FIRST FLIGHT USING SUB250 RULES

[@thomashardy9994]

Your mindset reminds me of myself years ago when I was really into photography- chasing good light. Beautiful village and church. I think editing those two flights would make a great final video.

[@BBDigitalArts]

@@thomashardy9994 thanks a lot Thomas 🙏🏻 when I first started landscape photography years ago all I ever did was chase light 😂

[@aerialworxwithspikee]

great flight, church looks amazing. I am always nervous going over water.

[@BBDigitalArts]

thanks very much mate, I was only nervous when the battery started creeping down and I couldn't see the landing spot and I was over the river haha

[@brianhough6564]

Hiya big fella! Bridgnorth looks very good from above! High town and low town don’t alter at all. When you think about it you’re nearly a mile away from the church and your little drone is a battery eater. This is the penalty you have when you’re flying sub 250g. If your into churches or like the Church of England at Broseley is worth a look along with the China museum at Coalport.🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@BBDigitalArts]

hiya mate, do you mean the one with the tall spire at Jackfield? that one looks ace, and its right near the river, would be cool when the place is covered in snow! Yeah you are right, the little beast is a battery eater but I didn't fancy taking off from inside the town haha

[@brianhough6564]

@@BBDigitalArts No Ben I was thinking about Coalport China works/museum flying around the old kilns, and the big red C of E church as you go into Broseley from the free bridge. If you want to save a lot of battery and film that same church in this video, park in low town cross the bridge to the Wolverhampton side of the river there’s a flat beech that you could fly from and go over the sand stone cliffs directly to that same church in high town.👍👍👍👍👍

[@BBDigitalArts]

@@brianhough6564 I know where you mean reference the beech, that's a lovely part, the river hasn't been too low this year though, we haven't had much of a hot summer at the beech I was going to fly from near where I am now was too high. I know the china works you mean, that would be ace. I not sure how much of a nuisance it would be with the noise though haha. Another reason why I like the distance advantage haha

[@Jaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay]

You keep on truckin' dude - it's a noble goal to want to be catching all the cool churches in all the best lights. I've had aerial missions where conditions weren't right until the 3rd trip there - it's a bit par for the course in the UK with our ever-changeable weather :) I love the FPV view but man those flight times are killer. I think if you want time to record these things more thoroughly you need something like the Mini 4 Pro as well, where you get a solid 20 minutes+ of flight time per pack.

[@BBDigitalArts]

Thank you dude, the UK is a nightmare for the changing weather lol, I think that's why it hits different when it all goes to plan here 🙂yeah man, the battery life is wild but it's all good. I have an Air 2s if needed but that's another use case

[@HikeFly22]

Very nice flight

[@BBDigitalArts]

@@HikeFly22 thank you very much 🙏🏻

[@RenzFPV]

Nice one Ben! Just brought a mob 8, coming from a dji. I excited to fly it. Gonna be using my v3 controller and goggles. Gonna get an ELRS receiver eventually

[@BBDigitalArts]

Hiya Ashley, good to hear mate. I will be keeping my Avata for a while I think. I bought an ELRS too. great bit of kit! Did you have the Avata Mk2? The Mob 8 looks very cool

[@RenzFPV]

@@BBDigitalArts yes mate! The avata 2! Whole new working learning about lipos and battery’s

[@BBDigitalArts]

ahhh nice mate. yeah 100%, its a new beast to learn haha

[@sibriers5254]

Great video, very impressive, looked awesome. 👏👏👏 Loved it, well worth the early morning start dude. 👍😎

[@BBDigitalArts]

Thanks very much Si, much appreciated. Should have seen the light before the flight!!! magical!!

[@sibriers5254]

@@BBDigitalArts Sounds awesome, look forward to your next video, hope you will be flying more with the Avata 1 also?

