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I'm not fond of the "scene" modes on my point-and-shoot Nikon Coolpix P7100. In fact, until last night I never used any of the automatic "scene" settings. I like to have more control over my photography. By the same token, when shooting fireworks I usually use a DSLR and set it on a tripod. But after a long bike ride yesterday I was too tired to drag a bunch of gear to Shorewood Hills for the fireworks and just took along the point-and-shoot. No tripod.

 

What the heck, I thought, why not try out the "fireworks" scene mode? I did. Actually, it worked pretty well (and would have worked even better on a tripod). Who knows, maybe I'll just start delegating all my creative decisions to the mind of Nikon.

Left side console with controls for the AFDS (Autopilot & Flight Director System) CSAS (Command Stability Augmentation System) VHF radio, Crash switch, Oxygen supply switch, Pilots hand controller, CCS (Communication Control System) , SPILS (Spin Prevention & Incidence Limiting System) BRSL (Bomb Release Safety Lock) and Wander lamp. The throttle box has the throttle levers, wing sweep lever, flaps lever and taxi nozzle control. Ahead of that are engine start controls.

Twelve a Year APRIL 2022

 

When you’re overwhelmed by grief. We go into autopilot just to get through daily life. It’s the only way the living survive the dead.

PictionID:54636045 - Catalog:14_035076 - Title:GD/Astronautics Details: Advanced Autopilot Modules and Asembly Date: 12/14/1967 - Filename:14_035076.tif - ---- Images from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection. The processing, cataloging and digitization of these images has been made possible by a generous National Historical Publications and Records grant from the National Archives and Records Administration---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum

Electronics are so secret, they are enclosed into resin modules.

I did not include the upper cover for the photo to reveal the inside, and also because it is badly bent.

A fine afternoon down at the harbour today Friday 2nd November 2018.

 

Grampian Confidence

Offshore Supply,

ROV Support,

Emergency Response

and Rescue.

 

The Grampian Confidence was built in 2010 at Balenciaga Shipyard, Spain. The vessel is an IMT 948 Emergency Response and Rescue Vessel.

 

DIMENSIONS

LOA 48.25 metres

LBP 40.50 metres

Breadth Moulded 11.8 metres

Draft Loaded / Depth 5.65 metres / 7.4 metres

 

TONNAGE

GRT 1130 Tonnes

NRT 339 Tonnes

DWT 465 Tonnes

 

CAPACITIES AND CRANES

Fuel Oil (MGO) / Connection 298 m3

Fresh Water / Connection 171 m3

Ballast Water Approx 350 m3

Oil Based Mud / Connection N/A

Brine / Connection N/A

DMA (Base Fluid) / Connection N/A

Dry Bulk(s) / Connection N/A

Deck Area Approx 120 m2 (Steel Deck)

Deck Loading 3 Tonnes per metre2

Deck Crane # 1 Dreggen DKF 40 2T @ 15 metres

Deck Crane # 2 N/A

Deck Crane # 3 N/A

Winch N/A

Wire Reel N/A

Deck Tuggers N/A

 

ENGINES/THRUSTERS/AUX

Main Engine(s) MAK 2050 BHP

Propeller(s) 1 x CPP

Bow Thruster(s) Schottel Azimuth @ 400BHP

Stern Thruster(s) N/A

Rudder Systems / Type Schilling Fishtail HP Rudder

Aux Engines 2 x Volvo @ 270kW per unit

Shaft PTOs 1 x PTO from Main Engine

Emergency Generators 1 x Emer Genset @ 150 kW

 

CONTROL SYSTEMS AND DYNAMIC POSITIONING

Control Positions Fwd, Aft, Port & Stbd consoles

Full Manual Control Fwd & Aft consoles

Integrated Joystick Control Schottel Masterstick

Joystick Control Aft, Port and Starboard consoles

 

RESCUE AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE EQUIPMENT

Daughter Craft Davit 2 x Grampian Hydraulics Heave Compensated

Daughter Craft 2 x Delta Phantom 10.25 metre (Diesel)

Fast Rescue Craft Davit # 1 Grampian Hydraulics Heave Compensated

Fast Rescue Craft Avon SR 6.4 15 Man (Petrol)

Dacon Scoop 7 Metre Dacon Scoop

Dacon Rescue Crane Dreggen DKF 40 Knuckle Boom 2t @ 15m

Cosalt Rescue Basket Fitted & Launched from aft deck

Jason Cradles Frames Fitted

Winch Area Located on Aft Main Deck

Emer. Towing Capability Towing Hook Fitted

Dispersant Tanks 2 x 5 Tonne Tanks below Main Deck

Dispersant Spray Booms Fully outfitted Port & Starboard

Searchlights 4 x IBAK Kiel Fwd, Port, Stbd & Aft

 

