Trainer/Student (Buddy Flying) Advanced Settings

Hi

we do a lot of Buddy Flying in our club. So I did some research on existing methods and put some work in testing different settings for OpenTX (or EdgeTx). The result is a paper with two different types of settings. (One trainer/student connection and one spotter operation)

Whats new:

They share in common that all settings (including calibration) are stored in the model definition (and not in the basic trainer settings of the radio).

So it is very easy and fast to switch from one student radio to another and also to adapt to a new student radio.

You do not touch the normal mixers of an existing model so no big risk of messing something up.

90% of the programming is "copy and paste" from one model to the other.

Using LUA:

I've done some LUA scripts to do all the programming and settings.

contends: creating logical switches, creating mixers, modify input sources

There are also four scripts to calibrate the students sticks. (channel-mapping, weight and offset are written to mixer)

Cause it's using "magic numbers" it does not work for every hardware.

(at the moment: all radios with OpenTX and EdgeTX 2.6.0 or higher should work)

There's a script that does save the calibration setting in a script so they can later be reloaded (if you switch slave-radios)

I would appreciate every feedback or good idea (even it there is a problem I haven't thought of)

There are two PDFs (English and German) with detailed Information.

Regards ChrisOHara