Auto Trimmer

Been a long time away from the website, and I gotta say you guys and gals have made some significant improvements to an already impressive system. I hope to be back in the field playing with our UATs this summer.
 I have a question/suggestion, and it involves an auto trimming function. After briefly looking over the code and reading a manual, it appears that the trim values need to be recoded each attempt, even though you keep the values used for the controls in RAM, meaning updating it should not be a problem.

What I suggest is simply reading the controls being sent in manual mode up until the moment the AC is switched to autopilot. This would allow retrimming in the air, as well as the ability to trim to different steady state conditions (ie trim values to any speed/orientation desired), 

Just wanted to put that out there, I plan on writing one myself once I finish looking through all the changes made since last summer, but if someone was in

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    Not a bad idea, but users would have to be sure to have their hands off the stick when switching to auto....
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