Preview of ArduCopter 2.6.1

We're within a day or two of releasing ArduCopter 2.6.1 to the public in the Mission Planner. It's the best performing code we've flown and the waypoint accuracy is really impressive. You can check out Marco Robustini's video above to see an long-distance waypoint flight, some tight loiter at 5:30 (holding in a 1m box!) and a fun demo of autorotation.

A full list of changes is here, but they include:

Performance improvements:

Better loiter, especially with the new 3DR uBlox GPS. Check out the video from Marco above!
Better yaw control
Better DCM implementation, resulting in noticeably smoother flight
Better camera control, including improved setup in the Mission Planner.
Etc

Bugfixes:

Fix to dataflash erasing, which should resolve an issue some users were having
Fix some MAVLink commands
Fix Circle command
Fix some units
Etc

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Mark Harrison July 17, 2012 at 5:56pm

and sorry for being dense, but what is autorotation?
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Mark Harrison July 17, 2012 at 5:48pm

What does it take to upgrade an existing APM2 (with attached GPS) to the new 3DR GPS?
Jeff Olijar July 17, 2012 at 3:55pm

so how exactly does the auto rotation work?
Crasher July 17, 2012 at 3:47pm

In 25 years of RC flying I've never seen anyone look so damn cool at the flying field. Dev extraordinaire *AND* style icon....

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