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3DR GPS back up battery broken off PCB

This has happened to me twice now, with two seperate GPS modules - first time a year or two ago, on the bench.

2nd time just recently in the air! Noticed a loss of GPS, dropped out for about 10seconds - first time I have ever lost GPS mid-air in getti

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PID - "out of range" - AUTOTUNE

So I ran AUTOTUNE on my new quad (6s 400kv motors, 15" props), ended up with the following values, which when I view in mission planner it flags STB_RLL_P, STB_PIT_P, RATE_RLL_P and RATE_PIT_P as being out of range, which you can see below they are:

I

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Moving multiple waypoints

Is it possible to select all waypoints and drag and drop them somewhere else. Or select all and rotate by X degrees...

Say I wanted to move my entire mission 500m along the field, or rotate a previously planned mission to suit the wind direction on th

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DO_REPEAT_SERVO - Arduplane 2.74

Does the DO_REPEAT_SERVO command work on Arduplane 2.74 - I am failing to get it to.

I have seen various (inconclusive) threads on here relating to it, but either for older firmware or Arducopter.

I have had success triggering with DO_SET_SERVO, but re

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Arduplane - Altitude on autopilot mode

My Arduplane (2.73) + HK Bixler performs well on autopilot missions with regard to hitting waypoints in lat/long, but sometimes the altitude can be way out.

I made some anti vibration modifications, and shading of the PCB from sunlight, which improved

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Flight log

Can anyone tell me if the following data is logged in the Ardupilot onboard logger during flight, or if not directly, are there data that are logged from which the following can be inferred:

-accelerometer xyz values

-power applied to each motor (quad

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