VTOL quadplane tailsitter cannot finish transition phase

PX4 Autopilot VTOL šŸš
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Hi there. I have problem with transition and cannot find solution for this.

In transition, after going horizontal i cannot start to use elevons to control. There are some movements on elevons up and down but it does not react for elevons and throttle stick movements.
I is flying very well as copter, also starting transition very smoothly, but still i cannot fly it in plane mode. I attached my logs and screen of parameters.

I dont have pitot tube and did most of things like in manual. What Iā€™m doing wrong?

https://logs.px4.io/plot_app?log=969aa6be-e8c1-46bb-8ec2-bf737c67fb5e

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Hi @f8h

At the moment the VTOL tailsitter code requires an airspeed sensor to check that transition succeeded, but with a small code change it could be updated to work without.

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Hi there,

are you still interested in getting this to fly? Iā€™m polishing the VTOL code base and could help you get it working.

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Hi, yes I am!

I bought i2c sensor for pitot but didnt got chance to test it (very cold in Poland).

But my vtol cannot wait

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Cool! Iā€™m analyzing your log and will get back to you after!