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Question regarding loiter and trims

After take off, I have to trim the pitch and roll to stop the copter from flying off by itself.

Now once its reasonably stable and I go into loiter mode.

Do the trim adjustments work against the loiter?

Thanks

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My 700-class AP/AV Rig

Hi everyone,

Ive been lurking for a while and posted a little here and there. I wanted to share my heli with you.

It's a Logo 600SE with 710 mains and 105 tails (no stretch kit needed, the blades fit great).

Autopilot is a DJI Innovations AceOne and the

FLAPS

I have flaps built into my skywalker but im not ready to connect them to the APM is it ok to just bypass the APM and hook them strait up to the RX ??

Automatic Camera Tracking Feature Examples?

Error in Mission Planner 1.0.92

Xbee 2.4Ghz Serial COM Data Corrupted

Hi people,

Can you help me on this one?

I have to xbee pro 2.4 communicating with each other, one on PC and other on Arduino Mega 2560.

I am sending data to serial port to view on Serial Monitor, but the data are corrupted, verry few data are all righ

Xbee fails with APM

We wanted test xplane simulator with xbee (2.4 GHz) 

We try to connect xbee to apm, change port com for com4 change baud rate to 56700 click on connect a pop up windows appears to indicate us the status of connection. Pop up windows indicates us a tim

Question about power supply to the board

Ok, I already know the basics of powering the board, currently I am running a 3S battery through a UBEC set at 5V, and that is plugged into one of the spare servo inputs on the APM, which in turn passes the voltage to the reciever and servos.

Except.

HMC5883L Magnetometer

Hi,

I know i'm in a minority here, but I've purchased a HMC5883L Magnetometer from DIY Drones and I've been programming a DSPic to read the values through I2C. I have the device in continuous mode, however each time I loop around to re-read the value

ArduPilot Settings for Bixler/Sky Surfer

Hi everyone,

I'm thinking about building up a Bixler/Sky Surfer for some ArduPilot hardware that I have. It's the original ArduPilot and ArduIMU, and I've got the shield as well. I've been looking around for some suggestions as to how to configure th

WP error in Auto

I had my first try at Auto yesterday. overall it went fine, but I have a question regarding one of the waypoints. I had set up 4 WPs and three of them were spot on (although after some strange paths to reach them) but one WP was missed by many meters

Ground Station setup for X8 coaxial quad copter

How can I set up the mission planner to work with X8 coaxial quad copter when this is not an option for frame configuration? Any other compatible GCS software that will work?

do i need internet to fly waypoints at the field ?

Hi newbie question,

do i need the internet for the mission planner to work at the field  ?

what in flight commands are available with the current MP ?

can i adjust the gains mid flight ?

can i add waypoints while in the air ?

First Auto-Take Off and loiter video

Auto Take off and loiter for unlimited...

Something was definitely not right.

It took off perfectly but then started to rotate as in video.

I would imagine i did something wrong with the script.

I want to be able to take the copter anywhere, regardless o

Almost fried my APM !!! need help

I don't know what i did wrong but i almost fried my APM (lots of smoke !!!)

Yesterday i soldered on an external BEC  Pluged everything in and POOF  smoke came out , the BEC fried all up and the black wire on the servo lead from the ESC fried as well e

Extra Mode request for Jason Short

Hi Jason!

Would it be possible to have a modified altitude hold mode, but with the capability of changing altitude?

Bear with me ;)

Lets say the copter is on the ground and the throttle is at 0%. We select alt_hold2.

Increase the throttle to 50%. The c

DO_JUMP ... never Jumps. - Help !

Uploaded Arduplane 2.25 and APM Planner 1.0.91 (tried with 1.0.88 as well) and can't seem to get flightplans working correctly.  I had it working before but maybe it's a user error on my part.

If I add any DO_JUMP command into a plan, it will never j

DJI Wookong is amazingly stable!

learning to fly for DSLR shooting

Hi all, just taking up flying. My plan is to learn on AeroSim RC and then start to build something like a Multiwii frame and hopefully in the New Year build something big enough and stable enough to shoot DSLR direct down for images of the ground for

Yaw is Sluggish

Hi all,

I've just been outside flying my recently rebuilt arducopter. I've added a lot of extras like FPV, OSD and LEDS. This has led me to cable tie the video transmitter and osd board onto different arms. I was worried that this might introduce some