=== Let's Drone Out — Episode 41 === Title: Ep 41 - Ummagawd! Recorded: 2016-06-09 Hosts: Jack "Brightontillifly" Nash, Andrew "Frank" Hyams, Tony "TheTonstar1" Marchant Guest(s): Anaseed, Tommy "ummagawd" Tibajia Total audience: 2,718 Platforms: SoundCloud (http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/268928385-letsdroneout-ep-41-ummagawd.mp3) ==================================== Jack and the gang bug Tommy at work, making him late for a meeting by asking him about how he's looking forward to spending more time doing Rotor Riot stuff... [0.0] (Editor): telemetry recovered this episode is sponsored by fossil stuff for tony proof frames and other [7.28] Jack: racing supplies we are joined by the usual crew what's up time star and our producer frank hello [17.54] Frank: that's me where are you frank i am currently trying to work out what the hell is going on [25.54] Jack: with my laptop but ignore me and carry on and we got a special guest with us for about 40 [31.3] Tommy: minutes is that my cue yeah that was you were a bit swag but yeah what's going on guys this is [41.02] Jack: tommy aka oh my god yo yo yo yo you've got a little hey usa from the voice of doom what's going on [51.26] Jack: yo what's going where's everybody at anyways i don't even know right we're from we are from [57.26] Jack: the uk so i'm from britain tony's from a little place called crawley which is next to gatwick [63.98] Jack: airport and frank he lives in some sort of cave [73.98] Tommy: i don't know where any but it all sounds like places that i want to check out [77.66] Tony: yeah not not as much as we want to check out california i think california sounds way better [84.06] Tony: than britain or crawley britain's awesome man i'd much rather live in bloody california i a [92.78] Jack: i know man what's it what's it like weather all good oh it's yeah i mean it's pretty much sunny [100.7] Tommy: 72 degrees almost pretty much every day except for this year like we this year we have something [107.26] Tommy: called el nino which is like like an anomaly like it happens like every 10 years where [113.18] Tommy: half of the summer is just like this weird like overcast hazy not so much sunny but [121.1] Jack: the other 19 years are pretty good nice oh my god man is it flying weather every day [127.26] Jack: it is pretty much flying weather every day wow um so we don't know much about you man you're [133.02] Jack: pretty low key man like you know you keep you keep on the down low we see you here and there [139.02] Jack: you're not always on roto riot but we were first exposed to you really properly from the first [145.1] Jack: roto riot episode where you basically proved yourself and got you know balls to the wall [151.02] Tommy: and flew that down yeah yeah well and a lot of that is just because i i mean i i've got a nine [159.02] Tommy: to five job you know that i've got to take care of i got a mortgage and a family and all of that [164.78] Tommy: and so flying as much as i love to do it really really is not a very frequent thing that i'm able [172.3] Tommy: to do so um that also obviously translates over into roto right so obviously you can see i'm not [179.42] Tommy: i'm not on there as much as i'd like to be but a lot of that is just because again i i really [185.34] Tommy: don't get much time to fly or or build or or to do anything with it so hopefully that's going [191.66] Jack: to change soon though okay good uh i hear you do is it music you do for a profession [199.26] Tommy: uh no that that was my other passion before i discovered fpv i i used to dj and [207.18] Tommy: djing at least back in the day was very much a bedroom thing for me which then turned into [213.02] Tommy: like we started doing me and my friends started doing internet radio which was a ton of fun which [218.46] Tommy: is why i i get excited when i hear you guys getting set up and like you're checking your [223.82] Tommy: mic level because i can totally totally relate to all of that um and then that translated into we [229.74] Tommy: got a little bit bigger and we started doing all of the local clubs and stuff out here in los [234.06] Tommy: angeles so that that got really fun too so that's that's that was my life before fpv and i i mean i [240.94] Tommy: still dj and and play with music and d remixes here and there but it's it's nowhere near what [246.86] Jack: it used to be for me oh man yeah what what else were you know before you got into this and uh [254.3] Jack: i'm just putting a little cat the little uh prussian cat dj thing for you in the uh in the [261.82] Jack: facebook by the way um i should really send the gift to uh doesn't yes you should it doesn't send [269.58] Jack: man yeah no uh yeah what the hell was i saying i've totally lost i think you were gonna ask me [278.54] Jack: what else i did yeah because like there's always more strings to your bow but mainly what else [283.34] Jack: did you do and how the hell did you discover the hobby yeah how did you get from internet [288.78] Tommy: radio music into voice of life into well i guess that i guess i could answer that by just kind of [297.66] Tommy: explaining how i discovered you know fpv and multirators and and it has very much to do with [303.26] Tommy: music right so i'm very much into music i attend a ton of music festivals and one of the bigger ones [309.82] Tommy: is coachella i don't know if you guys have heard of that out there on your side of the world [313.74] Tommy: but it's certainly one of the biggest ones over here on my side of the hemisphere [318.14] Tommy: and one of the years that i was there i forgot what stage i was at but i just remember looking [323.34] Tommy: up and i it was dark but i just saw these bright lights that was just kind of sitting still [329.66] Tommy: and i mean i had had a few drinks so i was just like sitting there going okay well [334.94] Tommy: i know it's not like aliens but i did have a feeder drink so it could possibly be that but [342.94] Tommy: i mean what what i later found out is it was uh it was a drone probably a phantom you know [348.14] Tommy: i didn't know what it was at a time but i googled it afterwards and then i discovered oh cool you can [354.78] Tommy: build these things that can fly and you can take pictures and video and so that's what i originally [360.62] Tommy: got into it for was i wanted to take pictures and stuff you know and then i saw like the team black [365.58] Tommy: sheep stuff and i was like cool i want to go five thousand miles away and take video things and [371.18] Tommy: hopefully it comes back in one piece and then it wasn't until like i really started putting [377.42] Tommy: something together that i realized this this really isn't as easy as it sounds and and flying [384.14] Tommy: long range isn't very very easy at all and i mean that turned into building like a line of sight [392.54] Tommy: tricopter to eventually trying to put together my own like fpv rig which back then was uh [401.58] Tommy: do you guys remember like when like 400 size quads were like the thing yeah totally man [407.18] Jack: that was jack i had an anycopter man don't don't give me that [413.18] Tommy: so i built an ads 400 which was uh i don't even remember the name of the guy that was that was [419.42] Tommy: