First, let me say that I am a novice. I have been flying APM quads for a little over a year starting with a 3DR quad. I am now on my 5th APM based quad and keep having a similar situation cause me to crash. I don't know whether it is an equipment pro
Read more…I have tried to update Mission Planner 1.2.97 build 1.1.5167.24804 and get the following error message:
"Update Failed File downloaded does not match hash: it-IT/MissionPlanner.resources.dll"
What does this mean and what should I do to correct it?
Read more…I have been flying a 3DR Quadcopter for about 8 months and made a huge mistake by touching my battery leads to the power cable in reverse polarity - I didn't plug it in, the connectors just touched. That was enough to do something to my APM 2.5. When
Read more…First let me say that I will always be a "newbie". I've been flying my 3DR quad for about 6 months and just when I think I get it figured out and seemingly flying well something weird happens and it falls out of the sky. Today I did a simple flight t
Read more…First let me say that I will always be a "newbie". I've been flying my 3DR quad for about 6 months and just when I think I get it figured out and seemingly flying well something weird happens and it falls out of the sky. Today I did a simple flight t
Read more…I did a royal screw up and inadvertantly touched my battery connector plug together in reverse polarity. Smoke came out of the power module. After cooling, I tried to connect properly and got my usual "beep, bee, beep" tone from the esc's and then go
Read more…I have just installed Mission Planner update 1.2.79 build 1.1.5013.37529 and noticed that it has a box for "orientation"
I have an APM 2.5 so I am assuming I should choose APM with built in compass?
Why doesn't Mission Planner for Arduplane have a selection to assign channel 7 to RTL like it does for and Arducopter? I love the security of being able to select RTL regardless of what flight mode I'm in. It has saved me more than once with my Arduc
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