The coolest thing I found on the Taranis recently is the instant trim feature. It's a special function that I tie to the momentary switch (SH, I think) that when activated will take the input from the sticks and transfer to the trims. Excellent when performing a maiden on a new plane. Just hold it steady and pull the switch. Just be sure to deactivate the function before the next flight in case you accidentally bump it!
And any one else using 2.2.0 and insta trim
While I agree with rockyboy on the using manual trims, I did not have the confidence to take my hands off the sticks when I first started flying a couple months ago. I too was very excited about finding the insta trim function! My only concern was accidentally bumping it somehow
I could see bad things happening there. I found somewhere that there was a SH long or short press option and thought "Perfect, I'll HAVE to hold the momentary down so no worries about accidentally engaging the function.
Well I'm running 2.2.0 and this option was removed from that firmware. Why, I could not tell you? Seems to me that having the option would be handy? At any rate knowing there is more than one way to skin a cat, I set about doing some research and came up with this solution.
I created a logical switch and used the EDGE function. V1 is your momentary (SHdown), V2 is the amount of time you want the delay set at. I chose 2sec (which is longer than it sounds when your trying to fly flat on your maiden with the trims out
). In the second box match the time that you choose and set it to "infinite". Then as a bonus you can add the AND switch to be your arming switch (SFdown in my case) so that it can only be activated while armed. Then go to special functions and set L01 to be insta trim and check the activate box. One thing that happens when you set it up like this is that you won't hear the insta trim audible cue until you release SH. If you held it long enough you'll hear it, if you don't hear it you have to try again. I did not like this uncertainty so I added another special function to play a sound while SH was being held. Set the repeat interval at 1s and now ta-da! An audible cue to assist you in knowing how long you've been holding SH.
Funny part about this is I set it up for my 3rd FT Arrow build. Maidened it, hit the insta trim when I had her flying straight (so I thought
). It was still a little off though but not so much that I was too intimidated to leave the stick and give it the little bit of manual blips it needed. Haven't used insta trim since
. I just needed that initial toss in the water and now I'm swimming