When you see Savernake from above you realise just how important these green spaces are. It's one thing to hear Ray Mears rabbit on about them however when one sees them from above there is an extra appreciation for ancient and wild forest. If only the trees could talk - The stories they could tell. Those old trees have seen seasons pass, travellers pass and who knows what else. A magic area Sandy, Thanks for sharing. :-)
It is a magic area Ade and full of history. When I was editing the video I knew immediately that I got Edinburgh in the wrong country. What a plonker.Ha. Thanks for watching and keep up the good work on the krey. The copter runs on 5.2Ghz I think Sandy
wow wow wow, Very cool... I just wanna be there when the colors change. lol I took a video call from my daughter yesterday and saw the colors beginning their change in Missouri. Gorgeous... hope you return there. It will be amazing!! Thanks Sandy! So good to see Mandy up and about enjoying things with you again!!!! Louise :)
Beautiful footage. I went there last month for the first time, expected to be in there 2 hours but ended up a 6-7 hour treck round most of it aha. Magickal place.
The Savernake forest is a stunning location, especially when you can get above the canopy. Some fantastic footage and a great pie of kit you have built. ATB Jeff
Thanks Paul, I like to let my artistic talent flow from time to time and hopeully it will get better with practice. I took K9 with me on this trip. The Dr.....
Nice video Sandy. You are getting really good at this. Really good. Nice to see Mandy out enjoying herself. By the way - Edinburgh is still in Scotland as far as I know! Noel
You are correct Noel and not only is it in Scotland but it is the Capital city too. I did add an annotation to the video which was in the top left corner, but obviously you didn't see it so I have moved the annotation to the middle of the screen. Hope all is well your end? Mandy has been signed off again pending results of a recent scan. Sandy
And Sandy comes from Scottish stock too ! Oh deary me no ! But yes, I saw the note on the screen. Well, at the end of the day it's all The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. We're all friends - Isn't that right Sandy ?
great footage Sandy. I took the plunge earlier this week and spoke to Rick at Marionville, and ended up setting fire to the visa in the process ;) I'll be taking it to the Forest of Dean early Nov fingers crossed. I've been using it today from the house, and we got up to 160m (onboard telemetry sent via live tv feed from 250mw transmitter). The footage with the gimbal is so smooth it is crazy, you'll be so happy when you have it fitted. I am running a 5000mah lipo, which is set quite far back to get the CoG as expected as the gimbal is quite a lump on the front. Things have moved on so much in this area of tech, it is crazy, and as you say that naza-m v2 is a cracking bit of kit. Cheers and safe flying ! atb Richie.
Cheers Richie, Happy landings . Make sure you pre flight check. Take all the props off and check for cracks. A friend had a prop shatter recently and the copter crashed/. Can't wait for my gimbal to arrive. FPV will be fitted in due course but I can't afford to buy it all at once so I just add a bit when I can. Sandy
Wiltshire Man yes pre-flight is always a must. Had one heavy-ish landing at it was decending at about 1.5m/s and it took more juice on the throttle to slow it down than I was expecting. Eeek, I hope the friends crash wasn't too serious/expensive :( I'll be getting on the phone and renewing the old BMFA insurance as well because things can happen when least expecting it. Oh btw, i'm about to start the Foundation ham course at MC0YAD, so in months to come I might be able to say hi over the airwaves :) Cheers Richie.
Cheers Ade, As far as radio frequencies go, 2.4GHz for the tx/rx flight control and 5.8GHz for the tv transmission. 1575.42 MHz + 1227.60 MHz for GPS. Cheers and atb, Richie.
The higher altitude views really gives a proper sense of grandeur. Great video - looking forward to more. I've been playing with a couple toy quadcopters and a helicopter for a week now, and I definitely have the bug now. I see myself scaling up in the near future. All the best. -Lofty
Your doing the right thjing Lofty. Become used to flying the smaller quads first. Make sure they are configured to fly in Mode 2 with the throttle and yaw on the left stick and pitch and roll on the right stick as this is how the GJI and other quads are configured. Sandy
Wiltshire Man Yes the controllers have the same design, so I hope I'll be able to transition a bit easier as a result when that time comes. I'm glad I only spent what I have for these toys to crash into the walls, ceiling, trees (...myself) while learning to fly these before spending the few hundred euros on a DJI.
