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Battle Ground, IN
About Me:
Aeronautics Professor, Purdue University, Independant pilot/technician for CALMAR Labs in area of agricultural aerial photography for bio-mass survey. Professor, Civilian Unmanned Aerial Systems. TopViewUAS.com
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
ALL.
Hometown:
Brookston, IN, heart of American agriculture and namesake of soil type.
Activity Feed
"Agreed Ben, this industry is full of "if you have to ask, you can't afford it" ripoffs. Most commercial unmanned offerings can be built in 10 hours for a savings of $20,000."
"How does that work with no final ruling on the regs? We offer flight, management, and technical training for operators but FAA has not been involved....yet."
"We chose multirotors for development to eliminate take off and landing distance requirements, allow precision, autonomous on off function of the spray, and to eliminate the turns at the end of each pass. When it is all said and done, any system is a…"
"The bungee has its place as well. My 47 pound ag heavy lift UAV takes off in 70 feet but that can be radically shortened by deploying the inboard flaps and a HD bungee.image.jpg"
"We have tried all of the above over the years, including a car top release scheme. I much prefer to design from the start for hand launch. A competent, experienced launcher is a real plus. Our students graduate and move on so it seems I am always…"
"We are getting excellent results with a Headwall Nano Hyper-spec over biofuel optimized sorghum."
"I guess not.....looks like a conventional bungee system. Cold weather renders those surgical tubing bungees completely useless. They also age quickly. My experiece shows replacement every 4 months or 30 launches may be needed. Below 50 degrees, no…"
"Currently, they are long on promises and short on results, I won't name names but am familiar with 3 firms, nationally and internationally that fit that description. In all fairness, they are self admittedly development companies. I see farmers…"
"The key to spraying will be the software that turns the product on and off using autonomous detection, ( color, NDVI,etc.)or preloaded maps, based on current aerial photos. We are going to begin that work this Fall at Purdue University specific to…"
"That would be difficult to estimate. Many of the firms have been around for decades using satellite and aerial photos from light aircraft but are considering/developing in-house UAS capability. They already have the contacts in the farming community…"
"3days into tech service at 3dr, 1 email a day from them. The latest was a suggestion that I try live calibration.....are you kidding me? I had planned to spend $25K with them this year, now I am exploring options. Hey, anyone reading this know the…"
"A manual reset cured all the problems with the compass. I performed a complete calibration including compassmot in terminal setup. Power interference is 5% and offsets are all under 20. I had a good compass, it just wasn't able to communicate with…"
"^ fines, prison time, revoke of any licenses."
"Monocular company stock ownership by key FAA officials? Every reg has loopholes and technology will render the FAA increasingly irrelevant. Gov. Agencies don't like to be irrelevant. I agree with the above statements, FAA, lead, follow, or get out…"
"update: terminal -test-compass shows correct headings and responds as expected to yaw. still "bad compass health" and no rtl, or waypoint flight. "
Good morning,APM 2.6, 3DR external ublox compass. just sitting on bench right now, new. The compass calibrations goes well with results well within -150 to 150. after calibration, I switch to flight data screen and heading remains North. I…
