About

Gender

Male


Location

Melbourne


About Me:

I was flying R/C models way back in the 80's but married life and raising two kids the R/C models faded into the background. Fast forward to 2013 and my son (Mark) said he wanted to build an R/C model plane. Google is amazing. WOW Electric motors, foam model planes and now FPV !!!! Now I get to go flying with my son. He was able to fly LOS in only a few hours. Next FPV


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

I am especially interested in fixed wing FPV (Skywalker) models. I did read a lot about solutions for RTH and decided to purchase a brand name and now I regret it. So I am scrapping my Nova and joining the ArduPlane open source project. For me it's all about safety and I'm going to have more confidence flying with ArduPlane on board.


Hometown:

Melbourne


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Ron Spooner left a comment for Ron Spooner
"Andreas if you get a spare ten minutes install these extra modules and it should compile on a stock Linux Mint 16. Believe me I am no expert I just searched the Internet to resolve the errors. It looks rather nice on Mint now my next problem is to…"
Feb 24, 2014
Ron Spooner replied to Adrian L's discussion Crashed today !!!
"I would like to better understand the APM logs so I decided to take a look at Adrian's. I'm not going to be able to solve this but could someone please tell me the difference between RELALT and ALT.
I have searched the Internet and can't find any…"
Jul 17, 2013
Ron Spooner posted a discussion in ArduPlane User Group
I would really appreciate some help as my Skywalker is losing altitude when RTL is commanded. While flying in manual mode I did notice I needed to add up trim to the elevator and I will correct this before the next flight, could this be why RTL…
Jul 14, 2013