Thanks Bud. Glad you like it Bro.. It is a Awesome place. Youse will have to do a camp there. Posterne is open all year round. Take care Man. Nice One Dude. Keep on swingin. Sandy
Hi Sandy. Another great video, love to watch them. I was wondering if you have had any issues with anyone stopping you from flying at any of your locations. When I used to fly model aircraft years ago we had awfull trouble with the local authority telling us we couldn't fly here there and everywhere. Basically they were shit scared of litigation against them despite us having 5 million in third party insurance, thats one reason I packed the hobby in. Would love to follow in your footsteps but just rekindling my ham radio interest and that is taking a bit of financing at the mo. Regards, Steve, G6JEF
You have to set the limits via PC as to how far and high it will fly. In theory it could climb several thousands of feet but your not allowed to fly them any higher than 400ft
When you see Savernake from above you realise just how important these green spaces are. It's one thing to hear Ray Mears rabbit on about them however when one sees them from above there is an extra appreciation for ancient and wild forest.
If only the trees could talk - The stories they could tell. Those old trees have seen seasons pass, travellers pass and who knows what else. A magic area Sandy, Thanks for sharing. :-)
It is a magic area Ade and full of history. When I was editing the video I knew immediately that I got Edinburgh in the wrong country. What a plonker.Ha. Thanks for watching and keep up the good work on the krey.
The copter runs on 5.2Ghz I think
Sandy
wow wow wow, Very cool... I just wanna be there when the colors change. lol I took a video call from my daughter yesterday and saw the colors beginning their change in Missouri. Gorgeous... hope you return there. It will be amazing!!
Thanks Sandy! So good to see Mandy up and about enjoying things with you again!!!!
Louise :)
Beautiful, just beautiful, music, scenery. Thanks for the copter info, too Sandy!
Love that woodland, so huge and historic, superb stuff ~Peace~
Thanks for that Sandy, some very good footage. I look forwards to your forthcoming Avebury film, hope you can manage to get there soon.
Beautiful woodlands Sandy nicely filmed, and to think most of Britain looked like this back in time ?
Thanks for showing us my friend.
Terry.
Beautiful footage. I went there last month for the first time, expected to be in there 2 hours but ended up a 6-7 hour treck round most of it aha. Magickal place.
Another well made and thought out video, stunning pictures and aerial footage blended together in Sandy's unique style. Cheers!
The Savernake forest is a stunning location, especially when you can get above the canopy. Some fantastic footage and a great pie of kit you have built. ATB Jeff
It is indeed a nice Pie of kit Jeff, but I would not want to eat it...
Wiltshire Man
Too much therapy Sandy, I'm from the North East we have pies on the brain :)
Some beautiful footage Sandy, Good to Mandy out with you. Atb Mike.
So awesome, Sandy. Thanks for the shoutout and explanation / details how the copter works. Incredible! Much appreciated, my friend. Ken
Loving the copter vids! Keep em coming Sandy.
Some fantastic views Sandy, amazing video, music matched it a treat. :-)
Thanks Paul,
I like to let my artistic talent flow from time to time and hopeully it will get better with practice.
I took K9 with me on this trip.
The Dr.....
Looks like a fun hobby. Cheers Sandy!
Thanks Stan
Great walkthrough video sandy
Nice video Sandy. You are getting really good at this. Really good.
Nice to see Mandy out enjoying herself.
By the way - Edinburgh is still in Scotland as far as I know!
Noel
You are correct Noel and not only is it in Scotland but it is the Capital city too. I did add an annotation to the video which was in the top left corner, but obviously you didn't see it so I have moved the annotation to the middle of the screen.
Hope all is well your end? Mandy has been signed off again pending results of a recent scan.
Sandy
And Sandy comes from Scottish stock too ! Oh deary me no !
But yes, I saw the note on the screen.
