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Good afternoon everyone

I'm here to ask for some help in this project of mine. Me and a group of friends have started trying to work with an hexacopter that has been built previously. This copter actually had a problem the first it was built which wasn't solved and can be seen on the video below.

Well first of all we're working with this copter, I'm having problems finding the model online since i think it has been discontinued:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmYZyozEekA&feature=youtu.be

We're using the Spektrum DX8 8Channel transmitter and the whole kit which came with this copter. So let me start with the problem numbering:

First of all: our ESC calibration process seems to be working erratically. Sometimes the process explained on the wiki seems to work, other times, for no apparent reason, it just doesn't and we can't get to the part where the hexacopter accepts that we've turned the throttle to the minimum and we're ready to try to give some powers to the motors.

What could explain the somewhat erratic situation where we are sometimes successful and sometimes we aren't? Can we actually do that as many times as we want and should we do the ESC calibration procedure everytime before lifting our hexacopter?

Even when we can actually pass the ESC calibration process, after testing the part of giving power to the motors, when we turn the hexacopter off and back on, no matter how much we put the throttle fully to the right (or left in that matter) we haven't been able to arm the copter. What could be the reason for this?

We've calibrated everything several times for this and, during the calibrations we've found something that is also puzzling us: on the mission planner, when we try to pick flight plan's for each channel of the RX8, no matter what box for each channel they are all out of options and flight plans, we don't have the chance of picking the Stabilize or Alt Hold nor anything like that, all channels are empty and we can't pick anything. What could be the reason for this?

1 last question and the less urgent one is: in the video I uploaded, as you can see, the hexacopter isn't stable at all. What I'd like to ask is: what could explain that flight pattern?

Thank you so much for any answer and I'm truly sorry if I'm just being a pain, We're all new in this sort of stuff and we're trying our best to learn everything we can about this subject as best we can and some of the wikis and information, even though they are very good, they suppose we have a bigger knowledge about RC than we actually do.

I'm sorry if my English is less then perfect and I'll be checking this post regularly hoping for some insight on our problems.