pushing it but i i built one of those and you know that's when i really started like okay like i [425.02] Tommy: like just hovering around and flying is cool but i want to i want to make this thing do like cooler [430.46] Tommy: things but the thing was is it's so big and intimidating and if you crash one of those [435.26] Tommy: your life was basically over for like a month until you could save up money to buy some new [440.38] Tommy: stuff right and then um and then the blackout mini h came along and then i i bought one of those [448.3] Tommy: i started posting videos that was a little i was a lot more you know i was more confident about [454.06] Tommy: doing things with it because it if you crashed it it wasn't going to cost you as much and then it [460.14] Tommy: just kind of spiraled from there like after that i started getting more views i started getting a [465.66] Tommy: little bit more artsy with the videos i posted and then and then immersion came along and then [473.26] Tommy: it just from there it really just started to blow up yeah that's one thing i wanted to ask man [478.62] Jack: how comes you fly a vortex pro not that there's anything wrong with it but i'm just surprised [487.42] Jack: what do you mean well you could be running the kiss you could be running the kissy fcs there's [492.22] Jack: b r heli s coming out you know and and like i thought you know you can't customize a vortex [500.54] Jack: but you've made your vortex pro your own you've got your limited edition one but oh yeah what [506.3] Tommy: what made you stick with that well so i i guess it's because there's a little bit of history there [512.14] Tommy: like i before the vortex 250 pro was the vortex 285 and before the vortex 285 it was it was [522.14] Tommy: actually a frame that some guy by the name of z flyboy on uh and i can't remember the forum now [529.34] Tommy: but he created it and then immersion picked it up and i was testing it for him at the time [535.1] Tommy: and so immersion naturally was like well if you got a test pilot ready and they saw my videos [540.62] Tommy: they're like well we want to you know we want to bring him on board and so i was just kind of with [545.98] Tommy: the vortex all the way before it was even called the vortex from immersion so for me it was kind [552.54] Tommy: of like even though i didn't really design it but i had a lot to do with the input the feedback [557.66] Tommy: and ultimately what it became i didn't i didn't want to leave that and immersion is is an awesome [565.1] Tommy: company who makes quality products and yeah you can't really customize it but at the end of the [570.62] Tommy: day what you really change out of them is like the motors and when i first tested their esc they're [577.18] Tommy: like 12 maps right because this is back when 3s was the big thing i mean i threw like a uh the hq [584.86] Tommy: bullnose props on there with cobra 2300 kv motors on 4s and i was just ragging this thing and i [591.58] Tommy: could not get the escs to blow and i was trying to because immersion was going to going to give me [595.98] Tommy: however many i needed so i didn't care if i blew them up but i just could not get them to blow [600.62] Tommy: and so i decided like well you know what let's keep making this thing better and that's when the [605.58] Tommy: 250 pro came out and then it was at that time when anthony of immersion told me like you know [611.5] Tommy: we're trying to make this something that's easily accessible to everybody right because one of the [616.22] Tommy: biggest barriers to the hobby is being able to build one of these things and so the they really [621.9] Tommy: over designed it and made it a tank and i think that's probably one of the biggest things that [628.46] Tommy: that most people that are hardcore in the hobby don't like about it is because it's so [633.26] Tommy: you know it's heavy but it's also indestructible and so because i kept with it i'm like well if [639.82] Tommy: this is mine i'm gonna make it mine i i told them to cut me out some plates that are lighter weight [644.46] Tommy: because i don't really mind it being thinner and all that and then i put my own motors on there and [649.66] Tommy: that's when that's how you have my signature edition now that's cool man yeah because i was [655.1] Jack: going to ask you how is yours different unless you already answered that man he's always been [660.22] Jack: questioned without even being asked hello he's brilliant what's my next question my question is [665.82] Tommy: how did you get your nickname my nickname that actually came from it's actually my dj name [672.62] Jack: serious rapping career man yeah throw down some lines and people are like oh my god [678.14] Tommy: oh my god is that what i shout yeah well it's it's a hip it's a hip-hop thing so if you listen to like [686.7] Tommy: some uh some de la soul and soul's initiative far side like that kind of era yeah there's a song [693.5] Tommy: where where they're sitting there going phones ringing oh my god and so back then right djing [699.5] Tommy: was very much hip-hop not like the shit that you see today where guys are just fucking pushing [703.82] Tommy: buttons and shit like sorry but i don't i don't call that djing this is back this is back on like [709.98] Tommy: vinyl you know and and so you'd you'd physically spin the record back to to do loops and so one of [716.94] Tommy: the loops that i would always do in some of my routines was with that cut where it goes phones [721.5] Tommy: ringing oh my god and so that's where all that came from um before i forget there's um basically [729.5] Jack: when we first started we had we were on this channel called the thursday night show and if [734.62] Jack: you ever get a day off our old leader our fearless leader voice of doom he's in the chat he's asking [741.9] Jack: you were you dj on the thursday night show so you get a half hour or an hour slot and just play some [748.06] Tommy: tracks if you're interested oh dude i would love that just because ever since this whole fpv thing [756.22] Tommy: has taken off i i've admittedly kind of turned my back from djing and so now i kind of look for [762.7] Tommy: any excuse to to practice and or or do gigs so yeah i'm i'm i'd be totally down to do that [770.7] Jack: okay we will definitely put you in touch yeah it's all done you're booked in for the thursday [776.86] Jack: night show whenever smiley awesome lay it down man tear it up or whatever you hip-hop kid so [787.18] Tommy: all right now i'm gonna have to ask you what kind of music do you guys listen to [791.5] Tony: uh i'll do a bit of hip-hop stuff for me um jack jack doesn't at the rate uh where i where i work [801.02] Jack: radio c they play like west life and stuff literally you go in there and it's oh my god [809.34] Jack: yeah literally um yeah i i really want to kill myself sometimes i want to just jam my [815.98] Jack: soldering iron in my ear jack listens to motors buzzing yeah that's what i listen to [826.86] Jack: they whining in your ear yeah fix this can you fix that um metal hardcore metal um okay okay [835.26] Jack: uh oh mitch thank you buddy yep people recognize me for my voice i'm pretty used to it they're like [842.22] Jack: oh it's that dickhead