Well, at the end of the day it's all The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. We're all friends - Isn't that right Sandy ?
great footage Sandy. I took the plunge earlier this week and spoke to Rick at Marionville, and ended up setting fire to the visa in the process ;) I'll be taking it to the Forest of Dean early Nov fingers crossed. I've been using it today from the house, and we got up to 160m (onboard telemetry sent via live tv feed from 250mw transmitter). The footage with the gimbal is so smooth it is crazy, you'll be so happy when you have it fitted. I am running a 5000mah lipo, which is set quite far back to get the CoG as expected as the gimbal is quite a lump on the front. Things have moved on so much in this area of tech, it is crazy, and as you say that naza-m v2 is a cracking bit of kit. Cheers and safe flying ! atb Richie.
Cheers Richie,
Happy landings . Make sure you pre flight check. Take all the props off and check for cracks. A friend had a prop shatter recently and the copter crashed/.
Can't wait for my gimbal to arrive. FPV will be fitted in due course but I can't afford to buy it all at once so I just add a bit when I can.
Sandy
Wiltshire Man yes pre-flight is always a must. Had one heavy-ish landing at it was decending at about 1.5m/s and it took more juice on the throttle to slow it down than I was expecting. Eeek, I hope the friends crash wasn't too serious/expensive :(
I'll be getting on the phone and renewing the old BMFA insurance as well because things can happen when least expecting it. Oh btw, i'm about to start the Foundation ham course at MC0YAD, so in months to come I might be able to say hi over the airwaves :) Cheers Richie.
ramdor72 Welcome to the world of Amateur radio :-)
Good luck with the flying.
Question : What frequencies does the quad copter use ?
Cheers Ade, As far as radio frequencies go, 2.4GHz for the tx/rx flight control and 5.8GHz for the tv transmission. 1575.42 MHz + 1227.60 MHz for GPS. Cheers and atb, Richie.
ramdor72 Thanks. You'll love amateur radio.
The higher altitude views really gives a proper sense of grandeur. Great video - looking forward to more. I've been playing with a couple toy quadcopters and a helicopter for a week now, and I definitely have the bug now. I see myself scaling up in the near future. All the best.
-Lofty
Your doing the right thjing Lofty. Become used to flying the smaller quads first. Make sure they are configured to fly in Mode 2 with the throttle and yaw on the left stick and pitch and roll on the right stick as this is how the GJI and other quads are configured.
Sandy
Wiltshire Man Yes the controllers have the same design, so I hope I'll be able to transition a bit easier as a result when that time comes. I'm glad I only spent what I have for these toys to crash into the walls, ceiling, trees (...myself) while learning to fly these before spending the few hundred euros on a DJI.
Hi Sandy, how much did this cost (minus camera) thanks Rob
Wow. I have to build one!
If you get the kit you can bring it around here and I will help you to build it.
Wiltshire Man Thanks Sandy. Im going to start saving. :-)
Can I come too ! I want to build one as well :). There is a guy in Devon who built his own, you should see what he does with it !
is Savernake forrest good for Fungal Forray's ?
Nice video Sandy,atb John.
Thanks Bud. Glad you like it Bro.. It is a Awesome place. Youse will have to do a camp there. Posterne is open all year round.
Take care Man.
Nice One Dude. Keep on swingin.
Sandy
Hi Sandy.
Another great video, love to watch them. I was wondering if you have had any issues with anyone stopping you from flying at any of your locations.
When I used to fly model aircraft years ago we had awfull trouble with the local authority telling us we couldn't fly here there and everywhere. Basically they were shit scared of litigation against them despite us having 5 million in third party insurance, thats one reason I packed the hobby in.
Would love to follow in your footsteps but just rekindling my ham radio interest and that is taking a bit of financing at the mo.
Regards, Steve, G6JEF
Hiya I've got the phantom 2 with a zenmuse gimbal it makes all the difference to your footage you won't look back from it haha
great vid sandyand how high can you take it to. atb mac.
You have to set the limits via PC as to how far and high it will fly. In theory it could climb several thousands of feet but your not allowed to fly them any higher than 400ft
Wiltshire Man thanks sandy look forward to your next flight.
I wonder if you have ever had to climb up to a tree after your copter:)?
Thanks from Denmark. If you some day fly my way, I have Coffey.
Why won't you tell us how much it cost?
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