"I also have this problem. CH1 not working.   Another possibly unrelated problem i have might be due to my old analog TX RX I have problems with all my servos jittering. If I power off my transmitter they go nuts and they jitter so badly when…"

"hmmm. that kind of works I guess. I would approach it by making a script that would keep adding the points and serve it as a network link."

"are you able to share where you got up to, see if I can get it going? Cheers Phil"

"Phil,  I did write a MAVlink bridge to FlightGear, yes.  I was never able to get FG working properly to verify/finish it, sadly."

"and in case i missed your point about who's in control. I would be using the flight simulator 's autopilot and way-point stack. If there are things that i'm missing that APM does that…"

"The point would be to be able to develop and test the ground station and control side of things without having to plug in the APM.  In the same way that you can use a flight simulator to make it think it is in the air. the Idea is to take out…"

"Hey Happy, Is there a way to remove the APM from the Hardware in the loop simulation such that the GCS controls Flightgear instead of the APM autopilot? Cheers Phil"

"Hey Guys. Does anyone know if you can use QGroundCOntrol with FlightGear without the hardware interface? So rather than controlling the hardware autopilot and using FlightGear as a HITL Simulator the Qgroundcontrol directly controls the plane in…"