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Better altitude measurement

I use my quad for aerial videography of kiteboarders. My main mode of operation usually involves using alt-hold (and more recently loiter) to set an altitude just beyond the reach of the kites (~30m above the water level) This allows me to better foc

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LAND mode put quad into the sea...

I had an unfortunate incident this afternoon which has cost me all my copter electrics including my Panasonic HDC TM700 camera. I had been through four battery packs without incident when suddenly my 2.9.1b quad started loosing altitude, ending up in

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RSSI Logging?

My receiver outputs received signal strength and I have connected this to the A0 pin on the APM. I have set the RSSI_PIN paramenter appropriately and can display the RSSI correctly in the MP while the quad is attached to my PC. Is there any way I can

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CH6 Tuning doing something weird!?

I have previously used ch6 to tune individual parameters without any problems. Recently I have attempted to fine tune alt hold using the same method but now when I attempt to configure ch6 to alter any parameter, I get unexpected results.

For instance

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Crash caused by exposed barometer

Just a reminder for those folk that are running their APM 2.5 without an enclosure. I ordered my APM unassembled as the assembled version was not available at the time. This was just on the transition from 2.0 to 2.5 and even though I ordered a 2.0,

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