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I had my hexacopter on the back burner as I put together some wooden arms together for it.

Anyway, I updated the Mission Planner software and reloaded the firmware onto the APM. I did the radio calibration and now my throttle is sort of backwards. Using this page as reference in Mode 2 here are the symptoms:

1. The motors arm when the throttle is top right
2. When the throttle is lowered slightly the motors start spinning, a little higher than I would expect
3. As I lower the throttle the motors begin to speed up even more

Shouldn't it be the other way around? As in, I should hold the throttle down and right to arm the motors and then raise the throttle to speed the motors up?

I tried using the reverse button when calibrating. Here's how the sequence went:

1. The motors still arm when the throttle is top right
2. When the throttle is lowered slightly the motors spin up as fast as possible
3. As I continue lowering the  throttle the motors slow down.

This is more as expected except the arming doesn't seem to be in the right position and it skips from no throttle to max throttle.

Any thoughts on what I'm doing wrong and how to fix it? Thanks