The website for the CAA in South Africa:http://www.caa.co.za/The SECOND DRAFT, UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS, INTERIM POLICY FOR CIVIL UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS IN SOUTH AFRICA can be found here:http://www.caa.co.za/What%27s%20new/UAS%20Interim%20Policy.
Read more…Hi everyoneI have a quick question.I was wondering if it is at all possible to be able to view in (near) realtime on google earth or memory map(mapping software) or similar product the position of my aircraft as it flies its set route between waypoin
Read more…helloi have a project about lego UAV with FMA co pilot. dramatically co pilot computer burst. but elevon servo output works fine. So I will get a new fma co pilot. And I am wondering if i can use the old co pilot computer as a MUX switching between M
Read more…May I know that is MUX working also for PCM signal? From the ArduPilot project I know that it works totally fine with PPM signal.Any experience and suggestions are greatly welcome.Many thanks in advance.
Read more…I'm looking for a flying wing to build like the one below:http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1049566I want to make it out of Balsa mainly because I can get it cheaply and I don't know any local source of foam.Does anyone know of any good
Read more…Does anybody know the name / type of connector of the FMA sensor cable header as seen here.I would by it from the diy drones store but its not really economic to spend $11.20 USD ($20 NZD) shipping for a $1.75 product :)That would be a great help!
Read more…I was wondering if the idea has ever been brought up about starting a Buy Sell Trade Forum on here.I have some extra borads from PC Batch and maybe a few other items, IC's LEDS, ect that I wouldn't mind trading ot selling so other people don't have t
Read more…I have an orchard and need a drone that chases birds.Many pit fiuit (peaches, prunes, apricot, cherries) are susceptible to bird damage during a few weeks of the year.Netting trees is expensive and labor intensive.My son has been building RC model pl
Read more…Well I finally got around to getting everything together and I was going over the steps. I saw a point where you hit reset after calibrating.One problem, where the reset button is supposed to be is empty. Anyone else have this issue? Was this somethi
Read more…Could someone tell me if the ArduPilot is suitable for Piper Cub. It has a petrol engine.Many ThanksGer
Read more…Curses! This:http://www.fmadirect.com/detail.htm?item=1778§ion=20was showing as coming back in stock on the 15th May until now ;-(I guess I've got two questions, 1) are there any sensible alternatives? and 2) am I likely to have any success with
Read more…hello, I'm french and I do not speak English well please excuse me.I am very impressed with this project!I'd like to know if with Ardupilot:_il is possible to add the waypoint in flight?_il can receive the video on the PC?from what I read on the foru
Read more…Anyone know of one of these? I can't believe I haven't found any in my quick search. It looks like Arduino even supports operator overloading and templates from c++, so you could build a pretty spiffy flexible library! Alas, I'm looking for something
Read more…Hey guys, I am a police officer with a small Southeastern US town. I was talking with some guys after looking for a burglary suspect for three hours. We had his cellphone "pinged" which would only give me a accurate location within 450 meters (worthl
Read more…Hello guys!This is my first post, so I do want to apologize if i ask things that have already been discussed. I've tried to search to forums to the best of my knowledge.Building a UAV has been on my to-do list for some time now and this summer i'm fi
Read more…Hello,I bought the UAV dev board and the MPLAB ICD2 programmer. I am receiving the following message when trying to connect to the board:ICDWarn0020: Invalid target device id (expected=0x101, read=0x0)The programmer is working fine through USB and al
Read more…My Parallax autopilot with OSD (on screen display) is moving right along. It also transmits all sensor data to the ground station via XBee. Right now I have adapted Chris and Jordi's ground station to display most data.Here is also the spin code....B
Read more…Hi, I've been interested in hobby UAVs for some time and finally have my Powered Parachute project up with some initial flight tests. Info at (http://www/uavgeek.com) The base platform is a seabreeze 82" electric PPC. The guy that I bought it from vi
Read more…I can get the tool to work on a 168 processor Ardupillot but not the 328 version of the Ardupilot.I have not yet managed to write a blank set of data to the EEPROM on the 328 and cannot read anything back either (I get the 'Something is Wrong' messag
Read more…I have been roaming around this site for a while, and want to learn more. To start I want a plane. I'm not a beginer at RC, but I'm not an expert either. I want something with a good flight time at a descent price. I might be able to make $600 if I w
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