Flying Zephyrs CLOSE PROXIMITY down the side of Mam Tor - AWESOME DAY OUT!!!

[Teamftp]

Very nice man I wanna come along with my z next time

MATE YOU SIMPLY MUST COME FOR THE NEXT MEET!!!

What an awesome weekend and some beyond awesome flying. 3 Zephyrs screaming round was fantastic.... vid on the way!!

[Spookfish]

Yup I concur... an awesome weekend. Shame I lost my Z though. A fine example of why you should never ever have that "One last fight". I'm sure Flyn will post the footage from his ground station of the Zeph's last run. Apparently I clipped a rock as I turned down the face of the Tor. Oh A%$e! :dazed: :( :(

Spooky

[Spookfish]

Oh and a massive thanks to Simon (TeamFTP), Chris, and Flyn for helping me try to rescue my stricken wing. Especially Simon for trudging up to the summit twice. Apologies to Simon's wife and children for having to wait patiently while we faffed about.

Have some Karma Dudes.

Spooky 

[Thecoltster]

Looks like an awesome weekend.... Gutted i missed out... Keep the photos and vids coming!

[Flyn]

More pics

[simondale]

Looks absolutely awesome guys.  Well done to be out having an awesome time!

[Flyn]

Looks absolutely awesome guys.  Well done to be out having an awesome time!

Thanks Simon, it was amazing, & a good safe time was had by all, minus Spooky's mishap.

[Flyn]

Oh and a massive thanks to Simon (TeamFTP), Chris, and Flyn for helping me try to rescue my stricken wing. Especially Simon for trudging up to the summit twice. Apologies to Simon's wife and children for having to wait patiently while we faffed about.

Have some Karma Dudes.

Spooky

Mate, thanks for the Karma, sorry we couldn't help more & return your zed to you...

Hope you had a great weekend non the less & will remember it for the flying & not the crashing.

I'll have to organise another meeting I think when you're up flying again, after all my request with the met office for wall-to-wall sunshine worked out great! Good choice by Simon for the location choice BTW.

Here's the ill fated moment mate, hope it's not too painful....

Spooky's Zed

[peweepete]

I am shocked at how far away you seemed to be from the ground. If I had to guess I'd have thought you were a good 50 feet above the ground.
Bit worried now for my low flying progression.
Seriously hope you get it back soon.

[FPVSteve]

Eh? That looked like hardware failure to me instead of you hitting something. That vid is weird! You looked way too high to strike anything.

[Teamftp]

I'm kinda with you on that one Steve. Having flown down that hill and the angle he took I think it may be odd if it collided with something..... Hmmm the mystery?!?

But then again could have done as it was an odd shape at the top.

Basically I have no idea what happened ha ha  :laugh:

[skyscraper]

Enjoyed that. Great fun! Makes a change from flying over ploughed fields too!

regards
Andy

[Brucey]

Great pic of the three of you with your Zii's. Yeah that crash looked like a control glitch

[Flyn]

Yeah was a real strange one, seeing it from the ground it looked for sure he hit a rock, as it got kicked round, I could see spooky try to roll back out but met the cliff face.

Then when watching the vid you can see zed rides the ridge quite low then turns into wind nose down & rolls into the turn fine but still loosing height & slewing in then it seems to jerk nose up & gets rolled 90° right, then Spooky reacts & in lightning time to tries to roll out.

It's a real tough one to call.

Jules, what do you feel happend after watching it back?

[skyscraper]

Could be the ground just got in the way of the radio signal? Looks like you were in a dip

regards
Andy