About

Location

Gauteng


About Me:

Self Employed, RC Enthausiast, Father and Husband.


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

Long term goal to built a UAV with long endurance that does not need a runway or highly skilled pilot. (Quadplane with gas motor for forward propulsion.


Hometown:

Pretoria


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Marthinus replied to Marthinus's discussion Advise and help needed. Quadplane accident.
"1mm Carbon sheet machined and the bottom side sanded to be course. The wing area also sanded level and straight. Glued with epoxy resin.
Machined 16mm clamps from alu and a m3 threaded strip from steel. The steel strip was glued to the bottom of the…"
Apr 28, 2018
Marthinus replied to Marthinus's discussion Advise and help needed. Quadplane accident.
"AUW = 5200g
Will send some picture of mounts later.
Have a good day!"
Apr 27, 2018
Marthinus replied to Marthinus's discussion Advise and help needed. Quadplane accident.
"Dear Luc,

Thank you for all the help. I install 2.0.25 for MAC and it works perfect. I appreciate your help. Luc Maximilien said:
I use the 2.0.25  version of Apm Planner 2 on Linux Mint  and Windows 7 64 .
The  available  32 bit version for…"
Apr 26, 2018
Marthinus replied to Marthinus's discussion Advise and help needed. Quadplane accident.
"Dear Luc,

I downloaded AP 2 and installed but receive the following error when I try to load the .bin file.
Luc Maximilien said:
The graph was made with  Apm Planner 2
The Rc3 output shows full  throttle command to the Esc but you gradually go to…"
Apr 26, 2018
Marthinus replied to Marthinus's discussion Advise and help needed. Quadplane accident.
"Dear Luc,
Thank you for this information. I will download the log files from the ESC's and look what they did. What app/software did you use to create this graph? Luc Maximilien said:"
Apr 25, 2018
Marthinus replied to Marthinus's discussion Advise and help needed. Quadplane accident.
"Dear Daniel,
Thank you for your response. I have checked the param file (It is also uploaded) and the avoid function is off and was not activated. Daniel Perez said:
Hello Marthinus,

it seems like the avoid_adsb kicked in, see the image below, so…"
Apr 25, 2018
Marthinus replied to Marthinus's discussion Advise and help needed. Quadplane accident.
"Dear Tom,

Appologies, I was not aware of that. Tom Pittenger said:
ArduPilot support has moved to discuss.ardupilot.org"
Apr 25, 2018
Marthinus replied to Marthinus's discussion Advise and help needed. Quadplane accident.
"Dear Tom,

Appologies, I was not aware of that. Tom Pittenger said:
ArduPilot support has moved to discuss.ardupilot.org"
Apr 25, 2018
Marthinus posted a discussion
Hi, I am reasonably new at this and had a mishap with my quad plane yesterday. I am not at all proficient in the log analysis and would appreciate it highly if somebody with experience could look at the log and maybe advise me on what went…
Apr 24, 2018