Good evening all
I was recently flying my quad and about 6 mins into the flight it suddenly flipped and plummeted to the ground. I have had pretty stable flights in most flight modes up to that point and all of the hardware is luckily still working af
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Relatively new to my quadcopter, I've been flying until now (I started two weeks ago) only in stabilize mode using my turnigy radio as the single way command the quad.
I did not yet try missions.
I am training on a football field (100 meters x 70
Read more…I had a great flight yesterday on my 3DR Quad-C with 880 motors that ended in a flyaway in Stab mode. I was flying in a school yard in a residential neighborhood and had to do something to stop it from climbing away and drifting with the wind so I sw
Read more…My six hexa motors came this weekend with an x-shaped part that is not included in the arducopter assembly instructions. Are these optional parts or do they serve some important function?
Read more…3 Hours of flawless flight testing using Stab, Stab Simp & Alt Hold, Try Loiter and Bam, Flyaway.
Well it could have been a lot worse.
I was doing some birds eye view shots of my parents house, Turnigy HAL Frame, converted to coaxial octocopter, 3DR AP
Read more…This sounds a little too good to be true. Is anyone familiar with pressure sensors that provide this much resolution? Obviously this would be fantastic on an arducopter.
http://www.meas-spec.com/product/t_product.aspx?id=8503
Mike
Read more…One brand new Tenergy 3s 5,000 mah battery is fully charged with a balance charger and flown in an arducopter quad for 16 minutes. My battery alarm goes off at 10.8 volts (3.6 volts per cell on a 3s lipo) and I promptly land. Before re-charging I c
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I'm trying to operate the Arducopter via MAVlink from my ROS node indoors, and one of the stumbling blocks is the lack of fused IMU velocity updates in the GLOBAL_POSITION_INT packet. I only get altitude values in this packet and 0s for veloci
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I'm trying to setup ArduPilot with my E_Sky BeltCPv2.
The stabilization is working good and testing of collective pitch works fine from transmitter.
However, when I leave that manual testing mode, I loose control over collective, although I'm still
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I had to replace two of my props after a crash. So I ordered two new ones but they are from a different brand/supplier and not exactly the same material : two of them are APC, the two other are Turnigy plastic. The turnigy are more flexible tha
Read more…Is there a way I can program the apm 2.5 to my futaba 8fg? Using a 6 channel rx? Any help is appreciated
Thanks,
Jared
Read more…This appears to have changed since 1.2.29. Now when clicked the button changes to "Click when done". Is there a new process that needs to conducted here? Nothing appears to be happening and the HUD does not indicate a level quad.
Read more…I am setting up a DJI F450 quadcopter with APM and was wondering if there are tradeoffs for using the top entry APM configuration vs the side entry APM configuration for quadcopters. I see almost all of the quadcopters using the top entry APM but it
Read more…I would like to use the wireless telemetry unit in my arducopter for sending some specific sensor readings in a special format. Now with the existing code, arducopter and mission planner are connected wirelessly. I want to send some special data to a
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For the past 2 month I'm using APM 2.5 with 2.8 firmware. I'm using HK 550 frame. Electronics from my old gaui (1100kV scorpion motor and it 15A esc).
It fly fabulously! Love it so much.
On last Monday I start build up my new setup for my Quad
Read more…Built my own octo frame,,got the good gps and the 900 tele,, had this thing flying in the back room getting my trims in and had her stable,,,alls good,,, got busy hooking my extra channels ,7,8,all was going good was looking at the mp terminal got do
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I was doing my first flights today. And guess what... I crashed !
The crash did happen because the quad flipped (fortunately I was landing and thus almost on the ground) at the same time that one propeller collet came loose off the motor's shaft
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I am really happy about the speech function in the Mission Planner. I am using a bluetooth ear piece to listen for warnings while flying. As the APM2 is a safety device for bringing home my Octo if the primary rc link fails, I would really lik
Read more…Hey guys...I put together a 3DR quad (10" props, 850Kv motors) 2.9.1 firmware and after several catastrophic crashes I am sort of getting the hang of it.
This is my very first experience with anything R/C so I realize that most of the trouble that I'm
Read more…Full disclosure first, I do not work for and am not affiliated with this company. It looks like a very promising concept to prevent the loss of our expensive copters. I ordered some of their Stick-N-Find bluetooth stickers, and now they are offerin
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