Finding Flight Modes from Datalogs

I would like to be able to find out at which times I switched from one flight mode from the other using the 'log browse' within the Mission Planner.

For example, I start off in stabilize mode then switch to alt hold mode once off the ground. I would like to know the time I switched into alt hold mode to compare it to my motor outputs.

I know that ArduCopter should be able to log flight modes- but I want to know if it's something that I'm overlooking or is it something software-wise?

ALSO NOTE: When I open the CLI and go logs>>enable mode, mode does not seem to show up. This is the output:

Log] enable mode
logs enabled: ATTITUDE_MED GPS PM CTUN NTUN CMD

Is the software not taking my command to enable mode logging or does it just not parrot back mode for some reason?

Find flight modes in the log browser is a bit difficult. You have to manually scroll through the log to find the modes changing. If you have telemetry you can graph the tlog file within the Flight Data screen under Telemetry Logs. To see flight mode changes you need to click on and graph custom_mode. You can analysis you regular logs using Excel. See the links below.

Logs

There are a few wiki pages where we talk about how to use the dataflash and tlogs here (http://code.google.com/p/arducopter/wiki/AC2_Datalogging), here (http://code.google.com/p/arducopter/wiki/AC2_Record) and here (http://code.google.com/p/arducopter/wiki/AC2_Logs). The last two pages have videos on them where I go through some of the details so that might be useful...
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Richard Boyhan March 19, 2013 at 7:34am

Find flight modes in the log browser is a bit difficult. You have to manually scroll through the log to find the modes changing. If you have telemetry you can graph the tlog file within the Flight Data screen under Telemetry Logs. To see flight mode changes you need to click on and graph custom_mode. You can analysis you regular logs using Excel. See the links below.

Logs

There are a few wiki pages where we talk about how to use the dataflash and tlogs here (http://code.google.com/p/arducopter/wiki/AC2_Datalogging), here (http://code.google.com/p/arducopter/wiki/AC2_Record) and here (http://code.google.com/p/arducopter/wiki/AC2_Logs). The last two pages have videos on them where I go through some of the details so that might be useful...
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