About

Gender

Male


Location

Roseville, CA


About Me:

I just finish a Hex Rotor, APM 2.6


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

Photography and FPV. Mostly I like building my own toys.


Hometown:

Roseville CA


Activity Feed

Jim Yost replied to keith mann's discussion Pixhawk Arm switch bypass
"I have a PixHawk running ArduCopter 3.1.5
I can find the BRD_SAFETYENABLE parameter. I dumped all my parameter list into a file but I could not find BRD_SAFETYENABLE in it. Do you have it in your parameters ?"
Jul 29, 2014
Jim Yost replied to Gerry Dedenbach's discussion Pixhawk log - PLEASE help work out crashes
"Sounds a lot like my crash; take a look at my description and video.  Link Here   "
Jun 18, 2014
Jim Yost replied to Jim Yost's discussion Full power runaway and crash, ( video and logs attached )
"A couple of months ago I was playing around with data collection. I likely forgot to set data collection back to its original settings. I looked at the GPS data from my very short trip and found it started with at exact location I took off from, (as…"
Jun 7, 2014
Jim Yost posted a discussion
You Tube Video LinkArduCopter 2.6, u-blox GPS with compass, 3DR Telemetry 915 Mhz, APM 3.1.4,Details: Saturday. I had a momenty lost of controll early in the day. The next flight I could not take off due to a  mag - prearm check failure. I…
Jun 2, 2014
Jim Yost replied to Nick's discussion APM copter flipped on takeoff, after many successful flights.

I suggest you start by connecting to Mission Planner, click on the terminal button, connect to your copter. Then run tests => motors. Check that all the motors are working, all spinning the correct direction and pay special attention to what motor…"
May 9, 2014
Jim Yost replied to Jim Yost's discussion Mission Planner wizard changes frame type from X to Plus on start of wizard.
"Done."
Apr 29, 2014
Jim Yost posted a discussion
I have X frame hexa rotor, and entered the Mission Planner wizard by accident. (Which is easy to do on an 8" tablet PC). It immediately changed my Frame type from X to Plus. There was no indication that anything changed, and I bailed out of the…
Apr 28, 2014