Waypoints not being recognised

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.Setup 4 waypoints in a rectangle
2.Fly plane and at safe altitude switch to auto

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Plane follows waypoints but instead i see the aircraft sruggling to recognise 
what it should do to reach waypoint, sometimes even flying away from the WP, 
sometimes as the plane flys away it flicks violently, upside down and lots of 
pitch.  Set into manual and recover, try and help the plane by flying near the 
waypoint and still its not sure what to do , overshoots, flys away and again 
sometimes flicks violently.

Which parameters should i look at changing and by how much.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Latest SVN but tortoise fails in the update.

Please provide any additional information below.

Tony

Original issue reported on code.google.com by p...@hecklesrc.co.uk on 4 Sep 2010 at 7:19

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Tony / Paul - 
This area is for reporting bugs in the software, not for troubleshooting 
individual setups.  Waypoint navigation has been demonstrated to work.  If by 
chance you have had it working with a previous revision and found it to not be 
working with the current revision then this would be an appropriate place to 
report it.

In your case I am assuming that you have not had waypoint navigation working 
and this is really a troubleshooting issue with your individual setup.  We can 
help. If I have misunderstood and this is a report of waypoint navigation being 
broken in the current revision, please repost the issue.

The best place to ask for help would be as a new forum topic under the 
ArduPilot Mega heading at DIYDrones.  When you make a post please include lots 
of information about your setup and problem.  For example, what is your 
hardware configuration (gps type?, using airspeed or magnetometer?, type of 
airframe, etc.), what firmware revision are you using, and what do you have in 
your config files.

As a starting point I would run the gps debug test and confirm you are getting 
good gps numbers, then read the section in the manual about tuning.

Original comment by dewei...@gmail.com on 10 Sep 2010 at 1:12

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