Re: [Flightgear-devel] First Flight!

2007-06-12 Thread Curtis Olson
On 6/11/07, Dene wrote: Hear!,Hear! ...every word was enthralling.. does this mean to, that writing an AI flightplan for a UAV might be possible? Hi Dene, Thanks for the kind words I hadn't considered that exact wrinkle, but sure, or something similar ... assuming I can get a few more ba

Re: [Flightgear-devel] First Flight!

2007-06-12 Thread Dene
Bill Galbraith wrote: > > > > This message is getting long and probably 99% of you have clicked > delete/next by now, but let me brag on FlightGear now a minute. > > > > First off, let me say CONGRATULATIONS. Not only did you have a > successful first flight, in that you p

Re: [Flightgear-devel] First Flight!

2007-06-09 Thread Bill Galbraith
This message is getting long and probably 99% of you have clicked delete/next by now, but let me brag on FlightGear now a minute. First off, let me say CONGRATULATIONS. Not only did you have a successful first flight, in that you proved that you could engage and override the autopilot,

[Flightgear-devel] First Flight!

2007-06-08 Thread Curtis Olson
To continue the tradition of posting first flight reports, please let me post my little story from this evening. For the past year and a half I have been helping the U of MN aero department periodically with a couple UAV projects. I've really enjoyed helping them out, and enjoyed interfacing and