Mission Planner and APM2 problems

On recent versions of firmware (where I seem to have not been able to get my quad flying like it did on 2.73) I have been trying to figure out what has gone south. When I ploy my waypoints and disconnect and then reconnect I see the distance to waypoint is 215009.84 feet. Is this normal? Every time I launch it does one of two things

1.) it flips on its back

2.) I get in the air and flip the auto switch and it takes off to somewhere I have not plotted as a waypoint.

 

I have to crash it (if I can't get control). If I flip to RTL it seems to come back and does it fairly well.

 

My guess it is trying to start from home which is 215009.84 feet away. Am I deducing this correctly?

 

Shouldn't the distance to the waypoint be what it is to my first 100 foot away waypoint and not that very large number?

BTW this happens on an APM 1.x 2 different APM2.x and a 2.5 all with various combinations of MediaTek and UBLOX GPS's. I have tried all the combinations trying to rule this out.

Any rationality for what is happening will be welcome.

 

-hoopty

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  • Thanks for Replying Tom,

     

     

    Yes I did the set Home Location and it goes to zero. If I disconnect and reconnect it goes back to the very large number (215009.84 ft). So my guess is it is being loaded from somewhere and if it is in the eeprom that somehow it needs to be cleared.

     

    I have noticed a bunch of folks having some kind of corruption of the eeprom when upgrading to 3.0.1 from 2.9x I just want to fly again and I can't. :(

  • Have you tried to reset the "Home Location" display on the lower right of the Flight Planning screen to a location where you are actually doing your programmed mission? Once you reset it there is should stay. As for the other stuff, that's interesting behavior and could probably be figured out via posting a log file.

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