Brian MacKay's Discussions (8)

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Using multiple mission planners on PC?

I have been using an older Mission Planner with 2.8.1 on my hexa. I want to update my quad to 3.0. What is the best way to do this? I need the latest Mission Planner for 3.0 but don't you get all the new parameters when trying to use the old firmware

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Can RTL have a delay?

I am looking for a simple two stage RTL fail safe function.  My scenario is probably a pretty common one.  With loss of radio contact, my Futaba receiver goes to its own failsafe.  This will trigger my failsafe operation, in my case RTL.  For the mos

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Another Alt Hold tuning question

I have found my APM 2.5 Hexa copter really solid to fly but I am having trouble getting alt-hold to behave the way I want.

I have a older mikrokopter quad with entirely stock parameters that has unbelievable alt hold, I mean I can hit alt-hold at full

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Measuring battery voltage

I cannot get a clear answer to how to do this.  I do not need to measure currrent, I just want to know main pack voltage.  What is the native voltage range of the APM2.0 voltage input slot?  I can't figure out if it is 3.3V or 5V.  I plane to make a

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