Hello!
I'm just a bit new to Quads,having flown a handful of times since late last year.
I just got an APM 2.5+ w/ uBlox GPS,and was looking at a video review that stated
that the angle for pitch & roll can be set. In other words, I don't want to give the stick a little throw forwards/backwards/either side & have the quad tip at a crazy angle for movement.
Which parameter is it in the Mission Planner adjusts this?
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Jani & Randy- Thank you very much!
I've decided to just leave the parameters alone in the APM for now & make the necessary adjustments in the radio.
The video in question is a Flitelab video review on youtube ,in which they mention the pitch/roll angle adjustment.
Another question:
I use a NAZA FC in my quad right now and have 2 dials on my Futaba 8FG Super radio to adjust gains in-flight.
I was looking through the Mission Planner,as well as the online manual and read that the APM will do this,too.
Which adjustments do you suggest I should set-up on my radio for this?
Take look at this video. It explains what D/R and EXPO are.
As you are fairly new on those. I would not touch them too much. Defaults are really good for all jDrones and 3DR frames. In normally we don't touch those angles at all as then you might affect on it's general automated flight too.
If you want to make controlling more accurate on center stick. Look your radio EXPO and D/R settings. That way you can make it less sensitive for center stick movements. Normally controlling is linear on radios but making them logarithmic is best.
Jani / jDrones
hmm...haven't seen that video. I can think of two ways to do this:
1. just reduce the range of your roll and pitch sticks on your tx after doing the radio calibration.
2. add lines like this to the APM_Config.h and upload the code yourself:
#define MAX_INPUT_ROLL_ANGLE 6000 // 60 degrees
#define MAX_INPUT_PITCH_ANGLE 6000 // 60 degrees
remember if you upload the code yourself to an APM2 you'll also need to remove the "//" on line 5 of the APM_Config.h so that it looks like this:
#define CONFIG_APM_HARDWARE APM_HARDWARE_APM2