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Read more…In the Wiki, it says that compass calibration errors can lead to a fly-away. I am curious why? I thought that a fly-away was because the a/c didn't know where it was. What does compass calibration have to do with that?
Read more…NASA is providing a half-million-dollar prize for Phase 1 of a Centennial Challenge that aims to develop technology to help unmanned aircraft operate safely in the national airspace system, the agency has announced. The first phase of the UAS AirspacRead more…
A French newspaper celebrated April Fool's Day with a story about a plan to deliver its papers by drone, and the idea was also adopted by The Daily Sentinel, in Colorado. The story was picked up and repeated across the blogosphere, but late in the da
Read more…To whomever decides the default tuning parameters in the next public release....
I, and probably a few others, would like to avoid spending a lot of time tuning my parameters. In the past, up to 2.8.1, the default parameters were almost good enough f
Read more…From the EFF:
FAA Releases New Drone List-Is Your Town on the Map?
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/02/faa-releases-new-list-drone-authorizations-your-local-law-enforcement-agency-map
I think that the EFF has jumped the rails into areas not in their c
Read more…Rise of Drones in U.S. Drives Efforts to Limit Police Use.
NY Times Article
The Ebee - $12,000.
From the makers of the Parrot AR.Drone.
Sony has introduced a new lightweight camera, but this one is different in that it uses a CCD sensor - no rolling shutter that is the main source of the "Jell-o Effect".
I just saw this in another forum. It's called DeFisher from ProDad. I downloaded the demo (the purchase is 79 Euros) and tried it on a video from my GoPro. Here's a before and after screenshot:
I recently saw an ad for a toy quadcopter. The demo video shows a selected configuration, "X", "+". And in the demo video they say: "2 Flying Modes for Different Experiences".
I wasn't aware that there could be any performance difference in one confi
Read more…I wanted my hex to fly in a loop in Auto mode from wpt1 to wpt2 to wpt3 then back to wpt1.
So my mission looks like this:
Waypoint 1
Waypoint 2
Waypoint 3
DO_JUMP to Waypoint 1
After flying the waypoints, the hex just loitered at waypoint 3. It never went
Read more…Where did the "Absolute Alt" checkbox go?
When I prepared a mission, I got a warning from MP 1.2.17 that "Absolute Alt" was checked. But I never checked it in prior versions, and the checkbox is missing from the 1.2.17 screen.
Read more…Does the AMA (Academy of Model Aeronautics) fairly represent recreational UAV activities?
The problem as I see it is that the AMA managed to get their rulemaking "authority" into the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012, Senate Bill, Section 607(g
Read more…I set up a mission with 5 waypoints. Just to ID them, I set each WPT at a different altitude. WPT1 is 14M, and hovering the mouse over WPT1 shows ALT=14. WPT 2-5 are correct as well. now I insert a Takeoff and Land before and after the list of wa
Read more…The wiki seems to disagree with the popup descriptions in APM 1.2.13
In the parameter list, THR_FAILSAFE_ACTION
The popup indicates that the aircraft will enter RTL when a LOS failsafe occurs if THR_FAILSAFE_ACTION=1
But the Wiki says that this setting
Read more…Please disregard this thread.
I was wrong in my assumption and the connections shown below are correct and the external GPS does work.
Now, lets go fly.
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Just clicked "Yes" on the update, and now the Flight Data screen is covered with a giant "Quick" window. How do I get rid of it?
Has anyone used the "Extract Waypoints" feature in V2.7.3 ?
I have tried it on two PC's using a few .tlog files, and they all abort with an error.
Thanks
Steve
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