Re: [Paparazzi-devel] Flying ...

[David Conger]

Wow!
That is awesome.
Congratulations.
Was there onboard video? :)
-David Conger
On Aug 6, 2009, at 2:26 PM, Pascal Brisset wrote:

> Some numbers:
> - 1800m: altitude of take-off and landing
> - 2400m: highest reached altitude (50m higher than the desired one,  
> thanks to wind and/or thermals)
> - 11.85km: range reached with standard 2.4Ghz XBees (line of sight)
> - 3: number of lakes seen on the pictures
> - 15km: length of the route
> - 2000mAh: consumed energy (3 cells)
> - 80m: lowest height above the ground, while crossing the pass (2262m)
> - 2: number of ground stations
> - 1: number of megabytes of telemetry logged on board
>
> Today, a Paparazzi equipped Funjet autonomously crossed the Pyrenees  
> (the mountains in the south-west of France), from North to South:
>
>   http://paparazzi.enac.fr/wiki/Image:Pyrenees_crossing_NS.kmz
>
> Some stress while we were waiting (only 2 minutes) for the aircraft  
> to appear on the GCS at the arrival and ... a lot of fun
>
> --Paparazzi Users
>
>
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