[Paparazzi-devel] help to learn more about paparazzi and aircraft autopilot

[Massimo Di Stefano]

hi guys,

i'm new to RC aircraft
...
i buy a little "cesna" a mounth ago ...
to make experience and learn how to pilot an RC aircraft ..
(exiting experience .. cool!)

now it's the moment to start my project .. and please i need an help :-/

my targhet is to have an aircraft that :

- communicate from long distance (max 2km)

- tell me its position (gps) ... but with an high accuracy (maybe  
something like dgps or appling a kalman flter?)

- an "auto pilot"  that help me to follow lines ...  e.g.  i design a  
series of parallels lines in the space (all at the same Z level)

  (i have the line's nodes coordinates :   
line_1(start(x,y,z),end(x,y,z)) ...  
line_2(start(x,y,z),end(x,y,z))...line_N(start(x,y,z),end(x,y,z))
  i need that the autopilot help me to :
   enter on line 1  ... follow it .. exit from line 1 turn back  ..  
and enter in the line 2  .. and so on .. until the lines are finished


aircraft direction           ---->

line 1     O-------------------->-------------------------O

line 2     O--------------------<-------------------------O

line 3     O-------------------->-------------------------O
..
..
..
line N    O----------------------<-----------------------O


i gived a look at website .. i can see that exist a lot of hardware  
equipments and a lot of options
http://paparazzi.enac.fr/wiki/index.php/Hardware
can you help me  to know "what" i need to buy   maybe a list of object ?
and again ... what do you think about my needs? is it doable ?

thanks a lot for any suggestion
apologize me for the bad english (i'm italian)
let me know if you need a better description of what i'm tring to do.

Regards,
Massimo Di stefano
(on irc : epifanio)
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