BETAFLIGHT WON'T ARM | Introduction

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When Betaflight won't arm, you can't fly. And that stinks. I'll show you how to troubleshoot Betaflight's Arming Prevention Status Flags so you can get back into the air.

This entire series is available as a playlist so you can find the specific reason your betaflight won't arm. Get the playlist here:

Betaflight arming status flags:

[wallaceanjinho]

Great job Joshua, you are the drone's encyclopedia!

[Robert]

Nice video for people that don't understand the new arming flags. This will help a lot of people trouble shoot.

[daviddarrington]

Thank you man I almost gave up on this and then I found this video. Thanks again

[dustbuggy]

This just got me through my first bind n fly quad setup 👌 thanks man!

[Psyrom]

Salut ! J'ai un petit probleme avec mon drone... je n, ai aucun warning d'aucunes sortes, le status dans le cli est bien.... mes vanover se mettent a tourner 1/10 fois... et la fois ...tout vol a merveille

[techFPV]

Josh i have an Eachine 3 and when i plug in my pack i only get 3 beeps instead of 5 and the quad does not arm, however if i connect the quad to Betaflight my receiver lights up the sticks respond and the motors spin up thru BF. O could sure use your expertise on this problem of which I've never had?

[beanswellnz]

Cheers Joshua, first build and setup here and your content is great.

[randomracer]

Hi Joshua, I bought your FC, esc 4 in 1, and Phoenix camera on raceday quawds. Love it! My problem is it won't arm now after a light crash. The beeper not the esc's tones out a quick continuous beep beep please help.

[WildpixFPV]

Thanks Josh, what a good idea for a new series!
Modern reason for not arming:
The Speedybee app! Using it for rates setting in the field, it kept changing the min_throttle value to 1000... in the background!
Happy flying! XD

[spolonia]

hey newbie here. when i plug battery and flick the switch to arm i bet a beep and my receiver and vtx turns off. any idea what the issue is. i check all solder joints already tried 2 diferent rx same issue

[lalatubby]

thx JB ..mine was the easy-peasy 1 ..the arming indicator @4.40 hehee - once again i learned something today 👍😁

[SamirKhan-mqib]

I have an issue as my drone didn't arm receiver signal is good in speedybee app but drone didn't arm I am using 2s battery and fsi4x transmitter and fsia6b receiver kindly help

[rafaelprata]

This video solved my problem in 2021. Great info!!!

[gaylekakac]

What do you do if you cleared all the flags, quad binds but props wont arm? meteor 65s and beta fpv lite 2.o radio

[ddegn]

Are these videos still valid for the latest version of Betaflight?
The quad I just finished won't arm and I plan to go through these videos tomorrow.
If I hadn't already joined your Patreon, I think these series would have convinced me (again).
Thanks JB.

[licensetodrive]

Here's a Betaflight change that tripped me up recently (thanks to kind RCGroups users for this answer):
Since 3.3.0, to use Stick Commands to trim the accelerometer, the craft needs to be disarmed *and* in angle or horizon mode, when 3.2.5 and previous didn't care what flight mode you were in.
The fix was easy, just adjust the slider for angle mode to include disarmed.

[PaulieShortcuts]

I’ve had these vids non-stop playing. I got the dji flywoo nano and it would not arm. It turned out to be a controller setting in the goggles. Difficult to find BC quad overheats real fast and kept trying betaflight

[MattNLT]

Don't know if this will be covered, but updated pikoblx to 3.0 as new target, FFpikoblx, and lost serial comm. Had to enter in cli..
Set serialrx_inverted=off.

[classics]

It doesnt seem to show any Disarmed Warnings in DJI OSD :(

[bretsheffer]

Josh, i had my arming switch working. But in trying to fix something else, I held the button down on my IRCSYNERGY F3 flight controller and now it wont reconnect? I have the Taranis qx7, vortex 180, and fatshark goggles. I had them all working together at one point and now at a loss as the goggles OSD isnt working right either. Also, using betaflight 10.7 and firmware 4.0.6. Any help would be awesome!