Changing the flight mode order on the Gear switch.

[randyrls]

ON the Aura 5 Lite mode switch, "Safe / 6-Axis" mode is in the middle position. This isn't a good design as it is dependent on the current switch position to determine the directing you need to throw the switch.
So is there an easy way to change the order of the switch positions? I have printed out screen captures of all the positions and one-by-one manually changed the Flight Modes switch positions so they are in the order, "UP=Expert (No leveling)", "CENTER=3 Axis (Not self leveling)", "DOWN=Safe (self leveling). I want that switch to be in SAFE mode when I smash that switch down!

Aside to Flex Innovations: While the field labeling may make sense to your developers, to a R/C pilot type person they are NOT OBVIOUS! Can be relabeled? The Popups kind of help but suffer from the same defect. Think of what audience you are trying to reach and their terminology!!

 

[Flying Monkey fab]

is there an easy way to change the order of the switch positions? I

Easy? No. You can customize it as you want in the Aura Config tool, but it is not intuitive at all, and you will have to fiddle around for a while to understand it. The config tool gives me fits, and I normally consider myself fairly sharp.
But the good news is, yes, once you understand the config tool, you can make things just like what you want.

 

[LitterBug]

In theory, you could do a funky output curve in your radio.....

Best option is what @Flying Monkey fab says. you can even create more modes if you have a switch with more positions.

 

[randyrls]

I was working on something else and had a EUREKA MOMENT! I reprogrammed the Spektrum transmitter to change the values of the "B" switch positions under the "Digital Switch Setup". SO I don't have to reprogram the Aura at all! I leave them in the default positions. That isn't optimum because I have to remember that the switch positions don't correspond to the actual values.

 

[Piotrsko]

Or you can be handy with a soldering iron.

 

[randyrls]

Or you can be handy with a soldering iron.

Yes; But that changes the switch positions for every model. Changing the "Digital Switch Setup" only changes the particular model selected.

 

[Piotrsko]

Might if I had a system with software switches. I don't. If I want a function somewhere else I break out the soldering iron and move it

 

[LitterBug]

Yes; But that changes the switch positions for every model. Changing the "Digital Switch Setup" only changes the particular model selected.

Who has more than one model ????

 

[Piotrsko]

Digital radio with video screen? That's crazy talk

 

[toryander]

I'm coming in late to this conversation, but I didn't like the panic switch (Stabilize) in the middle either. I would always flip past it in my panic as my plane dove to the ground. I went into the aura config and connected the "Stabilize" Control Mode (6-axis) to Flight Mode 3, and then mapped the "Acro" Control Mode (3-Axis) to Flight Mode 2. This effectively put Stabilize on the fully up position on my Pocket 3-position switch where it's easy to find in a panic. I did also go into Special Functions in my tx and reprogram the voice message to match so that it actually said "Stabilize" when I selected Stabilize.

 

[LitterBug]

Example with a curve in the radio.

 

[toryander]

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Example with a curve in the radio.

That's clever.

 

[LitterBug]

Here I did a panic switch override. When SD is flipped, it overrides my Flight Mode switch to the mid point.

You can also see my throttle cut on SA which is my arming switch. It overrides the throttle with -100 when not armed.