"I went through and put both ardurover and arduplane before putting on arducopter again.  I went through the ESC's and calibrated those as well.  As I stated just now in the response above, I'm having problems getting the drone to take off.  I…"

"Martin: YOU WERE RIGHT!  I actually found a plug into the pixhawk from the motors was plugged in upside down.  This made motor 1 turn into motor 4, etc.  I'm still having one issue but I know I'm getting close.
The motors run fine, but now the drone…"

"I still can't get the drone to work properly.  What can I do?"

"I've confirmed my props are running the correct directions, the Pixhawk is in the correct orientation.  I start my quad up in stabilize mode, which I thought would avoid this behavior."

"Sorry for the delay in answering, but I've got a day job that gets hectic at random times of the year.

These are photos of my setup and a video of the quad flipping over.  I tried reversing the blades onto the wrong arms, but found the props just…"

"I can't wait to give this a shot.  I was ready to shelf this thing, but I'm gonna keep going.  I'll let you know how it goes!"

"Brilliant!  I never thought of building a suspension system to try it out.  My only question: what's a PID?"

"Thank you for the tip!  After reading this, I checked my translator but found nothing wrong.  It was still soldered to the board and couldn't be pried off."

"I had the same exact issue, and only today traced the problem back to the actual Pixhawk device.  I even opened mine up and searched for damage, but found none.  I did notice the processor gets really hot.  To fix my drone, I had to get a new…"