NAVIGATION AND COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT

Radar(Fwd) 1 x Furuno 2817 ARPA 1 x Furuno 2837 ARPA

Radar Rptr (Aft) Hatteland

ECDIS Micro-Plot ECDIS System

PLB System N/A

DGPS(s) Furuno DGPS 90

Gyro(s) Anschutz S22 Gyro

Autopilot Anschutz NP 60

Magnetic Comp Gillie 2000

Echo Sounder FE 700 ES

Digital Depth Recorder FE 720

Navtex Furuno NX 700 Navtex

Sat Comms Inmarsat C Felcon, Fleet 77 CapSat (A3)

MF/HF Radio Furuno FS 2570 C (A3)

UHF 3 x UHF Units

VHF (Fwd) FM8800 GMDSS VHF, ICOM ICM 401E

VHF (Aft) FM8800 GMDSS VHF, ICOM ICM 401E

Helo Radio ICOM IC A110

AIS Jotrun AIS TR 2500

VHF Direction Finder Taiyo TDL 1550

Doppler Log Furuno DS 80

SSAS Furuno Felcom

Portable VHF 3 x Jotrun GMDSS

Portable VHF 6 x ENTEL HT 640 VHF

Portable UHF 3 x ENTEL HT 880 UHF

Portable UHF 2 x Kenwood UHF

Sonic Helmets 4 x Sonic Helmets Mk 10

Smartpatch Phone ICOM PS1

 

CREW FACILITIES

Crew Cabins 15 Man Single Berth cabins c/w en suite facilities

Recreation & Leisure 1 Messroom, 2 Lounges

Leisure 1 x Sauna, 1 x Gym, 1 x Ship’s Office

M1 (Crab Nebula) Ha 3u (WIP)

Equipment:

Mount-Paramount ME

Image Train:- SBIG STL 6303 -> Astrodon MOAG-> OTA

OTA: - Celestron HD14

Filtration: Heutech IDAS LPS-P2 prefilter, Astrondon NB

Plate solve:

RA 05h 34m 32.3s, Dec +21° 58' 56.4"

Pos Angle +05° 37.7', FL 3850.7 mm, 0.96"/Pixel

 

Collection Dates: Dec 14,20 2012

8 X 30 minutes (Ha 3u-) Bin 2 (240 minutes)

 

Total time on target 240 minutes 4.0 hours

 

Imaging: CCD Autopilot driving SkyX/Maxim DL/Robofocus guiding thru Maxim DL thru MOAG 0.1 hrz

Process: Calibration/Assembly Maxim DL, post processing PixInsite/Photohop

Volkswagen Motorsport

Moe, Wall-e, Auto

www.quento.es

 

Showroom

Crta. Santiago-Pontevedra a 9 Km. de Santiago de Compostela en dirección a Pontevedra. 15.866 Ameneiro-Teo (La Coruña) España.

Aim following Autopilot at New Buck Mountain, Lake George Wild Forest, Adirondack Forest Preserve.

Aim following Autopilot at New Buck Mountain, Lake George Wild Forest, Adirondack Forest Preserve.

© All Rights Reserved - Black Diamond Images

 

In early September 2019 the first shipments of the long awaited Tesla Model 3 autonomous electric vehicle began arriving in Australia.

All Tesla cars come standard with auto pilot, full self-driving capability and driver assistance features such as emergency braking, collision warning and blind-spot monitoring.

With the next software update, the cars will recognise and respond on autopilot to speed signs, traffic lights and stop signs. A number of other autonomous features will also be available by the end of 2019.

 

This white Tesla 3 Performance, pictured above is my sons car. He picked it up in Sydney on September 28 2019. Apparently if he had not been there at the pre-arranged time the car would have been allocated to someone else and he would have gone back on the waiting list.

 

Today Boxing Day 2019 I had my first opportunity to drive this amazing vehicle. Apart from being whisper quiet the technology is unbelievable and the acceleration from 0 to 100km hour in 3.4 seconds is breathtaking.

 

The standard car with various options he had ordered was unavailable on the day so Tesla upgraded him free of charge to a Performance Long Range vehicle. His car had been ordered well over 3 years previous to the delivery and his great patience has been rewarded with an amazingly sleek and seriously impressive, and in the end, upgraded vehicle.

 

The stylishly sleek low profile Standard Tesla Model 3 has a battery range of 460km (real life more like 350km), a top speed of 225kph and at 5.6 seconds 0 to 100km it has scary acceleration that throws you back hard against the seat.

The Standard Model 3 will retail for Au$67,900.

There are two other models being made available in Australia.

 

Long Range Standard (620km -233kph-4.6 seconds) (Au$85,900)

Performance (560km - 233kph-3.4 seconds) (Au$92,900)

 

When one gets into the car the first thing you notice, apart from the comfort of the seats and the sleek tinted glass roof, is the total simplicity of the dash. There is no instrumentation on the dashboard, just a large computer screen which literally does everything. It allows you to conveniently update the cars autonomous and standard driving mode software, make phone calls, use maps and play music. I'm not sure yet but its probably set up for voice command also.

