Configuring your WFT07 radio gear for Arducopter

Arducopter has many different flight modes that you can choose and use when you are flying.  In order to change the flight mode you will need to toggle a switch on your transmitter.  This can be fairly straight forward if you want to use the channel 6 knob on your transmitter.  However because this knob requires you to twist it, if something goes wrong it can take some time to switch back to a manual flight mode.  Using the V1 knob allows you to enable all 6 flight modes if you require.

Arducopter flight modes setting screen

Alternative Configuration

The alternative configuration only allows you to use 3 or 4 flight modes, but allows you to quickly flight a switch to return to stabilise mode if you need to in a hurry.  A situation might occur if you set a wrong way-point altitude that is heading straight for a tree or building.

Step 1 - Turn on Mixing

• Open the menu on the radio screen, and navigate down to option 15, Advanced.
  
• Then under the Advanced menu scroll down to option 5, PROG.MIX1
  
• For CTRL, choose the switch K2, or K1 (whichever you are comfortable with)
  
• Under Mix, choose K2 -> Ch6 (if you chose K1 above choose K1 ->Ch6
• Leave RATE+ and RATE- at 0%
• Change POSI to -100.0%

Step 2 - Recalibrate Arducopter radio values and set flight modes.

Now you will need to go to the APM mission planner software and re-calibrate your radio, and choose the bottom 3 flight modes to be Stabilise, and the top 3 you can choose to be whatever you want.  When you are flying and you want to a flight mode other than stabilise you would toggle the switch (K1, or K2) to activate the various flight modes that you can choose by turning the know V1.  If you quickly want to go back to stabilise mode you simply toggle the switch K1 or K2 to quickly switch back.  You can easily se how this works in the mission planner by moving the switched, the current selected flight mode is highlighted in green.