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Crash... Battery or ESC sync?

Hi,I have a homebuilt "Spyda 500" quadcopter that I was trying to tweak the handling on so I tried the Autotune on my APM. The autotune lasted about 5 minutes and seemed to be almost completed and then it seems to just flip to the side and drop like

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Can you look at a log?

I nearly crashed my Discovery style quad a few days ago on a gusty day (about 15-20mph winds).  Near the end of the flight at about the last 30 seconds, as I tried to back the quad up in stabilize, I had the control pitch maxed out to fly backwards a

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Crash out of Nowhere

So, I've set up my quad and I've been slowly perfecting it for the past two weeks.  It's a bit overpowered, and runs an APM 2.5.2.  I've had it running really pretty well and have flown several times without any big problems.  I was having a little t

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Auto Mode Problems

Hi,

I'm very new to Ardupilot and Mission Planner.  I have a Bixler2 with APM 2.5 and have followed the setup instructions carefully.  I began using Ardupilot with "stabilize" mode and then onto "RTL."  RTL and stabilize work perfectly, but when I tri

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