller itself.

UVIRA's own. The flight firmware and FORGE Studio are both designed in-house.

Quad X frames today. Firmware updates will add more frame types.

Yes, in ACRO, STABILISE and ALTHOLD. LOITER, GUIDED and RTL need GPS and a compass. Without a GPS fix, the flight controller stays in its mode and tells you why.

Yes. Join the flight controller's Wi-Fi with your phone and the setup page opens, through to a first tune. Studio can import those settings later.

Over Wi-Fi. Studio finds your flight controller by name. USB is only for firmware updates.

We put it on the account you ordered with when we pack your order, and e-mail you its serial. A board from someone else (a teammate) comes to your account with the serial and activation code on its card: Account, Flight controllers.

Free anywhere in India a courier reaches, in 3 to 7 working days. A tracking link comes by e-mail when it ships.

The IFC 1.3 and the student price include 18% GST. FORGE Studio's full price is Rs 3,000 a month + GST. Every order gets a GST invoice. Add your GSTIN at checkout to claim input tax credit.

Online only: UPI, debit and credit cards, net banking and wallets, through our payment partner. We never see your card details.

Cancel for free until it is packed. Return a board within 7 days of delivery: tell us what is wrong and add photos from your order page; we reply by e-mail within 1 working day. Refunds reach your original payment method in 5 to 7 working days.

A board with a manufacturing defect is replaced within 15 days of delivery. Crash damage is not covered. After 15 days we offer a paid repair.

Two computers at once. Signing in on a third offers to sign out the others. Studio works offline for 14 days after it last checks your plan.

Studio says when a new version is ready and what changed. UVIRA signs every update, and Studio checks it before installing. Firmware updates go to your board from Studio over its Wi-Fi, and its settings stay.

The flight controller is a component. Under the Drone Rules, 2021, the owner of a complete drone is responsible for registering it on the Digital Sky platform where needed, for a remote pilot certificate where needed, and for flying only where it is allowed. See our drone rules note.