Well here I am getting warmed up to start pursuing my UAV. I have my Flightgear and my C# programming skills and I am all set to start. The starting plan is to begin passing information back and forth. I have to say bravo the developers of Flightgear. The XML interface for getting data into and out of Flightgear is amazing, simple, clean and quick to get started. The first night worth of development has seen me getting information to my client over a socket (at least I have some flexiblity in how I want to handle H-I-L simulation further down the road). I have to say that this was simpler to get started, but now I am getting into the meat of what I love about flight...the autopilot! This is all I have to start with, I will let the world know how the next steps go (begin developing accurate position information)! Stay tuned....
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