Julio , here are the detailed steps that I do :
- after the plane is fully equipped , with the CG on the right place I am doing the maiden flight. For sure the servo needs some trims from rc transmitter. As soon as I am happy with the plane behavior I land and change the position of the servo arms so that with 0 ( zero ) trims from rc transmitter ( but with servo arms re positioned) I have the same deflection as I want[all the above actions are done in MANUAL mode];
- I am doing another flight to reconfirm the settings;
- now with the plane on the ground , leveled I am calibrating the autopilot sensors - like this the autopilot knows the level position;
- now I am doing a new flight and I'm checking the MANUAL mode first and after the STABILIZE mode [ during this phase I am making sure that the flight height is big enough to allow me to recover the plane in case of STABILIZE NOK ;
Maybe there are other ways , better that what I described above.
Going back to camera position , Initially I wanted also to have it under the autopilot but I was afraid to have interference from the camera affecting the autopilot.