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  Michael Johnston March 16, 2013 at 4:44am

  Thanks Mat and Dave,

  I appreciate the effort - even though I may have posted the wrong log.  The  solution may be simply turning off the raw sensor logging????  Will do this and see if the machine behaves better.

  Have made some changes to the machine just before the trip in an attempt to mitigate onboard vibration - these changes have certainly changed the shape of the accel curves ( details posted here) so the raw accel logging not required now.

  Might clear the log files off the board too - make it a little easier to isolate the problems next time. sorry for confusion.

  MJ
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  Michael Johnston March 16, 2013 at 2:23am

  174 log file.log

  and this be the log file (rather than GE file).

  MJ
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  Michael Johnston March 16, 2013 at 1:47am

  Hi Crew,

  Anyone know how to interpret the log files to problem solve some significant issues during autonomous flight.

  I prepared several basic routines and in each case the machine did not follow the path in any way shape or form.

  Pretty disappointing given that I had just fitted a Ublox gps.

  Tried with compass enabled and disabled. Auto-declination for compass was enabled. Have mounted the board on ear buds to reduce vibration - so reckon that I'm not doing much wrong. But actual flight did not resemble programmed flight at all.

  Might be a question best directed to Mike Oborne but the flights were certainly a challenger to Dave's Deakin Dizzy.

  I was very impressed with the landing flight mode!

  Roxby_Downs_log174.kmz

  MJ
• Tim Wilkin March 5, 2013 at 9:48pm

  @Byron: Perhaps my comment wasn't well presented... it was intended to highlight the recent infamy gained by certain police organisations after being filmed doing "the wrong thing". It wasn't meant as a slur against all police... if it came across that way, please accept my apologies. I come from a police family (quite senior police, in fact), so I know that the majority are exemplary at their job.

  On the point about "police do have the right to ask someone to stop filming just as we all have that right"... It would be wrong to say we have a "right" to ask someone to stop what they're doing. Rights are those capacities granted to us by legislation, case law or our constitution and as far as I am aware (and here, married to a lawyer, but I don't know everything ;)  ), there's certainly nothing written that gives us such a right  (AFAIK).
• Tim Wilkin March 5, 2013 at 5:56pm

  Police do have a right to ask someone to stop filming if the act of filming obstructs them from doing their duty... just being filmed isn't sufficient though to qualify as obstruction. Unfortunately, some police, like many individuals, think they have a right not to be filmed unless they give permission. Anyone in a public space, or viewable from a public space is fair game and that includes police.

  Of course, if you're filming for commercial purposes, then you may need a filming permit... and one *could* argue that if you expect to generate any advertising revenue from posting your movie online, that your filming is indeed commercial... I'll be curious as to whether this line gets taken in the future. For now, film freely, but beware that people often do get aggressive if they think they're being filmed while they're doing something wrong (and we all know police, particularly those in NSW, are famous for doing the wrong thing!)!
• Karl von Muller February 26, 2013 at 6:41pm

  That's my local flying spot, if the cricketers aren't there, there's always a mix of people there. And if the cricketers are there you can always go up to the softball fields, they do get windy though.
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  Michael Johnston February 26, 2013 at 5:52pm

  how about Police Paddocks?

  Brady Road, Police%20paddocks.kmz

  Seems to be a bit of a hang out for FPVers and other RC pilots. Although on the one occasion I went there it was chock-a-block with cricketers.

  MJ

  https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3692635351?profile=original
• Tim Wilkin February 26, 2013 at 3:59pm

  I should be available... before then though I need to sort out my camera mount to get rid of my jelly-like video... does anyone have any suggestions for a decent, noise/vibration damping mount?
• Karl von Muller February 26, 2013 at 3:44pm

  Sounds good I'm down for that!
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  Michael Johnston February 26, 2013 at 2:44pm

  interested in both FPV and photography...  but I'm not ready for night flight (if that is what you intended to say).

  MJ