Can someone either confirm my thinking or give me some pointers on flight modes, please?
I understand from Ed and Pat that flight modes are a good way to have your aircraft set-up for different phases of flight, for example take-off, cruise, aero, speed, landing etc. I also understand that the trim from each phase of flight can be set-up independently. This sounds really useful!
Do how do I do it?
I am guessing that you set-up global variables for things like throw, and expo, and then use the global variables in each flight mode. So you could say have larger throws and larger expo that would normally be your high rates for each channel, used in take-off and landing mode, and then keep the expo but reduce the throws for aero, and then have a different value for throws and expo in speed mode?
I will be doing this on a Taranis.
Hi Simon,
just heading off to work so this will be short.
Flight modes is a big topic. Most fixed wing modes don't really need them, but helicopters and gliders get great benefits from them.
With helis the main function is to select different pitch and throttle curves and often gyro gain settings.
Helis also use the idea of flight mode priority- throttle hold to kill the motor will overide any other flight mode.
With gliders one of the main functions is to allow for camber and elevator settings for the different speeds you want to fly at.
I even use flight modes with my simple rudder/elevator Gentle lady, and all they do is provide different elevator trim positions.
" Back in the day" this was done with the analog trim switch, push it forward to go fast, middle for cruise and all the way back for thermals.
When digital trims came along then you needed flight modes to get the same ability.
The Taranis has almost unlimited flight mode capability. The first step is to figure out what flight modes you want and what the priority they are in.
Then figure out what switches/sticks/sliders will be used to select them.
For my DLGs for example I use 6 flight modes: launch preset,launch, landing,speed,cruise and thermal, with the priority in that order.
Pat MacKenzie