[Rhodes22-list] Raymarine tiller pilot installation help

[Michael Weisner]

Olivier,

There must be a way to couple the Phantom 4 with the tiller control to
provide wind info, collision avoidance, weather and other course data.  If
only it could stay aloft for more than a half hour, you could get a good
sleep while underway.  DJI publishes a fairly complete API SDK for accessing
the drone info ;-)

Mike
s/v Wind Lass ('91)
Nissequogue River, NY


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From: Rhodes22-list [mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org] On Behalf Of
Hank
Sent: Tuesday, July 5, 2016 8:45 AM
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Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Raymarine tiller pilot installation help

The issue with using a chartplotter when under sail is that the wind is not
generally coming from a constant heading so your sail trim will not always
been very good.  I used to own an Islander 36 with a chartplotter, wheel
pilot and a NMEA compliant wind guage and my auto pilot could then keep a
constant point of wind based upon the wind direction detected by the wind
gauge.

Hank