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Your first hover › Arm, lift off, hold the hover and bring the plane home passed

As a new pilot with a VTOL, I want to lift off, hold a hover and bring the plane home to land, so that I can fly the T1-S VTOL from the sim alone, with no ground station.

The test behind the tutorial Your first hover: every step it takes, what it checks and what it saw.

Start

From the setup of Flying with a flight controller, and:

Given the autopilot is disarmed

Everything it starts with

Given the throttle is 0 %
  And the pitch stick is centred
  And the roll stick is centred
  And the flight controller is fitted
  And the flight mode is MANUAL
  And the sim is running
  And the autopilot is disarmed

Every arranged state read back as arranged (7)

1 When the pilot arms the plane

When the pilot arms the plane
Then the autopilot is armed

Expected behaviour: Arming lets ArduPilot run the motors.

the autopilot is armed · Arming lets ArduPilot run the motors

2 When the pilot opens the throttle to climb

When the pilot opens the throttle to climb
Then the plane is flying

Expected behaviour: Opening the throttle lifts the VTOL straight up.

the plane is flying · Opening the throttle lifts the VTOL straight up

3 When the throttle is 0 %

When the throttle is 0 %
Then the plane is flying

Expected behaviour: Closing the throttle holds the hover.

the plane is flying · Closing the throttle holds the hover

4 When the pilot sends the plane home

When the pilot sends the plane home
Then the plane is on the ground

Expected behaviour: Sending the plane home lands it.

the plane is on the ground · Sending the plane home lands it