iv'e noticed many boards are sold with ACRO! in the title or description
but on ones that don't say ACRO!
i find that if you don't put a flight mode on your flight mode switch
your in manual flight mode on many of my controllers ?
 thats kinda cool

Default mode is rate/acro or manual mode as you called it. You have to put it in angle or horizon mode.

Acro label usually means that the FC doesn't have barometer or magnetometer. Most FC these days are acro FC but doesn't labelled them.

Every board I have used so far defaults to ACRO when no other mode is selected.

Lately when setting up an FC, I have been leaving the accelerometer disabled and assigning only a switch to arm with no other modes enabled. All list ACRO as the mode in that case, unless enabling AIR as a feature...then it will display AIR as the mode.

(19-Dec-2017, 02:31 AM)voodoo614 Wrote: Default mode is rate/acro or manual mode as you called it. You have to put it in angle or horizon mode.

Acro label usually means that the FC doesn't have barometer or magnetometer. Most FC these days are acro FC but doesn't labelled them.

at first like most i used angle all the time then messed with horizon because i set flight modes
on a 2 position switch.  when i had 2- 3 position switch's is when i found they had acro/manual/rate
my CC3D board has rate so i knew it had it when i set it up in LP
but none of the F3's 6 or 10DOF had any indication they had it

my understanding is if a board is a 6DOF no baro or mag  , a 10DOF has em and that is what designates
having em or not, but your saying if its acro it  really  means its a 6DOF?  sounds kinda screwy way to get there

i think the claim of ACRO! was/ is just a selling gimic for uninformed

Back in the days, most FC came with barometer and mag for more automonous flying. When FPV got popular, the need for baro and mag wasn't necessary. So they starting marketing acro FC and sold them at a cheaper price. After F1, most manufacturers just dropped the acro. They just started making FC for FPV. Anyway, you just need the gyro to fly Acro. So any FC can be flown in Acro. That is also why cleanflight and betaflight defaults on acro mode if you don't set any other mode.

I put my Tarot 650 into acro mode every once in a while just so I know how it will react in case of an emergency. Trying to manually control a 10 lb flying tank is just a little bit stressful..............

(19-Dec-2017, 06:33 AM)voodoo614 Wrote: Back in the days, most FC came with barometer and mag for more automonous flying. When FPV got popular, the need for baro and mag wasn't necessary. So they starting marketing acro FC and sold them at a cheaper price. After F1, most manufacturers just dropped the acro. They just started making FC for FPV. Anyway, you just need the gyro to fly Acro. So any FC can be flown in Acro. That is also why cleanflight and betaflight defaults on acro mode if you don't set any other mode.

It used to be true that you could disable the accelerometer if you were only going to fly in rate mode. However, recent Betaflight features like crash detection use the accelerometer, even if you are in rate mode.

(21-Dec-2017, 01:06 PM)unseen Wrote: It used to be true that you could disable the accelerometer if you were only going to fly in rate mode. However, recent Betaflight features like crash detection use the accelerometer, even if you are in rate mode.

That makes sense.

(21-Dec-2017, 01:06 PM)unseen Wrote: It used to be true that you could disable the accelerometer if you were only going to fly in rate mode. However, recent Betaflight features like crash detection use the accelerometer, even if you are in rate mode.

darn these new settings... I'll have to have a look and see if they're worth it. I don't turn my accelerometer on any quad that I don't have plans to fly LOS. Which right now means only my first tank of a vortex has the accelerometer enabled.

These days I can fly self leveling modes in FPV if I really want to but it's still very uncomfortable.

LOS, it's horizon mode all day though.