Charging is carried out at Tesla's rapidly expanding network of Australian charging stations or at home through an adapted power point.

Recently I saw that the Tesla Model 3 has become the top selling car in the Netherlands.

It will be interesting to see how rapid its adoption will be in Australia given Australian's record as a world leader in transitioning to new technologies.

It will not be a surprise if the take-up is quite fast, despite our current conservative federal government's best efforts to dampen down all enthusiasm for anything not powered by fossil fuels.

 

The Tesla Version 10 Update was released on 26th September 2019

 

www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/a29741451/tesla-model-3-per....

Another Autopilot crash?

Safest car in the world?

Really?

The C182 G1000 has a fully integrated flight director and autopilot with lateral and vertical navigation modes. It has all the functions that you would find in a modern jet airliner, like:

* Lateral navigation: Heading, VOR/LOC/BC navigation or flight plan RNAV lateral navigation

* Vertical navigation: Maintain altitude, level change maintaining IAS, vertical speed, ILS glidepath or following of the vertical path in the RNAV flight plan.

 

There is even a go around (GA) button to change the FD mode. Only the autothrottle is missing.

 

Nothing to do with the crappy autopilot system found in the 172 G1000, which is not integrated in the Garmin system.

 

PS: Actually this display is the MFD with all the PFD info in the emergency reversionary mode, but they are indistinguishable with this function activated.

VMA 225 Marines Carry AFCS ( Autopilot ) Tester Box To Troubleshoot Autopilot on A4C Skyhawk at Chu Lai, Viet Nam: Summer 1965. ( L ) Duwayne Fowler ( wearing those Mickey Mouse Ears ) and Bill Mills from North Carolina are carrying the Tester.

No autopilot, so it was hand flying all the way during the 20 hour transcon. Yeah, I know. Tough life.

Catalog #: 10_0011500

Date: 1965-1975

Title: Convair/General Dynamics Plant and Personnel

Corporation Name: Convair/General Dynamics

Additional Information: Autopilot System Test

Tags: Convair/General Dynamics Plant and Personnel, Autopilot System Test , 1965-1975, Convair/General Dynamics

Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive

autopilot. robot pilot

Yesterday:

I suddenly had the desire to sketch the unattractive back lane view I have from where I park my car when I visit the gym. I think this had to do with the fact that my car was not in the boiling sun(like it normally is) so it was quite pleasant to sit in my car with the window down.

I knew I had put my sketchbook and brushes in my bag…and my paints? No, it seems that I omitted my paint tin. BUT I did have some watercolour pencils (WCPs)- not the full set I normally carry... but enough! I really wanted to move pigment and water around the page so I was determined to see what WCPs could do to satisfy my urge! I do like WCPs and I especially like using them in association with watercolour paint. On their own, I have often been a little disappointed mainly due to their opacity and the fact that they keep lifting and a lot of the intensity of the pigment is lost if you put too much water on the page.

 

You can see on the left side of this sketch my experiments with fully loading the page with WCP and then trying to move that pigment around. I am not really happy with the result (a bit murky, and flat) However, I find what I was doing in the middle and right of the sketch more interesting…. It was a lot of fun and as always when I try something new, my brain is ticking with ideas for stuff to try next time!!!

 

I completely missed my turn on the way home (what is wrong with me… my auto pilot went on a break!?) so I ended up at an intersection that you have to wait for a long time… and well…. I sneaked a sketch! I have also decided to make myself an emergency paint kit (some old half used pans and a little container that I used to have in the office) so as least I always have some paint in the car now!

1944 Fieseler V-1 Buzz Bomb on static display at Fantasy of Flight located in Polk City in Polk County Florida U.S.A.

 

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PictionID:55780273 - Catalog:GD/Astronautics Details: Autopilot and Checkout Console; Auto Controls Lab Date: 09/18/1959 - Title:Array - Filename:14_038049.tif - ---- Images from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection. The processing, cataloging and digitization of these images has been made possible by a generous National Historical Publications and Records grant from the National Archives and Records Administration---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum

Autopilot, GPS, Speed, Depth and Wind

PictionID:54639243 - Catalog:14_034987 - Title:GD/Astronautics Testing Details: Advance Autopilot Servo Amplifier Test Set Up; Building 4 Date: 11/28/1967 - Filename:14_034987.tif - ---- Images from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection. The processing, cataloging and digitization of these images has been made possible by a generous National Historical Publications and Records grant from the National Archives and Records Administration---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum

Cessna 172SP Instrument Panel and Electric Trim switches on the yoke. The Red Button is simply the autopilot disconnect :)

Oakland, California.

June, 2010.

It's a box. Gray with black rubber seals... Who said "Ugly" ?

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