Have not flown my Cube Anaconda in a while and decided to take her out today. I loaded the latest firmware and took her to the field. I decided to see if I can do low and tight auto landings. She does great!
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that‘s an impressive performance. imho it‘d be really great if you could add just a few words about how you got there, what hardware you use and your most significant tuning steps / parameter adjustments.
thanks, basti.
Autotune is your friend to getting the plane flying right to begin with. After that it is just finding the sweet spot for the flare altitude / airspeed and the PF Altitude and Airspeed. Also making some changes to the TEC gains. I tune my planes to fly on the tail heavy side, which will give it longer flight times and make the plane fly at min airspeed.
I am using the Lightware Lidar and Cube Autopilot. It takes MANY MANY landings to get this dialed in right. I have been working on my landing gains for 4 years now on this platform and I am still trying to get it better each day. I use to work as a R&D Test Pilot on a well known 600 lb UAS and I have logged over 1200 landings just doing Auto landing testing. When I left we were still finding ways to make it land even better. Its a lot of work to get the plane to land the same way every time.