Re: [Paparazzi-devel] Flying ...

[Pascal Brisset]

Hi,

some answers and pictures in the wiki:

http://paparazzi.enac.fr/wiki/Pyrenees_Crossing

--Pascal

Andrew S wrote:
> Great job, congratulations!
> Your Xbee was with standard antenna, or with advanced?
>
> 07.08.09, 01:26, "Pascal Brisset" <address@hidden>:
>
>   
> >  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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