I've been flying for a while but have not had much time of late so I left my APM 2.5, 2.9 firmware 3dr quad sitting on the shelf for several months. I took it out to fly the other day and on doing my typical preflight I noticed that the quad wants t
Read more…I purchased a 3DR quad kit and APM 2.5 in April of 2012, built and flew on/off over the past year but have never had the time and persistance to go for fully autonomous flight.
Over the past weeks I've found the time to rebuild my quad *mostly* from
Read more…I'm flying a fairly stock 3DR quad, I had my first tree encounter. Too much time in simulator, and didn't uncheck the Simple mode checkbox so I I lost orientation... punched RTL but she clipped a tree branch on her way home.
Anyways, it appears the st
Read more…My 3DR quad is using FrSky radio gear with a heavily modd'ed Turnigy 9x + er9x. From everything that I've read this should mitigate the notorious and thread-inflating flyaway issues of the stock T9x. That said my first "close-by" flights have gone
Read more…Made the upgrade to Window 8 Pro this weekend. All things considered I have noticed a good speed increase over Windows 7. No major issues except when I plugged my quad into the USB port Mission Planner couldn't find it. So....
After a bit of digging
Read more…After numerous bench tests, re calibrations, and more bench tests I was finally brave enough to take my 3DR quad out for it's first flight -albeit tethered. I did some initial outdoor ground testing in which I brought the throttle up to the point of
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