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Jay Smith commented on Jason Short's blog post Flight testing 2.5.03
"Jason I loaded 2.5.03 into my ardupilot equipped radian and flew a simple cross pattern. Worked great just the way you have it set up. Only change I made was for was for the em406. I need to tweak the throttle values a bit as the radian is so…"
Mar 22, 2010
Jay Smith commented on Chris Anderson's blog post New ArduPilot Mega boards off the production line!
"Any time frame on availability?"
Mar 21, 2010
Jay Smith commented on Robert Krogh (hooks)'s blog post The BIG Skywalker FPV UAV platform
"The mass of the T tail could be give a torque problem on a hard landing, Have you given any thought to a lower version?"
Mar 13, 2010
Jay Smith left a comment for Michael Schreiber
"Sorry once again.

Jay"
Mar 13, 2010
Jay Smith left a comment for steev
"Steve : Welcome to DIYDrones Feel free to look around and join the discussions. There is a great section on the main page that will answer most newb questions, Check it out.

Welcome again
Moderator Jay"
Mar 10, 2010
Jay Smith left a comment for Gabe Caldwell
"Welcome Gabe.

Please join in the discussions and give us some more information about your interests.

Moderator: Jay"
Mar 10, 2010
Jay Smith commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Spam fighting on DIY Drones
"Comment by Chris Anderson 5 hours ago
Delete Comment MODERATORS: One of you is letting through members with the namenumbername@gmail.com form. Stop that!

Chris: where do I find the Email address of the suspect member, the screen i get only…"
Mar 10, 2010
Jay Smith commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Spam fighting on DIY Drones
"Cool I see how it works and I keep an eye on it while Im at the computer starting in the am.
Glad I can be of help."
Mar 9, 2010
Jay Smith commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Spam fighting on DIY Drones
"Chris; things are slow for me, I can help if wanted, I don't have the tech background to offer much in the dev. aspects but I can certainly monitor spam letting the smart people work on the hard stuff."
Mar 9, 2010
Jay Smith replied to Jay Smith's discussion Problem getting and holding GPS lock
"Never Mind I'm an idiot.
I just realized I didn't edit the header after downloading 2.5.02 to use the 406"
Mar 8, 2010
Jay Smith posted a discussion
I'm having problems with getting and holding GPS lock with 2.5. The GPS EM406 test application locks on almost instantly, and gives a position in the serial monitor, Version 2.4.6 for the easy glider seems to work fine,.but when I load 2.5, it…
Mar 8, 2010
Jay Smith commented on Jason Short's blog post Ardupilot 2.5 Release Candidate
"My apologies to Jason for my laps in PM etiquette, and thank you very much for your help. My apologies to the forum thinking it rude to rehash an issue already covered several in several subtopics earlier."
Feb 9, 2010
Jay Smith commented on Jason Short's blog post Ardupilot 2.5 Release Candidate
"Jason:
Can you pm me I'm still having gps issues."
Feb 9, 2010
Jay Smith commented on Jason Short's blog post Ardupilot 2.5 Release Candidate
"Jason:
After completing the field setup should the GPS_lock go off?
I'm using a em406, everything else seems normal and the gps test works fine."
Feb 7, 2010
Jay Smith commented on Jason Short's blog post Ardupilot 2.5 Release Candidate
"Jason
I was going throut the startup procedures And had a question

Ardupilot has a specific startup routine:

Normal Power on
confirmed Check the Remove Before Fly plug is connected
Confirmed Twitch servos to indicated startup has begun
Normal…"
Feb 3, 2010
Jay Smith posted a discussion
I want to work on an electronics tray for my Telemaster. What makes up the total component list for the air born Mega?1 Ardupilot Mega2 IMU3 Magnetometer4 Ublock5 XbeeMissing anyting?
Feb 2, 2010
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