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San Francisco-area fly-in today

Posted by Chris Anderson on February 6, 2011 at 9:16am

3689388340?profile=originalWith apologies for the late notice, I and a few other DIY Drones developers will be flying in Concord, in San Francisco's East Bay, starting at 2:30 pm. Any Bay Area folks who want to spend Super Bowl Sunday outside in gorgeous weather, rather than watching a football game on TV, are welcome to join us. We'll be testing the latest ACM code on quads, and testing the latest APM code on Skywalkers and other aircraft, to check how various GPS modules behave in auto mode.

 

The location is in the large open public park at the end of Court Lane in Concord, here. Anyone from this community is welcome to join us. You can bring something to fly or just watch UAV development up close. Crashes are likely!

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  • Geoffrey L. Barrows February 7, 2011 at 4:33am

    Hi Chris,

    This looks like it was fun! I'd like to attend one of these. How far in advance do you typically schedule them?

    Geof

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    Chris Anderson February 6, 2011 at 10:53pm
    We had a great time today--may ten guys total. Next time I'll give everyone a bit more notice. We try to fly at least once a month--it really depends more on wives/partners forbearance than it does weather. If we're good we get to fly more!
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    Michael Smith February 6, 2011 at 7:06pm

    @Mark - the meetup is more irregular rather than regular, but ping Chris and I'm sure he'll drop you a line.  We usually get a day or two's notice at the moment. 8)

     

     

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    Mark Harrison February 6, 2011 at 4:03pm

    Darn, I was planning on coming out at 3:30 to fly with the Concord Model Engineers, and then got waylaid by family to watch the game with them!

     

    Is there a regular meet-up of ardupilots in the East Bay?

  • Bernard Michaud February 6, 2011 at 1:35pm

    Is there anything alike in florida this winther ?

     

  • Ron Jacobs February 6, 2011 at 11:25am
    Will you be posting video from the fly-in?
  • Ron Jacobs February 6, 2011 at 11:20am
    Here, here... John, -10 C, 32 km/h  stopped snowing and raining last night. Not great flying weather, so I stay in working on my Easy Star.
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    John Arne Birkeland February 6, 2011 at 10:57am
    Bastards!.. 37 degrees (F), 12m/s and raining. Been like this for the last month or so with snow on and off..
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    Chris Anderson February 6, 2011 at 10:44am
    The wind has died down in Berkeley, which is also East Bay, so I'm thinking the flying conditions will be near perfect. It's 70 degrees and cloudless. Yay California ;-)
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