--- "Curtis L. Olson" <> wrote: > I've posted a few little blurbs about the UAV project I'm involved in, > so here's another one. > > First a word of explanation. > > We have an R/C plane with a camera looking 45 degrees down. The > airplane also has an expensive sensor that spits out location (lon, lat, > > elevation) and attitude (pitch, roll, yaw). We have a radio modem > (wireless serial link) to feed the location/attitude data to the ground > in real time. We had a coworker build a photoreal 3d model of our small > > flying area. Armed with all that we can use FlightGear to show a live > synthetic view of the UAV.
Hi Curt, It is a wonderful project - amazing that you can get paid to do it ! ;) I'm sure this has been asked before, but is the I/O fast enough that you can pilot the aircraft using the FG instruments and synthetic view? No idea if it would be useful, bit it would be cool. It reminds me of a quote I heard from the test pilot of the A380 (or whatever the latest huge Airbus is) when asked about his first flight in the plane - "It flew just like the simulator". Apparently the fly-by-wire system was identical. -Stuart ___________________________________________________________ To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre. http://uk.security.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d