I had a frightening experience with an APM 2.5 today that I was hoping some could shed light on. The quad ended up heavily damaged, but more importantly it went out of control and could have flown into others at the field. We are trying to
I was flying around and experienced a radio failsafe. RTL was engaged for one second and seemed like all motors were cut off while in RTL. Failsafe went away & stabilize kicked in very quickly, but my full throttle was not enough to recover -
All has been going well since I did Autotune earlier this week. When flying my Quad 2 days ago in High winds ;20mph, gusting to 26mph , all was going well until the last RTL. I was ABOVE RTL altitude, engaged RTL, copter started to descend, then - I
I have recently purchased a APM 2.6 and running the latest Arduplane software. I have noticed on both the 'alpha' release of APM mission planner and Qgroundcontrol I only have basic information on the primary flight display. I have seen screen sho
While I am new to Arduplane/APM I have been flying FPV for several years with autopilots/pilot assist units. I have been playing with waypoints and AUTO mode and have become concerned about fly-away possiblities if I mess up....the one of the intende
This question is not a how to type of question but more of a will it work. I have an EZUHF system for my copter and goggles so i can FPV. However there are a lot of cables about me particularly connecting the antenna to the goggles. Also i have notic
I am trying to re create a second APM. I want to load 2.74b so that it is the same as my first. In mission planner, I tried to get previous versions. The list started with 2.74 ( is this the b version ?). After loading 2.74, I ran the CLI, it repor
I have a dataflash log (5mb+) which seems valid, I can graph it and see all the values and the track on the map, but the KML files it generates are empty other than the waypoints, empty GPX files too. No error messages
I'm trying to configure failsafe on my APM 2.5 and I configured my frsky receiver to go down to 985 (minimum sent by the radio is set to 1015 otherwise when throttle is at 0) on the throttle channel when in failsafe and auto land mode.