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Successfully Flew A Three 3k Waypoint Flight

Posted by Trent at MyGeekShow on June 17, 2013 at 11:13am

I set up three 3k circles around my field to test range and how the Raptor would perform during an actual travel environment, and it performed very, very well. A perfect flight. You may see at the end I realize that my RTL altitude was set to zero, but luckily I was quick enough to set a guided mode until I could manually return it home. 

Awesome stuff! Thank you DIYD!

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  • Timo June 18, 2013 at 7:51am

    Hi Trent. Great show! Two days ago I just had my maiden flight with arduplane. Yesterday I got already RTL and waypoint navigation working. Your show helped me really a lot. You propable although saved me from a few crashes and many frustrated hours.

    You can set the RTL altitude in mission planner in the advanced parameters list. The parameter is ALT_HOLD_RTL. The default value should be 10000 (100 meters).

  • Ray Card June 18, 2013 at 7:12am

    Hi Trent really love the shows. Are you still updating www.mygeekshow.com as the last episode showing is episode 118 and I see this one is 123

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  • Trent at MyGeekShow June 17, 2013 at 1:00pm
    If it where, it would "land" right where it took off! At least for airplanes, I don't think this would be a good feature. I think it's set to what ever you set the default altitude, which is usually 100m. For some reaons my default keeps resetting itself to zero every time I save/load a waypoint file. I believe (I'll test tomorrow) that whatever default says when you write the waypoints is what will write to RTL.
  • Euan Ramsay June 17, 2013 at 12:56pm
    Isn't RTL meant to be zero?
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