Re: [Aus-soaring] autonomous glider

2009-07-13 Thread Mike Borgelt
At 03:43 PM 13/07/2009, you wrote: an interesting read in a nut shell - "The project goal is 141.7mi cross country without human intervention." http://soaring.goosetechnologies.com/ Ben Oh dear. Way back in 1983 (when the juniors either didn't ex

Re: [Aus-soaring] autonomous glider

2009-07-13 Thread Mark Newton
On 13/07/2009, at 6:42 PM, Mike Borgelt wrote: OTGH the engineer in me says - way cool! What great project! Lets put the gear in a full size sailplane and race it against the best human pilots. Then, when it's really good, we can put a real pilot in the cockpit, who can sit back with thei

Re: [Aus-soaring] autonomous glider

2009-07-13 Thread Jim Staniforth
I thought Terry Delore was older than that! Jim From: Mark Newton To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 2:46:24 AM Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] autonomous glider On 13/07/2009, at 6:42 PM, Mike Borgelt wrote: >

[Aus-soaring] Suggestion for older Cambridge mod 20 and mod 10 GPS logger

2009-07-13 Thread Ian Mc Phee
In the last 2 weeks I have had 2 loggers in for repair and cause of problem was putting 4 wire power phone connector into 6 wire phone display connector and the wrong connector bends up the two outer wire connectors. For display to work all connections must work. A simple solution is a zip tie go

Re: [Aus-soaring] autonomous glider

2009-07-13 Thread Mike Borgelt
At 07:46 PM 13/07/2009, you wrote: (Do the FAI rules say anything about autopilot in gliders? Huh?) - mark - Now that's a good topic. It would be quite simple to have pitch and flap setting automatically controlled in cruise to fly MacCready. Keep roll for the pilot to feel the air

Re: [Aus-soaring] autonomous glider

2009-07-13 Thread Ben Loxton
there is a interesting clip on Youtube of a interview with Dick Johnson last year at SAA and his thoughts on future gilding stuff http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cplDc-60DEI talks about thermal detection etc. On 14/07/2009, at 7:46 AM, Mike Borgelt wrote: At 07:46 PM 13/07/2009, you wrote:

Re: [Aus-soaring] autonomous glider

2009-07-13 Thread tom claffey
Touche!!! :] --- On Tue, 14/7/09, Jim Staniforth wrote: From: Jim Staniforth Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] autonomous glider To: "Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia." Received: Tuesday, 14 July, 2009, 2:14 AM I thought Terry Delore was older than that! Jim From: Mark Newto