XTreme Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 On 12/10/2021 at 07:08, Cupid Stunt said: Gellionen Chapel Expand Got any shots of those crazy sheep on the cliff face at Rhossili Terry? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yen_powell Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 On 12/10/2021 at 07:08, Cupid Stunt said: Gellionen Chapel Expand Beautiful photograph. I've seen a fair few of those chapels now and they never look like happy places. Maybe it was the weather affecting my mood. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Motobiker Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 I really like this one. On the Healy pass in County Cork. Looking across Glanmore lake and then across Kenmare Bay and the mountains of the Dingle peninsula on the horizon. A fantastic view on a great day. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cupid Stunt Posted November 7, 2021 Author Share Posted November 7, 2021 Cap cloud over Mount Teide I took this whilst out at sea on a catamaran going full pace crashing into the waves, I had to hang onto a post for dear life to try and get a steady shot 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedro Posted November 7, 2021 Share Posted November 7, 2021 On 07/11/2021 at 22:11, Cupid Stunt said: Cap cloud over Mount Teide I took this whilst out at sea on a catamaran going full pace crashing into the waves, I had to hang onto a post for dear life to try and get a steady shot Expand wow, it's like Pele invited you to a football tournament 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cupid Stunt Posted November 7, 2021 Author Share Posted November 7, 2021 On 15/09/2021 at 17:13, Grasshopper's Ride said: Beautiful landscape, love the atmosphere. What are you flying? Expand Parrot Anafi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cupid Stunt Posted November 7, 2021 Author Share Posted November 7, 2021 Upper Tawe Valley, right where I used to live 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cupid Stunt Posted November 7, 2021 Author Share Posted November 7, 2021 Llangiwg Church star trails, around 500 images put together in a video to make a timelapse 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boboneleg Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 Some bloke with a drone 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XTreme Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 On 08/11/2021 at 20:14, boboneleg said: Some bloke with a drone Expand ........and an accident about to happen no doubt! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boboneleg Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 On 08/11/2021 at 20:47, XTreme said: ........and an accident about to happen no doubt! Expand First person I ever knew with a drone, watched some footage that Terry did around Llyn Briane and thought he'd hired a helicopter at first 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cupid Stunt Posted November 8, 2021 Author Share Posted November 8, 2021 Bloody Hell, that reminded me Bob, went to check on the final score of the thread I started on RC Groups where I showed people how to modify that toy drone so it had full APM functionality inc flight paths (fully autonomus flight patterns) GPS waypoints, FPV, gimbal etc Last time I looked it had around 4 million views, it's had 82,033 replies taking up 5,469 pages Looks like they upgraded their systems and archived all the original stuff so the last post on the thread was Sept 2021 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XTreme Posted November 9, 2021 Share Posted November 9, 2021 On 08/11/2021 at 22:47, boboneleg said: First person I ever knew with a drone, watched some footage that Terry did around Llyn Briane and thought he'd hired a helicopter at first Expand First person I ever knew with a helmet cam! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cupid Stunt Posted November 9, 2021 Author Share Posted November 9, 2021 On 09/11/2021 at 07:19, XTreme said: First person I ever knew with a helmet cam! Expand I'm a tech innovator and early adopter, I used self made FPV gear on RC aircraft long before the term "drone" was commonly used to describe them, back then they were called multirotors/quadcopter/hexacopter/octocopters, but mostly I fitted kit to RC airplanes and had long range system that could get me up to 40 miles away (others had systems for much further, one guy did a record flight at (as I recall) 114 miles Basically for me it's always been about photography/videography, pretty much anything I did had a camera strapped to it, with the FPV stuff it started with trying to figure out how I could get my GoPro into the air and I bought cheap toy helicopters to see what could lift it and fly with it and it went on from there right up to 3.5m powered gliders and ultra fast racers that could get up to 140mph PS Pete I was also the first person you knew with a sat nav on a bike You hated them until I pointed out that it allowed me to ignore it and just ride wherever I wanted, going up any random turns I decided to investigate but then get me back to where I knew with no hassle as I would always be able to see where I am My original on bike sat nav consisted of a compaq portable computer and a seperate bluetooth GPS unit, the Compaq had to be held in a huge yellow Otterbox case with Ram mounts to hold it on my handlebars I was also the first person I knew of to have a GPS system for off road trails on a dirt bike using the same hardware above and early versions of Memory Map with OS mapping down to 1:25,000 My early helmet cams were basically a camcorder (tape type) with an analogue input into which I plugged a CCTV bullet cam which in turn was strapped to my helmet with velcro, the wires were run down into a "bum bag/fanny pack" this was standard definition of 640 x 480 recording 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedro Posted November 9, 2021 Share Posted November 9, 2021 On 09/11/2021 at 08:19, Cupid Stunt said: I'm a tech innovator and early adopter, I used self made FPV gear on RC aircraft long before the term "drone" was commonly used to describe them, back then they were called multirotors/quadcopter/hexacopter/octocopters, but mostly I fitted kit to RC airplanes and had long range system that could get me up to 40 miles away (others had systems for much further, one guy did a record flight at (as I recall) 114 miles Basically for me it's always been about photography/videography, pretty much anything I did had a camera strapped to it, with the FPV stuff it started with trying to figure out how I could get my GoPro