Hamish Willee

@Davidsastresas Thanks very much. All of that sounds good, so happy for you to progress with diagrams, messages etc. Here are some "thoughts" from reading this: 1. There is just...

@Davidsastresas AFAIK Ardupilot does not currently support the [long running commands](https://mavlink.io/en/services/command.html#long_running_commands). I'm not 100% convinced of them myself, though I think the use case is valid.

@Davidsastresas Sorry, I only work two days a week and got tied up on other things yesterday. I am away after today - not at all in contact next week....

Amusingly (?) @peterbarker pointed me to this prior art, which comes from the earliest days of MAVLink and appears to have no current implementation [CHANGE_OPERATOR_CONTROL](https://mavlink.io/en/messages/common.html#CHANGE_OPERATOR_CONTROL), [CHANGE_OPERATOR_CONTROL_ACK](https://mavlink.io/en/messages/common.html#CHANGE_OPERATOR_CONTROL_ACK). These indicate a model...

Thanks @Davidsastresas - looking forward to your next PR update. I can see this working, but I think we'll take longer than the time you have available to get approval.

Hi @Davidsastresas How are you? I was wondering where we are w.r.t. testing https://mavlink.io/en/messages/development.html#MAV_CMD_REQUEST_OPERATOR_CONTROL . Is there an implementation PR in Qt/ArduPilot we can link? Basically we need to plan...

No worries at all - appreciate you following up. I added some comments to one of them.

Thanks @MaEtUgR - I've accepted both your changes and I'll self merge as approved :-)

> Not sure about that pymavlink change, @IamPete1 Definitely not - don't know how I picked that up. Will remove.

Done.