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Battery Jettison from a Drone

If it were possible to safely jettison one or more depleted batteries from a drone during flight, the range or flight duration could be increased. Similar "staging" techniques are used during multi-stage rocket flight, dropping tip tanks from an airc

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Battery "Staging" from a Drone

If it were possible to safely jettison one or more depleted batteries from a drone during flight, the range or flight duration could be increased. Similar "staging" techniques are used during multi-stage rocket flight, dropping tip tanks from an airc

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Iris+

Hi well had my iris in the air at weekend and could not get it down controls not responding now it fell out of the sky and it started to rain smoke started pouring out of it and what ever was behind air vent on bottom of iris has melted the air vent

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How to calibrate via mavlink commands

I am currently writing an iOS ground station, however I cannot figure out how to do accelerometer or gyro calibration.

I am sending MAV_CMD_PREFLIGHT_CALIBRATION commands but getting back command_ack failed messages.

Is there a way to perform this stuf

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Video with Gimbal Shaky

Hi,

I have a custom built F450 frame with a Pixhawk to which I have attached the famous great cheap Goodluckbuy gimbal (the 70$ one with Storm32 controller) and a Gopro Hero 4 Silver. I have done some PID tuning for the gimbal (well actually mostly to

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Throttle failsafe does the opposite...

Hi there,

I moved my Pixhawk from my Bix3 to my new MyTwinDream airplane. For some reason, the throttle failsafe works in reverse. When I turn the Tx off, failsafe is off, and when the Tx is turned on, the failsafe is also on.

I had the Pixhawk dialed

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Long Range on 433 Mhz SiK Telemetry

Hi,

For my custom built F450 Pixhawk, I wanted to get very long range on telemetry (to send in autonomous missions and in the mean time know what is going on), so I have searched for the best (at a reasonable price) 433 Mhz antennas.

After reading on f

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