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Chantilly, VA


About Me:

I am an electrical engineer and a private airplane pilot.


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

I fly rc planes and choppers. Just got a quad APM 2.5 to play with.


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Mitch posted a discussion in ArduCopter User Group
I have been Reading Chris Olsen posts and watching his videos on Arducopter with traditional Helis using a Pixhawk.I have inherited an older Trex 450 heli with the old Align 3G FBL hardware.  The FBL controller appears to be bad.  So I have an old…
Sep 21, 2019
Mitch commented on Bruce Jones's blog post Getting 6 Modes out of Channel 5 on a Spektrum DX7s
"Yeah. That's what I needed to know. Those settings along with the screenshots of the mixes did the trick. I'm up and running now with all flight modes on channel 5. Thanks for your help."
Aug 2, 2013
Mitch commented on Bruce Jones's blog post Getting 6 Modes out of Channel 5 on a Spektrum DX7s
"Hi MegaFlare. I would like to get a copy of your .SPM file. Could you also please post a picture of your dx7s screen showing your system switch settings. This will show me which aux channels are set to the various switches on your transmitter. That…"
Aug 2, 2013
Mitch replied to Randy's discussion ArduCopter-3.0.1 released!
"I have been flying for months with no issues on 2.9.1b until I upgraded to 3.0.1. I ran through all the calibrations including compassmot using a 3DR power monitor sensor. I even used anti vibration foam on my APM 2.5+, did a live calibration of the…"
Jul 24, 2013
Mitch replied to harin sanghirun's discussion Can't Change Flight Mode
"I have a Similar problem. Some of my flight modes match up and some don't. Did anyone figure out why this is happening? My pwm readouts are in the correct ranges for the switch settings, but the portion of the display on top which shows the "current…"
May 4, 2013
Mitch commented on Bruce Jones's blog post Getting 6 Modes out of Channel 5 on a Spektrum DX7s
"Actually what would be SUPER helpful is for someone who has this working to upload the configuration file. So if you could save the working model to the SD card, then upload that file to the source code server. Then we could download it ourselves…"
Apr 22, 2013
Mitch replied to Hugues's discussion Sonar minimum distance ?
"Thats not a bug.  Anything less than 20cm gets reported from the hardware to the APM as 20cm exactly.  Its a set limit in the sonar hardware."
Jan 9, 2013