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Temporarily disable rangefinder from RC switch?

@juzzle1 wrote: Using AC3.4.6 with SF/11C rangefinder and Optical Flow. I was doing some filming the other day, requiring constant altitude flying between two points. In the flight path between these...

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Xplane 10, Xplane-heli, SITL and Mission Planner Problem

@TianChang_Yonah wrote: Hello people! I am trying to run SITL with Xplane's Bell Ranger and Mission Planner, following carefully the instructions and video from @tridge given here...

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TwinCopter // Controlling two servos in regulation loop

@Dermiste wrote: Hi there, I am building a TwinCopter on a 3.1 APM Mini using the latest ArduCopter available for that board (2.3.4).So far I have motor 1 and 2 on channel 1 and 2, and servos for...

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Terrain Following for Copter 3.4.6 with a Rangefinder?

@fireflyer451 wrote: I am interested in trying an SF10 Rangefinder from Lightwave, to fly with terrain following. What I am not clear about is how the Terrain Following function works when interacting...

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Autotune does not function unless input is given

@jtroutt19 wrote: Today is day for tuning finally, Got it outside up in the air. Switched into Alt hold and flipped the autotune switch. It twitched once then no more until I gave somekind of input....

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Solo Battery Failure

@pyrate wrote: Flying 3.5rc solo versionLoiter Green Cube 2.1 all stock otherwise Sunny day light windReceived a critical low battery alarm on a battery that later showed to have 77% chargePushing...

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How to execute example sketch using SITL on Linux

@sachinkundu wrote: I am trying to understand Copter code and started with advise listed here http://ardupilot.org/dev/docs/learning-ardupilot-the-example-sketches.html I would like to try the code in...

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Lost live compass calibration c-3.5.0 beta

@ddlopo wrote: Hello, I'm David, and it's my first message. I just update de firmware to use de telemetry cable for flight deck with my taranis. And now, when I want compass calibrate, I don't find de...

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Output pwm issues

@lp02781 wrote: i have some problem, i build my own quadcopter, i use navio2 and raspberry pi 3 model b, then i set remote model type helicopter H4X, when i set throtlle max, ouput pwm from motor only...

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Take off mission item

@sergi_torrabadella wrote: Hi everyone, I've been planning missions with no problem in a Copter (several waypoints, land, RTH,...) but there's no way to use the Take off item. How has to be used? I've...

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Strange Flight Behavior

@megabotz69 wrote: Yesterday, a friend & I were attempting to test a new build (tricopter w/ pixhawk mini, Copter 3.5 rc4) of mine. After plugging in, I got an error saying "Gyro not calibrated."...

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Old battery issue: related with PIDs?

@roger_zhao wrote: Hi, all When I fly my DJI S1000 with ardupilot, it'll be hardly for me to control the OCTA-Copter(have to do roll/pitch correction for level the copter, either LOITER or ALT_HOLD)...

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Simulation of Onboard application

@SalahuddinAsh wrote: Hi everyone,I have an ODroid board and I can send MAVLink messages from it to Pixhawk. My code is written in C++ and I don't want to program in Python. I'd like ODroid to...

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Finding and reprogramming PWM output of quadcopter

@jingjielim wrote: I'm trying to find the code which calculates the PWM that is sent to individual motors of the quadcopter. Actually, I am trying to improvise this quadcopter code into a hovercraft...

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Problem on landing with ArduPilot

@spirit wrote: Hello, guys I have BIG Problem now... I'm interesting in drone programming so I bought APM and Pixhawk clone and Pixhawk Cube I have flown many drones : X380 and cc3d and Syma toy...

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Pre-flight: battery level in red?

@ddlopo wrote: Hello, I use Mission Planner 1.3.48. In pre-flight window the check list battery level is always in red. I use a 3s, 4s or 6s for hexacopter, and the battery failsafe is 10,6v. Battery...

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Alttitude dirift problem in copter v3.5

@FireFly wrote: As mentioned in topic below, there is altitude error problem happens between GCS-alt and Baro-alt in arducopter when EKF2 is running. The same moment GCS-alt = 52m in tlog, but...

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Strange battery voltage

@Kudykam wrote: Hi,I dont know what is going on but my battery monitor shows strange values during flight. As you can see on pictures its jumping rom 12V to 3V. I also get many errors like flight mode...

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Undefined reference to `AP_AdvancedFailsafe’ while enabling advance failsafe...

@Sivashankaruav wrote: Hi, I got stuck in compiling arducopter while enabling define ADVANCED_FAILSAFE ENABLED // enabled advanced failsafe which allows running a portion of the mission in failsafe...

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Copter 3.2.1 on APM sudden drop in Altitude in Alt-Hold up to a crash

@Eddi_Maevski wrote: Hi, Using APM from CX-20 (open source) version 2.52, encountered few drops in Alt-Hold mode - copter just drops out of the sky, I've tried analyzing the logs yet can't make solid...

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