the entire flight was done solely by the autopilot, the only thing i did was gear up and play with a few other switches.
Match Speed: The big button you see behind the throttle, matches the speed of the aircraft with that of the chosen target
Altitude: You input a selected altitude, and the plane climbs or descends following a specified vertical speed. When it's within 1,000 ft of the selected altitude, it begins to level off, all using PID controllers.
Speed: pretty basic, engine power is managed using PIDs to maintain the selected airspeed.
Heading: This was more complicated. Still done using PIDs, the catch was SimplePlanes calculates heading from -180 to 180, while my autopilot system uses a 0–360 range. It was tricky to work around, but I eventually got it fixed. (The autopilot will not change heading below 300ft AGL)
The autopilot system was originally developed for my WIP 777ERSF, so most of this logic had already been done a while ago.
the entire flight was done solely by the autopilot, the only thing i did was gear up and play with a few other switches.
Match Speed: The big button you see behind the throttle, matches the speed of the aircraft with that of the chosen target
Altitude: You input a selected altitude, and the plane climbs or descends following a specified vertical speed. When it's within 1,000 ft of the selected altitude, it begins to level off, all using PID controllers.
Speed: pretty basic, engine power is managed using PIDs to maintain the selected airspeed.
Heading: This was more complicated. Still done using PIDs, the catch was SimplePlanes calculates heading from -180 to 180, while my autopilot system uses a 0–360 range. It was tricky to work around, but I eventually got it fixed. (The autopilot will not change heading below 300ft AGL)
The autopilot system was originally developed for my WIP 777ERSF, so most of this logic had already been done a while ago.
Unironically groovy, The entire flight was so banging LMAO．T
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