I have only worked with the APM's a little but from what I have seen there is a difference in some of the flight charactics. My question for you guys is which one do you think is the better setup? Currently we are using a Bixler setup but I think I'm going to move to a larger airframe so available space isn't an issue. Which as far as sensors and available options do you feel is the best?Thanks,JustinSee More

So I am trying to get the autopilot on the APM2 board to fly my rc plane and have thus far only been able to crash it.Manual mode works fine, but whenever the APM2 chip is requires, it seems as if the plane just spirals downward (not like a failsafe, but like a crash). We have done much debugging, and upgrading and following what is going on in these forums, but have been unsuccessful in making this plane work.I am now wondering whether or not I need a new type of plane, because this EasyStar…See More

Our problem is when the autopilot is activated in any of the modes it just circles. It does not just circle at a GPS location it drifts and looses altitude as well. We use the Easy Star airframes with APM 1.4 and APM 2.0 with the xbees. Currently we are using the Mission Planner software (most current version) to do all mission planning and parameter updates. We have the configuration files from DIYdrones uploaded onto the APMs and we upload the way-point files like I said earlier with the…See More