Nose up, more power

Throttle per degree of pitch is a whole number from 0 to 100, and the unit is microseconds per degree. The demo starts at 10. Nose up by 10 degrees at that setting asks for 100 µs more. Nose down by 10 degrees asks for 100 µs less. At 0 the nose can move and the throttle stays put.

Ignore pitch changes under is the dead band. It runs from 0 to 90 degrees, in steps of 0.5, and the demo starts at 5 degrees. A pitch change smaller than that does not move the throttle. At 5 degrees the change counts. The picture on this page uses those demo numbers: under 5 degrees the readout stays at 0 µs, and at 5 degrees it steps to 50 µs.

Pitch to throttle smoothing is 0 to 9. The hint on the field says 0 is none and 9 is the heaviest. The demo starts at 6, so the throttle change is eased in rather than stepped. This is not Navigation smoothness, which is a separate field further down the card and starts at 0.

The footer says pitch to throttle adds power as the nose rises and takes it away in a dive, holding speed in auto modes. The picture does not fly the plane. It only shows the demo mix: 10 µs per degree, ignored under 5 degrees.

Nose down at minimum throttle runs from 0 to 45 degrees, in steps of 0.5. The demo starts at 0. The hint says it keeps airspeed when gliding with the motor at minimum. Raising it points the nose down on that glide so the plane does not slow until the wing stalls.

Throttle stick can add power starts off. The hint says it works above cruise throttle in auto modes. While it is off, the stick does not add power on top of the auto throttle. Turn it on when you want that extra, and leave it off when the auto mode should keep the throttle it chose.

Climb rate from the pitch stick is 0.1 to 25 m/s, in steps of 0.1. The demo starts at 3 m/s. That is how fast a pitch-stick input is allowed to ask for a climb, not the pitch-to-throttle mix above.

The Autoland card has its own pitch to throttle on final, and that one is a percent from 100 to 400. Do not copy a number from one field into the other. Microseconds per degree shape the cruise. The percent is only the landing.

Navigation smoothness is 0 to 9. The hint says 0 is sharp and 9 is very smooth. The demo starts at 0, so navigation corrections are not softened. Pitch to throttle smoothing, above, is the one that starts at 6.

Altitude correction speed runs from 5 to 100. The demo starts at 20. The hint says a higher number reacts faster to altitude errors. The bottom of the field is 5, so it cannot be turned down to 0.

Turn rate in Cruise is 0 to 120 degrees per second, and the demo starts at 20. That is the yaw rate used while Cruise is the mode, not the loiter circle.

Loiter direction starts on Right. Left is the other circle. Yaw stick hands the choice to the yaw stick. The card is drawn when the board has at least one of throttle per degree, navigation smoothness, or loiter direction.

Open Advanced nav on an INAV plane and find Fixed-wing flight. 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 prop clear of hands while you only change numbers. The first check of a new mix is still a flight, with room to climb out if the nose and the throttle do not agree.