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Gender

Male


Location

Somerset, PA


About Me:

Composite materials and Rc enthusiast!!


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

I am interested in the advancement of unmanned vehicles and the possibilities that lie ahead! I enjoy building and flying RC aircraft.


Hometown:

Somerset, PA


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Jon Reacher posted a discussion
It seems that according to part 107 a visual observer can be used to maintain a line of sight on the vehicle, as long as the PIC and the VO are in communication. It also seems that there is no limit on where this VO can be, as long as a VO or the…
Mar 3, 2017
Jon Reacher replied to Jon Reacher's discussion Fixed Wing Gimbal?
"Somehow "mapping" and "gimbal" didn't turn these up in all of my searching. I think my google's broken. Yea, I was looking at the direct drive type and I think that drove my search in wrong directions also.
I was even looking at Dennis Baldwins…"
Feb 1, 2017
Jon Reacher posted a discussion
I've been trying to find a simple roll compensating gimbal (single axis or compact 2 axis) to mount a camera inside a payload bay. It seems if you want to use anything larger than a GoPro the gimbals are huge 2 and 3 axis things. I'm trying to keep…
Feb 1, 2017
Jon Reacher replied to Jon Reacher's discussion Does mission flying work without GCS?
"Any ideas? Has anyone even used qgroundcontrol?"
Sep 12, 2016
Jon Reacher posted a discussion
I've been looking everywhere to try and find out if you have to have a ground control station set up to fly missions. Since the waypoints are sent to the pixhawk through usb and are stored as gps coordinates I didn't think it needed to communicate…
Sep 12, 2016