Really need help. Pixhawk in our QAV 540 has been flying great for months. Until yesterday there was a catastrophic failure on the second flight. Launched in loiter flew up approx. 20 feet, moved left over a cliff, suddenly it just fell from the sky.
Read more…OK maybe this is an obvious question, I understand that the latest firmware will not fit on the apm 2.6. So I just bought a new apm 2.6 and am trying to set up for first time. Trouble is when I connect to mission planner, it will try to install firmw
Read more…Yesterday did 3 flights. All were fine. On 4th flight the copter would not arm. No noises, no warnings, no fails. Just nothing. Mission planner shows connected. Switched flight modes on transmitter and it reflects in Mission planner so there must be
Read more…New 540 seems to fly ok but the video is very bad. It shakes, not really a jello...more of a shake. Tried new props, recalibration, tried isolating the feiyu gimbal with soft grommets, then hard, then hard mounting. Makes n
Time in air is a very useful measure. I can glance down and get an idea of how long I've been up. Allows me to gauge battery time remaining. The only problem is the units are in seconds. Can this be changed to minutes? A bit more intuitive than "you'
Read more…Do quite a bit of flying in wilderness areas where there is no wifi or cell service. I am wondering if there is a way to download a google map in advance of the trip so that I would have a pre-loaded map for the area
Read more…Bad toilet bowl in loiter today after many weeks of perfect flying with pixhawk on hexacopter. According to the wiki, one should check for compass interference by graphing logs.
http://copter.ardupilot.com/wiki/common-diagnosing-problems-using-logs/#C
Read more…Has anyone been able to get the Pixhawk to connect to a Feiyu G3 2 axis gimbal? We are having no success here:
-9XR transmitter
-Frysky DB82 receiver
-Channel 6 assigned to tuning knob on transmitter
-Feiyu G3 gimbal control wire connected to AUX 1 out o
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