it gets weird um yeah what i don't know frank what do you listen to [851.02] Jack: whatever you've put on to be honest it's usually what what happens yeah yeah i used to be a little [856.46] Tommy: emo kid man oh yeah yeah so what i found is like i mean like hip-hop is what i grew up to [864.38] Tommy: and and it's kind of where i started my dj career it's not the only thing i listened to but [869.26] Tommy: like ever since i got into this whole fpv thing like i one of my favorite things to do is just [874.46] Tommy: fly with with headphones on and so now i like the type of music that i listen to is just either [881.18] Tommy: something that just amps me up and just makes me want to do crazy stuff or just something like [885.98] Tommy: really soothing so that i could do some of that more smooth flowy just kind of cruising style flying [892.38] Jack: is it don't you just hang out with um skit so for that [897.1] Tommy: i could i just play his youtube video on repeat and i put that in my ear and that's when i go [901.58] Frank: play yeah i think that is what jack has on most of the time is uh yeah loads of people's videos [907.82] Jack: just playing in the car just for the music yeah that's it really music to fly to yeah totally [914.62] Tommy: it's funny because uh the last competition i was at which was out here in uh in a arizona [921.42] Tommy: a bunch of us guys during the freestyle session we were like hey we should all throw on skits [927.66] Tommy: walking on a dream and we should all freestyle to it back to back to back to back and out of like [932.62] Tommy: the 20 people like 16 of us did it and it was it was the funniest thing in the world it's cool [938.46] Jack: oh man he'll be touched by that i will definitely send him this after uh yo man um what was i've [946.54] Frank: just put up um an image on the canvas of from your facebook feeds that i looks like an amazing [955.5] Frank: workshop i wonder if it's your workshop i will get the link for you so you can actually see it [961.58] Frank: if you haven't got onto our canvas yet but um it's like a load of uh peg wall stuff [969.98] Frank: everything is covered in quads and quad stuff things hang with the wall what's that blue one [976.7] Tommy: that would be that would be my workbench yes what's the blue one up in the the big blue one [982.78] Tommy: yeah that looks like a stingray that looks awesome it's funny because the the name of that [988.7] Tommy: frame is actually the manorae and uh that was my first fpv frame it was actually my first quad [997.26] Tommy: frame and it didn't go so well i crashed it on the maiden and i broke the arm and then i decided [1004.54] Tommy: that wood was just not the way to go but it looked cool and the guy who made it was i mean [1011.74] Tommy: a really nice guy and he he took a long a long time prepping it to to dye it that blue i mean [1019.26] Tommy: that the color that you see it doesn't do it justice if you look at it really close so you [1022.22] Tommy: can really see how deep the staining is uh but i couldn't just throw it away so i just glued it [1027.18] Frank: back together and hung it up on the wall oh did you ever find out what went wrong with it [1033.26] Frank: like why did it crash oh i just sucked well done frank no it's just magic so you know quite often [1044.62] Frank: when we're starting out we don't really know what to expect so if it's doing something wrong then [1049.98] Frank: we don't have the experience to realize that that's what the problem is or otherwise [1054.62] Frank: maybe you're just starting an act very straight off in which case i can totally understand that [1058.7] Tommy: as a beginner fly you might have wiped it out i don't know no in in that case like i i mean i [1065.74] Tommy: had just bought the fat shark uh what was it it was like a fat shark starter kit right so it had [1072.54] Tommy: the camera the goggles and basically everything you need to just start fpv and i literally just [1079.82] Tommy: double-sided sticky taped the camera to the nose of that frame and and called it good [1085.42] Tommy: uh but i didn't know anything about cmos cams and how how much vibration these things generated [1092.46] Tommy: and so i i stuck it on there and i flew it and i was like oh man this thing is just [1096.62] Tommy: how do you fly like this but i was so determined to just fly that i just kept trying to fly with [1101.66] Tommy: it you know with the rolling video and everything until eventually like i just really couldn't tell [1106.7] Tommy: where i was at and what i was doing and i ended up uh saying hi to a tree oh no and they weren't [1114.94] Tommy: friends so it took me down broke an arm and and then that was that was my very first fpv experience [1121.34] Tony: was we how did you learn to fly did you learn to fly what was your first quad was you like for me [1128.62] Tommy: that that was it was it was that yeah yeah that was my first fpv quad before that i had built [1135.18] Tommy: a line of sight just regular quad i don't even remember what it was called because back then i [1140.62] Tommy: was buying these things based on how they looked not so much based on you know whether or not they [1146.06] Tommy: were actually durable or if it made sense how components are laid out or anything like that [1151.82] Tommy: um and then it wasn't really until i built a tricopter from simplecopter.com i don't know if [1159.18] Tommy: you guys follow any tricopter stuff but it wasn't a 3D printed one yeah i'm sure you must have listened [1166.22] Frank: to a lot to know exactly which things to bring up for jack i mean so far it's been just on point [1172.62] Tommy: every single time well i'm glad that i'm making this easier for you guys yeah i know it's uh i [1179.34] Tommy: that's what i i built and that was the first thing where i really took the time to just like i'm not [1184.78] Tommy: going to just buy anything and everything and i spent like weeks just researching everything [1190.38] Tommy: and and that tricopter was the first thing that i put together that actually held up fine [1195.18] Tommy: and that's where i learned everything from so when i first started out peeking i didn't even go [1199.66] Tommy: angle i just went straight into rate mode because i knew that at some point i wanted to do tricks [1204.54] Tommy: and stuff and that flying in angle mode or any of those stability modes would just ultimately [1209.9] Tony: become a hindrance well that was the question yeah that was that was the question i was just [1214.78] Tony: about to ask yeah he's weird you've already done it you like mind reading or something i felt it i [1220.94] Tommy: thought that question coming so i was like all right because we're all like angle horizon and [1227.1] Tony: you know and then we went right let's do this sit in the field get some batteries out and go rate [1231.82] Jack: yeah alex did that from flight tests but only because he admitted that he was too dumb to set [1237.18] Jack: up the horizon stuff because you used to have to do that really yeah it had to used to be able [1242.86] Jack: have to put it on a switch on the original kk1 um and yeah he's like i couldn't i couldn't figure [1249.26] Tony: it out so i just flew it on rate mode fair enough