On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 15:32:04 -0800, aibrd wrote:

Compared to our carefully simulated and prepared software builds (our
plane was running totally on-board),

Nice one! Can you say what you're using for the onboard computer?

it was bizarre to see him ctrl-c
his system, rewrite some code and boot the whole thing back up, all
while the plane was a kilometer overhead. On the other hand, if the
radio link got shaky, ALOFT couldn't thermal at all.

Sounded nasty at first, but then I realised that Aloft's autopilot would
simply carry on doing what it was last told to do until the laptop came
back online, so actually its a nice trick.


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