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Old 06-05-2025 | 06:39 AM
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On this flight I did not have head tracking on. In fact, I invited a 90 year old friend who is a decorated Vietnam veteran to watch the flight with the goggles. He sat in a chair in the pits where he could not fall. His vision is poor but could see the screen in the video goggles. I am using the DJI air unit and DJI goggles 3:

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I am not getting the response I wanted in the airspeed indicator. I will probably change it to an AOA indicator.
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I got the airspeed to work this weekend and was able to make some changes today. The changes open up the range of motion:

http://www.rc-tech.net/RC/Airspeed.mp4
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The airspeed uses the Polou Micro Maestro to read the airspeed then control the servo independently.:

http://www.rc-tech.net/RC/Airspeed.mp4

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