i had an accident with my apm quad some months ago. I calibrated the four esc (four at once method) and everything was fine. Unfortunately i had the propellers on it. This was stupid enough (»just let me make that quick change ....«) but i al
i had a fatal crash a month ago (maybe a voltage problem). I rebuilt the quad with new engines and everything from the scratch. Today i flew 6 batteries and everything was really good. On the last (almost fresh) pack the quad suddenly fell fr
today i went flying with a friend of mine in order to teach him the basics of multicopter flying. He flew around a little bit and when the lipo alarm began buzzing (3.2 V) i told him to switch to RTL mode on
i am a little bit confused regarding the leds of my apm. I use the APM 2.6 and the ublox gps module. As far as i understood the blue led on the apm 2.6 will blink if there is a gps fix.But shouldn't there also be a blue led on the gps module?
i have a problem with my graupner xr 16 ifs receiver. I had to replace my old receiver and now there is a problem with failsafe. When i unplug my receiver the channel 3 drops to 900 (the regular values are between 1103 and 1900) which should l
Hey all, i just did 4 test flights with my copter and two of them ended with a crash. The copter suddently seems to lose power and falls from the sky like a stone. Immediately after the crash (the first one did not do any damage) i was able to arm th
i already started another thread regarding my strange landing issues with my quad. I wanted to find out if my apm unit switches to "land mode" and therefore logged into the terminal. I could see, that logging of the flight mode is not enabled so
after months of building and waiting i finally made my first flights and i am really happy with my first quad. Everything worked fine except the following: After several minutes of flight the quad suddenly started to land (not like RTL becaus
i recently had to setup a new computer and just installed the Mission Planner Software. My Quad does not yet fly very well but i already made some settings in Mission Planner. Now my question: Is all this data stored on my APM unit and do i r
i just wanted to make sure that i did not mess up something in my frame configuration (direction e.g.). On my first flight i realized, that roll und pitch were reversed (horizontal stick movement was pitch and vertical roll). I solved the probl
i just had my maiden flight (apm 2.6) and everything is working fine so far. There is a lot of adjustment work to do and so i tried assigning the switches etc on my radio in order to make the adjustments as suggested in the manual. I put a rota
i received my brand new APM 2.6 together with the ublox GPS one day ago. Today i wanted to mount the apm to my quad but i am not sure how to do so: There is an arrow pointing into the direction which is forward. My first question is: How impo