MissionPlanner Initially Setup

In this page, we would introduce MissionPlanner and show how to do calibration for Pixhawk FCC with MissionPlanner.

MissionPlanner Introduction:

An Ground Control Station to monitor the data collecting by FCC(In this case we use Pixhawk 6C). Once you have connected to a vehicle this screen will display the telemetry sent by ArduPilot.

Screencut of the data dashboard sent by ArduPilot

More flying info is giving below as well:

1. Airspeed (Groundspeed if no airspeed sensor is fitted)

2. Crosstrack error and turn rate (T)

3. Heading direction

4. Bank angle

5. Telemetry connection link quality (averaged percentage of good packets)

6. GPS time

7. Altitude (Blue bar is the rate of climb)

8. Airspeed

9. Groundspeed

10. Battery status

11. Artificial Horizon

12. Aircraft Attitude

13. GPS Status

14. Distance to Waypoint > Current Waypoint Number

15. Current Flight Mode

Find more info: https://ardupilot.org/planner/docs/mission-planner-overview.html

Pixhawk FCC Calibration:

First, we need to connect the Pixhawk and MissionPlanner. You could refer to the MissionPlanner, MavProxy Installation Instruction

After we connect to the MissionPlanner, we need to calibrate the Pixhawk FCC:

1. Disconnect the Pixhawk and MissionPlanner

2. Choose the suitable firmware of your application

Firmware that Pixhawk support

1. Do the Calibration following the instructions in "Accel Calibration"

Accel Calibration in MissionPlanner

Find support step by step if you need in:

Setup and Calibration of Pixhawk

You can also check and modify parameter and setup of MissionPlanner in "CONFIG"

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