After a steep learning curve for Arducopter, we have it flying. Garret left us the Arducopter after graduating, I had never so much as worked with Arducopter before. Of course I had never worked with Mikrokopters either, but Jonathan was here to teach me everything I need to know about them. I didn't have that luxury for Arducopter, so progress was a bit slower.
The first thing I did when Istarted working with the ardu was to load new firmware and update to the new mission planner. Since this was all new software, the Arducopter had to be calibrated from scratch. After crashes during motor tuning, we had multiple delays while waiting for new parts to come in.
But the Arducopter is flying now, and not a moment too soon. With summer rapidly approaching and all the orders in, I'm going to start building the Octocopter very soon. It gives me some assurance that I was able to get the quad Arducopter flying, since the Octocopter also uses Ardupilot.