Just a thought - I was experimenting the other day and the sun was quite low in the sky. Up until then it had followed me without any problem, but as soon as it looked roughly in the direction of the sun it got lost and just sat there. I could get it to recover for a bit by going right up to it, but it soon got lost again. I think it might also get a little confused if you are wearing a fluorescent jacket, but it usually recovers. It just seems to get blinded by the sun. I also discovered the direction track mode isn't any good with a bicycle. It gets left behind too easily and ends up doing what is essentially a follow. Works OK when walking, as long as you don't go too fast or shoot off in a completely different direction.

@@richardellingworth4484 The Neo would be a lot better if it worked with Maven, Litchi, or Dronelink. Because they will add GPS follow-me. It's not that I am against visual tracking. Great feature. But only from short distance. For shots further away you need follow-me. All three apps have what I call 'compass type' follow-me. It will stay north south east west relative to you at all times. So if you are riding north with the drone in front of you, and you turn left, the drone will continue at your right. Turn right and it will be in front of you again. I also think follow-me is much safer. I would use visual tracking on the public road. While follow-me is very predictable and away from any danger. I would tie a controller to the handlebars. Or perhaps use the virtual sticks on the phone if possible. So hopefully there is a third party app for the Neo soon. Why DJI keeps refusing to add GPS follow-me I have no idea. Active-track is great, but it is not a replacement for follow-me. They work entirely different for different shots.

@@richardellingworth4484 And I think it's a real shame the Neo doesn't have a nice small cheap WiFi controller. Using the touchscreen on the phone while riding a bike is pretty much impossible. Even better a split controller left/right so you have full control. Of course you can use a DJI controller. But I'm not sure if you can then launch it in optical flow mode? For me it's all about how fast I can get a drone in the air. If it takes minutes I won;t bother and just ride on. I want a drone that flies instantly in a matter of seconds.

Thanks very much. Merry Christmas and Happy New year to you. I just uploaded another video pushing the boundaries of follow mode. It's very good.

Yes it would. You're right. But that's no fun. I had read through some of the documentation and had some idea of what it was going to do, but it really was the very first time I had tried all the modes, so I wasn't 100% certain what it was going to do. Whilst the documentation is pretty good it doesn't always explain everything. For example, in follow mode you can configure it to use a height of "Low" or "Flat", but I haven't found an explanation of what this means. Some experimentation is required.

Yes, "Silent Running" is a much underrated movie starring Bruce Dern (Laura Dern's dad) as that last remaining crewman on the Valley Forge. The maintenance robots Huey, Dewey, and Louie were very impressive, and this was 5 years before Star Wars. It's not clear to me why the Valley Forge was so named, presumably after George Washington's winter encampment during the American Revolution and site of a battle. No idea where the forge was. All the other freighters seem to have been named after national parks, or at least after the areas of Amercia from which the plants were taken. The plants on the Valley Forge came from the Florida Keys (or so Wikipedia says). In the 18th century there was a forge in Forge Valley, North Yorkshire. It was about midway between East Ayton and Hackness. Nowhere near the railway line.

I seem to remember reading somewhere that the station at Sinnington was never popular because there was a bus route that went through the centre of the village. This may have been a justification for closing it (not sure). Seems odd to me because the station really isn't that far away. The bus route is still there, but last year (2022) they came up with a cunning plan where every other bus bypassed Sinnington entirely (X28 bus). Seems like they have given up on that idea, but we now have one bus every two hours instead of one every hour (this even made Radio 4's Today program) and the Sunday service west of Pickering is now almost non existent apart from a couple of months in the summer. Used to have a decent Sunday service from Easter to the end of October. So much for local government's commitment to public transport. I do appreciate the £2 singles though.

Most of it was filmed in Sussex, around Framlingham and Orford, although the fictional town of Danebury is meant to be in Essex. See this map: www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1dgbe2QPOiv8WvQSmxH_cEtbT5J8&hl=en_US&ll=52.11025018042435%2C1.4455802685845365&z=17 It even shows the location of the lunch tree, so somebody has found it!

Ex metal-detectorist!