Im running an APM 1.4 board and it was working fine up until a crash this afternoon. Thew board looks like is in good shape, I cant see any damage and when I plug in USB both boards power up and the computer recognizes it. However, I cant connect in
Read more…RTL comes home at right altitude. FBW-A flies nice. so PID's ire not too bad.
When in AUTO, AP applies negative pitch, and would hit terrain.
WP altitude is 100 -"Verify Altitude" not checked in planner.
I see in the log that targetalt = 103 and targ
Read more…After a long winter break I wanted to make my first flight in 2012 with my easystar and APM (after having more than 50 flights with the same equipment in 2011) During the initial ground testing I saw, that I could no change the APM modes any more.
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Version 2.5 of the ArduCopter code is now available in the AP Mission Planner and in the downloads area!
Enhancements:
Hi all,
Am i right to say that the GPS on the pre-soldered daughterboard with GPS cannot be disabled?
I have looked through the codes in brief.. it seems like there are no codes that provides detection of GPS in the event that an external GPS is conne
i was looking for some props at my local hobby shop and all they had were 12x3.8.... and i see on the order form when you pick what prop you want the 12 is 12x4.5...... think the 3.8 will work? i have the 880 motors in the 3d frame...
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is there someone taking in account the possibility of geomagnetism getting reversed very soon and before that going bananas ?
Just found this site on this subject.
Best regards,
Ric
Read more…The ArduPilot development team is delighted to announce the release of ArduPlane 2.30. This release replaces the current stable release (version 2.28) and is a recommended upgrade for all ArduPlane users.
DCM updates
The main focus of this release is i
Read more…It's getting harder to find them!
I've decided to go glider for a UAV platform. In order to do that I will need to either scratchbuild (which I don't want to do) or get a kit from which I can make moderate modifications.
Does anyone know if I can get
I'm using an APM2 from the first batch and am, having some trouble with the compass/magnetometer enable setting. The board set has been flying and I'm just investigating the compass as prep to moving it to a quad.
I can check Planner's enable box for
Read more…Is this normal to keep getting lost packets? It seems to affect how quickly the APM planner shows up the satellite status and position. I tried HK GCS out of interest and that shows a very poor link quality (around 10%), but shows the position on goo
I really have no idea how to analyse the log files.
This afternoon I was flying 2.5 from the git repository.
It does seem to fly better than 2.4.1.
Then I tried loiter and things did not go well.
I am only fairly new at this so was flying stabilize simpl
Read more…Alright fellas......I've started my project and I need some help cause I'm struggling!
I've bought a Foamaroo air frame that I'm planning on doing some areal photography and I'd like to add sort of telemetry so that I can have FPV and send commands to
Read more…I'm using APM with OilPan and ArduPlane 2.8, I have telemetry by XBee 900 and in the GCS Mission Planner 1.1.47.
When I want change the mode to Auto on fly instead change to Auto mode it change to RTL, for make this change I use the mission planner.
Hi,
I was curious to hear from pilots with comparison experience using ArduPlane as an autopilot, vs. other autopilots? I just built an ArduQuad copter and have it flying. Not far but after crashing it a few times I'm getting the hang of it ;-) . N
Read more…I started off small with a custom built quad and got the hang of flying multicopters...This just fueled the fire. After doing much research, attempting to build everything from scratch and failing, I decided to start buying components for my hexa. (I
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Maybe I'm doing something stupid, or don't understand something, but on my simple flight plan this morning I had a 3 turn loiter command. When my plane reached the position, it simply kept on circling, never exiting even after 6+ turns.
Did I do
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I have a brand new sonar (order 20017)connected to my APM2 via a servo cable.
The sonar always gives 22-23 cm regardless of altitude and this sends my quad into orbit if i switch to alt_hold.
I can make the sonar give proper reading for a minute or
Read more…I have a tricopter, and it finally hovers. I have not start flying around yet as I am going through a little issue with yaw.
The default yaw PID is 8(P). So, I tried hovering with that. I get to face one direction and it will hover for a while and it
Read more…Hello:
I´ve bought thuis kit from jdrones:
http://store.jdrones.com/product_p/acq11arf.htm
Anybody has the parameters file of this airframes, because the ones that have from the factory doesn´t work well...
Thanks
Jesús
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