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How is a ight phase programmed?
How is a ight phase programmed?
The concept of flight phase programming
General information on ight phase programming
During a flight, you will often want to apply different
settings – e. g. flap or trim settings for a fixed-wing air-
craft 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
mc-32
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. 8. Each
name is then shown in all phase-specific menus
and also on the basic display. To avoid abrupt
transitions when switching between the various
phases, 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 settings
are made in the »Phase settings« menu. The
programming of helicopters begins with either
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
assignment« menu to set up the required "phase
switches".
3. Once these are set, you can then move to the
flight phase-dependent menus (see the tables
below) to start programming the settings for the
individual flight phases.
List of ight phase-relevant menus for xed-wing
programs:
Menu Page
»Control adjust« 118
»Dual Rate / Expo« 132
»Channel 1 curve« 140
»Phase settings« 154
»Phase assignment« 160
»Phase trim« 162
»Non-delayed channels« 163
»Flight phase timers« 168
»Wing mixers« 172
»MIX active/phase« 220
»Trim memory« 240
List of ight phase-relevant menus for helicopter
programs:
Menu Page
»Control adjust« 122
»Dual Rate / Expo« 136
»Channel 1 curve« 143
»Phase settings« 158
»Phase assignment« 160
»Non-delayed channels« 163
»Flight phase timers« 168
»Helicopter mixer« 190
»MIX active/phase« 220
»Trim memory« 242
All other menus are model-specific and thus cannot
be programmed separately for each flight phase.
Accordingly, changes you make in all other menus
apply uniformly to all flight phases for that specific
model. In some cases it may be desirable to use the
»Suppress codes« menu (see page 80) to remove
non-alterable menus from the multi-function list while
programming flight phases. Two examples of flight
phase programming can be found in the text begin-
ning on page 308.
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