"Dont know if it is related. I am brand new to this. I bought a used APM2 board from RC Groups, loaded up the firmware and set up the board on a low budget foamie for testing. Static testing worked good. While flying in…"
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APM 2.5 Alternating Circle/Manual Mode
Started this discussion. Last reply by Scott Fitzgerald Nov 15, 2012. 3 Replies 0 Likes
Retrieved logs from first flight/crash and found log shows APM alternating between "Circle Mode" and "Manual mode" Even at beginning of flight, red below, plane banks hard to the right when log…Continue
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Tim Wiwel replied to Tim Wiwel's discussion APM 2.5 Alternating Circle/Manual Mode"I did not have telemetry on this flight. Plan to load defaults in the APM and use a Y cable instead of channel 5 and see what happens. An interesting note on the Hitec Fusion 9, it has a built in fail safe that is set to bring all…"
Todd Nelson replied to Tim Wiwel's discussion APM 2.5 Alternating Circle/Manual Mode"It appears to me like the APM was intermittently going into failsafe mode (Circle) then back to normal mode (Manual/Stab). The only question is why was it entering failsafe? As you said your Transmitter is assumed good, did you have…"
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Retrieved logs from first flight/crash and found log shows APM alternating between "Circle Mode" and "Manual mode" Even at beginning of flight, red below, plane banks hard to the right when log shows manual mode. Plane ditched before flying over water.Any ideas what would cause this behavior? APM 2.5 programmed with Adruplane 2.65 under Mission Planner 1.2.12 mav 1.0. Default settings plus channel 5 set to mode 4 for second aileron. Mode control set to channel 8 with 3 position switch…See More
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