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Mission planner 81 & 82 Problems

Hi,

I am have problems with several items in the new Mission planner.

When I attempt to load new firmware I am getting verify errors reported from the APM 2.5 board.

When I connect an exsisting working APM 2.5 board the Mission planner reports:

(a)  Bad

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Arducopter quad pids

Hi, I recently built a quad flys super nice in stabilize mode when I switch to loiter mode the quad will hold steady for a second or two then begins to fly around the loiter point increasing in speed around the point. I've tweaked the loiter pids and

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Antenna tracker??

I see a lot of discussion regarding antenna tracking and wonder why this is so common if you can buy a radio like the RDF 900 with a range of 20-30 miles? Seems like I'm missing a significant factor here? 

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Questions about "Auto" mode

Today I tried out "auto" mode after making sure that everything else works well (alt hold, position hold, loiter, land, RTL).  Auto works wonderful with a couple of small issues:

  - First, if the quadcopter is at rest on the ground (armed, but propel

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Questions about "Auto" mode

Today I tried out "auto" mode after making sure that everything else works well (alt hold, position hold, loiter, land, RTL).  Auto works wonderful with a couple of small issues:

  - First, if the quadcopter is at rest on the ground (armed, but propel

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new style 3DR 850kv motors?

Hello,

I'm very curious if there are any mechanical differences between the old 3DR 850kv motors (with the bullet prop adapters) vs the new 850kv's with the new style prop adapter. I'm worried about mixing the two motor types, which seems like a very

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RFD 900 connect to APM?

Can someone point me in the right direction for hooking up a RFD 900 to the APM? Is this the cable I'd use? Or do I need to connect manually with individual wires i.e. it's not plug and play? I would prefer not to guess. A picture would be great. Tha

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AeroPAK

I have been looking on their website and emailing them for the cost of their different tanks (not the chemical pack), 200W AeroPAK to connect to the tank and tank filling devices?  I am also looking for the dimensions of their different tanks.  Would

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Where is the PX4?

Now 3DR has cornered the manufacturing market for the majority of open source autopilots, I was wondering when it get its act together and actually build some.  

Might be a smart move to build stuff to sell stuff to pay back that €30M+interest investm

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Don't think I'm complaining....

In general, the whole area of UAV development is still pretty disorganized, particularly, I come from another forum, and have been developing a high payload scratch built quad using some famous cloned boards.

And they work well, and specifically are l

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Mission planner 10.exe

Hi all, I opened up mission planner this evening and an update was found and so I downloaded it and a window popped up telling me the program has stopped working and windows will look for a solution then the next window pops up and says "a problem ca

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APM2.0 and GPS upgrade

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I am having issues with losing GPS lock on a flying wing during banked turns with APM2.0 with the onboard Mediatek GPS. 

How can I disable the onboard GPS and replace it with one that is going to work better in the turns, Which version should I purc

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