Thank you tridge and devs for all the hard work.
I’m glad to see an arming option now, thank you Michael Day for that. I’ve been flying APM multirotor for a couple years now and was very surprised that that hadn’t been implemented until now. I almost chopped my fingers off the first time I started my Arduplane in my basement and it tried to RTL on me.
One comment/suggestion:
Since you borrowed the Arming feature from ArduCopter, why not use the same stick movement to arm??? On AC you hold the stick bottom right to arm; for Arduplane you made it bottom left… why? Not a huge deal but after arming that way for two years now, it threw me off the first time (x 10) I tried to arm. Why not keep all APM functions as similar as possible for us that switch between platforms?
Thank you.
Elvis
[quote=“Elvis”]Since you borrowed the Arming feature from ArduCopter, why not use the same stick movement to arm??? On AC you hold the stick bottom right to arm; for Arduplane you made it bottom left… why? Not a huge deal but after arming that way for two years now, it threw me off the first time (x 10) I tried to arm. Why not keep all APM functions as similar as possible for us that switch between platforms?
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It is in fact the same, ie. it looks for the rudder channel going to a high value while throttle is low. The difference is probably that you have rudder reversed in the transmitter (or have RC4_REV set to -1).
There is however a difference with arming between copter and plane - on plane you can’t disarm with rudder/throttle. That is because zero throttle with hard left rudder is used for some normal flight with plane (eg. when entering a deliberate spin) and we didn’t want that to cause a disarm.
Cheers, Tridge
[quote=“tridge”][quote=“Elvis”]Since you borrowed the Arming feature from ArduCopter, why not use the same stick movement to arm??? On AC you hold the stick bottom right to arm; for Arduplane you made it bottom left… why? Not a huge deal but after arming that way for two years now, it threw me off the first time (x 10) I tried to arm. Why not keep all APM functions as similar as possible for us that switch between platforms?
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It is in fact the same, ie. it looks for the rudder channel going to a high value while throttle is low. The difference is probably that you have rudder reversed in the transmitter (or have RC4_REV set to -1).
There is however a difference with arming between copter and plane - on plane you can’t disarm with rudder/throttle. That is because zero throttle with hard left rudder is used for some normal flight with plane (eg. when entering a deliberate spin) and we didn’t want that to cause a disarm.
Cheers, Tridge[/quote]
Thank you for pointing that out Tridge, I’ll check it today. And thanks again for all the hard work.