I'll take a few of those $3 accelerometers! Where may one find them,
please?

Thanks.


Ron Webb wrote:
How can you tell whether you are straight and level? If
you're in a balanced turn, your accelerometer (which actually measures net
force) will believe you are straight and level.

And a GPS won't help much at all, mostly because its response rate is too
slow.

Frank


As I see it, accelerometers and GPS together are all that's needed. If the
vectors from all 3 accelerometers are in the right direction, and the
average GPS heading is not moving much- you're straight and level.

My GPS updates about once per second. That's plenty fast enough.Once every
10 seconds would work.When flying, do you react to every bounce, or just
ride with the flow and provide general guidance? I don't know about you, but
I try to stay relaxed.

The GPS does too make the differance between a really sticky problem and a
slam dunk.
I'm betting your practical experience was before $50 GPS and $3
accelerometers? (say, 5 years ago). Am I right?




Ron Webb