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hello people!

 i'm building a drone and gonna use it for surveillance and data acquisition purposes. My main computer is a Raspberry pi that will handle the image signals coming from the camera and will also act a server that displays all live status of my aircraft using http. Now  the here is the real issue. The Raspberry-pi is NOT a suitable candidate for flight controller because it does not run a real time kernel. an hence there i chance if the Pi decides to allocate processor to other process my planes gonna crash. So the alternative i thought was to use a cheap flight controller that i can interface with my pi via I2C so that i can give it instruction when to switch from manual to auto and where to head. All i need to know If the above mentioned task be done. If yes then what flight controller is best for this purpose and how can i give it instruction regarding which way point to navigate to?? 

Please help!