[@BBDigitalArts]

@@sibriers5254 thank you, yeah absolutely, the Avata will be out in some up and coming videos I've already recorded 🙂

[@sibriers5254]

@@BBDigitalArts Brilliant, i have the original Avata but not flown it yet ,i also have the DJI FPV drone, i have been flying GPS drones for about 4 years now but really want to get into FPV, i have a analog Iflight Nazgul Evoque with GPS module which i also haven't flown, i keep putting off flying due to the worry of crashing. Got to get out there and fly, have the licence the drones but not the guts to do it yet lol... Your videos are giving me the urge to just get out there and fly... 👍😎

[@TheMadmacs]

you have to get to know your batteries, number them, watch out for weak cells while charging, also when you fly slowly the voltage doesnt recover much at all, ie. when you fly slow and the voltage is getting low, start looking for safe landing spots. have you looked at gyroflow yet? its free, extremely good. i recommend turning smoothing down to 0.03... almost nothing. below the window theres a stretchy sheet kinda icon, click this to see image plus stabilised image, this lets you expand or contract the field of view to get more pixels the stabilisation didnt use. there is also a horizon lock for orbits or bad weather. i thought youre landing was pretty good, not sure why you didnt try landing right at your feet,,, its not like its gonna hurt you hehehe. also cam angle? use betaflight to eyeball 10 degrees, makes landing so much easier.

[@BBDigitalArts]

Hiya mate, thanks very much for the thorough reply, much appreciated indeed! I'm getting the hang of the battery situation. My charger is pretty good and giving me loads of detail etc. I'm very very conscious of landing spots with this because its way harder to land than the Avata haha I didn't fancy landing near my feet because it was solid stone and I wanted to land on the pad, as I couldn't take off form there I was screwed haha. Loads more practice on landing needed. Id also love to learn line of sight flying so I can actually catch it one handed haha Gryroflow is class, I use it all the time, I trouble I have is that once its exported its then a compressed I'm bring into Da Vinci to compress again, then upload to KZbin its compressed haha, looks like mush. Thanks for the landing compliment haha, work needed on it. Eyeballing 10 degrees in Betaflight?? talk to me!!

[@TheMadmacs]

@@BBDigitalArts in betaflight theres a page with a gimbal showing you the attitude of the quad in real time, the page with the animation of the quad orietation... there you can hold the quad at an angle and read off exactly what it is, so you can eyeball the camera at level and read off the angle on the page. i gather you have high volt batteries but i would recommend not charging them above 4.2, they will last longer. look for cell differences like 4.20 4.20 4.20 4.17. thats a weak cell and will fail eventually, the instant it shows signs of getting worse dump it. gyroflow allows you to select how you exported stuff, choose h265 and a bit rate that matches the original file maybe even a bit higher? its on the left of the window and you might need to scroll to find it. but definitely try lowering smoothing and disconnect that from cropping speed and click the thing that shows you the stretched wobbly footage and the area which is the crop, adjust it to the max where you dont see the black bits getting in frame.

[@TheMadmacs]

eek its not on the left, its the right.......>orders new brain on amazon next day

[@BBDigitalArts]

@@TheMadmacs I'll have to check out the Betaflight and Gyroflow settings for sure. thanks so much....annoyingly my drone is at home this week as I am away with work moving to a new camp this week, no time to play/train

[@Caroline_Tyler]

You should have taken off from that nearly car park and saved battery. You only need the GPS lock to take off and to point you to home, so you can land back in front of you. Oh, if the dome is green, it's copper which weathers to green. Called Verdegreen

[@BBDigitalArts]

hey Caroline, hope you are well. When I arrived in the morning, I couldn't get to that carpark because of the accident. it wasn't so much the GPS for landing it was the solid stone I didn't want to hit and fling into the river haha I also don't trust myself yet to land right next to me haha Ahhh copper, thanks, I couldn't remember if it was copper or lead. Thanks for that 🙂

[@Caroline_Tyler]

​@@BBDigitalArtsAhhh, that's a pain re the car park. Nice control you have there. Just aim at your feet and disarm 😂😂

[@BBDigitalArts]

@@Caroline_Tyler thanks very much indeed, haha disarm at 20mph.....gotcha