About

Gender

Male


Location

KZN


About Me:

Old but still an avid flier.


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

Want to do aerial photography and am interested to use uav's for rhino poaching control


Hometown:

New Hanover


Activity Feed

Charl van Hemert replied to James Dinh's discussion Altitude of Loiter mode
"Hi James, I have been hovering around for a few months now and is still scared to switch to altitude hold and loiter mode. All my stabilise mode settings is now correct as I can hover very stable and in control. The first step was to switch to…"
May 2, 2012
Charl van Hemert replied to Charl van Hemert's discussion Where are all the South African Multi rotor fliers?
"Hi Guys, Sorry for late respons, have been buzy. I thank you all for responding.
Craig Burden, your idea for a meet and fly is great, It's just to far to travel. Maby we should organise a more local fly-in in our own province first.
Gary Mortimer, I…"
Apr 16, 2012
Charl van Hemert posted a discussion
It is hard to get a muticopter to fly properly if you do it alone. It would be nice to meet fellow South Africans to discuss and share ideas and skills. I live in New Hanover KZN and would like to hear fom anybody interested.
Mar 26, 2012
Charl van Hemert replied to Charl van Hemert's discussion Quad crash after sudden no input control and APM not controlling quad, help
"I solved the problem. After downloading and installing the new ArduCopter 2.3.zip firmware the problem seems to be gone.
I also rebuilt after crash and made a hexocopter. The default setting worked first time and flies very stable. No wobble on take…"
Mar 4, 2012
Charl van Hemert posted a discussion
Hi, My arducopter board is doing strange thigs. After I used the openpilot cc board on my quad for several months and got a reliable stabel flight and hover, I bought the arducopter board as it had the altimeter and gps.My sun and I spent a week of…
Feb 27, 2012