Exciting news and a big day ahead

Well, I have a few exciting updates to pass along as well as our plan for a big day today. This past week we made a lot of progress on multiple projects.

• The frame for Dave Anderson and Felipe Estela's hexacopter arrived and Felipe and I got it assembled. It is an all carbon fiber Tarot 680 folding frame and seems to be of pretty high quality. I will give more updates as the rest of the parts arrive.
• Altitude hold on the Ardu hexa has been sorted out and now we are working on loiter and RTL. We had a successful RTL but some odd behavior on our second attempt. Definitely stay tuned for more updates on this as we continue to refine.
• We got a new navigation controller for DeaconEye and that seems to have remedied our compass issues. We also learned a lot about compass interference and our magnet errors at the same time. We will be working towards returning DeconEye to dully autonomous flight this week.

Now, for this afternoon's agenda. We are heading out to the RAMS field in about an hour to fly the catfish to Pilot Mountain. This is a 13.5 km trip each way and requires us to climb 500 m from our normal cruise altitude. It should be an excellent test of all of our long-range systems. Come back this afternoon for updates on this flight.