By Patrick Egan

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Having learned the hard way on a few things, I thought I'd put together a little video that shows some tips and tricks with the APM mission planner.

The first time I tried mission planning some things were a mystery, like how do you actually get into auto mode to fly a mission? I found something that looked like a way to do it from the APM software flight data tab, but…

  This is my first real test flight of the APM 2.5 on my Ace Quad copter.

Its a pretty good demo of what it can do. During the manual control I switch back and forth between stabilize and loiter modes.

0:00 - 1:30 warm up

1:30 start auto mode following waypoints

2:30 max altitude of about 60 meters

3:00 start heading…

Something like a beta version of my "startup" http://www.rcdetails.info

Website and database to search motors, servos, batteries etc by a different criterias.

You can check several items to compare all properties.…

The PX4 team is pleased to announce early availability of the PX4 autopilot platform, with hardware available immediately from 3D Robotics. 

The platform is a low cost, modular, open hardware and software design targeting high-end research, hobby and industrial autopilot applications.

PX4 is an expandable, modular system…

ArduCopter now has experimental geo-fencing support, thanks to Andrew Tridgell's superb geo-fencing code for ArduPlane.…

One of the biggest challenges in an open source development project is getting the "architecture of participation" right. Like a great game, contributing should be easy to pick up but hard to master, giving people of all skills and experience an opportunity to engage. Right now we have scores of developers working…