ArduPilot/ardupilot

Copter: easier test of benchtest the parachute

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#2,339 opened on May 28, 2015

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Description

At the moment, because of the land-check in the parachute driver (which helps ensure we don't have unintended deployments on the ground near people) it can be difficult for a user to ensure the parachute servo is working during the setup. We should perhaps clarify the testing procedure on the wiki and/or allow an override of the landing check - perhaps by allowing the mission planner to send a deploy-chute command with a magic number in param2 to specify that the chute should deploy no-matter what!

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Research direction
Inspect the parachute driver code to understand the landing check. Propose a method to override it via a mission planner command with a magic number. Implement the change and write tests.
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testing
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2
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GitC++ArduPilot
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65