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Something we might want to recognize is that Yuneec does not like to alter the way their systems work, especially their transmitters and associated hardware. For them the act of adding an on screen GPS switch was almost a monumental event. In the past we had to perform the act of turning off GPS while the aircraft was on the ground by holding the right stick in a position while flipping the flight mode switch up and down rapidly a number of times. Once done it was in the new mode until it was landed for that process to be repeated or power cycled if you desired to get out of it. Back then that mode was called “Agility”. It was not an ideal way of doing things.
I’m certainly not making any excuses for them as I believe incorporating a physical switch to cycle GPS off and on should be a fairly simple thing to do, especially as they already have a “dead” button on the transmitter. For some reason what appears to be reasonable to us is not reasonable to them, or in their minds would require herculean effort to accomplish. In a way they may not feel such an effort necessary as when flying in Angle mode if GPS fails it essentially becomes an “atti” mode. By using a software switch that requires a couple steps to access they sort of assure the operator has to be fully aware of what they are doing when turning off GPS and not doing so by accidentally switching it off by bumping a physical switch or button. With the number of new users that complained of accidentally switching flight modes in flight after trying out their new aircraft, or crashed because they didn’t understand how the mode they were in functioned, meaning differences between Angle and Smart, it’s a hard call to fault the way they’ve set things up. The way they have it reduces warranty claims, which for Yuneec means retained revenue.
Ultimately, they could incorporate a physical switch but it will probably be a cold day in Hades before they consider it.