EKF2: gps_yaw_reset_timeout_max

[Claudio-Chies]

Solved Problem

We had Issues where the with flights close to buildings where the reset timeout of 7 seconds was too high for GPS yaw, which caused toilet-bowling

Solution

decreased the value to 3 seconds.

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🔎 FLASH Analysis

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Updated: 2025-11-25T13:17:17

[bresch]

Why did it need to reset? Was it providing an incorrect heading, then jumped to the correct one and got rejected?