I have a regular (not VTOL) flying wing. It is powerful enough to launch straight up sitting on side winglets.
When I do that in Manual mode the first couple seconds of the flight is unstable, the wing rotates due to motor torque. It is hard to make this lauch and transition to horizontal flight.
I want to make this easier.
Will that work? :
Put wing straight up, set it to FBWA, change LIM_PITCH_MAX to 90 degrees, pull down pitch stick on the transmitter, full throttle. If I understand it correctly the plane will try to maintain 90 degree pitch and zero roll. Zero roll will be impossible to maintain because of motor torque and low airspeed, but 90 pitch must be easy for the plane. After a couple of seconds it will continue to fly straight up with zero roll and I could release the pitch stick to transition to horizontal flight.
Also, is it possible to configure the auto-launch for this?
This video is not mine, here you can see the what I am talking about, notice the rotation and instability, he is launching in manual mode.