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Mission Planning

I am planning a mission. The landing point is not the same location as the takeoff point.

  • How can i calculate the distance of my mission ? (Mission planner automatically appears to draw a return to start point as a waypoint - so the distance does not

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Control surfaces airspeed scaling

Hello ArduPlane community!

I am having some issues with the way how controller scales control surface throw based on airspeed. Without GPS sensor it appears ArduPlane uses throttle value to limit control surface movement. This behavior makes the plane

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PreArm error blank

We're trying to arm our plane with ONLY the PreArm check for INS turned on (16, bitmask 4). However, the Pixhawk fails to arm and returns the error:

"APM: PreArm: "

And:

"Got MAVLink msg: COMMAND_ACK {command : 400, result : 4}" When running on MavProxy

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Arduplane and Sensors ?

Hi all ,,

I am using Arduplane with my gas plane ,

I want to include some sensor such as

RPM sensor .

Fuel level sensor.

Motor Temp Sensor.

I need to add them to pixhawk and control them from mission planner .

Is there any information about this ?

How to ?

Be

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What differents in AirSpeed Sensor ?

Hi All ,

I have tested my plane with one Airspeed sensor MPXV7002DP Also wrote on it "CY" and "K1419"

and It works fine in Auto mode and every thing is ok .

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know I use another Airspeed MPXV7002DP

but wrote on it "CV" and "K1419" the thir

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Beginner advice

Hi there!

I am very new to this forum and I would like to try to get started by building an ArduPlane.

I can fly an airplane model, I have some manual and electronic engineering skill, and I am pretty good when it comes to software.

Unfortunately, when

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Ailerons unlineraity

I wanted to post this request in Github but I cannot find where to place a Feature request.

As many planes are too small to mechanically create exponential aileron movements it would be very beneficial to to this with MW.

More up than down.

I understand

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Setting home

APM Copters are setting their home position when arming

APM Planes are setting their home position at power on

Why this???

I really appreciate APM copters behavior as it RTL to the place it was started

I would NEVER want a plane to RTL to a position wher

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EKF errors !!

hi all

I am still in the ground and I have many error messages in HUD screen in mission planner , 

such as :

- "Bad AHRS" even after I did all calibration ,

- "Bad Compass Health " I did calibration .

- " Error Compass Variation "

- position errors

when I p

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