[NSRCA-discussion] Flight Coach - your F3A coaching aid!

Tue Feb 16 08:50:44 AKST 2021

Andrew,

This is super interesting and thanks for sharing this. I have been thinking
about the "Automated Judge" problem for a bit and have been capturing
telemetry data from RealFlight and analyzing those datasets in python.
Nothing sophisticated yet but have been working on how to automatically
score a 4 point roll. I think it's pretty straightforward for scoring top
pilots who have minimal variations but lower classes (and trying to judge
my 4 point roll haha) is a harder problem. I think I am going to try to
convert my Realflight logging to support your file format and then try to
base some of these scoring algorithms on that. It would give a next step
towards trialing these algorithms with real data and also an opportunity to
have people share their flights as training sets for these algorithms.
Worst case scenario is people could analyze their realflight datasets using
your tool.

Thanks!
Jon

On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 12:30 PM Andrew Palmer via NSRCA-discussion <
nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org> wrote:

> Hi Anthony
>
> Thank you!
>
> We have no intentions to sell anything :-)
>
> We wanted to do something to help the precision flying community....
>
> We have released the software under an open source license - anyone is
> free to modify as they wish :-)
>
> The ardupilot website has good information on hardware and getting up and
> running....
>
> Thank you again for the kind words
> Andrew
>
> On 17/02/2021, at 06:26, Anthony Romano <anthonyr105 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> 
> Andrew,
>
> This is very cool! Thank you to your team for all of this work. I am sure
> some will ask you if intend to sell a completed hardware package since many
> would prefer to buy something complete. I look forward to the day that
> something like this can be integrated into judging so we are no longer
> reliant on the human recollection of what 45 degrees looks like.
>
> Anthony
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* NSRCA-discussion <nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org> on
> behalf of Andrew Palmer via NSRCA-discussion <
> nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, February 16, 2021 11:50 AM
> *To:* Bob Kane <getterflash at yahoo.com>
> *Cc:* General pattern discussion <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Flight Coach - your F3A coaching aid!
>
> Please check under the setup tab on the website
>
> We give info to get a pixhawk mini and an omnibus f4 up and running
>
> But any ardupilot compatible board with gps and sd writer should do the
> job... check the ardupilot website.....
>
> This is free, and aimed at enthusiasts - there will be a bit of a learning
> curve....
>
> Andrew
>
>
>
> On 17/02/2021, at 04:54, Bob Kane <getterflash at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> 
> I heard it has voice feedback . . . . . .     "Fix it . . . ."
>
>
> Bob Kane getterflash at yahoo.com
>
>
> On Tuesday, February 16, 2021, 10:08:54 AM EST, Scott McNickle via
> NSRCA-discussion <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org> wrote:
>
>
> Yes, curious about the hardware required, didn't see any specifics at
> first glance.
>
>
> On 02/16/2021 9:54 AM Matthew Finley via NSRCA-discussion <
> nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org> wrote:
>
>
> This is GREAT ! Does anyone know a link or video that goes through the
> entire process of what to buy, how to set-up in aircraft, use of software
> and etc ??
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* NSRCA-discussion <nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org> on
> behalf of Andrew Palmer via NSRCA-discussion <
> nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, February 16, 2021 1:48 AM
> *To:* nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
> *Subject:* [NSRCA-discussion] Flight Coach - your F3A coaching aid!
>
>
> We would like to introduce Flight Coach. A new tool for recording and
> analysing flight geometry aimed at the precision aerobatic disciplines F3A,
> IMAC, F3M, F3C and F3S. Flight Coach utilises recent advances in flight
> recording technology to provide high quality ribbon plots of your flights.
>
>
>
> The software is FREE to use! And almost any Ardupilot compatible hardware
> (FC + GPS, with SDCard writer) can be used - you may already have the
> hardware somewhere in your model shed.
>
>
>
> Flight Coach has been developed by a group of active F3A and IMAC pilots:
> Artur Uzieblo, Thomas David, Andrew Palmer and Russell Edwards. The plotter
> is free to use on our website and the hardware is low cost and widely
> available.
>
>
>
> We have provided lots more information on how to get started on our
> website, along with the plotter itself and a sample log file so you can try
> it out.
>
>
>
> https://www.flightcoach.org/
>
>
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NMehdGWrUE
>
>
>
> Demo flight download link <https://flightcoach.org/ribbon/demo.json> (
> https://flightcoach.org/ribbon/demo.json) right click on the link, select
> “Save link as” and save this file to your PC, then open the plotter
> <https://www.flightcoach.org/the-plotter/>
> https://www.flightcoach.org/the-plotter/ (along the top menu of the
> website <https://www.flightcoach.org/> https://www.flightcoach.org/),
> select ‘Open Flight’ and load the saved file.
>
>
>
> Andrew and the Flight Coach team
>
> https://www.facebook.com/groups/flightcoach
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