Can ArduPilot use WIND_COV from common message set intead of ardupilot dialect WIND message?

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Can ArduPilot use WIND_COV from common message set intead of ardupilot dialect WIND message? #4230

Open DonLakeFlyer opened 8 years ago

DonLakeFlyer commented 8 years ago

This would make it easier to write a single bit of GCS code.

WickedShell commented 8 years ago

Consensus is that this seems totally reasonable and we can mark the ardupilot wind as deprecated and send both for awhile.

However in the WIND_COV are the wind_x etc expected as to or from's? (And the XML should be made more specific)

And for things that we don't have a value for (accuracies for example) do we simply report 0 or is there some other accepted value? (and again we should update the XML to indicate this)