Lots of times in the field, I can take off on VTOL_TAKEOFF, however I prefer to just do a normal hand launch using TAKEOFF. Some reasons for it are it will take less energy, less complicated and faster. I think it’s a reasonable expectation that even a VTOL plane is not disqualified to do a normal fixed wing hand launch?
It seems impossible to me to accomplish this with current plane software 4.5.0.
Maybe I miss some configuration setting to do this?
Everytime I switch to Auto mode - the motors turn in to an upright vertical position.
Any thoughts?
Karl
For anyone asking for a log file, I Think it’s not so helpful in this case.
Please try to do set it up yourself, for a quad plane, just do a mission that uses one line, TAKEOFF. See what’s happening. Will it go vtol or normal launch?
I assume you switch to Auto mode before the hand launch.
If so, how should the FC know that you will try a hand launch. The plane has not enough horizontal speed to fly. Maybe you have first to start in a manual mode.
Simply because in the Mission it only has one line TAKEOFF, 15 degrees and 40 m hight.
That is all that is needed for a non vtol.
You understand and agree to that?
Karl
Unfortunately, the small log bin file is still too large to update directly.
Let me work on a solution.
Thank you for answer Jörgen!
K
Yes, this setting might be fine for a (normal) plane, but your system is knowing that it is a VTOL. But I don’t have right now no plane, so are there different paramter for TAKEOFF and VTOL_TAKEOFF?