About

Gender

Male


Location

Marlborough


About Me:

I am a sheep and beef farmer in New Zealand with many different interests including hunting, RC models, bee keeping, vege-gardening, photography, engines, electronics and hiking.


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

Have build a Bixler and am about to install APM2.5+ with uBlox GPS, possibly to use for aerial mapping but most likely just for fun. UPDATE: Bixler has been destroyed, along with DJI F550. Now flying Skywalker X8 with Canon 120SX camera and TBS Discovery with Hero 3+


Hometown:

Blenheim


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Thomas Harvey replied to Thomas Harvey's discussion Mission Planner not downloading map tiles for my area
"Didn't work for me, in fact it made it worse.  I couldn't download map tiles for anywhere in the world at any zoom level"
Oct 17, 2013
Thomas Harvey posted a discussion
Hi,I would be very grateful if someone could help me with this.  Since about 3 weeks ago the Mission Planner will not load any tiles below a viewing altitude of about 100km, this is not very useful for mission planning. Before then I had excellent…
Oct 4, 2013
Thomas Harvey commented on Mike Perillo's blog post Change between 6 modes with Turnigy 9XR using mixing.
"Thanks for the guide but could someone please explain how to get the '!' in front of 'AIL'?  I'm only a beginner ;)"
Jul 22, 2013