into the air and I bought cheap toy helicopters to see what could lift it and fly with it and it went on from there right up to 3.5m powered gliders and ultra fast racers that could get up to 140mph PS Pete I was also the first person you knew with a sat nav on a bike You hated them until I pointed out that it allowed me to ignore it and just ride wherever I wanted, going up any random turns I decided to investigate but then get me back to where I knew with no hassle as I would always be able to see where I am My original on bike sat nav consisted of a compaq portable computer and a seperate bluetooth GPS unit, the Compaq had to be held in a huge yellow Otterbox case with Ram mounts to hold it on my handlebars I was also the first person I knew of to have a GPS system for off road trails on a dirt bike using the same hardware above and early versions of Memory Map with OS mapping down to 1:25,000 My early helmet cams were basically a camcorder (tape type) with an analogue input into which I plugged a CCTV bullet cam which in turn was strapped to my helmet with velcro, the wires were run down into a "bum bag/fanny pack" this was standard definition of 640 x 480 recording Expand How much fuel did that helicopter carry to be able to do 120 miles? Must have been almost a bigger challenge than the radio signal! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cupid Stunt Posted November 9, 2021 Author Share Posted November 9, 2021 On 09/11/2021 at 09:39, Pedro said: How much fuel did that helicopter carry to be able to do 120 miles? Must have been almost a bigger challenge than the radio signal! Expand He used a powered glider not a helicopter but even so he had to be very skilled in gliding to preserve battery, bear in mind it was 114 miles each way, it took him all day to do it, must have been incredibly boring Although my gear had far greater potential I personally never went further than 2 miles out, as my objective was videography it seemed pointless when I can just drive closer and launch from there 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cupid Stunt Posted November 9, 2021 Author Share Posted November 9, 2021 Here's one of my earlier flights FPV over Three Cliffs Bay I only went out about 1km here, all that was needed, on an old 1.4m Sky Surfer powered glider with my GoPro strapped on the nose and batteries moved back to balance it At 3:41 3:46 you can see where I'm sat in my little chair on the flat field atop the hill remote flying the plane with my FPV goggles on 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XTreme Posted November 9, 2021 Share Posted November 9, 2021 On 09/11/2021 at 08:19, Cupid Stunt said: I'm a tech innovator and early adopter, I used self made FPV gear on RC aircraft long before the term "drone" was commonly used to describe them, back then they were called multirotors/quadcopter/hexacopter/octocopters, but mostly I fitted kit to RC airplanes and had long range system that could get me up to 40 miles away (others had systems for much further, one guy did a record flight at (as I recall) 114 miles Basically for me it's always been about photography/videography, pretty much anything I did had a camera strapped to it, with the FPV stuff it started with trying to figure out how I could get my GoPro into the air and I bought cheap toy helicopters to see what could lift it and fly with it and it went on from there right up to 3.5m powered gliders and ultra fast racers that could get up to 140mph PS Pete I was also the first person you knew with a sat nav on a bike You hated them until I pointed out that it allowed me to ignore it and just ride wherever I wanted, going up any random turns I decided to investigate but then get me back to where I knew with no hassle as I would always be able to see where I am My original on bike sat nav consisted of a compaq portable computer and a seperate bluetooth GPS unit, the Compaq had to be held in a huge yellow Otterbox case with Ram mounts to hold it on my handlebars I was also the first person I knew of to have a GPS system for off road trails on a dirt bike using the same hardware above and early versions of Memory Map with OS mapping down to 1:25,000 My early helmet cams were basically a camcorder (tape type) with an analogue input into which I plugged a CCTV bullet cam which in turn was strapped to my helmet with velcro, the wires were run down into a "bum bag/fanny pack" this was standard definition of 640 x 480 recording Expand Yeh.....I remember all the wires and stuff you had strapped to you Terry! That was near enough 17 years ago now! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yen_powell Posted November 9, 2021 Share Posted November 9, 2021 I had a Garmin for Morocco in 2002. It only showed a direction arrow and grid references/distance to next waypoint, no maps. Worked though, each evening I would laboriously take grid references off my Michelin map (read the opposite way round to OS grids) and tap them into the GPS for each leg of the route and hope for the best. Works in a place where you are just following tracks and trying to work out the best way out of a remote village. Wouldn't stand a chance in somewhere like central London with one ways, no entries etc. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skippy Posted December 5, 2021 Share Posted December 5, 2021 Today looking south towards Mazarron from the El Pareton area. Made me feel like Steve McQueen in The Great Escape. 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XTreme Posted December 5, 2021 Share Posted December 5, 2021 On 05/12/2021 at 19:29, Skippy said: Today looking south towards Mazarron from the El Pareton area. Made me feel like Steve McQueen in The Great Escape. Expand McQueen didn't have a sheepskin seat cover Ray! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skippy Posted December 5, 2021 Share Posted December 5, 2021 On 05/12/2021 at 19:41, XTreme said: McQueen didn't have a sheepskin seat cover Ray! Expand That’s because he didn’t have as much style as me 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cupid Stunt Posted December 16, 2021 Author Share Posted December 16, 2021 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cupid Stunt Posted December 16, 2021 Author Share Posted December 16, 2021 A slightly different look at Mumbles Lighthouse 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cupid Stunt Posted December 16, 2021 Author Share Posted December 16, 2021 Up into the clouds For those not in Wales, this is where we live 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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