Comment by YureZzZ on August 30, 2012 at 3:06pm

Great results, Marek!

I wonder how you feel when your plane climbs to 2500 meters and if something goes wrong - you can't do anything...

Comment by johnkowalsky on August 30, 2012 at 5:17pm

Very impressive Marek... Are you polish ? how much did you spend on it - less than 5000 PLN ? ;-) ohh ok who am I kiddin

Comment by Marek on August 30, 2012 at 11:08pm

on 2500 meters rc-link was working. In flight plan was to make 10 circles on 2500, but diring first corcle - via RC mode was switched from auto to stab and to RTL (100m).

On some other flights - yes. Some times was out of ground control. Feelings? The same as everyone when failsafe take control....

Yes, I an Polish and from Poland actually. Spend a little bit more ;)

Comment by Rana on August 31, 2012 at 10:23am

Marek, please share your parameter file and tlog file if possible.

Comment by Marek on August 31, 2012 at 1:23pm

parameters an logs added to main post.

Comment by Rana on September 2, 2012 at 12:34am

Marek,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_-RBoVHZac&feature=player_detai...

Observations:

1. It may be a bug in the MP as distance to MAV displayed in the Mission Planner is constant all the time.

2. It seems that your telemetry radio link got broken or disrupted as during the aerial path traversed by MaxiSwift, you can clearly seen the plane almost stationary at some time and then almost jumping to another lat long on the path.

For this you may keep the altitude to stabilized at higher level or may go for radio like RFD 900 Radio Modem 

Comment by Marek on September 2, 2012 at 12:58am

Rana - thanks for comments and video. during this test flight I've used very narrow beam and hand-tracked antenna for telemetry so radio link was not continous. Next day, all route was done (a little slower wind, but still 50-60 kmh and some rain) - video is loading: http://youtu.be/PV6lyWNMjv0

RFD900 is planned as the next telemetry link, also antenna tracker (for Maja and Telemaster).

Comment by Marek on September 5, 2012 at 11:39pm

Few new movies and press stories:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PV6lyWNMjv0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8f2xE_JmfZY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtZUYZFKQEM

http://bielskobiala.gazeta.pl/bielskobiala/5,88025,12428257,Bielsko...

http://bielskobiala.gazeta.pl/bielskobiala/1,126075,12393232,Bezzal...

Comment by Luis Ramos on October 27, 2012 at 5:41am

Hello, have you ever seen this problem: in manual mode the stick from the radio are all fine but when you switch to Stab the ailerons work fine but the pitch is reversed! I have try to swich the servos, reverse the servos on the TX but i just coudn´t fix this!

Comment by Marcelo Gomes on October 28, 2012 at 8:34pm

Hello Marek,

I have a RFD900 kit and APM 2.0 like you. I receives this week with many parts that have bought. Modem RFD900 asn APM2.0 is nice, small, light and rock solid building.

But to my first run, need know about FTDI USB/connector, I don't know what would connect it in GS modem.  Black/GND in connector with Pin 1 in RFD900 modem, maybe?
Mine was jumper in 4 and 6 modem pin, for USB supply.

If you could help, I appreciate.

Thanks!

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