The planner has come a long way in the past year or so and I greatly appreciate all the work that the developers have put into the project. I would like to make a few minor suggestions that I feel would go along way to improving the usability even fu
Read more…Is there a way to have the APM increase the throttle when flying into the wind to maintain a minimum ground speed?
For example if the cruise throttle is 50% at 10m/s and the wind is 10m/s, when flying directly into the wind the APM doesn't seem to inc
Read more…It seems that I'm constantly having problems with my airspeed sensor and the values it reports when I'm at the field. However when I'm sitting in an enclosed room I run tests with a fan and my anemometer and the sensor is almost dead accurate. I have
Read more…Ever since I upgraded to the v2.40 firmware my APM1 won't save its configuration/flight plan across reboots. I tried manually erasing the EEPROM and resetting to factory defaults, but that didn't seem to help. I noticed at least one other person post
Read more…APM Planner is great, however there are a couple really minor things that I think would greatly improve the experience and overall efficiency of it:
- Flight Planner view: Refrain from changing the altitude to the default altitude everytime a waypoin
Read more…I've been doing some PID tuning in Xplane with HIL simulation and after about 30 minutes the APM Planner (v1.0.82) is using about 300MB of memory, and after an hour its over 500MB. This makes it *really* slow switching between configuration and fligh
Read more…While I've managed to tune my PIDs relatively well so far, it seems that things can change significantly based on current flying conditions (mainly wind). Based on these forums it's definitely a source of much frustration and confusion, anything that
Read more…I live in the mountains, so I wanted to test how well Ardupilot hits waypoint position and altitudes and unfortunately according to my tests it appears that ardupilot just "attempts" to hit the altitude of each waypoint, but if it misses, even signif
Read more…I finally got my Hawk Sky out for its first full autopilot flights to work on tuning the PIDs and I have things mostly dialed in (over 2hrs of flight time on 3 batteries, all successful), but I noticed that the throttle pulses (high, low, high, low,
Read more…I'm new to Ardupilot and just received my first Ardupilot mega board from udrones, and I discovered that if I mount my Xbee module within about 2-3inches of the ardupilot board I get massive servo jitter, but when its further away than that (about as
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