Well worded.Smart mode is excellent for beginners to initiate development their hand/eye/aircraft coordination as long as they keep it close enough to visually recognize orientation. Smart mode uses the safe circle, not circle of death, to assist people from putting themselves in a dangerous situation by flying too close to themselves. The H is not a beginner's aircraft but some will buy it anyway, and who buys an H is not something the manufacturer can control so assisting them in avoiding injury is not a bad thing. Smart mode can also be extremely useful in some photo/video situations.
The largest problem, if we can even call it a problem, with Smart mode is not the mode itself, but found with the users that have issues with it because they failed to read and understand the description of how it functions, forgot how it functions, and lacked situational awareness when changing switch positions. What I've seen thus far is people blaming the equipment for their mistakes and failures. A fairly common trait anymore I'm afraid.
People need to become familiar with their equipment through practice and understanding of the information that's contained in manufacturer videos and written documentation. Make the effort to understand how each flight mode works and what it is capable of. Start slow and work up to bigger things as our system function memory fills out. Perhaps many are trying to do too much, too soon, and lack the situational awareness that develops over time spent with a system. If you have different transmitters for different aircraft you already understand that each transmitter is set up relevant to a particular aircraft. If you also fly planes and helis along with multirotors you know that accessory control positions (gear, flaps, rate switches, flight mode positions, bomb drops, tow release, etc.) can and will be at different locations and switch positions across your assortment of transmitters. Flight systems are different and it's not the responsibility of the manufacturer to be a flight instructor, although they are providing things like Smart mode and ops videos to help do so. It's up to each of us to learn our system and become proficient with our aircraft in order to operate them safely and effectively.
What's really neat is that Yuneec has provided a means for each to tailor their transmitter to their particular taste and sensitivity. I'm not aware of that being done with a consumer drone before. A great thing but also something people need to take the time to learn to avoid making changes they don't yet understand the consequences of. There's no hurry, take your time.
Smart mode has it's place but IMO it should not be forced upon us as a primary mode. Beginners can and should train in angle mode so they are qualified to pilot an aircraft like the H. Purchase a $20 Cheerson and go at it. When I started instructing RC over 35 years ago we did not have smart modes let alone 3 axis gyro stabilization.
Bottom line is the pilot is responsible for his craft and those around it. Adding newbie modes so these multirotors can be sold in Best Buy is a mistake IMO; it is still an aircraft that must be piloted by a qualified person.
Some of my most difficult students were full size pilots. I remember one guy specifically, he was the Captain of a 747 and flew the Hawaii to LA route. As long as the plane was flying away from him he was fine, left is left and right is right. When nose in, or flying towards yourself left is right and right is left. This was difficult to teach a guy who sat in a seat for thousands of hours where left was always left. In addition we did not have pause or failsafe or any other mode to simply let off the sticks and the craft would stabilize, there was no RTH.
Bottom line is learn to fly before you fly, do not depend on technology to fly for you or sooner or later technology will fail you and you will blame the manufacturer for not putting in more safety devices.
I flew simple and super simple smart modes with APM's for years, they had there uses when you got confused or you wanted to yaw around while flying a coarse, but I never liked them for anything else. In fact I don't like GPS assisted flight for the most part, just stabilized flight. I like to fly the craft with visual feedback from my eyes and FPV. Flying without GPS leads too smoother and more fluid movements, plus can save battery life.
Adding an artificial mode like smart mode which removes the correlation between the sticks and the craft can, and is, confusing. Then add the safe circle on top of this. I have seen experienced pilots crash in smart mode because they lost their sense of direction when a computer is making the decisions. I read my H manual carefully and was a little surprised to find the main mode was super simple. I have not owned a Yuneec product before so this was different for me. I tried smart mode right off the bat and was ready for the orientation but immediately switched into manual and turned off GPS, that felt good.
Just my opinion.
Smart mode has it's place but IMO it should not be forced upon us as a primary mode. Beginners can and should train in angle mode so they are qualified to pilot an aircraft like the H. Purchase a $20 Cheerson and go at it. When I started instructing RC over 35 years ago we did not have smart modes let alone 3 axis gyro stabilization.
Bottom line is the pilot is responsible for his craft and those around it. Adding newbie modes so these multirotors can be sold in Best Buy is a mistake IMO; it is still an aircraft that must be piloted by a qualified person.
