Has anyone developed better AP settings using the stock FC?
Hello all,
I’m a silent long time reader of this forum, but this is my first actual post
I’ve done a few fully autonomous flights so far and they went absolutely flawless.
The longest flight was about 14km and took 20 minutes.
Attached is my parameter file that’s working for me !
You can also download a logfile from one of my recent autonomous waypoint flights (8500m in about 10minutes):
Best regards,
lakeroe
Settings_4.5.x_current.param (19.0 KB)
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Hi @dasjlm
any brushless motor should work - Are the motor order correct ?
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Hi,
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Rolf
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