@mark If the antennas are aligned it is usually not to bad.

Cracking craft once you get the hang of it, based on all others I have tried it is by far the easiest to fly to targeted beacons, scan for ores, and get back and for from all your resources. I am still struggling to get the dock to align though, but assuming that I just need to persevere

Badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger, mushroom mushroom!

It is a sturdy and reliable little craft that can do more than one would give it credit for. I like it.

I made a video.

With just STAB on, it will only ever slide front/back. It won't move otherwise. With AP on, it does what you tell it to.

As you can see the only issue I had is with the game (the button got stuck).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgAi7hdDPPM

I'd send a video of this thing if I could. Built a brand new one today and with absolutely no input from the mouse, keyboard or joystick, it is flying on it's own, flipping, turning and crashing with STAB ON and draining the battery like nothing on earth. Keyboard commands don't seem to have any effect. I'm at a loss.

I was thinking about adding a docking port already, I'll get to that.

The IDE for the XC doesn't allow any loop-back logic necessary to trigger the reset on the counter. I'll have to send code to another file and manipulate things there and send it back. I'm still learning XC.

There is a reset button though. When you get to 359, hit reset :)

This is looking really good. I do have two suggestions: 1) add a docking port to bottom center, so I can attach it to the superhydrofoil I'm working on. 2) More importantly, implement a wraparound for the compass setting, so one doesn't have to reset to head back to the other side of 360/0. I'd suggest having it wrap after it hits 359 degrees, so you don't get the 360/0 bug. Really liking this one so far. Nicely done :)

You should be able to hit over 70m/s with STAB on btw.

That's 156 Mph or 136 kts.

That's faster than an Apache.

If you're in creative just delete it, but it should turn up-right unless it's entirely upside down.

Turn the STAB on at the very least. Without that on, as I said in the description, it wants to stabilize itself and without any input it will, but if you turn the stabilizer on, the computer will limit your pitch and roll angles to safe levels.

It is entirely possible for you to apply too much pitch for thrust while ascending and then trying to pitch down and causing the props to stall, I'm still tweaking that. But autopilot will regulate ascent/descent based on speed anyways (higher the speed, slower the climb).

Yeah you can def wreck this without any computer guidance.

I think the stabilizer was off when I flipped it coz it was too slow trying to fly with it on, but then when off, the inputs were too sensitive and all mixed up like the joystick and just cause total lack of control. Nothing seems to respond properly at all. I'm having to totally dismantle it to get it out of the water every time it lands there too and the batteries are draining in no time at all.

You flipped it with the stabilizer (or autopilot) ON?

There is no throttle on the quad, the lever to the right of the seat controls ascent and decent rates. So pull back to descend, push forward to ascend, and center to hold current altitude.

It's intended to be as easy to fly as possible.

Well I managed to crash it several times, flipping in the process, didn't find the ores I was looking for and ran out of power before I worked out how to fly it. Joystick is a no go because Archean does not allow remapping of a corrupt setup so stuck with keyboard for now. What keys make it go up and down?