Time for Mad Dogs 3! MEET FULL, ALL PLACES FILLED!

[Gav]

Thanks a lot Rich for hosting and catering, very much appretiated!  Enjoyed the day and got a whole bunch of 5min flights in and sat in as passenger , on a whole bunch of  flights :).
Amazing that Mark was reunited with his plane that 'downed' and went missing back in DEC 2012 - even more amazing to watch the keychain cam onboard footage of the crash. 
Bomb cam was interesting too lol and well spotted Neil to find Dave's accurate bomb drop in the adjacent field over the fence.  You guys have some pretty good fpv planes now . You've been well busy over the winter months building your craft!

Good to see everyone.
Cheers
Gav

[Ratty]

Ill just echo what everyone else has said. Thanks a lot to Rich and everyone else who helped, was a lot of fun.

I got 108mph out of my little Swift 2.5  :D

[Brucey]

Yeah had a great day today, wish I could of stayed longer. Had some good low level flights with a couple of passengers and a great flight at the end in formation, hopefully I'll have some time to post a quick vid.

[Randall]

When is the next one ;-) ???

[Brucey]

Just a quick vid I put together from today, not had a chance to do anything fancy.
Shows me following Flyboysee's Penguin and then some low and fast stuff.
Mad Dogs Meet Day 2

[DaveyLC]

Nice flying :D

[plingboot]

Great meet - what a fantastic location and great to put names to faces.

Thanks to those of you who were kind enough to offer hints and tips.

As a relative complete newbie to fpv with a wing I've come away with a plan (and a short shopping list - fy-30a winging its way to me now) to get me moving in the right direction.

Hope to be joining you up in the sky at the next one.

[Staib]

Good to see the Penguin flying  :)

Nice dead-stick landing, great touch-and-go, and an interesting moment there... (at 3.03)  :o

Thanks for sharing these memories...  :D

[DaveyLC]

As a relative complete newbie to fpv with a wing I've come away with a plan (and a short shopping list - fy-30a winging its way to me now) to get me moving in the right direction.

You'll love it :)

[plingboot]

You'll love it :)

30% off both the new ali and original orange versions at bevrc at the moment.

[DaveyLC]

Good stuff :D BTW where did you get your servo city pan/tilt from?

[Flyboysee]

It's a wrap!

Well, that's another hugely successful Mad Dogs in the bag!

Many thanks to all who came from near and far to make this the best Mad Dogs ever, and to those who helped in big and small ways to keep the place tidy and organised within the relative chaos, you are all rock stars!

Thanks also for being so nice, friendly and accommodating to my fellow villagers and for respecting their privacy by keeping to the fields. Feedback (gossip at the pub) is that this event is good for Great Haseley and I was approached by Dave Pickett today who asked if it would be okay to advertise the event as 'open to the public' for next time. Once again all feedback was very positive, a far cry from FPV soothsayers about people complaining wrt noise, proximity and invasion of privacy. [This statement is just reportage and not an invitation to open an old can of worms]. The point I'm making is that if we all behave as we did on Saturday, using common sense, FPV can only get a good rap!

That said, I'm sure the locals would love the experience Dave Pickett had by getting passenger rides around the village. Seeing the pub and his own house from the air was a real kick and now a talking point in town.

Perhaps we could get a local volunteer from the committee to cater in future with the proceeds going back into maintenance of the club house and fields. Win, win!

Anyway I don't want to blabber on too much!

News my side is that the clump of foam and electronics you saw on the table (aka my Penguin) was skillfully put together last night by myself, CurryKitten and Krikey (I owe you guys BIG TIME!) and was re-maidened (new fuse, old wings and tail feathers) and flew as good as/ better than usual today. My first take off was fully immersed in the goggles and I trimmed out FPV. With all the excitement and jet lag I forgot the motor was missing it's propshaft (which I gave away at FPV Bounce last week after the crash). My angels were working overtime as it only protested with violent vibrations and the sound of a flying tractor on downwind and I was able to glide it in for a greaser. I then swapped the motor for a 1300kv I had lying about, then undertook a long flight with Brucey chasing me far out from the village - see his video

http://www.fpvhub.com/index.php/topic,13373.0.html

Here are pics of the new Penguin





And... for those who thought the wind could have been lower this weekend, this was the picture at 8pm this evening at the field



Oh well! Wind speed was about zero :)

I'm looking forward to everyone posting up their stories and videos in the next few days. Remember to use the words Mad Dogs somewhere in your title so the clever bots on Youtube and Google can group them together and if you'd like to use the Mad Dogs sting with your intro here it is again

Mad Dogs FPV Meetup 1st June 2013, Great Haseley, Oxfordshire

You can download it from my Youtube with YT downloader, or if you'd prefer to get it from Dropbox please PM your email address and I'll invite you to the folder.

We may as well use the end of this thread for comments and suggestions about the meet. Feel free to discuss what could be done to improve it, and especially your ideas about a more organised flight line so that everyone gets to fly a decent amount of sorties on the day. Angelos, who organises FPV Bounce was with us on Saturday and gave me some great ideas about this subject, which I'll share here once you've had a chance to comment.

Once again, thank you all!

Richard

[Brucey]

That's really good to get that positive feedback from the locals, and to create a buzz in the local pub! It was great to hear the comments from the two sets of passersby's watching my flying from your goggles.
As for things to think about for the future, I think it would be worth having a print out of channel number and actual frequency for all the common tx's. That way we can have max separation without guessing the dip switches.
Also even though we had a great flight together, when I was in the air waiting for you on the ground, I had zero picture in my goggles. Having a passenger on my plane was great as he could say what the picture was doing. Once you had taken off it was fine, until we lost each other and you got back before me, my picture got swamped again until I caught up.
I really enjoyed the formation flying and I will definitely make my vtx accessible for the future.

[DaveyLC]

That's great news from the locals :D

The organisation was second to none Rich however As mentioned above if it becomes a bigger event it needs a little more technical organisation to prevent inevitable 'accidents' that may finish the event off :D

[FPVSteve]

I'd really like to be part of this next time, so can I get my name down for the next one? Might as well stretch the cars legs for a change.