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Male
About
Location
Gangtok, Sikkim
About Me:
Soaring over the Himalayas, or learning to. Mt. Kanchenjunga is in line-of-sight from where I live. Inspired by Oscar-winning documentary Wings Over Everest.
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
Semi-autonomous powered flight and soaring over the Himalayas with biplanes and monoplanes.
Hometown:
Gangtok, Sikkim, India
Activity Feed
"Guess it wasn't announced wide enough as I just stumbled upon the recent Alpha release of APM Planner 2.0 Mac
http://ardupilot.com/downloads/?did=84"
http://ardupilot.com/downloads/?did=84"
"Since 868MHz is not on any of the PMR channels, what frequency is beacon mode transmitted at?"
"Thanks. Now is it Tx to Tx and Rx to Rx or Tx to Rx and Rx to TX as with the telemetry?"
"Can't help you but gotta ask how you got the aircraft icon to display in GE."
"Thanks Paul. Will try it out. Guess I don't need to use KFF_THR2PTCH
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"I'm using Throttle to Pitch Mix KFF_THR2PTCH (there is no servo or ESC connected to throttle header) in my aero-towed glider. Know it's just a rudimentary stop-gap method to maintain airspeed with elevator only. Look forward to 2.75"
"Thanks Tridge. Look forward to 2.75. Hope it has a disable throttle function with airspeed controlled solely by pitch/elevator."
"Thanks Rana. I find the Hirose connector a bit too fragile. Soldered in the more robust headers. It works on all boards."
"Can the RFD900 TX and RX pins be connected to the UART0 RX and TX headers on the APM 2.5 instead of via the 3DR telemetry cable to the UART/0 ("3DR-RADIO") Hirose connector? As the radio modem chugs up to ~1 A peak at max power, I'm feeding it off…"
"Thanks for the heads up Jani. Look forward to placing order when you ship."
"Good stuff Tridge. I'm in the Eastern Himalayas, valley airfield at 15,000 feet ASL. How about an option that allows of automatic selection of ARSPD_RATIO based on barometer/altimeter readings? "
"Thanks again for the heads up. I have been playing with hill shading in LandSerf. The SRTM data sets I use are from http://www.viewfinderpanoramas.org/dem3.html which have "substantial input from ASTER GDEM data.""
"Thanks again Nicholas for your work flow. For back-up of the prefetched Google Earth tiles, I can use the digital elevation maps from both SRTM (NASA Shuttle Radar Topography Mission) and ASTER GDEM (Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and…"
"Thanks Andrew. WRT "fixed RTL glide slope when starting above the target RTL altitude. Descent should now be smooth over long distances." Is the RTL glide slope a constant or can it be changed manually depending upon the airframe's polars? The…"
"Nice one Todd, just what the doctor ordered. I was going to go with two separate GCS, one for the tow tug, another for the glider being towed. Both are APM 2.5-based. Can you elaborate on assigning unique MAV_SYS_ID to each aircraft? I'm using…"
"How about pairing it up with the RFD900 radio modems instead?"
