My goal with arduplane is to have a terrain protection feature to avoid crashing into ground when doing failsafe RTL in a mountain environment or the waypoints I put in AUTO have a wrong altitude.
In other words, I want to fly at the altitude specified in the WPs but have the terrain function monitoring the situation and adapting the target ONLY WHEN NEEDED.
I’m studying the terrain following feature and is still unclear if this is feasible with the feature as is.
Thanks
Adriano
I tried terraing following and FBWB, which worked perfectly but were of no use to me. For years, however, I had been thinking about a safety feature such as setting an offset of, say, 50m on the terrain altitude, which includes altitude errors, high-voltage poles, and tall trees, below which the aircraft, also I have trad ely, must not descend, either in auto mode, RTH, cruise, or by choosing from a table with a default chosen by the programmers that is quite logical and simple. This way, long cruises with the terrain data loaded should be very safe. In the past, I’ve hit a tree in RTH, taken serious risks a few meters from a house on a hill due to incorrect assessments, etc., and with this safety feature, such errors will be completely avoided. Unfortunately, I don’t know how to program, otherwise they shouldn’t be a lot of code. Given the very complete and debugged Arduplane software, I see such a feature as a major omission.