Pavo Pico goes full throttle when flipped

[fickle burrow]

Hey all, I'm new to FPV. Just got a pavo pico with O3. Got it set up with goggles 2 and radiomaster boxer. Had a couple of quick test flights with the stock settings. One issue I'm having is that when I crash or have bumpy landing and it flips over, then it goes full throttle even with the radio throttle all the way off. I have to race to disarm it to stop the motors whizzing like crazy. Does any one know why it does that? Is it some kind of auto-turtle mode or something? What can I do to make not do that when it flips?

[ripe quartz]

In what mode are you flying? I believe if you're flying in any self leveling mode and you end up upside down, it'll try it's hardest to self-right.

[atomic salmon]

you should disarm on landings and whenever you crash

both of those situations basically make the FC freak out. The control loop is optimized to keep it flying. When there's an external source of error (like a bump on landing or being upside down), it will try to quickly correct it, and when it can't be corrected, it will try even harder, that's why it goes to full throttle

[fickle burrow]

How do I tell what mode I'm in?

[fickle burrow]

I know and I am, but to my naive mind it didn't seem right. Are there any setting I can change to stop it doing that? What does FC mean?

[ripe quartz]

FC stands for Flight Controller, It's the brain of the drone! and as far as I know there aren't any settings to stop it from freaking out while upside down.

[atomic salmon]

What it's doing is expected. All that the Flight Controller "knows" is how to keep the drone flying. It stays flying by correcting for any errors that deviate from what it "wants" to be doing. If you send it a command to rotate faster around one axis and it reads that it isn't rotating fast enough, it will be driven to rotate faster.

It doesn't "know" what "landing" or "upside down" means, it just reads those external forces as deviations from the expected output and rapidly tries to correct for it

[fickle burrow]

Ok thanks for the lesson. I learned today :). So manual mode isn't as manual as I thought!

[atomic salmon]

if you want full manual, you'd need to drive every motor individually with each channel on your radio

that's impossible to do as a human

[fickle burrow]

I realise that but there's more automation than I thought

[atomic salmon]

well I mean all that it's really doing is making sure that your inputs are followed, and that it still has control over itself

there's no autonomy, it still needs full stick attention from the user to even maintain a hover