Autotune in windy conditions?

ArduCopter Copter 4.4
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It’s summer in the Southern Hemisphere at the moment which means that days of calm wind are relatively scarce where I live.

What is the best course of action when needing to Autotune?

I am assuming that one would I increase the Autotune aggresivness above 0.075 like many people suggest and possible tune from Poshold?

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That is not an increase, that is a decrease. And yes, that is a good value. Point the tuned axis 90 Deg to the wind like explained on the wiki

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What would you recommend the tuning parameters be set to in windy conditions? Also the wiki says that one should turn the drone into the wind on a calm day. Issue is that there are no calm days here in summer

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I recommend following How to methodically tune (almost) any multicopter using ArduCopter 4.4.x

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Tune in loiter - the copter will automatically be oriented correctly. Tune with a higher AGGR setting - that’s really your only option when there is a lot of external disturbance - unless you can tune indoors

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What would you recommend. 0.085 or 0.095? the copter is about a 500 wheelbase

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Well, certainly not 0.95! Try 0.1 - that is the default and may be fine for your case

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Sorry corrected that

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Thanks for correcting me. I will add this info to my blog post.