@tridge wrote:
I've been doing a lot of flight testing of the Parrot Disco with ArduPilot lately, and had some really fun flights on Sunday with my fellow crazy CanberraUAV pilots after everyone else at the club went home as the wind was too strong. We decided to wait until the wind got to its strongest to see how the 800 gram Disco would cope with really high winds. It did very well! We recorded wind speeds of over 40 knots in the flight and it flew extremely well.
Grant had his Firstar there too (see if you can spot it in the video) and he recorded a ground speed of 155 km/hr downwind. Pretty fast for a foamy!
The video is the first test of the on-board digital video stabilisation on the Disco while flying ArduPilot. This was developed by Julien from Parrot, with some assistance from the new AP_Module system in ArduPilot to feed sensor data to the image stabiliser.
Never let anyone tell you the wind is too strong for a fun flight!PS: the actual takeoff of the Disco starts around 10 minutes into the video. I haven't yet implemented a transmitter switch to start/stop video
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