ardupilot or PX4 pro – which one to choose

Yes, one more post today. This time is about firmware. It's extremely hard for me answer title question. I did review Ardupilot and PX4 forums to answer this but of course different users has different opinions. Many peoples highlight that Ardupilot is older and more stabilize project . From the other hand others prefer PX4 due licencing model and modern architecture.

Some comments you can find under those urls:
Ardupilot board : https://discuss.ardupilot.org/t/px4-vs-ardupilot-when-to-choose-what/14262
Px4 forum: http://discuss.px4.io/t/px4-vs-ardupilot-when-to-choose-what/2214
additional opinion: https://medium.com/@Dronesmith/why-we-chose-px4-vs-apm-as-lucis-default-firmware-ea39f4514bef

I don’t want to add more external links because it does not make a sense and I think if I change firmware I will be missing Ardupilot stability and loitter mode.

Probably I will lose current drone stability but virtual joystick and “data lost” trigger under fail safe option are 2 the most important items for me. This is reason why probably I will say goodbye Ardupilot for a while. It looks like PX4 is much modern than Ardupilot and it has more modern features like virtual joystick. In the case of Ardupilot I have to wait for this function for a long of time because it`s still under developing.

If there will be something wrong with PX4 always I can roll back to Ardupilot. I will try to flash Pixhawk during this weekend.


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