"Well Wilfred... unfortunately it was sort of a joke. I doubt she can help you, (although per her job title she *should* be able to) but I was talking about carmen@3drobotics.com, the person managing support & QA for…"

"Hi Drone, thanks for the reply  its not that difficult on the 8 bit front, just fire up your soldering iron :-D There are 3 Carmens on this site can you tell me which Carmen is the one to ask the questions to? Thanks, Wilfred "

"Wilfred Swinkels I wish I could say I had looked at an APM that closely in the past 6 months or so. I am getting a bit rusty in non stm32 based gear. I did however do something similar in the past & wound up that I had fried something…"

"Hi Drone, reading your posts, I'm guessing your are the (my) go to guy with technical questions. here goes  I had a ESC which gave 8.5V on the 5 V line....so I fried the APM2.5 board There seems to be no communication on the USB port. I…"

"Ok, I'll download Studio 6 then as avrdude comes with that. Thanks ! I'll report back whether I get it to work or not."

"I usually rock avrdude with USBAsp. If you are an Arduino user you can cheat and use the avrdude package bundled within.  Best of luck! If you get stuck you can send it to me and I'll gladly give it a shot for ya. "

"Hello DS, I was curious what program you would use with that USBasp? avrdude? winavr? studio 6? I have confirmed that I do not have my bootloader and want to load one and then update my PPM hex to the latest one. Thanks in advance for your…"

"yes - but you'll need to be careful about the network config of the VM (to avoid having the VM make a NAT)."

"If I install Xplane on my mac will it be able to connect to the mission planner running in VM Fusion on the same mac? Justin"

"You might try this 6 position switch on Ebay. UNIVERSAL Mode switch 6 POSITIONS - ArduCopter ArduPilot - READYMADE Item #110938433765. I installed one in my DX7  for the APM. Honestly, I have not flown with it yet, but it has very good solid…"

"hey probaly late, but i have a an ipad mini and  would love too test this/ intereste din purchase"

"There are both mode 1 and mode 2 variants of the 9x. The *correct* side is more preference than anything. You can perform a "stick swap" if you desire. "

"hey my 9x is setup with the rudder on the right side. isnt that wrong ?  throttle and rudder be on the left side right?"

"Which code variant are you putting on the board? There have been issues in the past with the EEPROM with regard to waypoint storage. Have you tried to blow the EEPROM away and start over? This may be a path to start heading…"

"You should rebind that radio after swapping the throttle channel. Your TX failsafe settings are likely not as you expect at this point. When you bound previously the failsafe was probably set at full throttle (in your current setup). "

"Good! That just means your throttle is reversed. Reverse it from the Tx."