Flight Mode 6 stuck at manual

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On MP and using ArduPlane, Flight Mode 6 is grayed out and defaults to Manual.

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The value change be changed in the Config Tab and changing the value to 2 for stabilize, and the value sticks until the next change or save of Flight Mode settings. Then the value defaults back to manual.

Why, and what is the remedy?

Thanks!

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My understanding is this was by design in MP as a safety measure. The rational being that every Plane should have Manual mode available from RC. Manual mode is often the only way to recover from a spin or a flight computer failure.
You can override it by going directly to the parameters and not using the MP mode setup GUI.

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Thanks for the insight on the logic behind the default, which makes sense. And I did find that the setting can be changed in the params.

Thanks!

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this is because in apm2 days that mode was always manual, ie had a hardware mux that could not be overridden. I don’t plan on changing it in the short term, as there is still a large apm2 user base.

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Understood.

There are earlier versions of MP wherein that is not the case, correct? What version did this change?