staticquint8countSinceLastTransmission=0;// Track how many calls to this function have occurred since the last MAVLink transmission
// Transmit the external setpoints only if they've changed OR if it's been a little bit since they were last transmit. To make sure there aren't issues with
// response rate, we make sure that a message is transmit when the commands have changed, then one more time, and then switch to the lower transmission rate
// if no command inputs have changed.
// The default transmission rate is 25Hz, but when no inputs have changed it drops down to 5Hz.