About

Gender

Male


Location

Western Cape


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

Applying UAV Technology to the mining and farming industry


Hometown:

Paarl


Activity Feed

Michael Papenhagen commented on Tiaan Roux's blog post ALTI Transition 6 hour VTOL cargo lifter
"Hi Duran
Remember me....I brought one of your first Quads! Duran congrats on this Plane....please forward me more info and prices to info@aerialpix.co.za.
Kind Regards
Michael"
Jun 11, 2016
Michael Papenhagen commented on Tiaan Roux's blog post ALTI Transition 6 hour VTOL cargo lifter
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Jun 11, 2016
Michael Papenhagen left a comment on X-UAV Talon
"Hi Thomas
Have a look at "x-uav.cn".....that is where they advertise the new Talon Max.
Regards
Michael"
Mar 26, 2016
Michael Papenhagen left a comment on X-UAV Talon
"Hi
I have had a look at the new Talon Max and at $2300.00 it is very expensive for an empty shell! Any comments?"
Mar 25, 2016
Michael Papenhagen replied to Michael Papenhagen's discussion Reach/Piksi
"Hi Beryl
Thank you very much for clearing that up for me.
We are in the process of building up an Aerial Surveying Company, which is hard work and expensive and it pi...s me off when Companies advertise products which they know do not work as they…"
Mar 19, 2016
Michael Papenhagen commented on Thorsten's blog post Announcing Mavis
"Thorsten......where are you??????"
Feb 20, 2016
Michael Papenhagen commented on Thorsten's blog post Announcing Mavis
"Hi Thorsten
I know it is a weekend, but any progress on the possibility of having a Trail version? We are flying 2 Quarries and one farm next week and would really like to have a copy of your Software to evaluate.

Regards
Michael"
Feb 20, 2016
Michael Papenhagen commented on Thorsten's blog post Announcing Mavis
"Hi Thorsten
We would really like to have a trail version of your program to evaluate it against our completed Projects where we used GCP and also to compare it to Photoscan and Pix4D. At that price we will buy a couple of programs!
Regards
Michael"
Feb 18, 2016
Michael Papenhagen commented on Thorsten's blog post Announcing Mavis
"Hi, I agree with Hans....a trial version would be very nice."
Feb 17, 2016
Michael Papenhagen replied to Aussie in AZ's discussion 3DR telemetry no longer supported by 3DR....options?
"Hi Chris

The Posts in here are very confusing!

We use your Pixhawk Autopilot systems on our fixed wing Planes and our Quads, which is the backbone of our business. We are not concerned about the Telemetry or Video links, as these we can get from…"
Jan 31, 2016
Michael Papenhagen replied to Aussie in AZ's discussion 3DR telemetry no longer supported by 3DR....options?
"Hi Paul
I have heard rumors last year that 3DR are going to change from a DIY shop to something similar to DJI, but it looks like those rumors were true.

I feel like a Mushroom....being kept in the dark and fed sh.t!

Regards
Michael"
Jan 20, 2016
Michael Papenhagen replied to Quan Le's discussion Drone topographical survey for agriculture in Africa - What have we done wrong? Business opportunity in Agricultural UAVs
"Hi Gary

Excluding South Africa, it takes about an hour to get clearance with the local Aviation Departments in the respective countries....we have been there and done it!

Regards
Michael"
Jan 5, 2016
Michael Papenhagen replied to Quan Le's discussion Drone topographical survey for agriculture in Africa - What have we done wrong? Business opportunity in Agricultural UAVs
"Hi Quan Le,

We are a Survey Company located at Paarl in South Africa and have been using UAV's for the last 3 years to do Aerial Topographical Surveys throughout Southern Africa. It has been an expensive "learning curve" through which we had to go…"
Jan 4, 2016
Michael Papenhagen replied to Tersus GNSS's discussion L1/L2 RTK trial user wanted
"Hi Tersus_Team

We would really like to test your GPS system, even if it means paying some monies for it. Like I have mentioned earlier is that fixing Ground Control Points takes up more time in our Surveys than anything else. The last survey that…"
Jan 3, 2016
Michael Papenhagen replied to Tersus GNSS's discussion L1/L2 RTK trial user wanted
"Hi Tersus
We are a Surveying Company located in South Africa that uses UAV's together with Pixhawk for all our Aerial Topographical Surveys. The most time consuming operation is to put down Ground Control Points which is required before we can fly…"
Dec 26, 2015
Michael Papenhagen replied to Michael Papenhagen's discussion Format of Waypoint Files From Missionplanner
"Thanks Andre"
Dec 12, 2015
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