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Yves Bradette commented on Randy's blog post ArduCopter 3.2 ready for wider use
"@Denny, I beg to differ.  This release just blows 3.1.5 out of the water.  The smooth response of the new flight modes and additional features including follow me is just so impressive.  
We've had our test platform in 35+ kph winds yesterday and…"
Nov 13, 2014
Yves Bradette commented on Randy's blog post ArduCopter 3.2 ready for wider use
"@Randy, that makes sense as well but increasing the WP_NAV_RADIUS helped from what I've seen in our testing this afternoon.  I'll know for sure tomorrow since it was very windy today but calm tomorrow so we'll give it another go.

I can live with…"
Nov 12, 2014
Yves Bradette commented on Randy's blog post ArduCopter 3.2 ready for wider use
"Thanks @Randy.  Haven't tested yet but I decided to increase the WPNAV_RADIUS from 2 to 6 meter.  

Do you think this will help?  what about the WPNAV_LOIT_JERK ?"
Nov 12, 2014
Yves Bradette commented on Randy's blog post ArduCopter 3.2 ready for wider use
"One more situation for me while running 3.2 RC14, see this video showing a mission with spline waypoints

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Sq9nA0MVeQ

Each time a waypoint is reached, the platform will twitch.  I thought maybe the mission have some…"
Nov 11, 2014
Yves Bradette commented on Randy's blog post ArduCopter 3.2 ready for wider use
"Any ideas about why the Follow Me mode isn't controlling the camera Tilt?  it just remains straight ahead.  Would appreciate some link to the wiki or other source on how to configure it.

thanks."
Nov 10, 2014
Yves Bradette commented on Randy's blog post ArduCopter 3.2 ready for wider use
"Rob_L, here is the log (bin). There is 1.5 G on the Z axis when going full throttle and some sway in X and Y which is normal (forward flight) (see near the end of the log), however there is also one other occurrence of the 1.5 G on Z about half way…"
Nov 10, 2014
Yves Bradette commented on Randy's blog post ArduCopter 3.2 ready for wider use
"Rob, I'm flying a quad rotor (small 450) and simply going forward with throttle at 100%.  Get the check error about 2 seconds into the forward flight then I back off the throttle.

I don't know what this is exactly other than it is related to the…"
Nov 10, 2014
Yves Bradette commented on Randy's blog post ArduCopter 3.2 ready for wider use
"Just finished my third flight, ran through all modes including Drift which is much better with the Throttle Assist.  Love the PosHold.
A few things, flew the Follow Me but though I configured the camera tilt properly.  Used RC9 output on Pixhawk and…"
Nov 10, 2014
Yves Bradette commented on Randy's blog post ArduCopter 3.2 ready for wider use
"A big thanks to the dev team and testers for all their hard work in getting this latest release ready.  Your efforts are much appreciated in evolving this market into something that we could only dream about a few years ago."
Nov 9, 2014