This project aims to develop a very low budget UAS that complies with all European regulations. It should be adaptable to any generic "Experimental Airlines"/"AerostuffFPV" style airframe.

The electronics MUST BE readily available off-the-shelf components for this project to follow its

Current electronics platform:

• Flight controller:

  • Raspberry Pi Pico

• Communication setup:

  • ESP8266
  • Adafruit RF95W 868MHz LoRa module

• Sensor suite:

  • MPU6050 Gyro and Accelerometer
  • QMC5883L Compass
  • BMP180 Barometer
  • NEO-6M GPS receiver

• Aditional features:

  • Navlight power

Following the European "tradition" for combat aircraft naming (in spite of the Galerna very clearly NOT being a combat aircraft), it has been named after a storm. A "Galerna" or "Enbata" is a type of storm that grows and strikes in the Bay of Biscay. A very sudden change in temperature and sea conditions turn an overwhelming sunny day into a much more bearable breezy day for us on land, but it also turns a lovely calm day at sea into a ferocious and very dangerous event.

These storms, in spite of their typical lack of precipitation, receive the utmost respect from everyone along the northern Spanish and south-western French coasts.