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mack goodman replied to Andrew P.'s discussion Mission planner - white faded areas/overlay all over the map (v1.3.15 build 1.15442.12660)
"yes , the newer versions of mission planner , you can turn that off in the planner config page"
Feb 2, 2015
mack goodman replied to Andrew P.'s discussion Mission planner - white faded areas/overlay all over the map (v1.3.15 build 1.15442.12660)
"Just a quick note for anyone else in this predicament, 1.3.12 is the latest version that doesn't have the obtrusive overlay for baltimore washington region.. I went back to that version until it gets resolved.."
Dec 5, 2014
mack goodman replied to Andrew P.'s discussion Mission planner - white faded areas/overlay all over the map (v1.3.15 build 1.15442.12660)
"absolutely, you must give us a way to turn this off.. It is very obtrusive to those of us in that area..I am sure someone who has knowledge of this code can help us out, please?"
Dec 5, 2014
mack goodman posted a discussion
I power my 2.6 board from both sides with 2 becs.  the input side bec failed and sent 12 volts to the input.I have been using the APM boards for 2 years and thought I was being safe by powering with 5v becs.. I had no idea the bec could fail in such…
Oct 28, 2014
mack goodman replied to Ron LaBorde's discussion "Camera Target" Icon in Mission Planner
"any news on this.. it's really annoying but i can't seem to get rid of it.."
Aug 14, 2014
mack goodman commented on Trent at MyGeekShow's blog post MyGeekShow Streaming Live Marathon (42km) Cross Country Attempt
"I have been doing a lot more research on the "follow me" for planes and I think it will will work perfectly for a cross country trip.
I also found an app for android phones that will enable gps over bluetooth and I was able to integrate this into…"
Jan 3, 2014
mack goodman commented on Trent at MyGeekShow's blog post MyGeekShow Streaming Live Marathon (42km) Cross Country Attempt
"Trent, I watched the entire thing and I felt so bad when the first launch went badly.. I have been there so many times... the look on your face was priceless.  only someone in the hobby would know what you were feeling..disappointment!  then, you…"
Jan 1, 2014
mack goodman replied to Gábor Zoltán's discussion Adding extra functions to MinimOSD
"is anyone using a slim version of a charset?  Smaller font or slimed down characters?  If so, can I also use it?
it's for the plane version..
thanks"
Dec 22, 2013
mack goodman replied to Gábor Zoltán's discussion Adding extra functions to MinimOSD
"some recent video using r712 I think...  had some strange artifacts.. I downgraded since then and I have forgotten which version this was .. but I think it was 712.
http://youtu.be/YzBE2BefNeE"
Dec 10, 2013
mack goodman replied to healthyfatboy's discussion Newbie Tuning, Warnings, and Upgrading Questions
"Still working on my Penguin with this new 2.76.. anyone here having issues like I am?  RTL and Loiter do figure eights instead of circling... I think it must be some setting I have wrong but I can't find it...

Any suggestions from anyone here would…"
Dec 4, 2013
mack goodman replied to Gábor Zoltán's discussion Adding extra functions to MinimOSD
"trying to get up to speed on the new firmware.. I have been using quite an older version.. but now I flashed the most recent I could find and the "temp" reading is way off.  is that feature still supported?  I re flashed the most recent char set…"
Nov 30, 2013
mack goodman replied to Anand S. Biradar's discussion Bixler crash, unable to figure out the reason.
"Does your radio and receiver have a failsafe? and if so, did you set it to failsafe RTL mode?

I am no expert, but sounds like a radio malfunction to me and if so I would suspect failsafe was not set.
Does your radio have any glitches , power…"
Nov 21, 2013
mack goodman replied to Andrew Tridgell's discussion APM:Plane 2.75 released
"I just flew this 2.75 today and my Penguin is all messed up.. RTL used to be smooth, today it was hunting for the target altitude like mad.. it was set at 600.. it hunted wildly between 450 and 550, speeding up and down, in some crazy pattern.…"
Nov 5, 2013
mack goodman replied to Bob's discussion No RC Receiver message
"Another thread on this.. somewhere here. anyway, it seems if you update the apm firmware it fixes this."
Nov 1, 2013
mack goodman replied to Gábor Zoltán's discussion Adding extra functions to MinimOSD
"Video of version R540 if it helps anyone.

http://youtu.be/JEC8pXKY5EI"
Mar 31, 2013
mack goodman posted a discussion
For some reason, my default altitude keeps "defaulting" to 0  each time I restart MP...This did not happen before.. Can anyone comment or confirm this with their setup?  I now have to remember to check that each time, and I already have 100's of…
Mar 30, 2013
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