What do those stupid S1 and S2 switches do?

[Cowmill45]

I've seen a lot of RTH, attitude, and NAZA mode. What do those mean? And what do those switches do? DJI really should've explained this instead of forcing me to ask a forum. I have a P3S

 

[msinger]

Here's an overview of the P3S remote controller features:

Check out the Phantom manual for more details on the RTH function and ATTI mode. You can download the Phantom manual on the P3S downloads page.

 

[dirkclod]

Welcome to the forum Cowmill and do as msinger told ya and you will figure it out .

 

[kirk2579]

I've seen a lot of RTH, attitude, and NAZA mode. What do those mean? And what do those switches do? DJI really should've explained this instead of forcing me to ask a forum. I have a P3S

DJI Support - Phantom 3 Standard

the Phantom is a pretty complicated toy
there will be many things you will need to research and learn on your own.
its the nature of the beast-- cutting edge high tech!

have owned 6 various phantoms and still learning daily.

its nice to be computer famialiar as well

good luck and have fun flying

 

[WilliamM]

I've seen a lot of RTH, attitude, and NAZA mode. What do those mean? And what do those switches do? DJI really should've explained this instead of forcing me to ask a forum. I have a P3S

No one is making you go to any forum, it's called a manual. Step#1 download manual, Step#2 Read up to page 52 in the manual. Step#3 Make your maiden flight. I knew everything about my Phantom and flew it for months before even knowing about the Phantom Pilot forum.

 

[Goldenzrule]

There are manuals on DJI's site. I have only had my Phantom for a few days and I had no issue finding them. Also, youtube has been invaluable in researching as there are videos of just about every aspect of these things all over the site. Before I ever got my drone, I knew enough to get started, calibrated, and updated and get to flying.

 

[solentlife]

Those two switches will not be so stupid when you have nothing else to use !!

Get the manual and read through like others say ....

Nigel

 

[Shadow P3]

I'm new as well, so after reading and watching the video:

S2 (left switch): toggle up/down 3 times to toggle RTH;
-toggle 2+ times along with the gimbal dial (round toggle in front of S2 that tilts the camera) to reset wifi password.

S1 (right switch): up = GPS, mid = ATT, and down = IOC;
-move up/down "multiple times" to cancel a failsafe RTH
-move up/down 3+ times to calibrate compass (I'm assuming on the ground?)

I do have a question though, do you HAVE to activate advanced flight modes to go into ATT? I'm guessing you need to for IOC to get the follow me and other modes. Also, I tried searching for "NAZA" in the manual and nothing popped up.

As a new drone user attempting to follow all the rules and not recklessly use it, I have to admit the manual is not that intuitive for someone not used to the R/C flying world even for a person who has extensive flight experience. I have a PPL, flown instrument approaches, I am very familiar with US and ICAO procedures, and have extensive airtime in real aircraft, but it even took me a minute to realize that the S2 switch is on the left when you'd think it'd be sequentially numbered left-to-right.

 

[msinger]

I tried searching for "NAZA" in the manual and nothing popped up

That mode was last available in the Phantom 2.

 

[Philltayl]

I've seen a lot of RTH, attitude, and NAZA mode. What do those mean? And what do those switches do? DJI really should've explained this instead of forcing me to ask a forum. I have a P3S

They are there to confuse the people who don't RTFM........

 

[WilliamM]

I'm new as well, so after reading and watching the video:

S2 (left switch): toggle up/down 3 times to toggle RTH;
-toggle 2+ times along with the gimbal dial (round toggle in front of S2 that tilts the camera) to reset wifi password.

S1 (right switch): up = GPS, mid = ATT, and down = IOC;
-move up/down "multiple times" to cancel a failsafe RTH
-move up/down 3+ times to calibrate compass (I'm assuming on the ground?)

I do have a question though, do you HAVE to activate advanced flight modes to go into ATT? I'm guessing you need to for IOC to get the follow me and other modes. Also, I tried searching for "NAZA" in the manual and nothing popped up.

As a new drone user attempting to follow all the rules and not recklessly use it, I have to admit the manual is not that intuitive for someone not used to the R/C flying world even for a person who has extensive flight experience. I have a PPL, flown instrument approaches, I am very familiar with US and ICAO procedures, and have extensive airtime in real aircraft, but it even took me a minute to realize that the S2 switch is on the left when you'd think it'd be sequentially numbered left-to-right.

You almost have it all right. The S2 also can be used to link the RC to the AC. When using the S1 to cancel a RTH I believe just going from P to A does the job. Might been more of a typo but you use the word failsafe, it would be the smart RTH and user initiated RTH that you be cancelling. Fail-Safe is when you lose RC contact, I guess once it's back in range it would cancel that also.

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[Shadow P3]

You almost have it all right. The S2 also can be used to link the RC to the AC. When using the S1 to cancel a RTH I believe just going from P to A does the job. Might been more of a typo but you use the word failsafe, it would be the smart RTH and user initiated RTH that you be cancelling. Fail-Safe is when you lose RC contact, I guess once it's back in range it would cancel that also.

Sent from my HTC 10 using PhantomPilots mobile app

Ok cool. Thanks!

 

[NL5L]

I've seen a lot of RTH, attitude, and NAZA mode. What do those mean? And what do those switches do? DJI really should've explained this instead of forcing me to ask a forum. I have a P3S

When everything else fails, read the manual. (Download)