GPS Flight tracker real-time - for old school fixed wings

Racing Quads, Self-builds & FPV
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A mate who has a flying field club. (Up North). Where they all fly line of sight with fixed wings, no drones no flight controllers. (Old school).

He wants a way of seeing the location in real time on a map. To demonstrate why they do not fly over a boundary.

The only way I can think of doing it is. [1][2][3][4]

GPS – > Flight controller → DroneBridge for ESP32 ---- wireless —

---- wireless — DroneBridge for ESP32 → Laptop/Tablet/Phone running qgroundcontrol

Then just pack the (GPS, Flight controller, ESP32 and battery printed box with velco.

With new ELRS 4.0 I could connect straight to GPS, but no one has ELRS remote.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7oydMuOA5M [5]

Remote-ID could be another way with Open Drone Id -receiver-android [6]
With gps module with remoteid drone tracker [7]

Any other suggestions?

[1] - DroneBridge for ESP32 — Copter documentation
[2] - https://qgroundcontrol.com/
[3] - Kahuna - Mavlink Wi-Fi Telemetry Module – Beyond Robotix
[4] - GitHub - BeyondRobotix/mavesp8266: ESP8266 WiFi Access Point and MAVLink Bridge · GitHub
[5] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7oydMuOA5M
[6] - GitHub - opendroneid/receiver-android: Example Android receiver application for unmanned aircraft Remote ID · GitHub
[7] - https://newbeedrone.com/collections/featured-products/products/newbeedrone-beeid-v1-1-m10q-gps-module-with-remoteid-drone-tracker?aff=17

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Joshua Bardwell (FPV Know It All) recently shared a video on YT showing how to connect a GPS chip to an ELRS receiver, which can be used with any ELRS radio.

I believe the receiver is around £30-£40 and there’s NO need for a flight controller.

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Have a look at Flarm and Glide and seek:
we came across it at the BM as the local gliding club use it
I’ve not looked at it much but it’s seems open source and easily built into an esp33

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As mentioned - No ELRS remote.

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Ha the instructions are dense. But thanks Wayne - could be a good option. Love how they are using an eink screen (kobo) as a real-time map.

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Apologies I missed that, in your original post :smiling_face:

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