Designing Purpose-Built Drones for Ardupilot Pixhawk 2.1

Setting flight modes

For your first few flights, you're really only concerned with three flight modes-Manual, FBWA, and AUTOTUNE. So, we've set up those modes on a 3-position selector switch as modes 1, 2, and 3 as shown in the following screenshot:

By flipping another switch on the remote, we'll have access to modes 4, 5, and 6. But for our first few flights, we won't even worry about these. Right now we just want Manual, FBWA, and AUTOTUNE.