Autonomous plane chasing - it works! Plane follows plane! ArduPilot Magic

I wrote some code to control an RC plane as it follows another plane around the sky, completely autonomously using a Lua script running on ArduPlane on dual Zealot H743 controllers (one on each plane). Buy the Qiotek Zealot H743 ArduPilot Flight Controller at smartfleet.systems/product/zealot-h743/ The planes are exchanging telemetry (including GPS location) via Holybro Sik Telemetry radios. Autonomous doesn't mean artificial intelligence/AI. 0:00 Something interesting 0:30 Plane follows Simulator 0:50 Notes 1:00 Plane follows Plane 4:15 Autonomous Landing x2 The planes are simple foam plans. One is the "DFU White Shark" the other is an XFly Glastar (version 1). And for those with questions - both of us had controllers in hand with override instantly available to take manual control if required.

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