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failed to discover board id

@Jamal_Pasandideh wrote: hi Previously, there was a hexacopter firmware on the flight controller. Now I want to install the plan firmware. This gives an error (failed to discover board id) What should...

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What is waypoint ALT actually telling me?

@tgilbert wrote: Thanks for having me in the group, I am an experienced fixed wing and VTOL pilot, but not used to using Ardupilot. I am programming a VTOL mapping mission for a particularly tricky...

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Shaking horizon and jittering servo's

@basgoossen wrote: Hi all, I’m new to this forum so let me quickly introduce myself. I’m Bas Goossen, i’ve a grade in embedded system engineering and a technology entheusiast. In my daily life i run a...

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Pitot tube initialization

@iter wrote: I hear recommendations to cover the pitot tube with a hand at initialization if there’s any wind, top prevent erroneous calibration at startup. What’s the best procedure for this? Would...

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How to verify that second GPS is used when it reports more sats and better...

@pragma wrote: I am trying to see which GPS source is in the GCS map for the plane in Mission Planner. There is a white bar which shows nr of satellites in use. At the same time there are 2 GPS’s...

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Raspberry 4 and Pixhawk Communication Problem

@updatexe wrote: Hi, I have an issue with Raspberryi Pi 4. I connected them on Serial 2 port by Tx and Rx channels. I did all the steps that should I do like raspi-config serial preferences. When I...

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Jerky target Roll when in RTL

@gnkarn wrote: Hello !, im on the way of calibrating a sky Hunter ( using a kakute F7 as FC, with Beitian BN 880 GPS), 900 mhz telemetry radio ) , by doing ground testing , all manual modes seams to...

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Terrain follow not engaging

@svede wrote: Having trouble engaging terrain following in missions. Terrain following is enabled in params, all waypoints are set to terrain, the altitude elevation graph shows the mission adjusting...

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Engine-out training

@iter wrote: I want to develop a landing sequence for an engine-out situation. The basic idea is to go to what would be the downwind-to-base turn, loiter there until I bleed off excess altitude, then...

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Matek F765 wing tailsitter

@RizHass wrote: Has anyone build and tested tailsitter configuration on Matek F405 or F765? I have a tailsitter project that I am trying to get off the ground and don’t want to use PixHawk. Originally...

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Matek 405 wing no gos

@Ritchard wrote: Hi guys I’m new to ardupilot I have setup a 405 wing and got everything working except the GPS keeping saying in his no gps. I have it connected to serial 3 and rx-tx tx-rx. Baud rate...

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Glide slope calculation

@adcam wrote: hello everybody do we have in real time the glide slope calculation available (display and log analysis) ? the idea is to fine tune a glider (currently I fly with heron and volantex...

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Dual Power Modules?

@geoffreyd wrote: I have 2 mauch 200A units that I would like to install into my airplane - one for each wing. The units require a BEC to power them. Can I run separate BEC’s for each unit and then...

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Adjusting the cruise speed

@sandre wrote: Hi, I want to adjust cruise speed. At default settings I have a ground speed of about 42km/h (without airspeed sensor), and I think the optimal speed should be lower. In the mission...

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Tandem Tiltwing with yaw vectoring supported?

@g00bd0g wrote: Any suggestions one how to configure a tandem tilt wing with yaw vectoring? Posts: 2 Participants: 2 Read full topic

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Pitot Tube Calibration

@viper16 wrote: Hello everyone, During the calibration of the airspeed sensor, is the state of the plane controlled according to the synthetic speed or according to the airspeed sensor? Thanks in...

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LiDAR configuration

@iter wrote: I installed a VL53L1X LiDAR sensor in my Bixler (on a Polulu breakout board). Looking at live telemetry values (data/status/sonarrange) it seems to give meaningful numbers on the bench....

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Unable to correctly setup throttle failsafe

@JD_L wrote: I’ve been setting up throttle fail safe according to the directions here: https://ardupilot.org/plane/docs/apms-failsafe-function.html. Failsafe seems to work fine according to the tests,...

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MAV_CMD_NAV_WAYPOINT doesn't make plane to fly to desired position

@AlexLmm wrote: Hi! I’m using MP simulation, and I’m trying to fly over a point on map by sending MAV_CMD_NAV_WAYPOINT command with coordinates (over ftdi). But it never happens. Plane never flies...

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How to simulate sensors with MAVLINK through UART on PixHawk

@smilemaxdev wrote: Dear all I need you help in the following issue: I want to simulate sensors in Simulink for ArduPilot on Pixhawk. Show in the screen1. And I successfully send MAVLINK-message...

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