Risk of stall when flying in FBWA
@spetsnaz26 wrote: had a crash and had to bushwhack an hour to get to the crash site. FPV feed shows a typical accelerated stall and near-flat spin during turn to final. Entry into stall was probably...
View ArticleTelemetry to ground station via mavlink on a F405 Wing
@DanWA wrote: Hi all, I am struggling to get a connection and telemetry to my ground station & taranis. I am running RFD900x for RX and Telemetry on the plane and TXMOD in the taranis for TX...
View ArticleHelp with Differential Thrust for a VTOL
@yumurtaci wrote: Hello everyone! I am a member of a student team based in Munich and we are building a fixed wing VTOL aircraft. It has a rather unconventional motor setup, with 4 hover and 2 cruise...
View ArticleIR ToF vs Ultrasonic range finding
@npyoung wrote: I’ve heard good things about using rangefinding when trying to set up autolanding on a plane. I’m considering a $25 ultrasonic sensor (Maxbotix EZ4) and a $45 ToF sensor (TFmini)....
View ArticleArdupilot(SITL)
@eng_eslam wrote: This is the first time with ardupilot , I start with silt and dronekit on linux.in the first I try simple example in dronkit but after that when I try to use another example plan...
View ArticleHow to implement flaperons with crow and normal flap functions
@spetsnaz26 wrote: so i’ve got my full span flaperons set up. the flap channel is mapped to a three position, so it deflects half way down at the center position and full down with the lowest control...
View ArticleDoubt about maiden flight testing
@Albcem wrote: I am in doubt about whether I should keep the flight controller (Pixhawk 1) active or passive for the initial flights of a naturally stable, CTOL fixed wing plane that is my own design....
View ArticleTEST fixed-wing flight platform (hand parachute/VTOL)
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View ArticleWhere tilt.current_tilt is set?
@miw01 wrote: Dear all, I start to rewrite our old original VTOL source code by arduplane. I’m reading source code (arduplane 4.0.5) to learn about tilt rotor vtol. Function “void...
View ArticleFrsky pass though telemetry issues on ArduPlane 4.0?
@Albcem wrote: Hello, I just upgraded my firmware to ArduPlane 4.0 and saw that the pass through telemetry which I use on Pixhawk1 / Frsky X8R / Craft & Theory combo stopped working. After...
View ArticleFighter 4+1 VTOL fixed wing
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View ArticleFighter VTOL 4+1 fixed wing
@makeflyeasy wrote: The fighter is a 10kg fixed-wing flight platform (hand parachute/VTOL), which is easy to carry,friendly to operate,stable and durable.The fighter is positioned as a...
View ArticleVTOL bench testing
@UAVSkies wrote: I am wondering what would be the best way to test a VTOL setup on the test bench? Off course we have not gained any height etc on the bench when armed. How can we make the FC to think...
View ArticleServo Gains in Mission Planner
@RizHass wrote: Are there any parameters available to tune aileron gains in Mission Planner? I am flying a fixed-wing for some time, but now that I am video making, I notice that my plane in stable...
View ArticleEKF2 IMU0 yaw aligned to GPS velocity - or something else entirely?
@Arnd_FF wrote: A few days ago, I had a crash in AUTO flight mode that was preceeded by the message from my Pixhawk “EKF2 IMU0 yaw aligned to GPS velocity”. Before that, everything went smoothly,...
View ArticleOscillations Arduplane FBWA
@vidya wrote: Hi, I was flying my flying wing. It used to fly clean in AUTO MODE. But today. it started oscillating along pitch and the oscillations were only diverging. I catapult launched my wing in...
View ArticleTakeoff mode can't hold wings level
@spetsnaz26 wrote: i managed to get hand launch to work somewhat but the plane crashed into a tree when it deviates from takeoff heading by 30+ degrees to the right. There is some wind component from...
View ArticleJUST waiting DJI FPV system support arduplane
@xingxing wrote: It has support betaflight now, hope support arduplane quite soon Posts: 1 Participants: 1 Read full topic
View ArticlePixhawk 4 Mini has intermitent unstable PWM output on CAP 1,2,3
@TTGold wrote: I am currently building my second QuadPlane, this time using tilt on the front 2 motors. I had a very successful build based on ranger 2000 but ended up crashing due to a very odd...
View ArticleDifferential thrust plank flying wing
@JeanPhilippeHell wrote: Hi, Since a while I wanted to try a plank flying wing with no rudder or vertical stabilizer, using differential thrust for yaw stabilization. After I saw the video from Ran D....
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