After nearly two years of putting around with no nasty surprises my heavy Hex, "The Witch" has been behaving badly and yesterday gave me a fright.
A couple of weeks ago I moved up to 3.1 from 3.0.1 and in test flights noticed that there seems to be so
Read more…Chicken-powered camera stabilization!!
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Read more…Here's something that just happened without consequences other than a surprise, but that has some potential for a bigger scare or worse:
Aircraft: DJI 550 Hex w. APM 2.5 & 2.9.1b firmware, JR 12X Tx. Armed and took off in Stabilize but landed again ri
Read more…Had a near flyaway followed immediately by a near lawn-dart maneuver by my Flamewheel 550 this weekend, apparently due to running an APM 2.5 board "bare" (without case or foam baffling the barometer).
Here's the video with further commentary in the Yo
Read more…Flying a hex w. APM 2.5/ublox, FW 2.9.1, MP 1.2.35: I want to turn down the flight speed when RTL is invoked. I thought there was a specific parameter for that earlier but now I can't find it in any of the parameter lists. Does WP_SPEED_MAX perhaps
Read more…Just upgraded my Flamewheel 550 Hex from the APM 2.0 board to APM 2.5 (plus the ublox GPS) (all directly from 3DR). On firmware installation, at the end of the "verify" phase, there's an error message stating that the firmware upload was successful
Read more…Anyone who has been around RC aircraft is aware of the danger of getting tangled up with a prop. Modern high-end props made for electric flight can be nearly razor sharp, and even the rubbery cheap sort will cut through skin like a knife through butt
Read more…A fundamental characteristic of multicopters is that they change flight direction and speed, and also hold position against a wind, by tilting the entire aircraft. If the multicopter is being used as a camera platform, the camera mount must compensat