that's how we go so did you crash a lot [1255.66] Tommy: starting on right yeah oh yeah oh yeah i mean like what helped was you know flying line of sight you [1262.7] Tommy: start to kind of understand you know basic throttle control and and i think that's really [1268.62] Tommy: important and something that you could learn when you're in horizon but like once you figure out how [1272.46] Tommy: to keep the thing in the air my suggestion is always to just flip it in the rate and just [1277.58] Tony: go to town wow that's scary um we got a question coming from mitch games did you start with goals [1285.82] Tommy: or a screen i started with goggles straight on goggles just straight into the goggles i i mean i [1292.94] Tommy: i once i tried it i was like this is or once i saw like how other people are doing it i i knew that [1299.5] Tommy: i didn't want to carry on a screen and a ground station and all of that stuff i just wanted to [1305.1] Tommy: go somewhere go to a park throw my goggles on fly and then get out of there v2 v1s they i mean this [1313.26] Tommy: was a long time ago so i'm pretty sure they're like the v1s it was like whatever like the smallest [1317.42] Tommy: fov was it was probably like 25 degrees but it worked yeah man wow uh yeah i um one question [1328.46] Jack: i want to know is um have you got any backstories for flying the dam and then the second part is [1335.26] Jack: of that was i've seen a few live streams and you finding secret spots in san francisco and um [1343.1] Jack: flying them like the old abandoned um hotel and stuff like that i just want to know [1349.1] Tommy: you know what you've been up to recently sure um well so you know the whole [1357.26] Tommy: and i'll just call it drones because that's like what the general media is calling it now but like [1361.5] Tommy: since all of that has picked up you know i've been focusing a lot on on figuring out how to [1368.22] Tommy: transition into doing rotor riot full time so that's that's something that's going to be happening [1374.38] Tommy: very soon and and a big factor of that was just recently getting picked up by mountain dew [1381.5] Tommy: and so once i saw that mountain dew a big brown a big brand name you know kind of hopping on board [1388.06] Tommy: basically validates the sport and to me what's happening now is like these other big brands are [1393.34] Tommy: starting to look at that and going well shoot if mountain dew is doing it i think we should start [1398.06] Tommy: considering it and and so as a result like intel is talking to us gopro is talking to us and when i [1404.86] Tommy: say i was talking about rotor riot yeah and so basically you know what i'm trying to say is that [1409.98] Tommy: there's a lot of these indicators now that is making it for me at least more comfortable making [1416.14] Tommy: that jump from what i do now which is you know what i went to school for and and i've been at my [1422.38] Tommy: job for like 10 years and i make pretty decent money to just you know taking a pay cut and doing [1428.46] Tommy: something like rotor right and so a part of that is going out to a bunch of different places like [1434.3] Tommy: the abandoned hotel and finding cool spots to fly at finding cool people to to meet and basically [1440.54] Tommy: just trying to promote the hobby so that's that's basically been my focus lately but i'm really [1447.02] Tommy: excited to start doing rotor riot full time because i mean it's not very often that you [1452.46] Tommy: could find something that you love to do and make a career out of it so i figure [1457.34] Tommy: why not chase your dreams and just jump in with two feet why not absolutely um are you doing any [1464.22] Tommy: events and what do you mean by events i think racing is it or freestyle you know oh yeah yeah [1472.86] Tommy: so i mean for the for the same reasons that i've explained for like i being able to go to these [1478.06] Tommy: things it used to be kind of hard but now if uh if everything lines up for rotor right that's [1484.38] Tommy: going to free up some time and and then i'll definitely be doing as many as i can um but the [1490.06] Tommy: ones that i'm going to be doing for sure is uh the drone nationals coming out here in august [1496.46] Tommy: i'm qualified for the uh are already invited for the freestyle event there [1501.58] Tommy: uh as well as drone worlds so those are the two definite things that i'll be going to this year [1507.9] Tommy: um yeah any tech you're looking forward to you know like in the last year actually in the last [1516.62] Tommy: two years i mean like what these things can do and what they you know what they can do back then [1522.3] Tommy: and what they can do now is just nothing short of amazing and a lot of that comes from flight [1527.98] Tommy: controller and esc technology but what what i'm noticing now is that everyone's on this quest for [1535.66] Tommy: like more power right more thrust and and people are trying to do it by going high kv and and in [1542.3] Tommy: my opinion it's just not the way to do it because now you're you're just going into a territory [1547.34] Tommy: where the inefficiency just isn't worth it at all so what that tells me is that the next big leap [1555.66] Tommy: in technology in my in my opinion is going to be battery technology now how soon that happens i have [1562.3] Tommy: i have no idea uh but with the onset of drone racing you know and and like just this recent [1569.18] Tommy: event with uh the world zone pre at dubai you know i'm i'm hoping that some of the bigger [1575.02] Tommy: companies out there with the deep pockets you know start realizing that that putting some money [1580.7] Tommy: and rnd into battery technology is going to be the way to go and it's not even just for for the [1586.3] Tommy: mini quads and drones right it'll be for just everything in general just i mean tesla is making [1591.9] Tommy: huge strides in that department with uh with electric cars so i don't see why anybody else would [1597.34] Frank: have a factory what's that with the giga factory that tessa are doing where they're going to just [1604.62] Frank: put in loads of money like five billion dollars or something and just make as many batteries as [1609.82] Frank: they can and hopefully that will like bring down costs so then maybe higher up technologies will [1619.02] Frank: also come down to us you know hopefully be nice oh no absolutely i mean you know for tesla they've [1627.42] Tommy: they've got a huge stake for doing that because they got a lot of cars that they need to sell [1631.74] Tommy: uh but what i'm hoping though that comes out of that is once they kind of hit that equilibrium [1637.9] Tommy: of all right cool i'm i'm making enough batteries to support the amount of cars that i'm making [1642.86] Tommy: now let's figure out how to make how to make this battery technology better because what they'll [1647.9] Tommy: soon realize is the same thing that we're realizing is that you can only squeeze so much energy into [1652.94] Tommy: a lithium polymer battery before the next thing you got to do to make more power is to is to increase [1658.3] Tommy: the size but you increase the size you increase the weight and for us anything that flies weight [1663.74] Tommy: is your enemy so i'm hoping somebody figures it out i've got a few more questions should i want [1671.5] Tommy: to know where these license plates came from so there was uh so there was somebody made a post [1679.02] Tommy: uh on the local facebook group um oh my goodness and i cannot remember her name uh but she see i [1686.78] Tommy: don't even know what the name of the device or the technology is all i know is it's like [1690.62] Tommy: it's this plastic thing that you could print on and then you can shrink it and oh yeah so they [1698.3] Tommy: made a post and i was all like dude i want one of those and and then like a week later it showed up [1703.98] Jack: in the post and i had to take a picture of it oh that's awesome can we all get one of them please [1710.86] Tommy: yeah put get us put us in touch please don't you yes i will uh yes i need to find i can't remember [1717.26] Tommy: her name i feel really guilty now but i will i will do that okay we'll put it in the show notes [1721.98] Jack: if you want um who's your favorite flyer oh man right now yeah everyone's loving skits at the moment [1732.06] Tommy: i know it's uh i go through so i go through so many all right here's your least favorite [1738.38] Jack: of your least favorite being a dick to you and that touching your antenna while she's trying to fly [1745.58] Tommy: my least favorite would probably and i know this is gonna sound funny but actually the vortex 285 [1752.46] Tommy: which is like the thing that kind of got me you know kind of helped me rise of fame but as the [1757.34] Tommy: vortex 285 i had a really big love and hate relationship with that thing also can i ask you [1763.26] Jack: know like when you plug in a high voltage into the um into the vortex it plays the ozzy um train [1772.7] Jack: song yeah does your one play hip-hop when you put a hv in yours no i know i actually uh i should [1784.06] Tommy: have now now that you uh now that you mention it but no i actually asked them to get rid of that [1789.66] Tommy: because i know that hv is going to be a prominent thing so it doesn't do that anymore on the on the [1795.42] Tommy: newer ones oh no way but man i i wish it did play some hip-hop now what didn't you like about the 285 [1804.38] Tommy: then so the one the thing that i thought i was gonna like about it was a thing that i didn't [1811.34] Tommy: and that was the folding arms so i like the folding arms because i thought oh cool let's [1816.54] Tommy: make it more portable and i can i you know i could take it everywhere with me but what then i soon [1822.78] Tommy: quickly discovered was okay cool i crashed the arms pulled in and then the props hit the battery [1828.78] Tommy: or the props breaks the antenna or something and then eventually when you crashed you know enough [1835.5] Tommy: the arms would just have so much play that the tune because i always like to tune very aggressively [1841.42] Tommy: like for real on like on the very edge and so when you crash enough on it then your tune would [1846.78] Tommy: start to go out of whack and then it was just you know a nightmare after that that's crazy um you [1854.22] Jack: know starting out in fpv or you know in your your little thing is there anything you wish you did [1859.82] Tommy: differently uh yeah i wish that i would have just bought gear that was durable because there's [1868.94] Tommy: nothing more frustrating i mean especially for me right because like i'll go for a week [1874.46] Tommy: and i'll work and then i'll get that one day where like okay cool i could go out and fly now [1879.1] Tommy: and i'll go charge my batteries then i'll go out to fly i'll crash and because you know i'll break [1884.94] Tommy: an arm or something like that and i'm only like a battery or two batteries in and then i'm done for [1889.18] Frank: the week oh that sucks i hate you guys absolutely so what stuff have you found that hasn't been [1894.86] Frank: durable but you've been replaced with more durable stuff so people don't have to submit [1900.46] Tommy: the same mistakes well you know to be honest with you i i don't think that's as big of a problem as [1906.54] Tommy: it is now as it was back then um because i mean you gotta realize when i first got into this [1912.46] Tommy: the blackout mini h quad had two millimeter arms and then we just started getting into like three [1918.78] Tommy: s power so the motor started getting bigger and heavier uh and so arms would break because people [1924.62] Tommy: you know didn't know what the right size arms we needed you know for the power chain that we were [1929.98] Tommy: running but i would guess that probably 95 of the of the frames that you see out there now won't have [1936.78] Tommy: this problem um maybe with the exception of some of the the cloned stuff from china but i don't have [1943.9] Tommy: any experience with any other stuff right because the zmr was is a good example i mean that that [1948.78] Tommy: came out in those replica but it was actually pretty good and there was a lot of aftermarket [1952.14] Tommy: support for it but i don't think a lot of uh newcomers are going to have that problem if they [1957.42] Tommy: just spend a little bit of time googling online about what's you know popular and what works and [1963.9] Tommy: what plays nice with each other i i don't think they'll run into that problem anymore i think [1969.1] Tony: you're right there have you seen the uh new dragonfly props and do you think is all hype [1975.42] Tommy: and you're talking about the ones that are not that are kind of staggered right behind each other [1982.94] Tommy: yeah they look yeah they look like a dragonfly yeah yeah now that's definitely that's definitely [1989.1] Tommy: all hype um i mean hq is one of my sponsors i love them to make great props and uh when we saw [1997.02] Tommy: a quad mover or warthox if depending on which channel you watch him on i mean he it was just [2003.66] Tommy: kind of started off as a joke where he just wanted to recycle the six plated props which [2008.06] Tommy: is also just more of like hey look we can make these type of thing and uh it ended up flying [2014.3] Tommy: well and steel saw that and he tried them and it ended up flying well and so there was this joke [2019.98] Tommy: within the the hq team pilots were like hey man we should just make them just just for fun and we [2026.7] Tommy: you know we were just joking but hq was like okay we'll make them and then they ended up making [2032.38] Tommy: them but what's funny is like you see all these other prop manufacturers coming straight away [2038.54] Tommy: which is funny because it kind of just shows you you know like all right who's who's really [2043.18] Tony: leading the pack here right now yeah just make a round disc just just round this and just go right [2050.46] Jack: this is the next thing or the leonardo da Vinci corkscrew yeah you know this is it this is [2059.18] Tony: take some photos and that's the way forward yeah or like props in the shape of dicks [2064.86] Jack: or something oh you'd buy them all wouldn't you jack yeah that's it man um do you ever feel the [2071.18] Jack: urge to show you steel that's a question that got sent in to what steel show you fear my [2080.3] Tommy: oh man