The program that we will be using to set up and calibrate our flight controller is called Mission Planner and you can find and download it from the official website of APM.
Download the Mission Planner software from the official website, as mentioned at http://ardupilot.com/downloads/.
After installing the software, you should be able to start the program and you will see the following interface, or something similar to this in case you download a later version of the software.
It may look like complicated software but after going through some installation procedures that you will read further in this chapter, it will become quite familiar to you. At first, let's analyze its functionalities and let's have a look at how the software is organized. The main menu is as shown in the following screenshot:
Let's look at an overview of the tabs present in the menu of Mission Planner:
FLIGHT DATA: This tab gives you information about the speed, altitude, horizon, and a map of the...