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Arduplane Autonoumos Flight

Hi All:

I am buying the ArduPlane and my question is are all the tools such as software provided so I can fly autonomously? I am a beginner with this platform but have some pilot experience in Autonomous flight with other systems.

What has your experie

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Arduplane Throttle control

Hi All,

My new craft is about to take its maden voyage and all looks great, however I have a small problem I cant quite sort out.

I am running the standard release of arduplane. My craft is only running in manual at present. I am using a joystick throu

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Disarm Arduplane

Is it possible to disarm the arduplane after it has landed using the transmitter only?

The reason i would find this useful is , i usually land into long grass about 100 metres from where i took off and what i find is that while walking to the plane it

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geofence set up error

We seem to be getting a “geo-fence setup error” when turning on the fence since the last arduplane firmware upgrade.We have tried reloading and reading and creating new fences.

Is anybody else seeing that?

What are the conditions that trigger this erro

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Disabling the Auto Disarm Feature

Does anyone know how I could go about disabling the automatic disarming of the board? Dont mind building new firmware if someone can point me in the right direction on what to modify in the source

As it stands currently 15 seconds without activity cau

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Determining Stall Airspeed

I'm trying to come up with a safe procedure to accurately determine stall airspeed for a plane with an airspeed sensor and ardupilot logging.  Any feedback on this technique?

1. Achieve stable level flight in full manual

2. Reduce throttle

3. Increase a

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Crabbing in telemetry

I've been reviewing tlogs from a recent outing and I am having difficulty finding evidence of the crabbing I observed while the aircraft was in auto flying waypoints.

Between VFR_HUD.heading, ATTITUDE.yaw, and GLOBAL_POSITION_INT.hdg, I'm not seeing w

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Servo Mixing

Hello,

I was wondering if it was possible to perform servo mixing on the arupilot when running a plane. For example if I had a dual rudder configuration and I wanted to put one input channel and have two input channels with appropriate throughputs and

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