Failsafe

Copter has a number of failsafe mechanisms to ease vehicle recovery/prevent wandering in the event that vehicle control is lost. The main failsafe topics are listed below.

Note

Once a Radio Failsafe, Battery Failsafe, GCS Failsafe or Terrain Data Loss Failsafe is entered and the failsafe action taken involves a mode change to the vehicle, it remain in that mode until the pilot changes the mode directly.

• Radio Failsafe
• Battery Failsafe
• GCS Failsafe
• EKF Failsafe
• Dead Reckoning Failsafe
• Vibration Failsafe
• Dead Motor Takeoff Prevention
• Terrain Data Loss Failsafe (see section on loss of terrain data induced RTL)
• Crash Check
• Parachute
• Independent Watchdog