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A computer for quiet air
Notes toward a small flight computer. Nothing here has been flight-tested.
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This is a sample essay, written to show how the journal reads. It is not a record of a real flight, service, shift, or finished project.
The idea is a low-cost flight computer for gliding, built around a Raspberry Pi. It would know where it is, how high it is, whether the air is going up or down, and enough about the task to be a calm companion rather than another alarm.
None of that has been proven in an aircraft. This is a design note, not a test report.
What it should notice
- Position, from a sensible GPS.
- Pressure altitude.
- A variometer, so a climb is visible before it is obvious.
- A simple moving map.
- Later, a way to remember where thermals have been.
The software should be boring in the air. Boring is readable at a glance. Clever can wait until the aircraft is back on the ground.
A sketch, not a flight
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If the project grows up, the progress will be written on the project page, with photographs of the actual board. Until then, treat every number on this page as fiction.