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  • Gustav Kuhn September 6, 2011 at 12:53am

    Is there going to be enough airflow to the motors for cooling?

    I would've put on two scoops to channel air more directly onto the motor fins......

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    Vladimir "Lazy" Khudyakov August 10, 2011 at 12:22pm

    I flew similar with Paparazzi AP...

  • diego colonnello August 8, 2011 at 8:24pm

    My testing airframe uses a OS .40 LA engine, little bit underpowered but it saves fuel, it can be on the air like 60 minutes with APM managing the throttle!!!!!! not bad for a uav cruising at 90 km/h and loitering al 30 km/h.....

     

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    Alex August 8, 2011 at 2:09pm
    What engine are you using for that airframe?
  • diego colonnello August 8, 2011 at 7:47am

    Hello people, last weekend we managed to make real good testing of my APM in my medium airframe, RTL on failsafe now works awesome, only will change the RTL altitude from 100 meters to 150 meters, also gonna adjust the way it behaves when turning back home ( it comes back but too violent, and snakes on its way back) but loiters really good.

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    Chris Anderson August 6, 2011 at 5:12pm

    The failsafe function is described in the manual here: 

    http://code.google.com/p/ardupilot-mega/wiki/Failsafe

  • Troublemaker August 6, 2011 at 5:02pm

    Loss of signals from the reciever should put the APM in to return home mode? Shouldn't it Chris?

     

     

     

    The outback challenge is a specific event, using one aircraft to try to meet a challenge, specifically finding and delivering payload to a dummy target out in an open test range. As such i think risks are fine to take. 

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    Chris Anderson August 5, 2011 at 10:06am
    Yes, home is set at startup on the ground after first GPS lock.
  • palo sestak August 4, 2011 at 10:22am

    How have you set the FS on your receiver? Does the mode-switch channel match the RTL level required on APM after you turn off the radio?

  • diego colonnello August 4, 2011 at 9:55am

    I had a problem with RTL when the receiver failsafe kicks in, it did not performed the RTL, went to a dive, turned on the TX  and recovered the plane....

    I tested RTL as a switched mode and worked like a charm, i don´t understand what happened.....

    I tuned the PIDs, tested Stabilized mode, FBW, Guided mode, Auto mode and RTL, all of these testing got me smiling all day, only bad thing was they failsafe activation problem.......

     

    Any ideas?

     

     

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