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Raven672 le 3 déc. 2011
This is the video compilation showing a 1km navigated test flight with OpenPilot beta hardware steering a brushless foam DH110 sea vixen plane with a nose camera attached.
The plane also had a flight logger on board, which captures all available data with much higher precision than would be possible over a low bandwidth telemetry link. A subselection of this data has been visualized in this video, using the OpenPilot GCS log replay function.
Unfortunately I am not as good at handling the camera as my wife is, so its a bit hard to see the blurry black dot that is my plane in the distance. But there is on-board video and GPS map trace too to make up for it.
Just after successful completion the navigated flight pattern there was a glitch, which caused the plane to descent with wings fluttering - so I had to override the controls manually and land. After reviewing the logs the situation could easily have been avoided with better tuned stabilization coefficients and safer limits, and would likely have recovered on its own with enough spare altitude. But it prevented me from doing "two in a row" and fly 2km as I had planned to do. Still, the overall flight distance is well over 2km thanks to the distance covered in loitering. The way point itself was well reached as well, so I'd call the flight a success.