Mar7

• Tried to get the Flight Gear Simulator to work, not enough support for it by diydrones
• Had trouble uploading the HIL Simulator APM to the board (green plane in display), not showing up in my APM planner sofwtware
• watched youtube videos of the APM Planner working side by side with the X Plane simulator, seems to be the best simulator to use.  Demo version is free.  Users have gotten it to work with Demo version.
• Notebook has basic layout of simulator
• Had problem with most recent version of "relaxpatch" for arduino, problem fixed with version before that.
• Simulation Basic Layout

• Autopilot Basic Hookups
• Out 1 - Aileron/Rudder or Elevon Servo
• Out 2 - Elevator or Elevon Servo
• Out 3 - Aircraft ESC
• Out 4 - Rudder Servo
• In 1 - Roll/Aileron (RC Receiver)
• In 2 - Pitch/Elevator  (RC Receiver)
• In 3 - Throttle  (RC Receiver)
• In 4 - Yaw/Rudder  (RC Receiver)
• In 8 - Autopilot Control  (RC Receiver)
• (GPS, airspeed, and telemetry already connected to ports)