Yaw/heading during transition

Hello,

My Skywalker-X8 has recovered after the “hard landing”, the weather is fine, so… preparing for the next launch! However, I still don’t fully understand how to avoid problems with heading deviations during the transition. Now I’m much better prepared mentally for the scenario that say a wind gust significantly changes the heading, and then I’m ready to stop the transition by going back to QLOITER. MANUAL/STABILIZE are now protected by an extra switch. But do we have any support from ArduPlane in this case? As far as I understand, the copter yaw stick does not work during the transition phase, and as there is no rudder in flying wings, so how to counteract?

Would it make sense to add a Q_OPTION for maintaining the heading with which the transition started? And potentially quitting the transition if the heading deviated too much?

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