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)
Tur
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 externa
Read more…This post is an addendum to this post:
http://diydrones.com/forum/topics/rtl-error-drone-flies-away-at-high-speed-instead-of-returning
I've created a new thread to add more attachments of data to the previous thread, as I can't figure out how to add at
Read more…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, the
Read more…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 problem
Read more…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 deg
Read more…Hi droners. The subject of this thread is touched upon/discussed in some other threads, but I'm hoping that some EE's at 3DRobotics will chime in on this topic. Basically, I'm wondering what is the planned future of the MinimOSD hardware, espiciall
Read more…Hi droners. I've finally unpacked my two minimOSD boards, soldered the connections and flashed the firmwares. After overcoming the "Waiting for Heardbeats" issue (had serial3_baud set to 9 instead of the required 57), I'm getting the "Update Charset"
Read more…Greetings, copterers. I'm having a problem with the GPS on my ArduCopter. Apologies if this one is already answered somewhere. The short description is that the GPS search/lock only happens when I have the CLI open. Indoors it usually doesn't lock bu
Read more…There are lots of threads about ESC calibration issues on this forum. I was pulling my hair out but I discovered the problem by writing this forum post. I thought I would share my silly problem to help others avoid the same trap.I'm using a JDrones H
Read more…Hi all. I'm using the latest (2.0.08) version of ArduStation2 with the latest version of ArduPlane (2.24). The ArduStation2 code compiles with a few mods (libraries/GCS_MAVLink/include/mavlink_types.h was recently modified to change payload to payloa
Read more…Hi Droners. I've downloaded the latest (V1.0 build 4) QGroundControl which states the admonition that this uses MAVLink V1.0. AFAIK, ArduPlane uses MAVLink V0.9, as stated in libraries/GCS_MAVLink/include/common/version.h, at least.I've tried to re-g
Read more…Hi all. I've set up an APM on the bench and most things are working as I want them: stabilization, manual control, two aileron servos, GPS, setup etc. However, telemetry is not working as I'd hoped. I can get telemetry to work fine over USB but it to
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