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Results of the test campaigns

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The camera arm switch, for the three campaigns, has been controlled by an operator

which had the role of controlling the system functioning and intervene in case of need.

The aircraft fully equipped is shown in Figure 92.

7.2.1 First Test Campaign

During the very first test campaign most of the flight-time was devoted to understand

how to mount the two units, inside the airplane, in a fully secure way; this allowed to

reduce the installation time for the following two campaigns to only 30 minutes. At that

time the tunnel in the sky interface was still in its first release and no fixing ring was used

to block the focus ring on the camera lens.

Because the objectives of the first test campaign were relative to the installation of

the system on the aircraft, the flight was not planned using the FASTER planner tool but

the trajectory was generated selecting several waypoints on Google Earth, giving the

guidance tunnel the role to built the whole trajectory interpolating the waypoints. The

poor resolution of the first release of the guidance tunnel did not allow the pilot to see the

numerical values indicating the ground speed and the flight altitude, so the pilot had to

continuously move his look between the FASTER monitor and conventional instruments.

Figure 93: First flight campaign trajectory

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