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Seaglider Piloting

Seaglider

Piloting documentation for the Seaglider platform.

In This Section

  • Seaglider Piloting Checklist

    Daily pilot checks — glider status, health parameters, trim, sensors, navigation, and endurance tracking.

    Seaglider Piloting Checklist

  • Dive Cycle & Control Files

    How a Seaglider flies its mission and how the pilot steers it: the canonical dive and its run phases, the G&C loop, the four control files (cmdfile, targets, science, pdoscmds.bat), the $GO / $RESUME / $QUIT directives, and deck dives.

    Dive Cycle & Control Files

  • Trim & Flight Model

    Trimming pitch, buoyancy, and roll from the vis regressions, ballasting and volmax in the tank, the Flight Model System, and when to apply $HD_A / $HD_B updates on the glider.

    Trim & Flight Model

  • Compass Calibration

    Hard vs. soft iron, tcm2mat.cal, per-dive and multi-dive calibration in basestation3, onboard autocal, and the shore "whirly" and in-flight procedures.

    Compass Calibration

  • One-Pager

    Quick-reference commands and reminders: basestation shortcuts, PicoDOS batch commands, loitering, and baud-rate bumps for file transfers.

    One-Pager