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How is a flight phase programmed?
How is a flight phase programmed?
The concept of flight phase programming
General information on flight phase programming
During a flight, you will often want to apply different
settings – e. g. flap or trim settings for a fixed-wing
aircraft or collective pitch and throttle servo settings
for a helicopter – at particular times in the flight (e. g.
take-off, approach, hover, auto-rotate, etc.). With
transmitters
mc-16 HoTT and mc-20 HoTT, you
can access such presets automatically using switches
or control switches.
Flight phases are also of great utility during flight
testing. You can configure various set-ups and then
switch between them during the flight: this enables
you to identify the most appropriate program set-up
for your model quickly and easily.
The basic programming procedure is a three-
stage process
1. First, you have to set up the different flight phases,
i. e. you assign names to phases 1 … max. 7. Each
name is then shown in all phase-specific menus
and also on the basic display. To avoid abrupt tran-
sitions when switching between the various phas-
es, you can also program a period of time during
which a “soft” transition to the next phase takes
place.
For fixed-wing aircraft programs, these set-
tings are made in the »Phase settings« menu.
The programming of helicopters begins with ei-
ther the »Basic settings, model« menu, if you
wish to set up autorotation or, otherwise, with the
»Phase settings« menu.
2. In the second stage, you use the »Phase assign-
ment« menu to set up the required “phase switch-
es”.
3. Once these are set, you can then move to the
flight phase-dependent menus (see the tables be-
low) to start programming the settings for the indi-
vidual flight phases.
List of the flight phase relevant menus which are
available as standard () and as extra-cost op-
tions () in the fixed-wing program of the …
… transmitter
mc-16 HoTT:
Menu Page
»Control adjust« 118
»Dual Rate / Expo« 130
»Channel 1 curve« 138
»Phase settings« 152
»Phase assignment« 158
»Phase trim« 160
»Non-delayed channels« 161
»Flight phase timers« 166
»Wing mixers« 170
»Mix active / phase« 215
»Trim memory« 236
… transmitter
mc-20 HoTT:
Menu Page
»Control adjust« 118
»Dual Rate / Expo« 130
»Channel 1 curve« 138
»Phase settings« 152
»Phase assignment« 158
»Phase trim« 160
»Non-delayed channels« 161
»Flight phase timers« 166
»Wing mixers« 170
»Mix active / phase« 215
»Trim memory« 236
List of the flight phase relevant menus which are
available as standard () and as extra-cost op-
tions () in the helicopter program of the …
… transmitter
mc-16 HoTT:
Menu Page
»Control adjust« 122
»Dual Rate / Expo« 134
»Channel 1 curve« 141
»Phase settings« 156
»Phase assignment« 158
»Non-delayed channels« 161
»Flight phase timers« 166
»Helicopter mixer« 188
»Mix active / phase« 215
»Trim memory« 238
… transmitter
mc-20 HoTT:
Menu Page
»Control adjust« 122
»Dual Rate / Expo« 134
»Channel 1 curve« 141
»Phase settings« 156
»Phase assignment« 158
»Non-delayed channels« 161
»Flight phase timers« 166
»Helicopter mixer« 188
»Mix active / phase« 215
»Trim memory« 238
All other menus are model-specific and thus cannot
be programmed separately for each flight phase. Ac-
cordingly, changes you make in all other menus apply