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S550 Hexacopter Frame EMAX 2216 810kv Motors Hobbywing XRotor 40A ESC's Zippy 4s 5000mA 35C Lipo APM 2.6 with GPS FlySky TH9X 9 Channel Radio 433Mhz MavLink Telemetry Radio SJ4000 Wifi Camera Sony 1/3 CCD Flight Camera 5.8Ghz 600mW Boscam FPV Transmitter with circular polarised antenna Turnigy Aircraft LED kit
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S550 Hexacopter Frame EMAX 2216 810kv Motors Hobbywing XRotor 40A ESC's Zippy 4s 5000mA 35C Lipo APM 2.6 with GPS FlySky TH9X 9 Channel Radio 433Mhz MavLink Telemetry Radio SJ4000 Wifi Camera Sony 1/3 CCD Flight Camera 5.8Ghz 600mW Boscam FPV Transmitter with circular polarised antenna Turnigy Aircraft LED kit
Hometown:
Bolton UK
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Hi,I have just changed to retractable landing gear on my S550 Hexacopter and I am having problems with it.It will not fully retract when the copter is in flight however it will function correctly when it is on the ground.During testing I take off a…
"Yes, I don't know what I was thinking! No signal no input to the APM. Now I will definitely be using a preflight checklist in future and much further reading on the Arducopter site. Thanks for the info, at least now I know what happened and more…"
"Thanks Vinnie, I am still fairly new to this and not familiar with reading the log files, i will now read up on the full parm list! and yes it seems your right, i just plugged the AMP back in to mission planner and radio failsafe is indeed disabled.…"
"Yes radio failsafe is set to RTL and there is a geofence set at Alt 100m Radius 500m. When this happened the copter was only maybe 30m direct line of sight to me and the transmitter batteries were new that day. Its just really weird the first time…"
"I am using an SJ4000 Wifi but I did not have the wifi active during flight and also the first time it did this was before I had the camera. Thanks for the info I will remember never to use the wifi. "
Hello, I am running an S550 frame with APM 2.6 with external compass/GPS which has been flying without any real problems for a few months now. Yesterday I took it out and had a flight around the field behind my house, no problems and everything…
