Questions before I try

Posted by Edgar Scott on September 28, 2013 at 1:04pm

Hi guys, I read over the Wiki and am excited to try this with my GS3 :)

But I have a safety question or 2 before I dive in.

I read, BETA Turn your Tx On, so Ill do that

I have a 3 toggle sw set to STABILIZE|AUTO|LAND

First test with AndroPilot I want to do something simple.

Take off, loiter @2Meters(~6 feet) for 30 sec then land.

My question is, if I upload the plan first via PC Mission Planner

Then I can run it from the Auto, but what do I put my Tx in?  Should it be in Stabilize?

How would I take over with the Tx say if I had a fly away etc?  If I just jump on the Tx would it take over?

Thanks, Ed,

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  • Drone-University.com January 21, 2015 at 2:35pm

    Isn't there a way to skip that throttle raising step before doing a goto or a take off ?

    I mean,  changing THR_MIN from 0 to 100 so that engines starts a little when arming ?

    Wouldn't that do the trick ? 

    Could anyone confirm please ? Thank you

  • Luciano Zanchi October 2, 2013 at 10:32pm
    Edgar, used guided mode yesterday with latest version of Andropilot and it works great. I took off using guided mode then flown copter joystick only. Radio was there for emergency only.

    If you tell us the steps you are doing we can tell you what you're doing wrong.

    Luciano
  • Developer
    Kevin Hester September 28, 2013 at 1:49pm

    Hi Ed,

    It isn't  really beta (we went final about five months ago) - I'll update the wiki.

    > Then I can run it from the Auto, but what do I put my Tx in?  Should it be in Stabilize?

    Andropilot will override the mode switch on the RC transmitter when you select AUTO in andropilot (or any other mode).  But don't worry - if you want to control modes again from your RC switch, just change the mode switch on the RC and it will go to the new mode.

    > How would I take over with the Tx say if I had a fly away etc?  If I just jump on the Tx would it take over?

    Yes, you would toggle the mode to STABLIZE (or whatever).  Though of course, if the switch was already in STABLIZE when you started to control the vehicle with andropilot you'll need to briefly flick it to some other mode and then back again (so the vehicle sees that you are trying to change modes)

    Does that help?

    -kevin

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