Table of Contents

• Choosing an Antenna
  • Antenna dBi and transmission distance
  • Where to buy
• Frame Assembly
  • Recommended Frames
  • Mounting the flight controller board
  • Connecting the servos
  • Connecting the radio and antenna
  • Mounting the GPS and external compass
• Loading the Firmware
  • Use Mission Planner’s Install Firmware screen to load the firmware
• Configuration
  • Setting the AHRS orientation
  • Accelerometer Calibration
  • Setting the Compass orientation
  • Compass Calibration
  • Setting the servo and range of movement
    • Setting the Yaw servo’s min and max pwm values
    • Setting the Yaw servo’s range of movement
    • Setting the Pitch servo’s range of movement pwm values
    • Setting the Pitch servo’s range of movement
    • Manually setting the parameters
  • Tuning
• Automatic redirection
• Connecting with GCS
  • Overview
  • Connect with a USB cable
  • Connect a 2nd pair of radios
  • Connect one more radio and use multi-point SiK radio software
  • Connect a companion computer and set-up a wifi access point
• How to Operate
  • Control Modes
• Appendix
  • Acknowledgments
  • Advanced user tools (downloads)
    • Tools
      • Tarot Gimbal firmware
      • Copter Firmware
      • Rover Firmware
      • 3DR PPM Encoder V3 Manual
      • USB Driver for Pixhawk Boards
      • 3DR-uBlox configuration file
      • APM2 / Ublox passthrough
      • ArduCAM OSD Config (For MinimOSD’s Firmware v2.0)
      • ArduCopter APM 1.0 Firmware
      • ArduCopter APM 2.x Firmware
      • ArduPPM Encoder 3DR Manual v2.3.16.pdf
      • ArduPPM v2.3.16 ATMega32U2 firmware for APM 2.x (recommended APM2.x)
      • ArduPPM v2.3.16 ATMega328p firmware for APM1.x Copter and standalone PPM encoder.
      • ArduPPM v2.3.16 ATMega328p firmware for APM1.x Plane and standalone PPM encoder.
      • ArduPPM v2.3.16 ATMega32U2 firmware for APM 2.x
      • MediaTek GPS firmware update and utility
      • MinimOSD Firmware v2.0
      • MinimOSD Firmware v2.2 (Beta) - New Flight Modes
      • OpticalFlow test sketch / APM2
      • PX4Flow-KLT
      • USB Driver for APM 2
    • License
    • Safety
  • Commercial Support
    • How to get added to this list
  • Contact Us
    • Support
    • Development
    • Facebook
    • YouTube
    • DroneKit
  • Developer tools (downloads)
    • Tools
      • Odroid Ubuntu 14.04 hostapd
      • Arduino code to test an airspeed sensor
      • Arduino 1.0.3 with modifications required for ArduPilot (Mac OS X)
      • ArduPilot-Arduino-1.0.3-windows.zip
      • CrossTrack demo (flash version)
      • Data dump of three attitude solutions
      • Declination Lookup - Test EMM
      • mavproxybeta1.msi
      • mavproxyBetaNoNeworkTest.msi
      • Serial port test program
    • License
    • Safety
  • Donating to ArduPilot
    • Support Merchandise
  • Firmware (downloads)
    • Firmware
      • ArduCopter APM 2.x Firmware
      • ArduCopter APM 1.0 Firmware
    • Bootloader
    • APM2.x Autopilot
    • License
    • Safety
  • Glossary
  • History of ArduPilot
  • Partners
  • Partners Program
    • Why a Partners Program
    • How does my company become a partner?
    • What do I get for becoming an ArduPilot Partner?
    • How are collected funds spent?
    • I’m not a company, but I love your stuff, how can I help?
    • I want a new feature, do I have to be a partner to get it?
  • Ready-To-Use vehicles
    • Vehicles from Partners
    • Vehicles from Non-Partners
  • Stores
  • Top Contributors
    • Collaboration with other projects
  • Wiki Editing Guide
    • Making a Quick Edit
    • Infrastructure Overview
    • Setting Up the Editing Environment
      • Fork and Clone the Wiki
      • Setup with Vagrant
      • Build the Wiki
      • Check the Results
      • RST rendering on Windows
      • RST rendering on Linux
    • Submitting Changes
      • How to get changes approved
    • Style Guide
      • Creating a new page
      • Working with common pages
      • Code
    • Archiving and Deleting pages
      • Deleting wiki pages
    • License
    • Translating wiki pages
    • FAQ - Why are my changes not published?
  • Project News
    • AntennaTracker 0.x.x
      • AntennaTracker 0.7.6
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