"So is it just me or does there seem to be an abundance of "I crashed" posts lately with the new firmware out?"

"@Jared. Um really? I'm a research biochemist at a medical school, pretty sure I'm very comfortable with SI units. That doesn't mean my family or my clients need to convert units in their head while watching me fly. It's not that…"

"Maybe I'm missing the obvious, but is there an option to use non-metric units?"

"Really well spoken, my thoughts exactly.  A lot could be said about Google's misdoings and rampant invasion of privacy. This is a company that I really respected in its infancy.  Sad."

"I second the Nex5 recommendation.  I am running a 6s carboncore hexacopter and using the nex5.  60fps 1080 video is 60fps 1080 video, the nex7 has a larger sensor for still pics, but they both take excellent video.  the nex5 has the…"

"You sure the signal wire needs ground?  I've run signal wires solo before.  You could just create a bridge between the apm GND bus and the Battery/BEC GND."

"http://code.google.com/p/ardupilot-mega/wiki/APM2RC"

"Actually, with so many control surfaces, once you feel you have it working well, this would make a nice blog entry, too."

"Hey Adam, fantastic. Make us a video sometime, and share info about your build in My Projects so others can repeat and build off of what you have done, if you find the time. "

"Mike, you're amazing!  Everything works perfectly.  I know this seems a simple fix for you but I wouldn't have found it for a long time.  I also just physically reversed the servo and the flaps are looking great. Thanks so…"

"It is customary to use one channel for flaps. Otherwise, they become ailerons. You always want them to move in sync. There are a few ways to reverse one of the servos, even without flipping it around.  You could use one of…"

"Ok I'll try to set aileron2 to channel 6.  Testing the manual mode now.  Is it standard to combine flaps to a single output and just invert servo mounting direction?"

"yes, it makes sense. However, you can change which channel the futaba uses for differential ailerons. I don't know of any other solution when using ppm sum, sorry. Maybe someone else does. "

"Thank you so much, I haven't tested this yet, but it sounds like exactly my problem.  I had assumed it was a ppm sum issue.  In answer to your question... the reason I set up individual channels for flaps and ailerons is because...…"

"#1 - I mean, what did you configure on the APM to tell it to do with these channels? I suspect this is the issue. You told the TX what you wanted done with these channels, but not the APM..... #2 - good, that is the second step, after the TX.... the…"

"Good questions, ask all you want if it helps I just want this thing to work. First off all servos are micro servos (9g).  What I mean is, for the first 10 seconds, the control surfaces move correctly to my stick inputs, then 5,7 freeze and hold…"