Some of my most difficult students were full size pilots. I remember one guy specifically, he was the Captain of a 747 and flew the Hawaii to LA route. As long as the plane was flying away from him he was fine, left is left and right is right. When nose in, or flying towards yourself left is right and right is left. This was difficult to teach a guy who sat in a seat for thousands of hours where left was always left. In addition we did not have pause or failsafe or any other mode to simply let off the sticks and the craft would stabilize, there was no RTH.
Bottom line is learn to fly before you fly, do not depend on technology to fly for you or sooner or later technology will fail you and you will blame the manufacturer for not putting in more safety devices.
I flew simple and super simple smart modes with APM's for years, they had there uses when you got confused or you wanted to yaw around while flying a coarse, but I never liked them for anything else. In fact I don't like GPS assisted flight for the most part, just stabilized flight. I like to fly the craft with visual feedback from my eyes and FPV. Flying without GPS leads too smoother and more fluid movements, plus can save battery life.
Adding an artificial mode like smart mode which removes the correlation between the sticks and the craft can, and is, confusing. Then add the safe circle on top of this. I have seen experienced pilots crash in smart mode because they lost their sense of direction when a computer is making the decisions. I read my H manual carefully and was a little surprised to find the main mode was super simple. I have not owned a Yuneec product before so this was different for me. I tried smart mode right off the bat and was ready for the orientation but immediately switched into manual and turned off GPS, that felt good.
Just my opinion.
Smart mode has it's place but IMO it should not be forced upon us as a primary mode. Beginners can and should train in angle mode so they are qualified to pilot an aircraft like the H. Purchase a $20 Cheerson and go at it. When I started instructing RC over 35 years ago we did not have smart modes let alone 3 axis gyro stabilization.
Bottom line is the pilot is responsible for his craft and those around it. Adding newbie modes so these multirotors can be sold in Best Buy is a mistake IMO; it is still an aircraft that must be piloted by a qualified person.
Some of my most difficult students were full size pilots. I remember one guy specifically, he was the Captain of a 747 and flew the Hawaii to LA route. As long as the plane was flying away from him he was fine, left is left and right is right. When nose in, or flying towards yourself left is right and right is left. This was difficult to teach a guy who sat in a seat for thousands of hours where left was always left. In addition we did not have pause or failsafe or any other mode to simply let off the sticks and the craft would stabilize, there was no RTH.
Bottom line is learn to fly before you fly, do not depend on technology to fly for you or sooner or later technology will fail you and you will blame the manufacturer for not putting in more safety devices.
I flew simple and super simple smart modes with APM's for years, they had there uses when you got confused or you wanted to yaw around while flying a coarse, but I never liked them for anything else. In fact I don't like GPS assisted flight for the most part, just stabilized flight. I like to fly the craft with visual feedback from my eyes and FPV. Flying without GPS leads too smoother and more fluid movements, plus can save battery life.
Adding an artificial mode like smart mode which removes the correlation between the sticks and the craft can, and is, confusing. Then add the safe circle on top of this. I have seen experienced pilots crash in smart mode because they lost their sense of direction when a computer is making the decisions. I read my H manual carefully and was a little surprised to find the main mode was super simple. I have not owned a Yuneec product before so this was different for me. I tried smart mode right off the bat and was ready for the orientation but immediately switched into manual and turned off GPS, that felt good.
Just my opinion.
Did you try the reset for that channel? If not I'll post a pic.So with all this cool stuff in the channel settings (played with expo on pitch/roll), what happens if you muck up a channel and forget what the default is? Is there a way to factory reset? I'd think so, but haven't found out how yet.
I may have screwed up A08 (ch 12). Would someone please post a screenshot of the channel settings for A08?
Thanks.
Be sure to always write down your factory settings before changing anything friend.So with all this cool stuff in the channel settings (played with expo on pitch/roll), what happens if you muck up a channel and forget what the default is? Is there a way to factory reset? I'd think so, but haven't found out how yet.
I may have screwed up A08 (ch 12). Would someone please post a screenshot of the channel settings for A08?
Thanks.
By the way, not sure how you are adjusting pitch & roll with Ch.12 as none of the hardware functions (S1 thru B4) effect those controls.Be sure to always write down your factory settings before changing anything friend.![]()
I wouldn't trust reset. I have not seen it (at least personally) return the settings to factory only resets to all zero.Did you try the reset for that channel? If not I'll post a pic.
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