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Before you set up flight modes it is worthwhile considering
which flight modes are important, and which are of secondary
importance.
To create a flight mode, press briefly on one of the boxes label-
led “Standard”, and you will see the following screen display:
You can immediately assign an informative name to the new flight mode by briefly pressing the left-hand field. Bear in mind that
you should not use abbreviations here if you intend the flight mode names to be used for speech output later, as the TTS systems
reads the text exactly as you have entered it!
In the field below Fade-in you can set how fast the settings for the new flight mode are to affect the servos. For example, if you
lower the landing flaps by selecting the appropriate flight mode, it makes sense to set a delay at this point.
In contrast, selecting No-Fade-in Functions enables you explicitly to remove transmitter control functions from the delay.
Once you have entered all the settings, press the -button to return to the Flight Mode tree diagram. Now press the field with the
three dashes --- above the Flight Mode to select the transmitter control which you want to use to activate this flight mode.
In the next screen display press briefly on Transmitter Control again..
At this point you can select the appropriate transmitter control. If you select a switch, you can activate one or two switch positions.
If you choose a linear control, you can set the switching threshold and hysteresis here. If you have already set up virtual switches,
please note that you can also use these for selecting the flight mode.
Exactly the same procedure is used to set up additional flight modes. The picture below shows a switch which is used to select
three flight modes; FM Normal has the highest priority.
This adaptability provides maximum flexibility and simplicity, and you can immediately check the effect of your settings by using
the linear control. The transmitter control symbol on the left changes color to indicate the switched state.
If you wish to use a switch, you can very easily set the desired switch position to ON. If you select a 3-position switch it is also
possible to set two ON positions. Press OK once you have completed your settings. You are now returned to the Cut-Off func-
tion overview. Under Position set the servo position to which the servo is to move when the transmitter control is operated.
If the assigned transmitter control is set to off, the servo output works as previously defined for that function. As soon as the
transmitter control is moved to the ON position, the servo moves to the previously defined position; you can read off the current
value at far right.
3.8 Flightmodes
Flight modes, also known as flight phases, are one of the CORE’s most powerful features, but they are still easy to use! You can
imagine a flight mode as a copy of a particular model memory, but one with slightly altered settings.
A switch can be used to select different modes when the model is flying. In the simplest case this might simply be a different
landing flap position and the appropriate elevator trim for that position.
The practical advantage of this feature is that you can adjust the trim when the landing flaps are lowered, without altering the trim
in the normal “flight mode”.
When you select the Flight Mode menu you will see a graphic representation of the Flight Mode tree structure.
The most important thing to know at this point is that the CORE prioritizes the flight modes. Priority runs from left to right, i.e. the
flight modes in the left-hand tree diagram have the highest priority, and those on the right the lowest priority. Even when the flight
mode structure is complex, this means that you can, for example, overrule all other switch positions with a single switch, returning
you very quickly to “normal” flight mode..
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