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Milford, PA


About Me:

Just a newb learning about this stuff.


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

Purchased APM mega and waiting for arrival. Excited to learn more about how to program it and use it for stabilization. Later would like to do FPV with video and then UAV with GCS.


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sendmessagestojohn replied to Andrew Laird's discussion Pitch offset for off-level boards
"I had pretty much the same issue today. It was the first time flying with my new APM in stabilization mode and I found that I kept having to use quite a bit of elevator and trimmed my elevator control almost all the way down to keep a level…"
Nov 5, 2011
sendmessagestojohn posted a discussion
Does anyone have any footage of their uav using NAV_TAKEOFF or NAV_LAND? I'm curious to see what kind of attitude the plane takes on and how viable the commands are in real life. It would also just be very cool to watch.
Oct 31, 2011
sendmessagestojohn replied to sendmessagestojohn's discussion Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport Adapter and X-Plane
"This is what I'm getting in Terminal view after I've loaded Adupilot V2.23 or V2.24 HIL. I've also looked at this with CLI on and off. I assumed it was because I had forgotten to turn it off before, but that wasn't the case."
Oct 29, 2011
sendmessagestojohn posted a discussion
I've spent the majority of my Saturday trying to get my APM to control a plane in X-plane. I first set everything up according to the instructions from the manual. All seemed to go fine. I got into X-plane and control surfaces all moved, just needed…
Oct 29, 2011