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Male
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Location
vic
About Me:
Flying 20 + years all types
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
have a quad and thinking about setting up a plane
Hometown:
Melbourne
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Well dad and i are in the middle of setting up a hex to do aerial photography and have trusted it to amp 2.6 First few flight have gone great. got in an auto tune and hex seems to be flying really nice. I haven't flown it yet just dad. we have 25 +…
"have u run an auto trim?
when arming the copter leave the rudder stick over for 15 sec then fly and in stab. it will record your in puts and re trim after landing and disarming pretty simple
http://copter.ardupilot.com/wiki/autotrim/"
when arming the copter leave the rudder stick over for 15 sec then fly and in stab. it will record your in puts and re trim after landing and disarming pretty simple
http://copter.ardupilot.com/wiki/autotrim/"
"well yes was using cheap props. the red nyon ones. and wouldnt u know it. i replaced them all after the last crash as it destroyed them all. but yesterday morning i did flip it on landing and crimp one of the front props. Upon inspection after the…"
Well this is becoming all to normal. just updated to 3.1 and all was flying well. had done an autotune this morning and was then enjoying some of the new modes like drift & sports. well i was up flying when another member was taking off so i flew to…
Yes once again it crash. this time very hard. was flying fpv was 600 meters or so out, on my back and i just flipped over and fell. nothing i could do. im slowly getting better at reading the logs. from what i see the back left motor had issues.…
"Sounds to me like throttle stick needs reversing."
Well after a great weekend out flying got some cool videos with a bit of fpv flying. i then installed a camera gimble and ran it to the apm. yes i know i did this wrong but was just to keen to get it into the sky. i had it stabilized though the apm.…
"Yeah if thats the case then it is upside down. Thought it might be. So why is it working most of the time and not when i need it to then"
Well after testing my first mission all was fine. upon the second mission it flew off on it own and i wasnt quick enough to grab it back. After some more missions and testing i see in my logs im losing gps. this is only happening when i switch it…
"Thank you very much randy for taking the time to look and explain what happened. if as it looks like a mechanical problem my guess would be the prop adapter slipping on the shaft, all gear is brand so wouldn't really expect to much of anything else…"
So this is the second time i have had my quad drop out of the sky in loiter. first time i caught it before it crashed this time i was not fast enough, i have the log from the last flight and google map file it dropped in from a decent height. do i…
