Hey!
So, I've been using my arducopter for quite a while (manually). I really want to experiment with fully automated flights.
Is it all ready to go? Any thing I need to do before I go and have it auto take off, maintain altitude, and land? I don't want to have it just shoot into the air and never come back... :P
Thanks!
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I would recommend not using the default way point altitude (100 m)
I stupidly did not think too much when setting up my first auto flight but 100m is really high and much windier than ground level usually.
My quad made it to the first way point and fighting hard against the wind. I flicked it to RTL and it came back and loitered for 20 secs then started auto land but lost a prop at about 90 metres due to a prop saver band letting go I presume.
Luckily no one was underneath it when it came down.
A fair bit of damage including two destroyed gyro's on the oilpan.
So keep your altitude low would be my advice.
Try RTL first. Be sure to flip back into Stabilize immediately if it does anything unexpected. Don't let it build up speed and head towards somewhere else and crash.
A lot of HW/SW things can go wrong such as GPS, GPS wire, compass calibration, broken compass, bad gains, etc. So it's best to be very careful when testing AP enabled modes.
Jason