[Canberrauav] Day 5 Recap (Day 3 OBC)
Stephen Dade stephen_dade at hotmail.com 
Wed Sep 24 21:26:31 EST 2014 

Today was the first Search and Rescue Challenge flights at the OBC.

It was a fair bit quieter with the high school teams gone, but it did 
give us all time to chat with the other competitors and make some new 
friends.

Some people have been asking if there is something more than the "UAV 
Challenge Live" feed on Facebook and Twitter. There is a live video 
stream in the competitors tent, which shows the activity at the flight 
line (where teams takeoff/land their UAVs and put their ground 
stations). Since the UAVs fly up to 6km away, we don't actually see much 
of them except for the takeoff and landing sequence. Other than that, we 
are reliant on the Facebook feed too!

On to today's teams:
OpenUAS - This was their 3rd OBC. Their UAV made it to the search area 
but crashed shortly afterwards.
Condor - Had technical difficulties and elected to go to the back of the 
queue
Monash UAS - Flew very well and imaged the search area. Unfortunately 
they could find Joe in the images. They landed successfully back at the 
airport.
PerthUAV - Imaged some of the search area, but ran out of time. They 
landed successfully back at the airport.
Compass UAV - Imaged most of the search area, but couldn't find Joe. 
They landed successfully back at the airport.
SwissFang - Crashed part way to the search area.
MelAvio - Had technical difficulties and elected to go to the back of 
the queue

Tomorrow starts with VAMUdeS.

At this stage, CanberraUAV will likely be flying Thursday afternoon or 
Friday morning.



Thanks

Stephen

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