Traditional helicopter: Pitch stabilization and Normal flight mode.

Posted by Alexandre Heitor Schmidt on February 28, 2013 at 6:26am

Hi!

I'm trying to setup ArduPilot with my E_Sky BeltCPv2.

The stabilization is working good and testing of collective pitch works fine from transmitter.

However, when I leave that manual testing mode, I loose control over collective, although I'm still able to control aileron, elevator and pitch individually.

Any clues on what am I doing wrong?

About flight modes, I noticed there is no manual mode (a mode in which I'd be fully manually controlling the helicopter). Am I the only one thinking this is necessary?

Thanks for your feedback!

Alex.

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  • Rob_Lefebvre February 28, 2013 at 10:36am

    The issue here is fairly simple.  Once you "Arm" the system, then you will have control over the collective pitch.

    It wasn't always like this, this issue only crept in recently.  It's caused because we use a lot of multirotor code, and multi-rotors should not output throttle (collective) without being armed.  I just can't find the bit of code doing it so that I can fix it for Helis.

    As for manual mode, your heli appears to have a flybar.  You should put it in Flybar mode.  When you do this, if you flick to "Acro", then you will have full manual control over the swashplate.

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    Randy February 28, 2013 at 6:45am

    Alex,

         Stabilize mode is the mode that gives you mostly manual control over the helicopter.  It all works best on a flybarless copter (although flybarred is also ok) and you can't really fly a flybarless without a computer between you and the blades.

         Not sure what's wrong with the collective though.

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