Mark Harrison's Blog – September 2011 Archive (2)
First APM flight, problem with stabilization mode?
Hooray, got to the point where I've got APM set up and in a plane (Hawk Sky). Now I need a bit of help diagnosing a flight problem.
I took off and got some altitude, and then flipped into stabilize mode. As you can see from the video, as soon as I did this, the plane started spiraling down and to the right.
I brought the plane back in and recalibrated gyros, but still couldn't get it to work.
Any advice…
ContinueAdded by Mark Harrison on September 16, 2011 at 4:00pm — 14 Comments
There's a bug in my flight control system!
An interesting photo essay "Chasing Nature" which shows several flying projects inspired by bugs and birds. Not much detail, but enough context to allow googling of the original project…
ContinueAdded by Mark Harrison on September 6, 2011 at 12:50pm — 6 Comments
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