Dean Wynton's Discussions (19)

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CAA BNUC`s

I know someone two people that today will be taking their BNUCs flight exams today 1 of these people has never had any interest in anything technical and never picked up a transmitter, and has had maybe a week of practice using a DJI Phantom and an S

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Arduplane Autoland

I have been trying to get the autoland feature working for a couple of weeks now to no avail? The first time I made a flight plan with several waypoints and then a final LAND command where the plane would reach and then stall, on the second attempt I

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Airspeed Sensor Normal?

Hi folks,

I just installed an airspeed sensor on my new APM 2.5.. I have enabled it in mission planner and it seems to be workig well? But when I click on enable airspeed the horizon pitches up and down depending on the airspeed reading, so if I blow

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Bluetooth telemetry link

I have been trying to get a bluetooth link working with my APM2 to avoid constantly plugging and unplugging the usb in whilst tuning, I know this can be done, but it is proving irritating? i can change baud rates e.t.c and plug the module into the te

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Auto Mode Success?

Has anybody had good results from using auto mode in conjuction with the mission planner?

and what pid`s are you using? it appears to me that there are a vast range of PID`s being used for auto mode, where as some of the other fuctions such as loiter

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Tuning ACRO Mode?

Hey there,

I have my copter tuned to how I want it in every mode, apart from Acro...

Whatever I change in the rate settings and acro_p. It never seems to be responsive enough?

Stabilize mode is perfect and very responsive where as acro is very slow and

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3D fix 3 satelites

I have just been testing my GPS as it takes me ten minutes to get a 3d fix? so I decided to see what is going on, and yes it takes ten minutes still, but it indicates a 3d fix and sat count 3? this I thought is impossible? you need at least 4 sats fo

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20mph + winds

I have just been flying my tricopter in 20 to 29 mph winds and found it a bit of a handful, now some of you may think "of course" but this was not the case with a kk board? whilst it was still no easy task it was much easier, I think it is because th

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New UK Arducopter / Plane Group

For those you suffering with the recent weather:)

Join up here to share help advice and ideas or even meet up if your not too far away

No timezone difference, so get your answers or advice quicker

Be interesting to see how many people using Ardupilot in

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GPS Backup power?

Is it possible to power the GPS whilst not powering the rest of the board?

I see pin 4 on the MT3329? (I think its that model? comes with the APM2.0...)

is used for backup power, can this be used to power the board in between changing batteries or befo

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Tricopter PID`s Help

Anybody had any success with APM2.0 and a Tricopter? after much messing around with PID`s I can get it to RTL in a fashion 70% of the time but once it gets bak to Launch it tends to lose it bearings and dissapear in another direction and I have to sw

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GPS wrong

Hi, whenever I play back my log file on google earth the position is about 20 miles west of where I was actually flying? also sometimes in return to lauch and loiter it will sometimes shoot off in completely the wrong direction and altitude? is this

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Tricopter APM2.0

It seems after searching several sites that not many people are using a tricopter? and even less still with the new APM2.0? anyone got any advice, problems, PID settings that work well? mine is nearly there, RTL, Alt hold and Loiter seem to work o.k

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