Flying the tuning mission

Time to do it. The culmination of this whole chapter. Time to finalize the tuning of your plane. You're not ready to take off just yet. Once you get to your flying field, park the plane in the takeoff position, power it up, and connect to your Pixhawk via telemetry. We need to set the home point.

Right under the Write WPs button, you'll see a link for Home Location, click on it. This will set the home location on the map to the current coordinates (as shown in the following screenshot):

Now, we need to calibrate our sensors. The good thing is that it can be done automatically at the touch of a button. Back on the ...

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