I understand that ardupilot can do vtail mixing for me, but pixhawk has a feature where it will passthrough the first 8 RC channels if it fails.
This means I want my RC transmitter to be able to fly my vtail without any pixhawk help.
Currently I have vtail mixing on my transmitter and working fine in passthrough mode, but I'm a bit confused on what I should do next so that arduplane can also fly vtail and understand what my elevator and rudder inputs are by reading the vtail channels being sent.
Is that possible, or am I forced to have arduplane do vtail mixing for me and have my transmitter send unmixed elevator and rudder?
Thanks.
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Have u tried this... http://plane.ardupilot.com/wiki/arduplane-setup/first-time-apm-setu...
I read it already. It starts with "Setup your transmitter with no vtail mixing"
In other words, i have to rely on the pixhawk's main CPU to do mixing for me, and if ir fails, RC passthrough will not do anything helpful
From this thread, it seems that what I'm trying to do is not supported. Too bad...
http://ardupilot.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=110&t=12971&p=35...