How does the Tower "land" function work - in regard to altitude? I have a mission that is set to 50 ft altitude for the whole thing. When I add LAND, it shows a down arrow and "75.0 ft". I do not understand why it would land 75 ft from a 50 ft altitu
Read more…Good morning,
I own a 3dr x8 UAV which was recently discontinued. 3DR left its costumers hanging with no spare parts or support. I need to replace some bad esc and motors. Can I change just the damaged ones with some aftermarket ones or do I need to c
Read more…Hello there. First of alI, I apologize for my poor written English skills. Over the past couple of days I 've been trying to get my mind around this interesting project I accidentally came across while researching gas/electric powered multirotor plat
Read more…I have the APM 2.6 board. I want to power an external device (an MCU) using the telemetry port pins (which is basically a UART interface). The Vcc pin of this is rated at 5V, as i see with my multimeter. The MCU i want to connect is rated at 3.3V so
Read more…After having tuned my loiter mode's horizontal parameters via LOIT_MINA / LOIT_MAXA / LOIT_JERK to my liking I am finding Loiter mode quite nice now.
Its actually my mode of choice now. Bumping those two up along with the max speed has made a huge dif
Read more…Would like to setup a second pixhawk that would crash the plane (full down elevator) if for whatever reason the plane has deviated more than 100 m buffer from the geofence set on the main pixhawk.
This is for additional safety and would also ensure t
Read more…Hello,
My first post related to my long-haul home-grown project of a quadcopter : a 1kg, 50cm span UAV.
I intend to put as much knowledge as I, fellows from France, and hopefully you will be able to bring!
First is about flight envelope. Specs aimed at
Read more…Hello guys, when I tried to compile the arduino mavlink on my arduino uno, I found this error" # error Must include FastSerial.h before the Arduino serial driver is defined".But I have already include Fastserial in my library, why does that happen? B
Read more…I have a Iris+ with the FS-Th9x Controller.
The controller displays the Altitude and Battery Voltage of the Model. Is there any way to make the controller give a low Batter Level Alarm for the Model?
Read more…This is mostly about the sensor presented here:
http://plane.ardupilot.com/wiki/common-rangefinder-maxbotix-analog/From what I gathered, this sensor helps multi-rotors maintain precise altitude control but is there any use for this in Plane like landi
Read more…This is how you modify Ardurino code for custom irregular shaped ships. There is no need to modify code for a ship with a frame that is laid out like a:
- coaxial triangle
- square or rectangle
- regular hexagon
- regular octagon
Sometimes even if the sha
Read more…Hi All,
I was wondering why we are still working on regular drones (multi-rotor) since VTOL aircraft have been made? Is there any advantage for copters over those VTOL aircraft?
Read more…I have a Iris+ with the FS-Th9x Controller.
The controller displays the Altitude and Battery Voltage of the Model. Is there any way to make the controller give a low Batter Level Alarm for the Model?
Read more…Hi.
My quad is on Pixracer and 3.4.dev from yesterday. I can't arm the motors.
pre arm checks are off.
What does "waiting for nav checks" mean?
Yesterday with 3.3.4 it flew in manual mode.
Read more…So I own a QRX 350 pro. I have downloaded APM mission planner.
Can somebody give me step by step instructions on how to set up my quad so I can both use it as a ground station and use it for way point missions.
Thanks, Berkd001.
Dear all,
How can I load mavproxy python modules into the terminal so I can run it.
my current folder is /home/pi/Mavproxy-master
Thanks
Read more…pi@raspberrypi ~/dronekit-python/examples/vehicle_state $ mavproxy.py --master=/dev/ttyUSB0 --baudrate=57600
Connect /dev/ttyUSB0 source_system=255
Log Directory:
Telemetry log: mav.tlog
MAV> Waiting for heartbeat from /dev/ttyUSB0
online system 1
STABILI
I have a 3DRobotics X8+ with a tarot T-2D gimbal, FS-TH9X rc controller (with cradle), Activator 80 multi-chem charger/cycler, 6 Tiger power 6000mAh/14.8V batteries, a Pelican 1600 case for sale, extra props, motors and spare parts included. (GoPro N
Read more…I have recently been carrying out mapping flights in somewhat more turbulent and windy conditions and it has brought to light a possible issue with noise in the accelerometer data from IMU 2. Specifically poor position holding, with a lot of drift an
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