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Aerial photographer


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Avalerion commented on Claudio Natoli's blog post iPad Ground Control Station
"What are you using for TCP?"
Aug 2, 2012
Avalerion commented on Claudio Natoli's blog post iPad Ground Control Station
"I've been dying for an app like that! Any way to get in on a beta test?"
Aug 2, 2012
Avalerion posted a discussion
I just had a completely lousy crash yesterday in the middle of a very successful flight... My setup has an externally powered 1W Xbee Xtend, so the range on the GCS is farther than the Spektrum DX8/AR8000 combo. While coming around to my last…
Sep 11, 2011
Avalerion posted a discussion
I recently added the Xbee Xtend 900 to the APM. Prior to that with the Xbee Pro 900, everything was OK aside from poor range with the unit. I believe that two recent crashes involved a brownout on the APM sometime after sending commands via the…
Aug 30, 2011
Avalerion posted a discussion
I've been flying with the APM for months, and until a week ago, didn't have any troubles. Last week I had a plane go down in the woods after issuing a guided mode command "fly to here". I wasn't able to determine the cause of the crash, but the APM…
Aug 26, 2011
Avalerion replied to David Leigh's discussion Suspect mode switching problem using APM 2.22
"I'm noticing something like this in 2.23. My plane was going along in auto just fine, and when I switched to RTL, it death spiraled into the ground. I checked my modes in the MP and they were setup correctly... Previous versions the RTL mode worked…"
Aug 26, 2011
Avalerion commented on zxo's blog post Ardupilot Mega Full Case v.1.2
"Any ideas as to where one could get this built…?"
Aug 16, 2011
Avalerion replied to Avalerion's discussion Dronecell Integration Needed ASAP - $1000 prize
"I've upped the pot to $1000 to support R&D on this telemetry component. Any takers? Deadline is arbitrary, but the sooner the better."
Jul 13, 2011
Avalerion replied to Avalerion's discussion Change GCS Port via APM Planner
"Found out it defaults to Port 3 @ 57200 baud"
Jun 17, 2011
Avalerion posted a discussion
When uploading the firmware via APM mission planner, how do I change the telemetry from USB to PORT3 (xbee?) I can't seem to do it via CLI and nothing is changed...
Jun 17, 2011
Avalerion replied to Avalerion's discussion Overcoming Headwinds
"Note: I also disabled my airspeed sensor after having these problems in hopes that it might fix the issue... It appears that it's helped a tiny bit... but I'm cruising at 30mph normally (tailwind, perpendicular) and <10mph into headwind."
Jun 9, 2011
Avalerion posted a discussion
I'm flying a Skywalker that can easily handle 15mph winds... and yet this morning with ~2-3mph winds, the plane makes it out to waypoint one and turns back only to sit there in the air hovering.Airspeed Cruise is 16 m/sThrottle Cruise 55Throttle Min…
Jun 9, 2011
Avalerion replied to Avalerion's discussion Dronecell Integration Needed ASAP - $1000 prize
"I'm willing to purchase you a test Dronecell to get this going... now for the VCOM port, there are many third party tools that convert IP to a local port. That would be convenient down the line to integrate.
 
So we need to get APM to contact dyndns…"
Jun 8, 2011
Avalerion posted a discussion
I'm looking for help in getting the Dronecell integrated with APM 2.12 so that I can use it for two-way telemetry. I assume the biggest issue is getting the IP address and then setting up a virtual COM port to connect to it... If possible, I'd like…
Jun 7, 2011
Avalerion replied to Avalerion's discussion Trouble with RTL and AUTO
"I've gone through the Tuning process, but Auto should still control the throttle (no?). Do you know the difference between the 1.0 APM board and 1.4? Is it likely that there could be bad hardware?"
May 27, 2011
Avalerion posted a discussion
This is really a two part question since I've been unable to find a definitive answer.1- What is the difference between v1.02 and the current v2.12 of APM? My impression is that v2.12 offers newer features, just recently came out of beta, etc.2- My…
May 27, 2011
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