Mad Dogs 4! 14th September 2013 *CONFIRMED*

[Flyboysee]

Yes! No time for procrastinating... pen this in your diaries!

Bring and BBQ, all day flying with possible camp over (to be confirmed), Sunday repeat!

£10 per flyer, proceeds going to the Parish Council as usual, max 16 flyers grouped into teams of two, 2 active ground stations at a time, possibly 3 grouped by frequency on a rotation basis, long flight line spanning the field - your flying partner throws you into wind (regardless of where you are sitting) and retrieves your plane on landing.

Assuming an average of 15 minutes per flight, everyone should get to fly at least once every hour and 15 minutes or so, counting in some set up time. The live feed will move from GS to GS as we go and be fed through to a projector in the club house where while you're not flying you can chill out with other pilots and watch the action, charge your batts, organise your lunch, go shopping, fly passenger etc.

For those coming please make your VTX's accessible to be able to change frequencies on 2.4 and 5.8, Boscam / Immersion / other.

Richard

[Staib]

In the diary!!!  :D

[FPVSteve]

I'll get my bum down South for this one Rich, 3 months and counting :)

[DaveyLC]

Woohoo! count me in :D

The formalities will sound painful but I have to agree its necessary to keep the event safe when there's so many eager pilots :D

Maybe we could group people and fly in three's with double channel spacing.. I'm even happy to go standard channel spacing :)

Also I'd like to make a suggestion.. how about an 'emergency plan' I.e. what do we do in the event of losing a plane?

Saves the headless chicken approach and potentially upsetting local farmers.

[CurryKitten]

Dammit, would put it in the diary, but the diary tells me I'm in Florida that day waiting to get on a plane to fly back  :'(

Much sadness

[Ratty]

As always I cant confirm this far ahead, but if im alive, well and able, ill be there.  ;D

[Flyboysee]

I'll get my bum down South for this one Rich, 3 months and counting :)

Steve that's great news! Now we just need to work on Ian and some more Northern compatriots!

[dogzilla]

Yeah count me in! I think a bit of organization on the video frequencies would be a good idea. The Mad Dog approach of switch off if anyone screams works well up to a point but it gets tedious especially when mixing boscam and immersion frequencies as I think you get into a serious mix with different channels shitting on each other.

I've got both boscam and immersion 5.8ghz, I'm thinking I might set up a test rig at home and do a channel interoperability chart.

Or is that a waste of time and can we work this out simply by looking at the channel numbers and frequency spacing:?

[Flyboysee]

Yeah count me in! I think a bit of organization on the video frequencies would be a good idea. The Mad Dog approach of switch off if anyone screams works well up to a point but it gets tedious especially when mixing boscam and immersion frequencies as I think you get into a serious mix with different channels shitting on each other.

I've got both boscam and immersion 5.8ghz, I'm thinking I might set up a test rig at home and do a channel interoperability chart.

Or is that a waste of time and can we work this out simply by looking at the channel numbers and frequency spacing:?

If you are prepared to do that and have the time it would be very valuable. That way if everyone has access to their dips it would be quick to set up for every flight. Very good call Mr Dogz!

[Western]

I'll be there. Got to pick my chair up.
Cheers, Mark

[DaveyLC]

The Mad Dog approach of switch off if anyone screams works well up to a point but it gets tedious especially when mixing boscam and immersion frequencies as I think you get into a serious mix with different channels shitting on each other.

It makes things more fun :D Ratty was flying blind for about 45 seconds on Saturday lol

[Spookfish]

I wouldn't mind attending this one. Looks like you guys had a ball at MD3.

[Brucey]

I'll be there with bells on, not literally, though I do take requests!
This is unless work gets in the way... AGAIN!

[Charliewalker]

Count me & Charlie in & I'll be more prepared for this one!

[MarkLincs]

I cannot believe you manage to choose weekends I'm working!