Mad Dogs 5 30th November Booked!

[DaveyLC]

Ah K :D

[DaveyLC]

So when is the next one Rich? :D

[Flyboysee]

Heres the time trial results. Apologies to GliderPilot as I cant find your fight footage.


Maddogs 5 FPV Timetrials

Excellent video Ratman! Well done, and thanks! :)

[Flyboysee]

So when is the next one Rich? :D

When? Indeed!

I dunno, the problem with this time of year is that the days are so short. Maybe we should wait until Spring 2014 when the day's are longer and it's warmer, then do a full on Saturday and Sunday with camping and BBQ etc... That would make it either the 29th, 30th of March or the 26th, 27th of April.

What does everyone else think?

Richard

[DaveyLC]

Cant wait :D

I'm possibly going to be in China in April but we'll see :)

[electricmick]

April should be warmer.

Great videos.

[CurryKitten]

Schedule it and they will come </wistful voiceover>

Whilst on the subject of future ideas, some of us were talking about the idea of being a bit more rigid about flying slots... that is literally having slots for people.

Our thought was that we'd simply have a whiteboard with names on in order of flight.  Up to 20 minute slots, when one person is done, the next goes on and then the guy that was flying goes back on the end of the list...and we repeat.

This is a little bit about not seeing someone's shoe  in your goggles when you are a few km out, but mostly about ensuring everyone gets a fair chance to fly on their own terms - and I would hope encourage lots of other people to gather round and watch the person who's flying at the time.  I know I feel a lot safer with a few other people around me in goggles when I'm flying and suddenly can't figure out where I am !

Thoughts/feedback/insults welcome as ever

[DaveyLC]

Its a shame some of the VTx's piss all over the band :(

[krikey]

I do like the idea of slots especially to ensure no issues, however what I think we should allow is people to decide to "double up" in their slot so for instance, if myself and Wayne want to fly, Wayne books a 20 min slot for me and him and then I book a 20 min slot for myself and Wayne an bit later.

This will get people talking to each other about flying together. Perhaps a maximum of 4 in the air at the same time within the 20 minute window. What we should also have is a good gap so that if any one user is in a a slot, they cannot fly in the subsequent slot unless no one else has booked a slot. This should give all people a fair amount of flight time and also ensure that people speak to their fellow pilots prior to launch regarding frequencies etc.

That way we can still do some of the fun things like watching Red Ivan cling on to the AXN for dear life, or have other pitched multi plane battles.

One thing I know some of us will be thinking is that this seems all too club-like and organised, and the next thing we'll be introducing is a pegboard. I don't think we need to do that with 15 pilots on the day, we simply need to talk to each other and plan ahead of time simply to stop the "foot in vision scenario" that CK mentioned above.

What do you think?

[FPVSteve]

Could further improve the situation if each pilot has a set of LHCP and RHCP polarised antennas.

[CurryKitten]

Perhaps a maximum of 4 in the air at the same time within the 20 minute window. What we should also have is a good gap so that if any one user is in a a slot, they cannot fly in the subsequent slot unless no one else has booked a slot. This should give all people a fair amount of flight time and also ensure that people speak to their fellow pilots prior to launch regarding frequencies etc.

One thing I know some of us will be thinking is that this seems all too club-like and organised, and the next thing we'll be introducing is a pegboard. I don't think we need to do that with 15 pilots on the day, we simply need to talk to each other and plan ahead of time simply to stop the "foot in vision scenario" that CK mentioned above.

Very nice - I was thinking about pairing up (or more) but I was concerned about the same people potentially being in multiple slots together.  Having the "no pilots from a slot in a subsequent one" sorts that out.  And I'm very much in favor of getting these sorted out in advance, so think about who you might fly with, coordinate your channels and you are good to go.  This way, we save time for flying and  avoid these "turning on 5.8" shouts, accompanied with a "turn it off turn it off" half a second later.

I hope we're not quite like a club with lots of rules - but I do think the whiteboard idea is reasonable... aside from saying who's flying next, we could also write things on it like peoples best distances of the day (so people can smash these in their flights) and things like "The race starts at 3pm"

[skyscraper]

Its a shame some of the VTx's piss all over the band :(

:laugh:  :laugh:  :laugh:

regards
Andy

[skyscraper]

Its a shame some of the VTx's piss all over the band :(

:laugh:  :laugh:  :laugh:

regards
Andy

(Thats cos they are Illegal sunbeam  :laugh:  :laugh:  :laugh:)

regards
Andy

[DaveyLC]

The immersionRC gear is pretty narrow.. Its all the other brands that seem to flood the band :(

[skyscraper]

The immersionRC gear is pretty narrow.. Its all the other brands that seem to flood the band :(

So says the self proclaimed immersion RC prozzy. You get paid by the line by them or what?   :laugh:

For the Race next time just add a rule that all equipment must be UK legal meaning at or under the UK legal radiated power and CE marked , and able to be configured to any channe in its band.otherwise you cant fly. Simple!

If you did that you could have 3 planes up at a time and make a proper race of it.

regards
Andy