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Practice

Practice gives you short exercises on a simulated vehicle, so you get used to the controls before flying a real one.

Get started

Get started in the sidebar, above Fleet, is a checklist. Its first item is a first flight with your simulated vehicle, with the steps under it: send it somewhere, change its mode, bring it back. Each ticks once the vehicle has done it. After that come a practice flight, another kind of vehicle and more. The sidebar shows the one to do now; See all opens the whole list on Home. To hide it, choose Hide Get started from its ⋯ menu, or Hide from the sidebar on Home. Show in the sidebar on Home, Get started in the sidebar in Settings › General, or Show Get started in the command palette brings it back.

Try one

  1. Start a simulated VTOL plane with Start flying, or a multicopter with New simulation. The tab lists the exercises that fit the vehicle.
  2. Open Practice from + in any tab bar.
  3. Choose an exercise and press Start. The vehicle starts again where the exercise needs it, then the exercise begins.
  4. Do what each step says, in the Cockpit tab and on the map beside it. A hint appears if a step takes a while.

You see one result at the end, such as "Passed. Home with 31% left.", and your best result is kept. Give up ends an exercise; the vehicle stays where it is.

The exercises

  • Read the panel: answer three questions from Telemetry.
  • Bring it home: it starts 400 m out with a low battery; get it home.
  • Mode tour: Loiter, Guided, Return to launch, then Land.
  • Fly there: send it to three rings in turn with Go to.
  • Land in the circle: land inside the ring.

Once you know the basics:

  • Plan the survey: plan a mission over the field on the Mission tab, upload it and fly it in Auto.
  • Timed delivery: from the ground, reach the drop point, stay 20 s, and land at home within 4 minutes.
  • Hold the box: with a controller, keep it in the box for a minute in Loiter, then in Stabilize.
  • Through the gates: with a controller, fly through five gates in order.
  • Parameter puzzle: it is too slow to reach the ring in time; find the parameter and fix it.

Only commands you send count, not the agent's. Exercises never run on a real vehicle.

From a terminal: uxduck practice list, uxduck practice start mode-tour --vehicle Alpha, uxduck practice status. uxduck dev replay flight.tlog --practice bring-it-home judges a recorded flight again and prints each step and the result.