Mad Dogs 5 30th November Booked!

[hase2]

some violent turns you got in there.
looks good  ;D

[skyscraper]

Dave always hits something/someone whether we are racing or not :D

Here's my proposed route, it's pretty simple just a little circuit where we use the edge of the main field as markers and a few trees/bushes as markers to go between.



Comments/changes/etc welcome

Looks perfect. How many laps then?

As regards rules, I would suggest that if there is a mid air then anyone involved must land immediately and go through all their usual preflight checks before continuing. Not for safety really .. just to discourage the more suicidal racers  :laugh:

I would also suggest that to qualify for a medal you will need to record your race flight. That may however be a problem if you dont have recording equipment but maybe that can be solved.

regards
Andy

[Flyboysee]

Okay, this is very simple!

I will do a slow flight of the course and post up a video so everyone can get familiar with it ahead of the time. You can practice on the day as much as you want.

I will give advice on how low you can expect to go between the trees before Fresnel kicks in and I'll have a go at speed as well, so you can judge ahead of time how much faster your plane will be than my Penguin (which actually needs a repair before I can do this survey flight).

CK, I love the course, but could we not extend it a bit to about 1km? Perhaps same starting position but fly to road, then turn right following road all the way to 2nd hedge, then a right along the tree line to the lakes and then diagonal back to the field? maybe I'll fly a few sorties, post up the vid and then we decide? Could be more interesting with a longer flight, but in the right 1km zone so most vtx's and frequencies can make it? Just thinking, and now finally, filled with excitement for FPV again :)

On the day you can show your recorded video OSD footage to Andy (Skyscraper) and he will record the times of your lap and set a few rules ahead of time like whether it's a rolling start and whether it includes a landing or whatever, judge whether boundaries have been crossed etc. (you okay with this Andy?).

Perhaps one of our Suppliers or Distributors coming along could sponsor a prize for fastest lap of the day? :)

In this config we don't need any props, balloons etc. - all natural boundaries!

Gimme an Amen?

[EverythingFPV]

This sounds like a great idea - I'm sure we could put up a little somit in the means of a prize.

[krikey]

I think 1km is too far personally as if anyone crashes (and we're expecting there to be crashes) its going to be a long haul to pick up the many pieces. Most regular MD goers know these boundaries and it takes 30-45 seconds to complete that circuit from what I recall, unless you use a wing :)

Now my mind is thinking NFC chips on the planes and tall receivers on pipe lagging so we can make it more official :)  Whats the bean radius for NFC?

In the absence of NFC tech I'm sure we'll all have fun regardless :)

[skyscraper]

Yep. I agree with krikey. The course as it is looks fine to me.

regards
Andy

[chris-s]

That looks like it could be fun, if only you weren't so friggin far away.

Chris

[DaveyLC]

Can we have a gentleman's agreement first though please :) if you enter the race and your 'sh*t-gets-broke' no crying about it?  :-*

hmm.. I think we need some rules ...  :laugh:

regards
Andy

Rules are for girls.. you're not a girl are you?  ;D

[skyscraper]

Can we have a gentleman's agreement first though please :) if you enter the race and your 'sh*t-gets-broke' no crying about it?  :-*

hmm.. I think we need some rules ...  :laugh:

regards
Andy

Rules are for girls.. you're not a girl are you?  ;D

Er..  I'm the judge. Like all judges my decisions may sometimes seem  "erratic"... unduly Favourable to some ... and ... Unfavourable to Others.. Some people may get mysteriously disqualified.  Some peoples aircraft may be judged to be in need of checking by scrutineers in Siberia 5 seconds before the start...

After all there are no  rules for you right ? ...  :laugh:

regards
Ands

[DaveyLC]

Maybe I'll just become one of the obstacles :D

[Ratty]

Ok count me in too.  ;D

My little wing is built for this.  :P

[Brucey]

Sounds like chaos..... I mean fun!

[Charliewalker]

What about an agility corse for multi's, like slalom (in & out of posts) through hoops, land on a table for five seconds, stuff like that etc. you could even try it with your Bixlers if your daft enough 

[Dizzy]

Can we have a gentleman's agreement first though please :) if you enter the race and your 'sh*t-gets-broke' no crying about it?  :-*

hmm.. I think we need some rules ...  :laugh:

regards 
Andy

Rules are for girls.. you're not a girl are you?  ;D

OH YAH  :+ :+ :+ :+?????????

[Randall]

I'm in as usual if there is still room ? If not I will sit at the end of the driveway cycling through all the VTX channels ;-)