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Ardupilot Sailplane Group

I'm interested in gathering together the people who use Ardupilot to fly sailplanes. Maybe we can create our own group where we can discuss our successes and failures, as well as ideas for autonomous soaring. It would be nice to know how many of us there are, so if you are interested in autonomous soaring please reply.See More

Mar 25

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Roger McClurg replied to Peter Braswell's discussion Autonomous soaring

"I look forward to the results of your in-flight testing. I too hope to be able to do autonomous soaring with Adrupilot. I will be following your work, and that of Jean-louis Naudin with interest. Roger"

Mar 24

Steven G replied to Roger McClurg's discussion Low cost laptop for Mission Planner

"If you want something cool and durable, get a used Toughbook on eBay. Screen can be seen in bright sun, has GPS, media card reader, wiFi, etc. and battery lasts a really long time. It's a little overkill but once you have one you will wonder…"

Mar 21

Gerrit Jan Baarda replied to Roger McClurg's discussion Low cost laptop for Mission Planner

" I don't think MP requires a lot of resources. I've been running MP an an acer aspire One 522, a 1Gb, 10" netbook that has a 1280x720 screen resolution. The screen resolution was my main reason for buing it. It has…"

Mar 21

Roger McClurg posted a discussion

Low cost laptop for Mission Planner

Looks like I will end up getting a laptop for mission planner. As MP is all I need it for, I can't see investing a lot of money to run it. What is a reasonable minimum platform to run MPSee More

Mar 21

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Roger McClurg commented on Jean-Louis Naudin's blog post Full autonomous Cross Country Soaring flights with the ThermoPilot v6.x

"Jean-Louis are you still there? I'm very anxious to be able to test your Thermopilot software on the APM 2.5 hardware."

Mar 20

Roger McClurg commented on Chris Anderson's blog post New Predator UAV available (if you're rich)

"HobbyKing.com has a knockoff of the nitroplanes Predator for sale. The span is 74 inches vice 63. Looks good in the photos, but I have not seen one in person. The cost is 67 USD plus 28USD for shipping. Here is the link for those interested:…"

Mar 11, 2009

Roger McClurg commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Getting ready for ArduPilot 2.0

"Just an FYI, I bought both of my FMA CPD4 units from people on the RCGroups forum. The latest was two weeks ago. I paid $35 shipped for the unit which works perfectly."

Mar 11, 2009

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