Winter FPV Meet - Mad Dogs and Englishmen

[Gav]

Sorry Gav! Was a pretty unlucky day for a few of us  :o

no worries, Dave.

In hindsight, I suppose with the busy airspace, I should of stayed on the ground for a bit.  But what are the chances of a comming together like that?  Yes lottery ticket time!  Sorry your flying had to end so quickly though.  Not too much damage on both sides going by the damage reports.

till the next time  :)


ok best switch laptop off now - curry is ready!

[CurryKitten]

What an action packed meet, some outcomes worse than others, but an awesome day.

I can barely make a fist with my hands now after shaking that tree trying to get Dave's Twinstar out of it.  Maybe Gav will feel it tomorrow as he was half way up the tree leaning out at full stretch with a pole... that's got to pull a few muscles.

Fantastic to see all of you again, and meet some new people.  Special thanks to Rich for the organisation, as well as talking me through my first plane FPV flight... I'm almost a convert :D

[krikey]

Here's a couple of videos made with Youtubes video editor of the frosty day.

http://youtu.be/Y67gZlFgdbk

http://youtu.be/7sDagz0Y2iQ

[skyscraper]

Whew!  I can still type with the one finger I saved from frostbite!

Great days flying, once I found the venue :) Fascinating to see other peoples setups. Got to get my antenna tracker done!

Aitch. Hope you have sood fun with my old EasyStar. She was my first FPV vessel. Your Hexacopter was very impressive in the air as were all the multicopters. First time I have seen so many multicopters. I guess one day I will have to try making one, but my list of things to make gets longer and perhaps now is the season for some quality shed time.

Sod it though. I forgot my video recorder battery and forgot to turn on my keychain before flying so didnt get any footage. :(

Thanks FlyBoySee for organising everything and looking forward to the next one!

regards
Andy

[Gav]

Just a few snapshots,
Dave's plank in a tree and Aitch's Hex.

Edit more pics added:

[CurryKitten]

Nice pics Gav, you and Aitch got really close.  One the flip side of all the aerial shots of Daves Twinstar, here's one of you half way up the tree, showing how dense and annoying it was

[Flyboysee]

Nice pics and vid already! Nice! I have a LOT of footage I need to get through but a bastard of a week work wise coming up so I'll have to squeeze some vids in. Did this little taster in the meantime...

Mads Dogs Winter Meet 2012 Taster

[Coyote]

Great vids and pics lads, Krikey that video really showed how cold it was :snowman:

[FPVSteve]

Nice vids and pics lads

[Ratty]

Thanks again Rich for organising everything. Thanks to everyone for turning up. I look forward to the next n the summer.  ;D



Rich, can you PM me your paypal details so i can ship you some cash. Sorry again for forgetting to go to the cash point.  :-[

[ycopter]

Good to see so many FPV pilots in one place, before yesterday I had only met one other!

Rich, thanks for organising the meet it was a really good day.

Richard

[electricmick]

Really enjoyed the day, meeting so many people and seeing different solutions to the same problems. Thanks for organising the event, location, tea, coffee etc.

The popularity of 5.8GHz video did cause some issues with some people waiting to fly. I guess for the future we could arrange beforehand to spread ourselves across the available frequencies. I did swap frequencies on my Skywalker during the day but it was a right pain doing this in the cold and then having to find the right channel on my ground station. We could re-invent the frequency board!

Mick

[CurryKitten]

Not wanting to make things too rigid, but perhaps an informal queuing system would also be useful.  Was a bit of a free for all, and I know I (accidentally) jumped in front of you on one occasion - although as it was, we didn't clash on video.

Probably easier to organise when we aren't all rushing to get in the air before our fingers fall off :D

[Flyboysee]

Really enjoyed the day, meeting so many people and seeing different solutions to the same problems. Thanks for organising the event, location, tea, coffee etc.

The popularity of 5.8GHz video did cause some issues with some people waiting to fly. I guess for the future we could arrange beforehand to spread ourselves across the available frequencies. I did swap frequencies on my Skywalker during the day but it was a right pain doing this in the cold and then having to find the right channel on my ground station. We could re-invent the frequency board!

Mick

Hi Mick

It was great to meet you and seeing your interesting set ups!

This is the 2nd meet up and we had more people on the day than previously. You are right, at the next meet we could be a LOT more organised and even prior to the day we could choose channels and create more combinations on 5.8. By then I hope to be on 2.4 or better :)

[Flyboysee]

just uploading a video now
dont know what im missing but 4 hours to upload a 7.5min video to youtube :o
a video that will play back in 7.5mins  :'(
its mad

Aitch :laugh:

I'm looking forward to that Aitch! Again, good to meet you! Maybe next time or the time after there'll be some PPG on the day :)