Posts: 55 Threads: 9 Likes Received: 24 in 16 posts Likes Given: 1 Joined: Dec 2017 Reputation: 3 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 • Posts: 12,099 Threads: 125 Likes Received: 3,739 in 2,836 posts Likes Given: 99 Joined: Feb 2017 Reputation: 388 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. • Posts: 3,288 Threads: 129 Likes Received: 2,740 in 1,644 posts Likes Given: 2,969 Joined: Apr 2017 Reputation: 65 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. SoCal Kaity :D OMG, no one told me it would be this much fun! Addicted :) Posts: 55 Threads: 9 Likes Received: 24 in 16 posts Likes Given: 1 Joined: Dec 2017 Reputation: 3 (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 • Posts: 12,099 Threads: 125 Likes Received: 3,739 in 2,836 posts Likes Given: 99 Joined: Feb 2017 Reputation: 388 19-Dec-2017, 06:33 AM (This post was last modified: 19-Dec-2017, 06:34 AM by voodoo614.) 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. Posts: 1,773 Threads: 30 Likes Received: 1,199 in 755 posts Likes Given: 714 Joined: Oct 2016 Reputation: 45 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.............. Posts: 2,286 Threads: 38 Likes Received: 1,527 in 995 posts Likes Given: 1,881 Joined: Apr 2016 Reputation: 72 (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. • Posts: 12,099 Threads: 125 Likes Received: 3,739 in 2,836 posts Likes Given: 99 Joined: Feb 2017 Reputation: 388 (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. • Posts: 1,590 Threads: 89 Likes Received: 1,283 in 768 posts Likes Given: 1,274 Joined: Jan 2017 Reputation: 31 21-Dec-2017, 07:28 PM (This post was last modified: 21-Dec-2017, 07:28 PM by Carl.Vegas.) (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. carl.vegas Current Quads: Operational: Diatone GT2 200 In need of repair: Bumble Bee, tehStein, Slightly modified Vortex 250 |