Pyrenees Crossing

Autonomous flight across the Pyrenees. The flight path and some points of interest appears here (screenshot):

The aircraft, a Multiplex Funjet, was equipped with a Pentax Optio S7 digital camera and it took (well, at least it was supposed to do it) one shot every 5 seconds.

Wind was from the south, about 2m/s. An interesting pertubation occurred just before crossing the pass: at t=1045s, the aircraft climbed 50m higher than the setpoint (2350m); the throttle was then shut down (10%) and pitch was set down as well ... and the ground speed increased from 13m/s to 17m/s. The following plots display the event