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Hi everybody,
Here is the flight of my modified Mentor equipped with APM 2.2.0 build 3036.
The Mentor has been modified with two motors on the wings for a total power of 500 Watts,in order to make room for the camera on the nose and for equipments in the fuselage.
Lipo battery 3 cells 3200mhA.
Radio Graupner MC24 40 Mhz.
Supports for motors have been made using "T" shaped supports for glow plug engines (mounted inverted).
Tested RTL, Loiter and Auto. modes with the default PID settings.
Loiter radius 20 meters.
Altitude 30 meters.
Wind conditions 5-7 knots with sudden burst.
Very good flights and very good job from your side.

In the auto mode the mission waypoints were very close each other but APM was able to follow the path with only few ... wandering on sharp turns (the field is 300 by 300 meters wide).

This is a link to the post of the flight in the italian blog (sorry for the language).

Mentor flight link - video

Attached are some pictures taken fron mission planner and the log of the RTL and LOITER mode.

Strange patterns at the beginning of the log were the test of the behaviour in FBW mode and then the initial trimming of the plane.
I am going to test APM on other planes like Twinstar and Cularis as well as a flying wing.
If interested will post the results.

One last point; it will be fine to have one more mode in the list, that is Return to Home, where home is the point set in the mission and not the point where the APM is switched on in order to avoid loitering in places difficult to follow as in the log.

Thank and nice flights.

marco

RTL and Loiter log from Mission Planner.

Volo.tlog