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• Rob Avery December 11, 2013 at 12:56pm

  Using my APM 2.5 on a TBS Discovery w/ frsky 2.4 control, Immersion RC 600mw 5.8 and Fatshark Dominators, its taken a few months to get the bugs ironed out and flying (many crashes and about 3 vtx's), but it now flies nicely (though I'm a crappy pilot) thanks to this user group and many other fellow hobbyist. I am getting just over a klm of range with both video and control. Missions work great and loiter is finally stable.. see my quick video in Hawaii (apologies for the jello I have my gopro hardmounted in waterproof case for obvious reasons :)  http://youtu.be/tdV1w0lNKU0 any questions feel free to ask, and again thanks to everyone who helped me :)
• Tom Gates December 11, 2013 at 12:51pm

  Ok, I emailed 3d robotics, they tell me approximately 1 mile, line of site, with FlySky transmitter.

  Thanks John
• Tom Gates December 10, 2013 at 9:49am

  Yeah, I understand that, would like to have some idea of range. 1 mile, 2, any idea, even on just line of site.
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  John McGrath December 10, 2013 at 7:43am

  @tomgates They are correct your mileage will vary depending on terrain.
• Tom Gates December 10, 2013 at 6:45am

  FLYSKY TRANSMITTER

  Anybody know what approximate range of the FlySky transmitter and receiver is with 3d robotics quad?

  3d Robotics tells me the telemetry on board is good approximately a mile, more or less, given the terrain etc.

  Tom Gates
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  mark December 9, 2013 at 9:44am

  Awesome new feature in ArduCopter 3.1. Thanks for the tutorial Randy!
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  William December 5, 2013 at 4:28pm

  Hey everyone.  Just got in a second quad power distribution board in today and want to turn my quad into quad-8 or Octoquad.

  I purchsed a second pdb thinking I can use it to power the additional motors.  As I look at the quad and octoquad motors setup I see that the quad motors 1,2 are diagnal for the quad but are clockwise on the Octoquad top motors and 5 trhu 8 for the bottom motors clockwise.

  Long story short does anybody have advice on using 2 quad PDB's to make an Octoquad?
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  Neuro December 4, 2013 at 3:10pm

  Finished my GoPro anti-vibration mount last night , waiting for weather to behave so I can test it out. I left the big plastic thumb screw in place until I decide what angle I like , my fat shark Predator V2 set will be here friday!!!! 
  

  

  Heres the Circular polarized antennas I built today based on IBCRAZY's design!

  
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  Bob Kirkpatrick December 3, 2013 at 3:52am

  What advantage is there to installing sonar to the APM Copter. Is it a worthwhile option?
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  Mike Wilson December 2, 2013 at 9:01am

  @Tom Gates,

  You can check out Pelican Cases.  I'm sure they have one that will fit the bill for you.