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APM 2.5 , scary first flight but all is good.

Posted by vova reznik on July 8, 2013 at 10:00pm

I never do a range check. But when I do, I forget to take it out of range check mode before takeoff.

APM2.5 saved the day and loitered around home until we realized our silly mistake.

This was our first flight ever with APM. Everything worked nice. Special thanks to Droidplanner app, which talked to us throughout the whole flight and kept calm when everyone else was panicking.

25, apm

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Augusto M. Iturri July 9, 2013 at 5:13pm

Congrats! You can use checklist (like on real planes) to remember all steps.
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Andrew Tridgell July 9, 2013 at 2:49am

I've done that too - I had my receiver set to FBWA zero throttle on failsafe, and my plane glided in nicely. It took me a few minutes to realise what had happened!

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