Re: [Paparazzi-devel] Paparazzi without R/C transmitter/receiver

[Roman Krashanitsa]

 

It is true that we usually fly outside of the RC range but in my experience, most failures occure at launch or landing when RC is in range. We saved probably tens of airplanes this way. Of course, the safety pilot's reaction has to be very good, otherwise, autopilot default reaction -- shut off the motor and keep airplane straight -- is a better choice.

2009/5/12 <address@hidden>

Hi,

to disable RC link, just comment out the related lines in your airframe file:

#ap.CFLAGS += -DRADIO_CONTROL -DRADIO_CONTROL_TYPE=RC_FUTABA
#ap.srcs += radio_control.c $(SRC_ARCH)/ppm_hw.c

The radio attribute in the conf.xml file is now also optional (but written anyway by the Paparazzi Center)

It could be hard to convince the regulations people that RC is a "safety" link since we often operate out of RC range (but within datelink range) ...

--Pascal

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Subject: Re: [Paparazzi-devel] Paparazzi without R/C transmitter/receiver



Daniel,

We have R/C transmitter/receiver for safety reasons. Often safety regulations require you to have a safety pilot in your team who would increase chance of you airplane not doing any damage to people and property on the ground if electronics/mechanics fails for some reason.

Roman


2009/5/11 Daniel Morgan < address@hidden >


yes it is





On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 6:19 PM, David Bryant < address@hidden > wrote:


Hi,

Is it possible to run a paparazzi aircraft solely with paparazzi, ie no R/C radio receiver in the aircraft? I haven't come across any examples of this yet. We would like to take the R/C transmitter/receiver out of the picture and run the autopilot in AUTO2 from start to finish.

Thanks,
Dave


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