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Tuning

I flew the second tuning/test flight with the APM today. It's been a beautifully calm, sunny day but the bank holiday meant that there were too many dog walkers and errant dogs present to do too much testing.

I flew in FBW-A mode to test out some new pitch and roll PID settings and the aircraft performed much better. FBW-A mode is amazing and makes the flying of the aircraft so much easier.

The screenshots below are from KMZ exports from the logs of the aircraft flying in a few different flight modes.

Loiter mode. 3 laps were flown. APM does a good job of keeping altitude and I don't see any GPS wander. I tried some rudder input that's where you can see the tightening of the circle.

FBW-A. A few FBW-A logs. You can see how APM smooths out the flight nicely. 

The whole flight