How would I create a VTOL mission and simulate in gazebo classic

[ryancramuh]

**To preface: I am extremely new to MAVSDK, PX4, and QGroundControl.

I am trying to simulate a VTOL mission with where I start at takeoff and Fixed-Wing fly a short distance (about 1 mile) to the mission area, hover around a couple points and return to the takeoff area. I tried simulating but it seems the mission.py example is for quadcopter simulation, since PX4 shows "WARN [mission_feasibility_checker] Mission rejected: Landing waypoint/pattern required"

How would one create a python script to run a VTOL mission like this? How different is it from the mission.py example script?

Thanks for any ideas, they would be very appreciated

**PS... I would love to contribute to increasing VTOL support when I get a better idea of how things work

[julianoes]

Right, there is currently no VTOL/fixedwing support using the Mission plugin. Instead you have to use MissionRaw and manually assemble the mission items required. It's a bit harder to do. One way to go about it is to create a mission that works in QGC, upload to PX4, then download again and now save/export the items and then import this file into MAVSDK, or manually look at the JSON and convert it to MAVSDK MissionRaw items.

Does that make sense? Not sure if I'm clear enough.