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Fail Safe and RTL

Posted by Steven G on November 14, 2012 at 3:34pm

Using APM 2.5 with 2.66 and MP with 1.2.19

While testing failsafe (short and long) on the living room floor, I noticed that if you are in circle mode of FS and regain radio (switch it back on) and you are in RTL 3 way switch on your radio, you DO NOT regain control. If you are in Manual or Stabilize, you do regain control. It seems that the RTL mode is locked out while in FS even if radio com is re-established. I would prefer that all the commands be given full authority once radio com is re-established. For me, I just want to get my plane back home ASAP and see what happened.

Comments appreciated.

BR,

Steven

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    Randy November 14, 2012 at 4:22pm

    I'm on the arducopter side so i'm not an expert but we've been looking at failsafes a lot recently...

     

    So you're saying if you happen to be in circle mode you cannot get control back if the failsafe kicks in?  ..but if after you get radio contact back you switch the flight mode switch, you must be able to get back into circle mode (or whatever mode) you want right?

     

    I think you're saying that it just doesn't automatically switch you back into the mode you were in before the FS?

     

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