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Mission Planner (PC only)

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Mission Planner is another popular mission planning software.

Dashboard Overview

Item

Descriptions

1

Airspeed (Groundspeed if no airspeed sensor is fitted)

2

Cross-track error and turn rate (T)

3

Heading direction

4

Bank angle

5

Telemetry connection link quality (averaged percentage of good packets)

6

Time

7

Altitude (Blue bar is the rate of climb)

8

Airspeed

9

Groundspeed

10

Battery status

11

Artificial Horizon

12

Aircraft Attitude

13

GPS Status

14

Distance to Waypoint > Current Waypoint Number

15

Current Flight Mode

Planning Mission Flights Using Mission Planner

At a high level, missions are set up as follows.

  • Set the home location

The actual home position of the X55 is set by the X55 itself when arming.

  • Set the waypoints and waypoint settings such as altitude

  • Set a mission end command

  • Upload the mission to the X55

  • Go to the “DATA” tab and execute the mission