After some test flights with strange inflight behavior and a first high impact crash, it's time to alter some of the settings of the Arducopter brain. To minimize the risks of damaging even more I decided to build a test bench.

The build's finished result is shown in the picture below.

The base itself is made from wood, with the pivot point around 19,5 cm from the bottom. This ensures for enough room to amplitude the beams, but gives a natural endpoint on the landing gear (as shown in the picture).

On the copter itself 4 brackets are mounted on the end of the beams. Those are milled from aluminum plates and fit exactly around the beams in order to prevent it from torch. The endpoints are also made from aluminum and milled on a lathe (3mm diameter).