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AOPA Airspace integration online thing
This is I think where I would like us to be heading. Individual certificates that clock up to being able to show useful knowledge.
https://www.aopa.org/asf/osc/loginform.cfm?course=unmannedaircraft&project_code=&
A wry smile raised for the airframes ch
Read more…It starts with a paper dart
All too often I read a chain of messages that flow something along the lines of...
Wow this looks cool I'm going to get me one. Folks tell me what I need. Folks help me set it up. Folks there is something wrong with the autopilot it only makes my plan
Read more…Some standards
To get the ball rolling.
Written in English we have
Australia :- http://www.acuo.org.au/members.htm , http://www.casa.gov.au/wcmswr/_assets/main/lib100071/uas.pdf
Canada :- http://www.tc.gc.ca/eng/civilaviation/standards/general-recavi-brochures-uav-22
Read more…APM 2 external GPS I must have missed something
I have a couple of https://www.sparkfun.com/tutorials/176 am trying to add one as an external GPS to an APM 2 board and my board will not see it.
The GPS powers up ok and gets a fix, based on LED flashing.
What have I not done? I have disabled the onbo
Read more…Who da boss
Sorry if I missed this somewhere but which is the primary device. By this which takes priority.I flew my motor glider a couple of times today.
On the second flight I tapped loiter on my tablet from stabilize selected on my RC tx. Off into loiter it w
Read more…I'm in
KZN, with fixed wing and rotary platforms interested in GIS and conservation tasks.
How about a meet, loads of lovely flying weather at the minute.
Read more…sUAS news weekly is out
Here it is a little messy, not enough pictures me thinks
Lots of money being thrown about this week for sUAS projects.
Read more…Some opinions please
Just added pictures to the email list I send of story roundups every week from sUAS News. Now I am worried that it will clog inboxs and be slow loading.
This is what it looks like and already I'm not happy with how its rendered in this version but I
Read more…Is the FAA getting ready to clamp down on sUAS
Patrick Egan writes a little something. There are many people flouting the law with aerial photography business in the USA. Should they be allowed to continue?
Remember that fullsize/model midair
Well the AMA seem to me anyway to have taken a position before the FAA have ruled. Not sure thats appropriate
Standing by for flames
UK aerial photography group on Facebook
Hi all,
Mike and I thought it might be a plan to have a place to add images there.
If you have some pics of the UK from above and would like to share,
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XmegaPilot, from RCG
From RCG
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1235169
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XmegaPilot - XmegaDuino based Autopilot
XmegaPilot is an open-source software and hardware autopilot for use in small radio control type aircraft and quadcopters by amateur uav enthusiasts
Some European airspace closing due Volcano in Iceland
Amazing story unfolding.
Watch the UK skies clearing here http://www.radarvirtuel.com/
What a shame for lots of people.
UAV crash blamed on pilots’ focus on battle.... Its all about situational awareness.
Staff report
Posted : Thursday Apr 1, 2010 19:41:57 EDT
Pilots flying an MQ-1B Predator in Afghanistan were so focused on a fierce firefight that they failed to notice the unmanned ai Read more…
T3 Competition
We are coming to the end of the next round, who's up for giving me a hand sorting it out and perhaps making the judging a little more subjective.
Summer is fast approaching for most people here so its time for everybody to fly hard.
You have all had a
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More pay, hooray....More pay for UAV pilots, sensor operators
From Air Force Times...
Airmen who fly remote-controlled airplanes or operate the planes’ sensors and did not previously
qualify for aviation incentive pay are now eligible for bigge
Read more…You know I said it was ok for the UK Police to use the the quad to arrest..... I was wrong
Ho Ho ho
CAP722 and the UK airlaw changes that came into force on the 1st of January swing into action. Remember anything with a camera on is now a UAS in the UK.
Merseyside force trumpeted success but did not have permission to use surveillance drone
Is this a worry or not ?.... UAV systems infringing in US 6370629
UAV systems infringing in US 6370629
Folks - meet "Controlling Access to Stored Information" - US 6,370,629, and a snapshot of my brain in 1999 when I filed it originally. It is the culmination in a process which produces non-repudiated controls as di
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