Today's installment in the Meet the Developers series is Michael Oborne, creator of the awesome Mission Planner. If my memory serves (it's been a couple years), Michael first got involved when he wrote a Xplane interface utility for the original ArduPilot so it could do a hardware-in-the-loop simulation. Today, an echo of that original utility, now vastly improved and enhanced, is the Simulation tab in the Mission Planner.
Michael's superpower is the ability to add any feature or fix any bug overnight. It's really quite amazing. I send him an email with a suggested feature or change before I go to bed in California, and when I wake up the next morning, there a new version of the Mission Planner with that implemented! Plus all the features he's adding anyway.... He may sleep, but we've seen no evidence of it ;-)
Credit also to his partner, Samantha Nelson, who did the lovely redesign of the Mission Planner. You'll be seeing more of that green and gray/white design in some future DIY Drones sites.
Over to him!
Name: Michael Oborne
Home: Albany, a small country town in Western Australia.
Background: IT with general interest in electronics/flying planes and heli’s, which led to quads and UAV’s

If there is anyone from Western Australia who's looking at buying a Skywalker EPO, I will be ordering one. Nick suggested that we combine our order to save on shipping. So if anyone else from Western Australia is looking at getting one, we can combine to get free shipping. More information here. http://www.perthuav.org/discussion-forum?mingleforumaction=viewtopi...
Comment by Chris Pitts on September 24, 2011 at 3:10pm I talked about a feature one day, and Mick had it implemented less than a week later. It's like he's psychic, and starts work on what you want to see before you even know you need it. Thanks Mick!
Hello Michael, sorry to disturb you for may be nothing, but since your last version upgrade with the last version of arducopter trad heli, the 3D vehicule picture on the google map is now a quad and i'm searching how to change it for a 3D trad heli screen and i've not finded after many time!... In the GCS HappyKillmore i can change this picture with a scroll choice but i don't find it in your excellent GCS, and i've not the knowledge to enter in the code.
Can you help me for this little thing, please?!
at this point its not changable. is either a plane or a quad
Thanks but a day can you think to the poor trad heli group...
Comment by Gerry Mostert on February 1, 2012 at 7:36am Hi Michael
Does anyone know or have info on how far the software is developed for the new purple APM2 to fly an octo?
Thanks
Comment by Joseph on March 23, 2012 at 12:15pm Micheal I got a question. When are we going to be able to import Geo referenced tiff files for our maps? I like the prefetch of the GE but I would like to import Geo Referenced VFR Sectionals in the map page so that I know where i am in reference to GA aircraft.
Thanks for the great work on your part.
Joseph, you already can, but requires external programs like global mapper.
basicly open it in global mapper andn savee the tilels asa google earth tiles. the planner can import this format. The other option is to run your own wms server.
Hello Michael, just an info. Since the 1.1.49 version of the end of january, your software don't want update, but curiously the firmwares yes! But i had many bugs with Mavlink and the screen heli setup was inactive...
I've downloaded today your last and full version 1.1.73 in a new repertory and all is ok now.
I don"t know why, but this info will be may be useful to someone..
Thank you very much for your fantastic work!!
Comment by Itzik Ronen on July 13, 2012 at 4:28pm Michael thanks for your great work on the planner.
I’m missing an important feature: at the HUD, in the “Actions” tab, there is a “Do Action” button; can you add the ability to trigger the outputs like AUX channels, shutter etc’?
I connect a servo to ch’ 7 to be triggered from the APM at WP, I like to test it on the ground using the “Do Action”, can it be done?
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