Hi fellow droners
After some shopping around for a easy-to-fly plane with extra space to accommodate the APM, I remembered that the Sky climber is a very good plane for this.
I had one just under a year ago and it went rogue, this was my fault though. I was flying waaay over my own experience, got mixed up with orientation and lost it. Never found it :(
Any way here are some photos of the setup and the specs:
Wing span 2m
Weight: just under 1kg
Motor 2835 1050kv
The sky climber uses two servos on the ailerons. These I setup as per APM wiki. Cant wait to maiden it with the APM installed. The weather in Finland is not that good: rain rain rain.
Do you think that the GPS does not have enough sky view?
Under side:
As you can see the space under the maintenance hatch to the elevator and rudder has allot of extra space.
Had to do some plucking of foam to make a nice little nest for the GPS
GPS installed partially still waiting for a good cover. (Tape)
UPDATE:
The weather gave me a break today with a non windy and no rain window. So...i maiden-ed the APM.
Result:
Okay. Manual control worked fine no problems. Stabilize not so well. When I switched it on the plane went into a nose dive. I quickly went back to manual a continued flying. Gotta do some tweaking.
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Hi!
Do you fly SkyClimber now? What battery you use and what fly time you have?
Thanks!
Update:
Today I went flying again and did my usual pre-flight check. While the check I noticed that i had set pitch servo to normal, once i set it to reverse and tested the stabi mode the plane flew like it was on tracks. Nice feeling to see the APM doing all the work :) I feel spoiled now. Landings are more stable and very easy! Every RC should have APM installed.
RTL worked also like it should.
Next up: Auto-mode.