Flew my quad for the second time today. I decided to skip the acro mode with which I had so much trouble keeping the quad stable last time and give it a try in stable mode. With the default PID setting I was able to flight it pretty stable under light wind. I made a few hard landings and finally broke my landing gear and a prop but overall I'm pretty satisfied with the performance I got from it. Last time kinda discouraged me but now I feel more comfortable controlling it (a couple hours in a sim also helped).
I'll have a few videos soon!
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@Steve I just hope the frame is more solid than its landing gear. It look more solid a took quite a beating on my first flight and stayed intact so I cross my fingers it'll last long.
@Dany I'm running a slightly modified version of ArduPiratesNG for the moment. I cleaned up a couple things I didn't want/need in the code and added relay support to control my LED strips. I'll probably put ArduCopter Mega when it's out of beta. It seem to have more features that are better implemented, just looking at the pirates code makes my eyes hurt. No offence to them, they did a wonderful job but I'm kind of obsessional about well formatted code :P
For the moment I just duct taped it with two glass fiber stick I had laying around to serve as a splint since it,s just the landing gear and I'll probably break it again.