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Yaw compass drift pixhawk, 3.2 fw

Flying quad fine until yesterday!

Compass is calibrated and working correctly!

In stabilize mode can manually yaw fine! stop manually maintaining a heading and the quad slowly yaws (turns). Obviously it also effects alt hold and loiter, to make them un

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Circles on map in mp

Been away, just updated to latest mp, what are those shaded circles (discs) overlaid on the maps?

They are not on google maps so must be overlaid by MP!

How can I get rid of them?

Thanks...

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Mavlink Commands Quick Reference Guide

This is an ongoing project, but complete enough that it could be useful for anyone flying MultiCopters

Use: Exclusively for ArduPilotMega loaded with ArduCopter firmware, Mission Planner.
Explanations added where appropriate.
All Command references have

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new 3DR radio, connection problems

Guys,

Got problems connecting this new 3dr radio!

433mhz using two air modules.
Ground station 3DR module connected using 3v3 diy drones FTDI lead to W7 64bit windows laptop.
Air module connected to apm2.5 using dedicated socket on apm

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non completion of mission

Had this weird one happen today!

Place wp1 near your home position, then wp2 due south, and the third one due north, a final one near home again.

Doesn't need to be north/south as long as the three wp's are in line.

See attached pic. What happened was f

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No dataFlash inserted (new problem)

Sorry if I'm out of place posting this in two forums, but I'm trying to find out if this is a Firmware or Mission Planner problem!

Have upgraded one of my quads with the version 2.5 pcb. As you know this has the on-board chip dataFlash, I had hoped th

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FW unreadable by mission planner

Guys, Hope this is the right forum!  I need a bit of help getting this working:

Got the Arduino compiling and uploading the hex file to apm2 ok.

But once done (with no errors) Mission planner doesn't seem to recognise the code, Mavlink connects, HUD tu

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Loiter behaving like a pendulum

I'm running initial flying trials with custom quad, apm2.

So far: Level good, Stabilize good, Alt hold good

Loiter works but starts with small pendulum movements which grow to huge pendulum movements, describing an arc of about 50 ft length. Slight bre

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initialising problem

Hi, come back to this after a short break and now my ardupilot 1.4 decides to play up!

All things seem to react as expected during a complete set up procedure, until on the <modes> screen the heading text continually shows "Initialising" (instead of w

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