"After I while I wanted to smack some wheels to the bottom of this thing and have a smooth airplane type landing. So I would give it the starting and ending coordinates of a landing strip and it would descend to a altitude of about 6 meters above the…"

"Don't I need to know my height above the ground to start landing if I want to land at an exact position. I don't think I should just turn the engine off without knowing how long it is before I hit the ground."

"I will be using the rangefinder for landing. I will be descending until my rangefinder senses land below. Thereafter I will use try to use my alierons as flaps once I get close enough to the ground. I think 20 feet is a good range. I plan on my chip…"

"Thanks for all the advice guys. You can get a full update of whats going on at my new post. Here.

I am going to maintain contact with the plane once it is in the air except for the Transmitter, which is going to be about to override the autopilot.…"

"Hey Curt, we haven't yet decided completely on the exact pieces that we are going to use for any three of those. The last team used a 9S12A64 microcontroller, a quad thermopile sensor(MLX90247), and an ETek EB-85A for GPS data. As for my team, we…"

"Thanks Chris,

I'm still trying to figure out why the gyros are needed. Are you sure you have the right link?"