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It's working

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Well I got it to hover thanks to a certain individual that goes by the name of "Ran D. St Clair." On the rcgroups VTOL forums. Picture for now, once I get the PID values working I'll upload a video.

Updating on the whole VTOL design situation

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So I've been having a blast designing my VTOL flying wing. The guys over at rcgroups have the best advice I could find, and the software made by happysundays over at the vtols form (openAeroVTOL) is great. VTOL flying wing in hover mode.  So here's what I have SO FAR.  I took off the wings for the hover test because I wanted to progress one addition at a time. If hovermode had  a sudden error, I might have ended up damaging the wings.  I'm writing this at night, so I am getting ready to shut the lights off and finally get some rest, but here are some observations I took in from this nights hover tests.  Takeoffs on uneven cement ground resulted in pitch oscillation, while takeoffs on even grass resulted in a smooth takeoff that I had to stop, and land immediately afterwards because it was banking. I did not make an attempt at trying to balance it.  The pitch oscillation might have been caused by a really highly pitch P vaullue, even though it was