uh no and and the reason why is because i can't grow facial hair if my life depended on it [2090.46] Tommy: so i look at him i just i'm just like man you can grow like in two minutes what i can in like two [2098.14] Jack: years why don't you shave him and then prick stick it on your face right we'll just ca glue it onto [2105.98] Jack: my face yeah that's it man job done he would be like look you can you can grow it back um i've [2112.7] Jack: got one uh this is my question any luck in getting the guys into into the 180s um yeah well so [2122.86] Tommy: something about that that kind of bothers me is that like everybody just makes this assumption [2126.94] Tommy: that 180s are is four inches right but there's plenty of frames out there now especially the [2132.22] Tommy: x-frames that are like 180 185 and and they swing five inch props um so for me personally because a [2139.9] Tommy: lot of the things that i do like i like to throw a gopro on because i like to share like for me [2146.14] Tommy: like five inch props just makes more sense but what i will say though is that in the racing scene [2151.18] Tommy: like a lot of the fast guys are actually running four inch props um and back when you're probably [2157.66] Tommy: referring back to when we made that rotor ride video on the 180s yeah yeah yeah so i mean so [2163.26] Tommy: back then for me the point of going with a quote unquote 180 was to keep it extremely lightweight [2170.7] Tommy: and so that way you could run really light motors uh on small four inch props with a small like 850 [2177.1] Tommy: size battery and just have fun because i could crash that thing and sometimes i wouldn't even [2181.58] Tommy: break a prop um but a lot of other people want you know what the other way with it which is just [2187.9] Tommy: building it with you know humongous 2204 motors that are really sized for five inch props but [2194.46] Tommy: what's going on at that point is you're getting all of the weight of a five inch setup but without [2199.82] Tommy: the five inch power and so it really just didn't make sense um because oh sorry oh no go ahead [2207.58] Jack: all i heard after that video and like read in the comments was like you guys built it wrong [2212.7] Jack: rara and all that and even you kind of felt that way a little bit no well i i think a lot of people [2220.06] Tommy: just missed the point of a 180 so to me there's there's two ways you could go about it you either [2227.18] Tommy: build a 180 because you like the way a four inch prop you know flies or you just like the size but [2235.02] Tommy: i think you know going with the reasoning of the size is a joke because you're really only saving [2239.74] Tommy: like half an inch all around or you build it because you want something that's light and durable [2245.18] Tommy: and that's what i bought it for or that's what i like it for because then you don't have to buy a [2249.58] Tommy: 1300 or 1500 size battery you can get away with these cheap you know nanotech 12 dollar 850 size [2255.5] Tommy: batteries and then you buy these props that are equally as cheap and you could go out and have fun [2260.7] Tommy: hmm i mean today that's probably different because now you've got all kinds of different [2265.9] Tommy: motor sizes and now you could build a four inch quad to be as competitive as a five inch quad [2273.34] Tommy: but you know that's just how fast this tech moves i must say i'm running a four inch 180 [2279.74] Tony: on uh 2205 emacs 26 000 kvs and it can fly with a gopro on and i'm pretty competitive against [2289.74] Tony: aliens and five or five inch clubs quads so i'm pretty fast i'd just like to remind you tony that [2295.5] Tommy: the aliens are coming for you no absolutely like and so you're like a perfect example of that i [2302.38] Tommy: mean but when we shot that video that was like uh all tony's good for is a perfect example of [2310.86] Jack: smashing gopros and breaking stuff shut up don't go too fast you just i hope you guys have the [2317.58] Tony: warranty out there no we don't we don't get it like we get a donut we get a donut and warranty [2323.58] Tommy: yeah oh so check this out so out here if uh we can be extra for the warranty and you can literally do [2330.3] Tommy: whatever you want to it and you can get it replaced no questions asked oh man we need [2334.94] Jack: someone out here we need we need to have you got any contacts for like a gopro [2341.66] Tommy: just make friends with somebody out here and have them ship it over here it's not gonna work [2347.18] Jack: shipping would be a nightmare oh yeah and then we get tacks and a wet do you reckon you'll ever [2352.54] Jack: come to the uk do you want to hang out with us come fly oh absolutely i mean that's the one of [2357.5] Tommy: the things that i'm looking forward to um with rotor ride is doing some type of like tour yeah [2363.02] Tommy: where we go to places where fpv is prominent and or we just go and check out cool places so [2369.58] Jack: that's definitely on the bucket list i'm i'm buttering up uh chad so let him know you had [2375.26] Jack: a good time and you spoke to us because like i'm like dude why don't you just it's just you [2380.7] Jack: know you're in germany just come over we're here man it's not far it's not we've got places to fly [2387.18] Tony: we can we've got cameras we're there be brilliant yeah come over guys you're just oh that sounds [2393.18] Tommy: awesome well so let me ask you guys how is like fpv out there because out out where i live [2399.26] Tommy: specifically it's like man like everybody hates you everybody thinks that you're spying on them [2406.62] Tommy: everybody thinks that you're going to chop their head off and it's it's like a crime to fpv out [2412.78] Frank: here what's it like out there really we're very lucky because we've had legislation in place way [2419.42] Frank: before it really took off so there's already been kind of the the groundwork on the legal side of [2425.82] Frank: things which i think has made like the whole you know media thing not so much of a big thing as it [2432.38] Frank: has been in america and yeah i mean it used to be that when we were in the fields people would come [2438.86] Frank: up to us and be like what's that what are you doing but i don't know about everyone else but [2443.5] Frank: that hasn't happened for a long time people just walk past now yeah oh i'm jealous and also we've [2449.34] Jack: got um something called hidden valley which is uh where you become a member you can book out the [2454.78] Jack: frequency you show up and you can fly all day you're fully insured um we host massive venues [2461.82] Jack: there and events and you can just show up and it's in the middle of nowhere we've got some old [2467.34] Jack: abandoned barns loads of trees big open fields you can be pretty you can do what you want really [2475.58] Jack: yeah get up yeah oh i'm jealous come on i would love to see what tommy would make of the uh the [2483.34] Jack: abandoned buildings in the middle he would he'd probably have a kitten he probably would for [2488.3] Jack: some sort of kitten because like you can hear you're like you're struggling to find like abandoned [2493.34] Tommy: places so built up as well the abandoned places