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"We use a camping cooler/heater to heat and store our batteries."
"We use standard resistor-based transmitter. They are not heated internally but we try to keep them warm by storing them in the battery box during the beyond line-of-sight flight phase. We once had an issue in Antarctica where a 2.4GHz transmitter…"
We are out for UAV field campaigns again. After one week of flying over sea ice of the Baltic sea in northern Finland we are now heading for Svalbard.http://blog.pfump.org
"@ Rob Ok, sorry, then I misundertood your video. Was just happy to see another UAV developer being enthusiastic about flying in the cold!"
"@ Tony K We use standard LiPo batteries. They allow 1h flights at the same altitude or 5000m combined altitude in profiles. The most important thing is to not let them cool down. We put them into a 12V cooler box that is set to "heat" and keep them…"
"@Rob Flying in cold/harsh environments is something that has been done with Paparazzi for a long time. This is a video from 2009, taken over Svalbard at 78°N in (legal) 1500m altitude. The lowest temperature we measured on the ground during that…"
"You think Paparazzi should get organized in the Linux Foundation?"
"looks like a Quadshot"
We spent a week on Svalbard and operated autonomous aircraft to collect atmospheric data. They were accompanied by a tethered weather balloon and an autonomous under water glider.blog.pfump.org
John Cassano from the University of Colorado has been flying small fixed-wing UAVs in a remote camp in Antarctica. From his blog: Since it wouldn’t be possible for us to build a 3000 foot tall automatic weather station (AWS) on the Ross Ice Shelf we…
"Umm, Paparazzi has been doing that for many years http://paparazzi.enac.fr/wiki/SUMO"
This Antarctic summer two teams flew Paparazzi driven UAS on the southernmost continent. The University of Bergen flew at the Norwegian Troll station (video) and the University of Colorado near the US McMurdo station (blog, blog). They measured…
"The adaptive control loop is not the standard setup for a Paparazzi fixed wing aircraft. It is in proof of concept state and it will need some more work to be flown on a day-by-day basis. Other aircraft types will have to be tuned individually.
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"Thanks for all the positive feedback. The university - as a public body - does not have an insurance but there are talks with the university/faculty to allow the geophysical institute to rebuild the planes. If all goes well the impact on the next…"
"Everything you see is intentional :-) Maybe "simulated motor failure" would be more correct. The camera on the front boom is a FlyCamOne 3, the rudder/wing camera is a PMDV80 and the following aircraft has a GOPRO HD installed. The Twinstar/control…"
