Recent content by GreyDad

Find some empty space with loads of room and fly it around as much as you can 😆 I was a bit nervous as well but it turns out it’s dead easy to fly in Sports mode, just that things happen a bit faster and there’s no safety net! I’ve been going out with the aim of trying “one new thing per...

Hi Graham, I’m in Somerset and also new to droning (well, not according to my wife) also with a 2-month old M3P. It’s good isn’t it? Just wait until you put it into Sports mode and fly it FPV, it’s awesome - I can see how people get hooked on it 😁

Thanks! We know this border well, we cross it regularly :)

I have the same problem, especially as I get older, but found this useful: Drone Scene Good 2 Go

You’re in the UK as am I and therefore we have the same problem - the UK weather. At this time of year we can go days and sometimes weeks being unable to fly a small drone (or any drone for that matter) much outside. One solution to filling in the time waiting is education, either self-education...

Thanks, jeez what an amazing part of the planet to be flying a drone. Don’t they melt out there? Not made it to the outback but did once make it to the soft safe bits down south in Sydney and Melbourne for about 6 days on a business trip. Not time to see much but two things really struck me: the...

It’s been a bit dire. I want to use the drone to film some on-water ship model trials we’re doing on a lake in Hampshire and we’ve been stalled by the weather for about 6 weeks now. I’m getting a bit bored flying over the house and round the garden in the odd half hour breaks in between the...

UAV Forecast telling me we’re getting 64 knot gusts and nearly 40 knots average - not sure a Mini 3 Pro would be optimal in that. Two lots of sustained very heavy hail as well this afternoon. A2CofC practice might have to wait for a while :)

Crown Estate doesn’t seem too fussed about drone flights from their foreshore: Crown Estate Drone Flying “Drone flying / Unmanned Aerial Devices (UAD) We grant permission for UAD flights over Crown Estate foreshore (defined as the land between mean high water and mean low water). This...

I can see Wales (or “Mordor” as we affectionately call it 😁 ) from the hill behind our house!

Thank Rich! I’m looking forward to it. I used to film stereo 3D (remember that?) and I was at one point investigating how to lift a small stereo video camera with a drone to get aerial 3D shots. There was a UK drone company whose name I forget run by a highly competent lady who was very...

Yes, understood. I realised it was all in a state of flux, and with some not inconsiderable controversy, when I was looking to buy the drone late last year.. I decided to do it anyway, the course is free so I just pay for the exam and anyway if it’s valid for 2-3 more years it may still prove...

Hi Pete, just joined too but with a baby drone. We’re members of a small sailing club on the Cornish side of the Tamar river and used to live on the Devon side in our distant youth. Summer holidays are typically a gentle potter down the Cornish south coast to Fowey, Falmouth and Helston, maybe...

Hi and thanks! I’ve travelled across quite a lot of the US and even lived in New Jersey (!!) but never made it to Indiana! I did have a school friend from Indiana, that was when I was growing up in Canada, as I’m dual citizen UK/Canada… it’s all far too complicated…

Thanks. More for my own enjoyment and learning really butI’ve also got my eye on a bigger machine at some point, probably a Mavic 3. It was a free course and turned out to cover far more than the CAA required minimum so for a newb was pretty useful. It’s forcing me to be a bit more structured...