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Following terrain height

PostPosted: Sun Jul 07, 2013 12:21 pm
by spinner
Hi,

Will the aircraft stay at a constant 100m height if there are hills in it's line of flight. I read that some autopilots uses lidar data from google earth if it's available to do this. I assume the barometric values are relative to the location it took off from so wouldn't really help with this.

Thanks,
Tim.

Re: Following terrain height

PostPosted: Sun Jul 07, 2013 2:06 pm
by Tom
Yes, it uses the barometric altitude to keep constant altitude (relative to sea level)

Re: Following terrain height

PostPosted: Mon Jul 08, 2013 7:55 pm
by spinner
Just to be clear before we send it off towards a hill, will it stay at a 100m above ground level going over a hill ?

Thanks,
Tim.

Re: Following terrain height

PostPosted: Tue Jul 09, 2013 6:30 am
by Tom
No, it will not follow the ground level. It will stay at the same absolute altitude, so 100m above the take-off position.