are like my favorite they're like the worst on [2500.46] Tommy: your gear but they're like my favorite place to fly yeah wow like all the worst in the game [2505.82] Jack: oh hey johnny meep meep um i've got i've been thinking of some other questions this is it's [2511.42] Jack: a bit of a throwback i apologize but you know when you're blackout were you running the team [2516.62] Jack: motors with the two two mil or three mil shaft yeah you were oh man oh yeah you poor not even [2529.66] Tommy: the navigator series yeah the old man it used to be my blackout was like on two millimeter hardware [2537.5] Tommy: two millimeter arms with the old 1306 tiny motors spinning gem fan 50 30s on 2s that was [2546.3] Tommy: the start of my mini quad career 2s 2s 2s 2s where you do a you do a roll and it takes you [2555.1] Jack: about 10 seconds to recover no way and then your life alarm's going off every five seconds [2561.02] Tony: yes we need 5s so people are starting to talk about 5s now i don't i want some 5s fire and [2568.62] Jack: death that's all it's gonna lead to no me want 5s no tony we've we've discussed this [2576.06] Jack: 5s won't fit on a 180 you know that yeah well i got the new fossil stuff sorry about this time [2582.7] Jack: um best things about being on roto riot [2588.38] Tommy: well i i mean i get to hang out with with those guys and basically do what i love to do and and [2594.22] Tommy: then on top of that we we get to go places and do that so it's not like just uh calling up your [2600.22] Tommy: friends and saying hey let's go to the park it's hey let's call it to friends and let's go somewhere [2605.34] Tommy: epic and then have a good old time so if there's there's nothing more that i look forward to than [2611.5] Tommy: like the next roto riot episode or the next roto riot shoot we do wish you all the best we [2620.51] Frank: hope that yeah everything goes well with all the uh mountain juice stuff and you'll get to spend [2625.79] Frank: lots of time doing where to buy it so we can spend lots of time watching it yeah much appreciated um [2633.39] Jack: gopro settings [2634.51] Tommy: mm-hmm what are they what do you reckon really simple so i go with uh and this is actually a [2644.27] Tommy: setting that that steel shared with me back back that uh and he got these from from the gopro guys [2650.83] Tommy: themselves but uh really simple so turn protunes on right set everything out to auto but set your [2659.47] Jack: eyes so it's a 400 see that sounds like set all pits to four yeah yeah trust me on this one i trust [2672.67] Tommy: me on this one this one's legit so you set everything to auto set proteins on right set [2677.87] Tommy: your eyes set of 400 your sharpness to medium and your golden turn your your low light off also [2685.31] Tommy: and and everything else should be pretty good because as long as you're you know you got some [2689.71] Tony: decent sun going it should look great what speed oh yeah our settings are going to be terrible [2696.35] Tony: it's always cloudy or raining and windy here so we're gonna have to do another that all goes out [2701.87] Tommy: the table and i don't know i see you when it's cloudy we can't do a california set up over here [2706.67] Jack: right chance of that you you're gonna be like wind what the hell is this we're gonna beat you lot [2713.63] Tony: if you look ever come over to england and it's raining and windy and the conditions that we have [2719.47] Tony: to fly in you're gonna be like i can't fly in this you'll be like oh my god yeah and we'll be [2725.07] Tony: like we can where we will win we will beat you because we we fly in rain wind hurricane t-shirt [2733.63] Jack: mate in the winter he loves it you think he's from up north um oh god yeah england man it's a whole [2743.95] Jack: new thing and the way we talk to each other you guys would think we're savages they're just like [2748.51] Tommy: honestly no i i love it actually i you guys your guys's humor is the best yeah really well i don't [2756.03] Tommy: know maybe it's just for me because the accent like you're gonna get like a factor of like 10 [2761.15] Jack: but that's just me so i don't i don't know yeah they sound funny they talk funny [2769.23] Tony: we've got six fingers and all that's how well we can fly a bit better yeah that's it isn't it [2773.87] Tommy: and our toes are webbed my brother's my sister i hate to break up this part i have you guys [2780.59] Tommy: sound like fun i want to just keep going but i just realized that i'm four minutes late to my [2785.39] Jack: oh no maybe that music career is something to fall back i hope you don't go to right here i come [2792.19] Frank: basically yeah that's it good luck and hopefully you'll come over here and we'll probably end up [2799.07] Frank: having the weather we had international joan day and you'll beat us anyway so yeah come over please [2805.63] Tommy: do yeah oh i'm sure i'll go and show me something so yeah no shoot me a link to all of the stuff [2812.35] Tommy: i'd love to um share it and all that good stuff uh yeah hopefully i'll see you guys soon yeah [2817.55] Jack: we'll send you some videos to check out what it's like over here and it's a good scene and we just [2822.19] Jack: want to kind of see you guys and see what you can do and anyway we thank you for coming on the [2828.59] Jack: podcast all right guys well i definitely appreciate it yep have a good day and try not to get too [2834.59] Jack: fired but it's okay i get fired all the time i'm gonna blame it on you guys yeah man do that [2840.91] Jack: enjoy the sun remember it's info at let's drone out we've nearly forgot though yeah i can't remember [2849.47] Jack: our email what's our email frank i think it's show at letstrona.com actually but we'll go with it [2856.19] Jack: see you later Tommy thanks bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye so it's just us i know that's it we've [2865.81] Frank: gotten fired well done it was you keeping on getting him chatting too much uh he's talking at him [2873.89] Frank: but yeah so uh i do have a few little bits of news while people are thinking of things to say [2881.49] Frank: um so we mentioned last week about electromagnetic field emf camp and that there were some more [2889.49] Frank: tickets going on sale yesterday they've all gone so that's going to be over 1200 people in a field [2896.77] Frank: in august with electricity and wi-fi piped into them and hopefully there'll be a number of us [2903.57] Frank: flying there so anyone who wants to come and say hello to any of us from let's turn out or powering [2909.73] Frank: on say hello um there was also the bfpvra have had their agm so they've got a new committee so [2919.89] Frank: that's tom greer who's in the chat is chairman there's eric who from rotor bracing that was the [2928.21] Frank: secretary there's brett colas that's treasurer and matt evans who's membership treasurer um [2934.61] Frank: uh membership secretary uh so yeah that's all sorted out so hopefully they will bring us a [2941.65] Frank: good uh british championship sometime soon so we look forward to that apparently the greer is [2947.49] Jack: saying in the chat queen's cup is the 30th slash 31st of july in popham airfield and is it going [2956.85] Frank: to be a qualifying event i'm assuming it is but i'm sure greer will correct me one way or the other [2964.13] Jack: um we are having discussions on whether yeah yes apparently yes so queen's cup is going to be a [2970.85] Frank: qualifying event for the british championships there we go confirmed in the chat um if if you [2979.17] Jack: host a um fpv freestyle event um where we can qualify just as freestyles i will let you come [2988.77] Jack: on the show for free mark my words yeah and and i can't you can abuse me and i might say anything [2999.25] Jack: back oh there's two slots to hawaii available as well also and there's one chance to compete for [3005.81] Jack: the queen's cup yeah um yeah i agree if you don't set up a freestyle i will and have to make you [3015.09] Jack: um approve it at hidden valley so uh you've been warned but yeah so the queen's cup i believe [3023.09] Frank: i again i'm going to be corrected if i'm wrong is a cup that is handed out to something aviation [3032.13] Frank: competitive impressive stuff every year and it's a different thing every year as far as i'm aware [3039.25] Frank: so uh this year it happens to be fpv racing so this will be the one and only chance [3046.61] Frank: to get the queen's cup which will be an actual big silver cup as greer says so uh yeah that's [3054.13] Jack: going to be huh so different things what like you can get it one year so like croquet no it's [3060.29] Tony: got to do something with flying so if you make a crocheting plane yes really well yeah okay [3070.21] Frank: but i think it's more he started he started cross-country gliding or something [3074.85] Tony: he's knitting now as we speak he's crocheting a plane yeah there he goes unstitching his [3081.33] Frank: bed clothes and re-stitching him into the shape of a plane yeah so uh on other event news uh [3092.53] Frank: western park has been confirmed to be a european roto sports association event so there was a bit [3100.21] Frank: of confusion about whether it's going to be bfpvra or uh so british or european and it's european [3108.05] Frank: one so that's confirmed now um so those people that are going there that's what you're getting [3112.61] Frank: uh the rest of us that are going to summer's ponds that's going to be bfpvra so i know i'm [3119.09] Frank: going i believe jack is going are you going tony yeah i'm doing summer's pond nice relaxed [3124.61] Tony: atmosphere yeah 25 milliwatt to animals yeah all on 25 please so ground stations to the ready [3132.29] Frank: it was actually uh summer's ponds last year that i first met ed but i didn't recognize him [3139.97] Frank: between then and uh uh international drone day because we only ever spoke in the dark [3147.65] Frank: so uh i mean i've only actually you know realized it since then that's where me and jack met [3154.61] Tony: and that is that is where i met chris western and saw my first ever fossil and when i want one of [3160.53] Tony: them and then hooked up with fossil lads and now i'm team pilot um and jack i was flying a qav [3168.21] Tony: 250 and johnny bannon was flying a qav 250 as well and i kept crashing and ripping my aerials out and [3176.05] Tony: antennas out and uh this big goliath come up to me and stole my quad and walked off and i was like [3185.97] Tony: it's got flight tests written on his t-shirt he just walked off and i was like what are you [3190.05] Tony: doing man and uh yeah took my quad apart in front of me and borrowed frank's glue gun and [3197.41] Jack: the rest is history that's it you two are now stuck on a show with me you're trapped in here [3203.57] Tony: with me i know it's not the other way around so yeah that that was a good good day for me that [3211.01] Tony: day meeting you meeting chris western meeting the fossils seeing the i think that was the first 250 [3217.17] Jack: oh god uh gav says uh jackjoy lay not sure if it's been mentioned but sucker fbv races of the casual [3224.93] Jack: event this weekend at the the ground near ips which details on the facebook group um so that is the [3234.13] Jack: suffolk fpv races facebook group busy this weekend mate i wish if i had nothing on i would come [3241.89] Tony: um i might come up there sunday is it two days gav can you let me know give me a p.m [3249.17] Jack: oh man i might go up there have a fly yep baldy that's what he called you can you hear the seagull [3258.66] Jack: yeah yeah wow that was a pooping all over my car i called them shite walks chase them away [3267.3] Jack: yeah don't get on it the home i'm animal friendly you remember yeah true um [3276.34] Jack: what else was i gonna say uh i i spent a lot of my time laughing at chris western because he crashed [3284.1] Jack: his quad into the mud oh yeah that was so funny i was just dying i took a photo of him i've got [3290.18] Jack: quite a lot of photos of chris yeah that's weird that isn't it it's funny and they're all stuck to [3296.98] Tony: my wall so i think um i think chris and all the guys are coming to some summers i hope so man i'm [3304.02] Tony: looking forward to it because i like it because it's nice and relaxed it was good last year and [3307.54] Tony: that was my first ever event type thing i went to on my own and i've never seen anyone like johnny [3315.22] Jack: who can really destroy a pool noodle as much as him and then run and get his quad and be back in [3322.5] Jack: his seat within two seconds he wears the tightest jeans i don't know how he runs i've never seen [3328.42] Jack: anything like it no wonder he's got a girlfriend summers is where it's where we met tony says [3335.7] Jack: martinez yes i remember that yeah i wonder if martinez is going to be as drunk this year [3345.06] Frank: oh wait hopefully and drink and drown yeah uh oh yeah we my bradley austin was there as well hi [3352.5] Tony: bradley i remember meeting you guys there um so thomas is saying no pool pool pool noodles this [3359.86] Tony: year we've only hobby king gates that you stole probably proper gates that we're gonna smash up [3366.26] Frank: this time uh next week on the podcast we're going to have david vindestall [3375.62] Tony: i'm not i'm doing this from home don't don't you you are gonna be humping your bed right here [3381.22] Tony: i am definitely definitely not coming down to brydon to do the show david i'd like to let you [3386.74] Tony: know i'm skyping you and i'm completely naked it's gonna be awful i am so not gonna be you i'm not [3393.54] Jack: that bad honestly but i'm like david how you doing i like david he's so nice he's such a good guy [3401.3] Tony: is that a tricopter in your pocket or are you pleased to see me it is a tricot look at the [3406.98] Frank: facebook photo it is um so on that note goodbye podcast people this week's podcast city shoutout [3416.18] Frank: goes to oslo norway but thank you to all our listeners please subscribe review and comment [3421.06] Frank: visit powering on.co.uk and support our sponsors don't forget this podcast is sponsored by radio [3428.18] (Editor): c number one for all your drone related needs pay them a visit at radio c.co.uk and use the promo [3434.26] (Editor): code ldeo for five percent off your order and free shipping 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