I built a copter for a friend, who was out flying a mapping mission in auto. Just prior to the last waypoint the chute deployed. After reviewing the logs I cannot determine why the chute deployed. It looks as thought the copter is flying just fine an
I've been doing a lot of mapping using mission planner to set up the lawnmower pattern over the subject area. Things are going well, but most of these jobs need every bit of efficiency. To that end, is it possible to perform a banked turn at speed
Read more…I've been having pretty good success with mapping using the pixhawk and mission planner. After figuring out how to get the shutter cycle time under a second (thanks mono), I'm now pursuing how to speed the entire process up. I've noticed that the c
Read more…Had an interesting event happen the other day. While flying in auto on a mapping mission, the copter (an s900, pixhawk, AC3.2.1) did some unanticipated roll movements during a turn at a way point. It proceeded straight along the flight plan as plan
Read more…Using the link status in mission planner reveals that my connection is very poor. RSSI is around 200 with very little noise. The radios appear to connect fine and data does flow between the pixhawk and GCS, but the link stats shows that 4/5 packets
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Well my Tarot TL8X bit the dust, literally. Spiraled out the sky from about 60 meters. I had logged about 2 hours of 4-7 minute flights over the last few weeks. On the day of the crash, I flew it twice before without a problem. I
Read more…I've been having this problem for a few days now. When I power up my pixhawk, I get a slew of of prearm errors from alt disparity to accels inconsistent. After a few minutes, it just settles into the accels inconsistent error. Occasionally the art
Read more…Relative Pixhawk noob here as I think I have the right log file attached.. I flew my second flight with my newly built Tarot TL8X - Octocopter. During the first flight which lasted about 8 minutes, one of the ESCs failed and the octo hovered just f
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