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Maybe I'm doing something stupid, or don't understand something, but on my simple flight plan this morning I had a 3 turn loiter command. When my plane reached the position, it simply kept on circling, never exiting even after 6+ turns.
Did I do
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After watching a movie clip of my plan flying on auto using the airspeed, I see that at times it oscillates pitch up and down, while increasing and decreasing the motor revs continually.
This seems to only happen with the Airspeed sensor connected.
I
Read more…After searching quite a bit, I've found this post: http://diydrones.ning.com/forum/topics/ardupilot-power-supply?commentId=705844%3AComment%3A158510. Here Chris Anderson says that anything that's ok for the receiver would be ok for the APM.
Voltage to
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After 8 very successful flights these last weeks, this morning for some reason, while in stabilise, my plane's surface areas are very slow to respond to movement of the airframe. Normally, using the standard skywalker parameters, the ailerons a
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A friend of mine, an electrical engineer, referred me to this product:
It's a XBee Pro on 868mhz, with a high power
Read more…We've done a test over the weekend and had great fun. Stunning software, love it to bits!
However I think I found a couple of issues that users should be made aware of:
Ascending: If you set a waypoint altitude too high in that there is not enough time
Read more…I'm running ArduPlane V2.251.
I don't have the facility where I can press enter three times to get the CLI while in flight mode - when clicking Terminal the APM Planner just fills the screen with gibberish and banging the enter key does not help.
Withi
Read more…I've flown today a total of 23km, cris-crossing my position. My furthest point was 3.2km and I still had 90%+ reception on the XBee!
I have standard diapoles on both sides, has anybody tried cloverleaf / IBCrazy-type antennas?
So impressed!
Read more…I've just installed an airspeed sensor after having 100% succesful flights up to now. I've read on the documentation, this line:
" It is not recommended for most new users, however, as it does require additional tuning and adds one more layer of contr
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I've had a few very successful flights, but have a question about reading the log.
1. How do I turn on the *ATT record in the log file?
2. Is there a way to reset the log over the XBee connection?
Many thanks
Read more…Does the current version of APM allow for the display of current Amp draw, accumulative mAh used and mAh available?
I am considering adding a current consumption module as described here http://code.google.com/p/ardupilot-mega/wiki/Voltage, but if I c
Read more…I had two terrific flights yesterday and after doing some examination of the logs, I have the following questions:
My piloting skills are not there yet, and I'd like to be able to launch my foamy with one hand holding the transmitter. I would like it to immediately climb to the default altitude after leaving my hand.
Should I launch while in Loiter ?
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I purchased another XBEE with the ducktail antenna for my plane so I can get further range, but I'm not getting a connection.
I've gone through the steps of programming the XBEEs as found here: http://code.google.com/p/ardupilot-mega/wiki/Wirele
Read more…I'm currently using my old development laptop which is powerful enough, but it's screen is so dim outside it's completely useless without a shroud or inside a car behind a shaded wall.
I'm thinking of buying a laptop specifically for running the miss
Read more…A new plane, a new APM, but the same problem.
I've spent 45 minutes trying to guess the correct way to plug in the wires.
Looking at the diagram for APM 1.4 and above: http://code.google.com/p/ardupilot-mega/wiki/RC and the picture just below, I can'
Read more…http://edition.cnn.com/2011/09/28/us/massachusetts-pentagon-plot-arrest/
Hope he didn't use APM!
If they make you take off your shoes at the airport, imagine how they will clamp down on civilian drones...
Read more…Well it's a sad weekend. On Friday my Skwalker had a second catastrophic nose dive and I lost it somewhere over a marsh. Scanning the area with a FPV had no success.
I've made peace with the loss, I'm just trying to understand what caused the nose di
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My APM is acting very strangely. As soon as I switch it on it goes into a tight spiral which ends in a dive. I did three flights, the last time we could not get it out of the five and my Skywalker became part of the landscape. Luckily all the
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I've been intrigued with the UDP connection option in the APM Planner. I can't find much documentation on this. Here's hoping it's an experimental option to connect to the APM over 3G Internet!
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