Hi Guys,
So I have been working for a couple (few) months an this design it was a long held beleif of mine that ducted propellers would only have a detrimental effect on flight efficency. After discussing the dynamics
of a ducted fan and its effects
Read more…In an attempt to understand the absolute full extent of the battery payload, a field operator had conducted a test allowing the copter to loiter until it "fell" from the sky. I know, I cringed hearing this also. The following days flight resulted i
Read more…I say unexplained , although i actually caused the crash. I was mapping a test area that I frequent. The flight went well but at the end during the final stage of the return to launch, the aircraft stopped descending at 10 mtrs and held there. I tho
Read more…I have built several quads with the pixhawk using an AR6210 Rx and the 3DR ppm encoder. Had an issue with one today that is baffling me. The Rx is getting power through the encoder. The monitors on the "radio calibration page are green (but no input
Read more…I have used APM until now to outfit all my copters ( Quads) until recently feeling the push to move to the PixHawk. I have had a few builds go perfectly fine until this morning. I have gone over everything as best I know how to no avail.
The copter a
Read more…We were doing a demo for some water resources groups here in the SF north Bay area along the delta showing salinity gradients at specific GPS locations. The protocol was to take off in auto mode and loiter at 9 meters. From there we would enter guide
Read more…Hi All,
I posted this over in ArduCopter User Group and got a few helpful responses but am still not having
success. My goal is to land at specific way points around a body of water, like a lake for instance, delay for about 30 seconds while the vari
Read more…Hi all,
All my control surfaces elevator and aileron work as expected in all flight modes through the radio inputs. But when I am in a stabilised mode the control surfaces (aileron and elm really stumped. I really went through everything I could th
Read more… I am working with some folks from Nerds4Nature to develop a drone that can land at various waypoints in a body of water( HUGO is particularly good at this) and sit there for 25 seconds up to 5 minutes in order to obtain water quality readings from s
