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About Me:

Amateur - No UAV experience


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

I am an avid airplane enthusiast and want to start getting into the RC and UAV world.


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Gilbert McGhee commented on Sunil Shah's blog post Drones at UC Berkeley: Real-time Image Processing (Part 1 of 2)
"Sunil et al., what are your thoughts on putting the camera and processing power on the ground side and the image on the Vehicle? My idea is to use gps to get the vehicle close, then fly a search pattern until the ground camera finds the vehicle,…"
Sep 27, 2014
Gilbert McGhee commented on Andreas M. Antonopoulos's blog post Developing code for the APM - Webinar (TODAY)
"Please make a second webinar. I would love to know how the MAVlink works between Mission Planner and the MAV, and your suggestion on how to go from idea to coding to debugging to implementation would be awesome."
Feb 26, 2014
Gilbert McGhee replied to Tommy Larsen's discussion Remove Geo-fence
"My fix is not the ideal way but it appears to work. I go into the "Full Parameter List", then edit the "FENCE_TOTAL" number and set it to 0, then press "Write Params". The geofence still appears on the mission planner but if you press try to…"
Feb 13, 2014
Gilbert McGhee replied to Tommy Larsen's discussion Remove Geo-fence
"Bump. I can't figure this out either. Where is the Software Tab?

Thanks."
Feb 13, 2014
Gilbert McGhee replied to Dominic's discussion Mission Planner Auto-Waypoint
"If you haven't checked youtube yet, here is a pretty good video. Google for sureveying using mission planner.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZGWmNXylMs"
Jan 15, 2014
Gilbert McGhee commented on Jean-Louis Naudin's blog post Full autonomous Cross Country Soaring flights with the ThermoPilot v6.x
"This is very, very cool. I have a ton of questions about it.
1. How do you determine which way to turn into the thermal?
2. How do you determine the optimum bank angle?
3. How does the aircraft determine when it is time to leave the thermal and…"
Apr 15, 2012