About

Gender

Male


Location

Sydney


About Me:

I'm an **aspiring** member of the Arducopter dev team. I am currently yet to make my first contribution to the project, but have a number of prospective contributions in the pipeline.


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

Traditional helicopter development


Hometown:

Sydney


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Jolyon Saunders replied to Rob_Lefebvre's discussion AC3.3 TradHeli Release Discussion
"What I wouldn't give for one of those helis and the time to fly it...... That my friends, is the dream."
Jul 15, 2016
Jolyon Saunders replied to Rob_Lefebvre's discussion AC3.3 TradHeli Release Discussion
"Joe have you tried changing RATE_YAW_I_L_MIN? I have mine set to 4500 because I dont like the idea of having any leak on the tail. Should make it more similar to older releases where there was no leak on the tail."
Jan 20, 2016
Jolyon Saunders replied to Rob_Lefebvre's discussion AC3.3 TradHeli Release Discussion
"Never mind about the RATE_PIT_I_L_MIN question, I used my eyes and read the description a few pages back :)"
Jan 20, 2016
Jolyon Saunders replied to Rob_Lefebvre's discussion AC3.3 TradHeli Release Discussion
"Hey Joe, zhangpengsir is having the same issue by the looks of his recent replies. I do not have this problem so far on 3.3.3-rc1. Can you post your param file?"
Jan 20, 2016
Jolyon Saunders replied to Rob_Lefebvre's discussion AC3.3 TradHeli Release Discussion
"Hi guys, finally got round to flying AC3.3.3-rc1 after having many issues with low quality parts (KDS). It is flying beautifully now, almost as well as the DDVP trex did!

Nice to see no tail kick when autoing now - it kicked on AC3.2.1, but not any…"
Jan 20, 2016
Jolyon Saunders commented on Chris Anderson's blog post New Pixhawk-compatible board from HK
"Looks nice, but not all that 'lite'. I have an Airbot PX4MiniAIO on the way, which is 35x35mm and no heavy alloy case (which is optional) -- should be very 'lite' by comparison. But the HK one looks nice nevertheless"
Jan 16, 2016
Jolyon Saunders replied to Rob_Lefebvre's discussion AC3.3 TradHeli Release Discussion
"Ok, let's discuss this, but first we need to be clearer of how we define things. Your stick input does not correlate to cyclic unless you are using a flybarred heli. So full tick forward/left/diagonal doesn't make a difference as far as this PR is…"
Sep 30, 2015
Jolyon Saunders replied to Rob_Lefebvre's discussion AC3.3 TradHeli Release Discussion
"That makes sense. It's a fair enough request to make it optional I guess. Is there any particular reason you would like it optional other than flexibility? The reason is that it's best to minimise options in the parameter list and I'm struggling to…"
Sep 29, 2015
Jolyon Saunders replied to Rob_Lefebvre's discussion AC3.3 TradHeli Release Discussion
"@ultrafuge, the limits being applied by the patch are for mechanical swashplate limits, not control input limits coming from your radio. They are very separate things ;) The proposed mechanical limit is to ensure you have the same amount of physical…"
Sep 28, 2015
Jolyon Saunders replied to befinitiv's discussion 3+km HD FPV system using commodity hardware
"Do mean for a normal wifibroadcast setup or 3D? Because you only need a raspberry pi A+ for tx and RX which is much cheaper than a compute setup"
Sep 23, 2015
Jolyon Saunders replied to Rob_Lefebvre's discussion AC3.3 TradHeli Release Discussion
"Yes this is most likely a pretty simple fix. You need to tune your alt hold gains, vel_z_p and accel_z_*. If you get crazy pulsing they are probably too high."
Sep 14, 2015
Jolyon Saunders replied to Rob_Lefebvre's discussion AC3.3 TradHeli Release Discussion
"To be honest you should get your heli running g on AC3.2.1 before attempting to run a beta version because you can virtually eliminate the possibility of it being a bug."
Aug 29, 2015
Jolyon Saunders replied to Rob_Lefebvre's discussion AC3.3 TradHeli Release Discussion
"The tail won't become active until you have the main motor signal high. But the swash should always be active AFAIK"
Aug 29, 2015
Jolyon Saunders replied to Rob_Lefebvre's discussion AC3.3 TradHeli Release Discussion
"Flew rc9 too, working well."
Aug 29, 2015
Jolyon Saunders replied to befinitiv's discussion 3+km HD FPV system using commodity hardware
"I wonder if its possible to reduce latency by over clocking the tx raspi GPU or its core? Does anyone have any thoughts on this?"
Aug 29, 2015
Jolyon Saunders replied to Rob_Lefebvre's discussion AC3.3 TradHeli Release Discussion
"@ Jason, personally have not tested yet but hopefully soon :)
I see that in the release notes you have removed the acceleration feedforward for rc-9. Is there a particular reason for this? would have been interesting to see the results of this addon"
Aug 21, 2015
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