When flying from left to right in front of one and switching to RTL my plane makes a very sharp turn to the right towards home however once it's flown past home it's corrections are very small and the plane makes a VERY wide circle back to home. Why the sharp turn initially and then such weak turns later?What settings can I change in the software to alter this?
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Graham,
I'm in the same boat (airplane!) as you. I feel like I'm going in circles trying to manually "tune" my EasyGlider Pro. In my earlier post called "Flight tests with ArduPilot in EasyGlider Pro" you'll find my documentation on flying/tweaking/flying---------. I still can't get a repeatable waypoint flight. "#define roll_P" and "#define roll_I" refer to the different types of gains in the control loop. You can find some decent info on this on the Paparazzi website and by looking at PID control in WIKIpedia.
Good luck
It probably has to do with the wind direction--maybe you were heading into the wind for that first turn? v2.1 and above uses a airspeed sensor to all it to behave the same into the wind and with it, but versions below that are still very affected by the wind.
As for tweaking the settings, this post should be helpful.
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I'm in the same boat (airplane!) as you. I feel like I'm going in circles trying to manually "tune" my EasyGlider Pro. In my earlier post called "Flight tests with ArduPilot in EasyGlider Pro" you'll find my documentation on flying/tweaking/flying---------. I still can't get a repeatable waypoint flight. "#define roll_P" and "#define roll_I" refer to the different types of gains in the control loop. You can find some decent info on this on the Paparazzi website and by looking at PID control in WIKIpedia.
Good luck
As for tweaking the settings, this post should be helpful.