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Got the Arducopter flying!

Posted by Jim Phoenix on May 29, 2011 at 3:07pm

I'm amazed, after a day of assembly and two days of configuration and figuring stuff out, I had my first flights today - works great. One thing I learned is not to turn the transmitter off with the motors armed! It didn't get far ;-)

 

Very stable, running the latest (2.18 I think).

 

Jim

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  • agmatthews May 30, 2011 at 3:12am
    Fantastic Jim,
    I too had my first flight today - half a world way in Australia
    My stock standard arducopter (if such a thing exits) with a 2200 mAh lipo got me about 10 mins before throttle response got a bit soft and I called it a day
    Running 2.0.17
    Andrew
  • Jim Phoenix May 29, 2011 at 9:03pm
    Dunno Jani, but it's very much like a standard Arducopter, nothing added, I flew it eight separate flights for a total of 16 minutes, one flight on baro hold was over 5 minutes, that was the last flight, the copter settled to the ground on baro hold and I shut it off, that was the end of the battery. It's a new battery.

    Video rendering now, will be up momentarily on rofldrone.com.
    Jim
  • Developer
    Jani Hirvinen May 29, 2011 at 8:48pm

    Jim what is full weight of your ArduCopter?? and 16 mins is rather nice with 3300mAh

     

  • Developer
    Jason Short May 29, 2011 at 6:40pm
    Nice to hear! I think we're almost ready to release the final version.
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