Rupert Kent's Discussions (9)

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What am I doing wrong...?

Hi all,

 I've been flying a Skyfun with Arduplane on for about 18 months now and have enjoyed it immensely. Around this time last year I pre-ordered the ArduCopter kit. The kit duly came from the supplier (Fah-Pah as it was back then) and I simply did

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Skyfun lost roll channel

Hello all,

 

Due to one thing or another it's been a while since I looked at my Skyfun based UAV. Today, I fired it up and installed the latest APM software (2.24) via Planner v1.0.79. The installation went great but I seem to have lost all roll contro

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Airframe effectiveness

Hi all, 

As I experiment a little more with APM in my Skyfun, I wonder if there's a suite of attributes we could use to compare airframes and get a good idea of where one airframe performs better over another. Just for starters, example attributes cou

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Pitch and Roll limiters not working...?

Hi all,

 

After reverting to Dec 13 code yesterday, I noticed that the limiters for pitch and roll whilst in stabilized mode do not seem to work. I have them set at +/- 25° for pitch and 45° for roll. I was able to easily pitch and roll well beyond the

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Faulty Aispeed Sensor...???

Hi all,

 

Running some tests on my APM after config and the test -> airspeed is coming back with results similar to the following. Pretty sure my Skyfun isn't doing 20km/s sat on my workbench...! Can anyone shed any light on this...? Is my airspeed sen

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Drift correction with Magnetometer

Hi chaps,

 

I am planning to add the magnetometer to my APM to provide heading information.

 

As a PPL holder, I am fully aware that GPS can only provide track information and as such, GPS based navigation is inefficient in anything but dead calm conditi

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Default loiter altitude / height

Hi chaps,

 

I now have around 1.5h of flight time on my Skyfun with APM + MediaTek + Airspeed. So far I am very impressed, but I have a question about the default loiter altitude / height. I guess altitude as I am 100% GPS based for altitude measuremen

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Channel Reversing Problem - Skyfun

Hi all,

 

I am configuring my Skyartec Skyfun with APM and Oilpan. I have the system set up so all channels operate correctly in manual flight mode (APM not engaged) but as soon as I switch to stabilise or FBW, although the APM responds correctly in te

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