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Electric/Solar small UAV "Prototype"

Hi,

 Starting this thread to follow the construction of 3.2 m wingspan full composite platform.

 This is intended as a high performance (endurance) aircraft for aerial land and sea surveying that is going to use ArduPilot for guidance.

 Have currently f

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Glitch on AC3.0 and log dissapears

Hi,

 I was flying for the 8th time my hexa with the latest code 3.0

 Conditions nice and calm, when I had small glitch (think copter had a biggish roll input) no big deal, then another one and then I had one that felt almost like loss of power (I haven

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Thrust Issues Arducopter V2.91b

Hi,

 I got a hexacopter running on MT 4008-12 spinning 15x4 props on 4S lipos. At full throttle I should have 2:1 thrust to weight and at 70% I should have 1:1 thrust to weight. 

 Yet I can't even get it to take off at 5.6kg. Other than setting max thr

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