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ArduCopter FlightGear HIL

Does anyone have experience with running FlightGear as a HIL simulator for ArduCopter?

FlightGear launches and I see the quad on the runway, but when I use my radio to arm the motors and take off, nothing happens.

Thanks for your time.

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Simple mode controls reversed

Flying latest stable release.

I armed my octo with a 3d gps fix and started to fly in simple mode. This is one of my first times flying in simple mode so I was just trying to get a feel for it and start to "trust" the APM to handle the direction. It w

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Octo Power Distribution

Has anyone out there arrived at an elegant solution for power distribution in an octo configuration? Right now I have two rings of copper wire (pos/neg) and about 10 leads soldered to each. Then on the ends I have Dean's connectors. It is functional,

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Large Heavy Octo PID Tuning

I just flew my maiden flight with my new, totally custom octocopter. Everything worked really well except that I entered into a heavy oscillation, which I was able to recover from. Does anyone have any advice for PIDs for such a frame? My frame is al

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Pan / tilt stabilization

Hello all. I was wondering if anyone knew how to implement camera stabilization for Pan (Yaw) and Tilt (Pitch)?

 

I was thinking I would use channel 6 for Tilt (Pitch), 7 for Pan (Yaw) from my RC receiver to the APM and then APM outputs 5 (Tilt) and 6

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Set frame type from CLI

Hello,

I have an octocopter setup and I am wondering if there is a way to set the frame type from the CLI. I know you can set the frame type in the config file, but I don't want to run the latest beta code, which is the only code I saw on the download

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Powering ACM Strategy

Hello all,

 

I have a pretty simple question (hopefully). I am currently building an octocopter and none of my ESCs have a built in BEC, so I am going to run a CC BEC Pro (20A max). My question is this: If I use the BEC to power my Futaba Receiver, and

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