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Ballistic Recovery Parachutes

In ultralight aircraft ballistic recovery systems are becoming more popular and some aircraft are sold with them as standard equipment. I've looked but haven't found any for our size of UAVs. Is anyone aware of a company that makes them? Perhaps thos

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Power/APM 2.6 for Tricopter

Hi, I'm new here. I hope you can help me.

I do not quite understand the instructions.Perhaps it is also because my english is very bad ...

Next week I should get my APM 2.6 for one of my Tricopters.
I wonder at the moment, if I have to consider the supp

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Bad "Jitter" in Gimbal

I am getting a pretty darn bad jitter, looks like a signal pulse in my Gimbal making it almost better not to use it.

It was my last flight, Im not sure if its actually getting an actual signal thats telling it to do that or not but I know its not the

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HEX Issue this morning

I attached the telem log.. Was doing a gimbal test this morning and did my usual check list had 12 sats everything checked nominal. Launched the hex and went to apprx 20 feet hit the loiter switch.. instantly it went into it then in another 2 seconds

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A little hop on autolanding

Did a full automated flight, take off waypoints and then land

It went pretty well but the landing did a little hop after touchdown.

At the end it went to the RTL position, came down smooth to about 3 feet from the ground, then it oddly did a little pau

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Quad flips over on power up

Hey All, 

I have a FPV-Quad with DJI-OPTA 30amp ESC's and 3DR motors. This is all controlled with a APM2.6 Unit, with GPS and Telemetry. I am controling with a er9X controller with the added board for easy USB updating and programming. 

Issue:

On poweri

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Transmitter with More Channels

I am currently using the Spektrum DX7s and it has worked well for me using the APM 2.5 on my hexacopter.  All though, after setting up the transmitter for six modes for Arducopter and the pitch/tilt control on my camera, I am maxed on my channels.  N

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