[Paparazzi-devel] High Altitude Glider

[Ben Firshman]

"We would also enjoy to make partnerships with hobbyists operating  
high tech airframes (like fast jets or long endurance motoglider or  
extra light models). I offer a beer to the first < 150g, >100m/s or  
>6 hours endurance paparazzi :)"

Does > 50,000 feet count too? ;)

We are planning to send a glider up on a weather balloon, and have it  
fly itself down again. Coding autopilots is by no means our strong  
point, and it needs to be very stable (otherwise we have a pretty  
effective rock falling out of the sky).

Redundancy is the key I suppose. For example, we can use pressure  
sensors for altitude and airspeed. If they fail, we can switch over  
to the GPS. If everything fails, we can have a separate chip to  
restart the main computer. If that fails, it can just release the  
parachute, and somehow report its location to the ground station.

Has anyone run/willing to help with running Paparazzi on a glider?  
Running the ground station via packet HAM radio wouldn't take much  
modification would it?

Ben

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