Glide, then flare

Final approach length is how long that last leg is. The field runs from 1 to 1000 m, in steps of 10, and the demo starts at 350 m. A short final leaves less room to get lined up. A long one needs the space in front of the site.

Start gliding at is the height where the glide pitch takes over. It runs from 1 to 50 m, in steps of 1, and the demo is 15 m. Glide pitch is 0 to 45 degrees, step 1, and the demo is 4 degrees. Above that height you are still on the approach, not yet in the glide.

Flare at is lower. It runs from 0 to 100 m, in steps of 0.5 m, and the demo is 2 m. Flare pitch is 0 to 45 degrees and the demo is 8, so the nose comes up more than it did in the glide. At 0 the flare height is on the ground.

The picture on this page uses those demo heights. Drag the craft down: above 15 m it is still on the approach, from 15 m down to just above 2 m it is gliding, and at 2 m it flares. That picture does not fly the plane. INAV flies the real landing.

Tailwind accepted up to is 0 to 30 m/s, in steps of 0.1. The demo starts at 1.4 m/s. A landing into a stronger tailwind than that limit is outside what this field allows. The approach headings on a safehome are how you point the landing into wind. This number is how much tailwind is still accepted.

Pitch to throttle on final is a percent, from 100 to 400, step 1. The demo starts at 100%. It does not go below 100, so the final never uses less than the full pitch-to-throttle mix. Raising it adds throttle as the nose changes on that last leg.

The fixed-wing flight card, above this one, has its own pitch-to-throttle in microseconds per degree. Do not mix that field with this percent. One shapes cruise. This one is only the final.

The footer says each safehome above can carry an approach: headings and altitudes for a landing into wind. A heading of 0 on that approach means the leg is unused. A negative heading is flown only in that direction, never reversed. Saving the safehome writes the approach back, because the firmware clears it when the pin is saved.

The altitudes on this card are the glide and the flare for the landing itself. The safehome approach is the path into that landing. Set both if the craft is a plane that should pick a safehome and then autoland.

The card is drawn when the platform is a plane, boat, rover or other, and the board has the final-approach length. A multirotor hides it. If the firmware sends no platform list, the card is shown rather than hidden. There is nothing to edit until that length setting exists.

Open Advanced nav on an INAV plane and find Autoland. Chrome or Edge connects over USB or Bluetooth. Android adds Wi-Fi. iPhone uses Bluetooth or Wi-Fi and has no USB host.

Leave the props or the prop clear of hands while you only change numbers. The first real landing is still a flight, not a slider. Start from the demo heights and change one of them at a time.