Deploy a parachute release at the landing waypoint

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It would be very cool to have the landing option deploy a parachute release or 
enable the tail plane to flip up so the aircraft will either just flutter down 
to the ground or descend on a parachute for area's that don't have suitable 
landing surfaces for a plane (I have seen both of these facilities working on 
military drones).

Original issue reported on code.google.com by QandG...@gmail.com on 12 May 2012 at 7:11

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This is partially supported by the "APM_Camera" branch.
You can assign a servo output to the "camera_trigger" action, and use that 
servo to deploy the parachute.
Then all you need to do is "take a picture" on the waypoint.

Original comment by amilcar....@gmail.com on 12 Jun 2012 at 8:36

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Thanks for that, I'll investigate that option.

Original comment by QandG...@gmail.com on 12 Jun 2012 at 10:09