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Hi all,

I'm new to PixHawk. I read in the descriptions that PixHawk (A) has failsafe features, and (B) inherits much of APM's features. Because of obvious reasons, I am particularly interested in the GCS failsafe feature, i.e. if the autopilot lost telemetry for XXX seconds, it will return to launch site. My question is: does PixHawk support this?

As far as I understand, this function is built-in the ArduPilot / APM (ArduPlane) firmware which we flash onto PX4 hardware. Therefore, it should be readily available. Is my understanding correct? See here:

http://plane.ardupilot.com/wiki/arduplane-setup/apms-failsafe-function/

If this is not available, I'm thinking about writing a python code for that to contribute to MavProxy project.

Any insights / clarifications? 

Thanks,