Flight Plan Examples

This page will detail a number of flight plan examples.

Takeoff

<block key="t" name="Takeoff" strip_button="Takeoff" strip_icon="takeoff.png">

     <set value="0" var="kill_throttle"/>
     <set value="0" var="estimator_flight_time"/>
     <go from="START" pitch="-10" throttle="1.0" vmode="throttle" wp="ER"/>

</block>

Explanation of the code - left to right, top to bottom.

key="t" - Not sure what this does - SOMEONE PLEASE UPDATE

name="Takeoff" - the name of the block

strip_button="Takeoff" - This shows as the name when you hover your mouse over the button

strip_icon="takeoff.png" - The name of the icon picture shown in the GCS

<set value="0" var="kill_throttle"/> - This turns on the option to change the throttle

<set value="0" var="estimator_flight_time"/> - This turns on the flight time estimator

<go from="START" pitch="-10" throttle="1.0" vmode="throttle" wp="ER"/> - This says for the aircraft to go from "START" waypoint towards "ER" (end runway) waypoint with a elevator pitch of -10% (to keep the aircraft on the ground) and throttle at 100%. You would also add a deroute option to change to the "CLIMB" waypoint (the waypoint that gets the aircraft up to the correct height) once the aircraft was moving above stall speed. I will add the code for this soon.

I am not sure what vmode="throttle" means SOME PLEASE UPDATE.

This code will work in theory, but may not in practice, especially if you only have a narrow runway or your aircraft takes a long time to get up to speed.