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Hi pilots all. I'm letting go of some batteries in Rome, Italy. With the hassles of packing, moving and taking batteries on planes, I'd rather pass them on to an Italian pilot who could make use of them. They are: Turnigy Nano-Tech 3.3Ah 4S (x4)…
"Hi All. I've tried out the AP2.68 firmware. It's really nice that the dual aileron control is in the firmware (finally) so I don't have to patch the code each time there's an update. I've been using dual aileron since V2.28.
The latest version…"
The latest version…"
Hi Droners. I've implemented V-tail mixing support in ArduPlane 2.68. I chose 2.68 rather than 2.70 as I am not using the PX4 board. Previously, if you were using a V-Tail model you have to use an external V-tail mixer. If you've tried an…
"I fly near mountains a lot and this is a big problem. I lost one drone as a result, although the real fault was mine for flying sort of around the mountain.
The problem is worse than you might think. Imagine you take off from a field at the base…"
The problem is worse than you might think. Imagine you take off from a field at the base…"
"I'd like to see this as well. I recall coming across a function to assign a spare channel to "save waypoint". I've always wondered what those waypoints were used for. "
"Hi droners. After our discussion about the compass possibly being the cause of my woes I did some more test flights. I found that the drone that I've been doing most of my testing on is the one APM I have that has a seemingly faulty compass. My…"
"Is there any movement to enable the log calibration to read the onboard logs? Not everyone uses telemetry (I don't), but onboard logging is enabled by default on 2560-based AC2 firmware. I'm getting serious compass calibration problems, possibly…"
"Did some more testing today with a build that had CAMERA and MOUNT, but no AP_LIMITS. RTL exhibited its usual error in 3 of 4 flights. This suggests AP_LIMITS is not the culprit. It did seem to good to be true.
I'll try again with CAMERA and…"
I'll try again with CAMERA and…"
"Hi droners. I did some testing with a newly-upgraded quad today and was able to gather more data on the bug.
I upgraded the firmware on one of my afflicted drones to AC2.7.3. I also upgraded the GPS on this bird from the Mtx to the Ublox, for…"
I upgraded the firmware on one of my afflicted drones to AC2.7.3. I also upgraded the GPS on this bird from the Mtx to the Ublox, for…"
This post is an addendum to this post:http://diydrones.com/forum/topics/rtl-error-drone-flies-away-at-hig... created a new thread to add more attachments of data to the previous thread, as I can't figure out how to add…
Hi all. This question has already been asked in a similar thread, but with no responses, I'm taking a second stab at it. The RTL behaviour I get when I select RTL is that the aircraft rapidly descends to RTL altitude at its maximum descent rate,…
Hi Droners. I've been having a problem with RTL using ArduCopter 2.6 for a while. It's intermittent, but annoying and a bit worrisome. When I take off I always test RTL if I'm going to fly FPV. That way it can come home if I have trouble. The…
"Update: this defect still manifests in AC2.6"
"Incidentally, I'm using AC2.5.5. I'm going to test it with the new AC2.6."
Hi droners. I've been looking into a strange flight defect lately and have some evidence to report. I'm hoping others can weigh in on this issue to help tracking it down. When hovering, my copter will, at seemingly random times, yaw about 30-60…
"I'm talking about future versions. AFAIK, all versions suffer from the dreaded deadly frying effect of powering the minimOSD from the same battery as the APM. The one I fried has no version number screened onto it but is the most recent version,…"
