Re: [Paparazzi-devel] beginners questions

[Tilman Baumann]

cory barton wrote:

> > expensive... I have no idea, I'm not a RC guy.
>
> I would say learn to fly first. Go to your local airfield, and learn
> how to fly an RC plane. You will want those skills when you are tuning
> in the air.

Thanks. Seems like I should get my gear running first and then add the 
brains.

> > And something completely different. The XBee modems seem to be pretty
> > popular. How far will they work?
>
> read the modems page of the wiki to get that information. There are a
> couple of different Xbee modems, and I think the max power is
> different depending on your local RF regulations.

Somehow I managed to read this page and not see this information. Sorry, 
there is of course everything documented.

> In the beginning, I was overwhelmed by the wiki. I think that if you
> download the following documents, and read them, they can help you
> understand better.
>
> This is a technical paper from Mav 06:
> http://www.recherche.enac.fr/paparazzi/papers_2006/mav06_paparazzi.pdf
>
> The paparazzi users manual:
> http://paparazzi.enac.fr/wiki_images/Users_manual.pdf
>
> Those two papers are excellent, also you may want to read the Mav 08 paper:
> http://www.recherche.enac.fr/paparazzi/papers_2008/ENAC_MAV08.pdf

Oh, these are much better than the wiki.

> Best of luck and welcome
thx
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