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Throttle oscillation in auto mode

@Hubertus_Paetow wrote: Hello,I use my Zeta fx61 for mapping. It does the job quite well, but sometimes i see oscillations in the throttle control. I can track it back down to the...

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Elevon not working even though everything else does

@Coretex wrote: Hi All, I was wondering if anyone out there could help with an elevon problem? I'm building an X8 and thought it was all good to go - I tested it on a bench board before putting it in...

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False reading from lidar caused flare too high resulting in stall

@BretC wrote: Group - I have been using the TeraRanger One Lidar for several months with good success on flying wing drones. However it appears that it sent a false signal to the autopilot on decent...

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Quad plane tilt rotor H-setup, front motors face up, rear face down

@Tim_P wrote: Hello all. I have a 3dr mini pixhawk with plane 3.8. I am close to completing the hardware setup on a bixler quad (tiltrotor) plane using H configuration. The two forward motors face...

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Disaster going to Autotune

@jwcalvert wrote: After 7 months of inactivity I finally got back to investigating my CRASH of a RANGER EX and Pixhawk.( I am now starting over with a new airplane; BIXLER 3 ) I set up my RANGER as I...

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Oscillating yaw control

@frekri wrote: I just built my first fixed-wing drone. The first flight went well except from one thing - the yaw angle is oscillating a lot. Here is an image of the desired and actual yaw from the ,...

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Arduplane fails calculating descent slope

@lucamax wrote: After about 70 unsuccessful attempts in the past three months to realize auto landings with Lidar and reverse thrust using LAND_FLARE_ALT rather than LAND_FLARE_SEC , I decided to make...

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Channel 1 always active - even with safety switch

@Naterater wrote: Why is it that my Channel 1 aileron is always on no matter if the safety switch is activated or not? I'm running a Pixhawk 2.1. The rest of the channels work as expected, but channel...

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GPS Dependent Fly Modes

@Mustafa_Gokce wrote: Hi. There is no documantation about GPS dependent fly modes of ArduPlane (I found in ArduCopter but no ArduPlane modes). I want to fly with following modes. I just wanted to...

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Help needed to analyse crash

@ianfreemantle wrote: I’m hoping that the gurus can help me with this unusual crash I had with my fixed wing a couple of days ago. The plane basically fell out the sky on landing approach in FBWA....

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Large EKF yaw resets and toilet-bowl effect almost causes crash

@frizensami wrote: Hi, today I ran three flights on my quadplane: Flew the aircraft with QHOVER and FBWA successfully. Autonomous mission #1: Got a EKF Yaw Reset -1.00 message and the aircraft yawed...

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AFS failsafe system

@yak-54 wrote: with AFS failsafe system can i set it up to continue the mission in auto if i have GCS loss and RC loss at the same time on my property i have a valley with 2 high powed towers on each...

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X-Plane not sending heartbeat packets

@r.rakshak wrote: I am trying to run a SITL simulation with X-Plane. I have gone the “Using SITL from MissionPlanner” route and the “Using SITL with sim_vehicle.py” route and they both end with a “No...

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Elevon Throttle mapping

@Brandon_van_Gennip wrote: Pixhawk 2.4.8 ArduPlane V3.8.4 Taranis Qx7 FrSKyx4R (Sbus communication) Channel Mapping: (Taranis) 1 - Aileron (1000 min, 1500 trim, 2000 max) 2 - Elevon (1000 min, 1500...

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Ardupilot Disco filesystem

@Autonomost wrote: Hey, I’m going through this page: http://ardupilot.org/plane/docs/airframe-disco.html and ran into an issue when editing the /etc/init.d/rcS_mode_default file. The file system on...

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Crow brakes on flying wing

@Clement_FPV wrote: Hi, from my understanding, currently we can only use differential spoilers to control yaw with 2 ailerons/wing on a flying wing. However, is it possible to add a braking control...

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SITL using RealFlight 7.5

@wisnufireball wrote: Hello Is it possible to run simulation with RealFlight 7.5 as backend? In this blogpost, ArduPilot flying 3D aircraft, including hovering it is possible. But I cannot find any...

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Question about MAV_CMD_NAV_TAKEOFF point

@Nikita wrote: Hello, we want to try to use automatic takeoff/landing of a plane, so the question is what should plane do in this point, try to lift off the ground on this point, try to reach selected...

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My all-wing plane flys crazily during auto misson then return back and...

@FireFly wrote: Its a long mission. The takeoff was normal, and during line 3 plane flew out the line and got crazy, almost crashed. Ive checked the log, did not find anything wrong. Someone help me...

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PingRx with Arduplane. Where are we at?

@Marc_Dornan wrote: I am mulling getting an PingRx for my FPV plane but I have seen very sparse documentation with Ardupilot. Is it even compatible with Arduplane as I have only seen references on the...

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