Another day, another cool feature to call out in the Mission Planner! (These posts are almost turning into a rolling tutorial series). In today's version (1.0.61), when you right click in the Flight Planner, you can directly enter commands such as Loiter and Jump along with the other commands shown above.
Jump is a handy command, which allows for proper mission scripting. It's like GoTo in Basic: it just jumps the mission to the start, so it can loop forever, or to any other waypoint.
A few small bugs also have been fixed, such as startup issues with older graphics cards.
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Cool feature!
Just as a suggestion. It would be also good to draw not only circles over the WPs, but also estimated trajectory line of the plane/copter while moving from the current to the next waypoint.
Hello Arno,
There are several failsafe's available. First, you can set up a failsafe so that if your RC connection is lost, APM will RTL. This is described in the wiki. Additionally, if you are so equipped and configured, you can take control from a joystick attached to the GCS. Also, you can define a low battery event, which can also trigger RTL. This feature is probably not as well documented.
what are the chances of having the loiter commands added to the flight data screen so you can right click in there. (I suspect "Fly to here" is the same as "Loiter forever").
As a software engineer, this scares me a little. Are there going to be emergency escape plans? So that, when you run out of battery power, the plane automatically flies back to its start and land there?
Otherwise, if your RC fails, you're basically screwed ..
Nice catch ;-) Fixed!