Comment by Alex Lee on August 23, 2012 at 3:17pm

That's a real nice filght. Been waiting for somone to do such a long range quad flight with waypoints. Good job!

Comment by Darren Stan Oakley on August 23, 2012 at 3:36pm

Glad you liked it. I have plans for a 15 waypoint mission if the weather is clear over the weekend. Want to get some different things going on at each waypoint maybe. Try some hight changes and things.

Comment by Rui Manuel Cravo Marques on August 23, 2012 at 4:42pm

Great flying :) that last one. I give you reason for forgetting to put the last waypoint an RTL, that used to happen to me, because the path is alwyas a closed polygon even though it doesn't make the way from last waypoint to home. What I used to do was to put one last waypoint very close to home. Congratulations :) My quad with 2.7.1 is stopped waiting for some props and a new arm so I haven't been making auto flights lately. What I liked the most, was how fast it changed it's heading towards the next waypoint as well as the very linear and accurate path it made between waypoints. Previous versions (or could it just be mine), had some drifts that had to be corrected so it zigged zagged a lot, your's was very very sharp. Great.

 

Comment by Darren Stan Oakley on August 23, 2012 at 10:41pm

Thanks for the comments Rui. I would have liked to get a better vid of the computer screen but it was a very bright morning. Good idea to have a waypoint close to home for RTL, I will do that next time

Comment by Rana on August 24, 2012 at 2:22am

Wow ! Excellent !

Darren, I really enjoyed the video. Were your parameters same as your earlier, which you published  or you changed something ?

Comment by Darren Stan Oakley on August 24, 2012 at 3:33am

Yeah think they ate the same as the ones I put in the 2.7.1 thread a while back. Got the rate P at about 0.100 so just check back to be sure. I will do a screen shot tonight and post it with this blog if I can.

Comment by Lars Carlen on August 24, 2012 at 11:56am

Darren,

my comment on youtube:

Thanks for this video! The APM2- 2.7.1 needs encouraging successes as this.

Waiting for your next post with great interest.

Lars

Comment by Darren Stan Oakley on August 24, 2012 at 4:07pm

Cheers Lars. Saw your comment on YouTube also. It's good to see its getting a few views.

Developer Comment by Randy on August 24, 2012 at 9:39pm

Super cool. It's a long way off although it looks like it's still within visual range.  Here's a much shorter mission demonstration I did yesterday up in Sendai, Japan.

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