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Old February 17th 16, 01:03 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Martin Gregorie[_5_]
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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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Old February 17th 16, 04:09 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
aibrd
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An Odroid XU4, similar guts to the Samsung Galaxy S5. Probably overkill, but it has worked really well for us.

I was taken aback the first time he did it, but that's exactly what happened -- it just kept on flying its search pattern until everything was back up.


On Tuesday, February 16, 2016 at 7:06:09 PM UTC-5, Martin Gregorie wrote:
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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martin@ | Martin Gregorie
gregorie. | Essex, UK
org |


 




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