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Michael - Swift Radioplanes commented on Andrew Tridgell's blog post APM:Plane 3.5.0 released
"Jose can you post a log? It appears as if you have a consistent crosstrack error that the aircraft is never solving (it's flying exactly between the two lines both directions)."
Feb 10, 2016
Michael - Swift Radioplanes commented on Andrew Tridgell's blog post APM:Plane 3.5.0 released
"As a note: If you get a EKF Terrain Alt Variance warning, it's actually a airspeed variance warning, this will be fixed in a future release. (We want both the terrain variance and the airspeed variance warnings :) )"
Feb 2, 2016
Michael - Swift Radioplanes commented on Thorsten's blog post GPS positional accuracy III
"@Adam Kroll - Set GPS_RAW_DATA to 1 and you would be recording every RXM-RAWX message from the GPS to the uSD card. The uBlox driver automatically moves to a higher baud rate for communicating with the GPS when GPS_RAW_DATA is set to ensure that it…"
Jan 14, 2016
Michael - Swift Radioplanes replied to iskess's discussion Creating a dedicated camera photo logger with IMU, GPS, and trigger sensor.
"As far as the tagging aspect goes and without modifying the autopilot, we have released a free standalone photo tagger that works with the autopilots log, and uses a script with Mission Planner. Using this method we can handle missing arbitrary…"
May 19, 2015
Michael - Swift Radioplanes commented on Michael - Swift Radioplanes's blog post SwiftTag - Free photo tagging software
"We currently managing the deep stall entirely with the RC transmitter using a mix to change the flight mode and the elevator throw. The deepstall can be entirely hands off or steered with the rudder to keep the plane aimed in the desired diestion.…"
Mar 19, 2015
Michael - Swift Radioplanes posted a blog post
In an effort to give back to the DIY community, we have decided to offer our standalone geo-tagging software, SwiftTag, for free. It is meant to work with all camera setups that are triggered by the APM platform. By using a synchronization script…
Mar 18, 2015