About

Gender

Male


Location

Budapest


About Me:

I am in the drone hobby since mid-2013. Starting late and slow but I am catching up fast :-)


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

As robotics is the future, UAV is the most interesting part of that (besides AI)


Hometown:

Budapest


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Tamás L. Páll (Tom) posted a discussion
Hi all,I made a Structure scan: DO_SET_ROI then LOITER TURNS all good and set and works BUT the targeting is off by a 0-15deg in yaw direction. Center of the circle is correct,Can anybody help ID what I screwed up?2016-09-26%2017-46-57.tlogThanks in…
Sep 27, 2016
Tamás L. Páll (Tom) posted a discussion
Hi All, I have an 3DR X8 that I have built form components completely, for mapping. Flies OK but problem is that I cannot use te logs as they are not containing any CAM lines as my As outputs 1-8 are occupied by the ESCs I put the Camera trigger on…
Jun 2, 2016
Tamás L. Páll (Tom) posted a discussion
Hi, I have to do an Agricultural flight in a Military CTR in my county. I have all the approvals and everything. I know DJI has put some no-fly zones in their system. Do we have something similar for our beloved Ardu system hidden? (I saw the no-fly…
May 28, 2016
Tamás L. Páll (Tom) replied to Tamás L. Páll (Tom)'s discussion HELP please identify the cause of crash.
"Where do you see altitude error? 
I could only   find NTUN / AltErr as altitude error. is that you are looking at? "
Mar 29, 2016
Tamás L. Páll (Tom) replied to Tamás L. Páll (Tom)'s discussion HELP please identify the cause of crash.
"One more thing comes to mind as what could have happened: I loaded the flight plan from file and for some reason flight plan was loaded with Absolute Alt instead of Relative Alt. Is there any way of checking that from the log? 
I saved the plan I…"
Mar 28, 2016
Tamás L. Páll (Tom) replied to Tamás L. Páll (Tom)'s discussion HELP please identify the cause of crash.
"Second was a joke. ;-)
Sorry, it was a bad one..."
Mar 28, 2016
Tamás L. Páll (Tom) replied to Tamás L. Páll (Tom)'s discussion HELP please identify the cause of crash.
"I launched with right hand and I have Mode2 RC controller so I was pulling the "elevator" and the plane up from the moment I got my hand back on the transmitter, because I saw the plane was not climbing as it should. I thought I can avoid crash by…"
Mar 28, 2016
Tamás L. Páll (Tom) replied to Tamás L. Páll (Tom)'s discussion HELP please identify the cause of crash.
"takeoff pitch was set to 15 deg. I do not recall seeing that pitch but it happened fast... Anyway, I have 3.4 on this plane. 
Was the TECS tweaked since 3.4? "
Mar 28, 2016
Tamás L. Páll (Tom) posted a discussion
I feel like a complete newbie, Plane crashed on auto-takeoff and I cannot ID the cause. Atteched is the loaded waypoint file, the telemetry log and on-board log. Can anyone help me, please? alt test 150-80 monor.waypoints41.BIN2016-03-22…
Mar 24, 2016
Tamás L. Páll (Tom) commented on Andrew Tridgell's blog post APM:Plane 3.5.1 released
"Guys, is it possible that once a new FW is available the plane "doesn't want" to fly with the old version? "
Mar 23, 2016
Tamás L. Páll (Tom) replied to Tamás L. Páll (Tom)'s discussion Mission Planner KML overlay
"Michael, 
First of all many-many thanks for Mission Planner! It is the best and most mature GCS software I have seen!
What overlay format/structure does it support?
I tried adding as custom map but for some reason I can"t load the tiles. Also it…"
Feb 10, 2016
Tamás L. Páll (Tom) posted a discussion
Hi all, In Mission Planner (1.3.34) > FlightPlan > right click >Map Tools > KML overly. I have a KML which calls a PNG to be overlaid.Problem is that for some reason the PNG does not show up.Can anyone tell me the KML sysntax needed for this? right…
Feb 9, 2016
Tamás L. Páll (Tom) replied to John Wood's discussion Pixhawk GPS horizon error
"Same here! 
just put together a new x8, loaded the latest FW and I get the same error.
Has anyone found the solution?
 "
Jan 16, 2016
Tamás L. Páll (Tom) replied to Tamás L. Páll (Tom)'s discussion AUTOTUNE and AUTO_TRIM not working in AP3.4?
"I finally got the AUTO_TRIM thru automatically. 
I belive the source of the problem was that I was using ELEVON_MIXING which is deprecated. As soon as I have the disabled that and enabled ELEVON_OUTPUT the the AUTO_TRIM  worked.

Could this be the…"
Oct 6, 2015
Tamás L. Páll (Tom) posted a discussion
Hi all,After ~300 flights I finally crashed my old plane due to a mid-air battery failure. Not a pretty picture I must tell. But Pixhawk and all peripherals survived I moved the Pixhawk to a brand new FX-79. loaded the 3.4 and went to the field:did…
Oct 6, 2015
Tamás L. Páll (Tom) replied to Thierry YABI's discussion Use of UAVs to calculate with precision areas of cashew farms? in Agricultural UAVs
"The easy way is to get a multicopter with the sensing equipment you need, a car, an RTK and a software that assembles the data you gathered. Nothing new, nothing fancy, and you will be spending tons of money and time on getting to the operation…"
Aug 17, 2015
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