=== Let's Drone Out — Episode 87 === Title: Lets Drone Out - With The Carlito Show! Recorded: 2017-04-27 Hosts: Jae "Chipko", Neil "NJ Tech" Jones, Andrew "Frank" Hyams, Tony "TheTonstar1" Marchant Guest(s): Carlos 'Carlito' Costa Total audience: 1,791 Platforms: YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lFPyHRhVmI); SoundCloud (http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/347221507-letsdroneout-lets-drone-out-with-the-carlito-show.mp3) ==================================== This week we are joined by the man behind the Carlito Show - he joins us to talk everything from fist bumping the mayor in Brighton dressed as Ali G to his frequent visits to the UKDS indoor drone racing circuit. The usual suspects are back this week, at least Jae and Tony anyway :D [0.0] Jae: Hello and welcome, welcome, welcome. [3.12] Jae: I did steal that line from Dom. [4.48] Jae: But welcome to the Let's Join Out this week. [7.2] Jae: I don't even know what day it is. [8.2] Jae: 26th of April or something? [10.36] Jae: 27th, close enough. [12.08] Jae: Another day, I've lost a day somewhere. [13.96] Jae: Where has time gone? [15.72] Jae: This week we're joined by Tony Tonstar 1. [18.4] Tony: Hello. [19.72] Jae: We've got N.J., who's back in the house [21.44] Jae: after a little break. [22.8] Jae: Hello. [23.84] Jae: Hello. [25.32] Jae: We have someone lurking in the background, [26.72] Jae: I think, at the moment. [27.76] Jae: Andrew, who hopefully will be talking about N.J. 3. [30.8] Jae: Hello. [31.52] Jae: We'll get to you shortly. [32.96] Jae: And a man who has another show out there on YouTube, Carlos, [38.32] Jae: from The Carlito Show. [42.04] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Hello. [43.96] Jae: pressure. [45.16] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: How are you doing, Carlos? [46.32] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: I'm good, thanks. [47.08] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Thanks for having me. [48.68] Jae: I know, it's a pleasure to have you on, Andrew. [50.48] Jae: He's a fellow YouTuber. [51.72] Jae: We were just saying before the show, [52.64] Jae: we did start off as an original radio show. [54.84] Jae: Yeah. [55.48] Jae: My credit to do this weekly, every week. [58.56] Jae: So yeah, it's good to have you on. [60.64] Jae: How long have you been having? [61.96] Jae: Could you do a show now, two days a week, hopefully? [65.48] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Even more, three. [66.56] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Well, I have The Carlito Show, which [69.44] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: is like whatever craziness I can think of for the doctor's [75.52] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: video, whatever it goes. [79.36] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: And then I have the, like, shut up and fly. [83.16] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Because a lot of people are like, oh, [84.84] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: I don't want to see you talk. [86.08] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: And other people are like, oh, no, I want to see you talk. [89.48] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: So try to get everyone happy. [93.72] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: I made, like, a kind of playlist, [96.44] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: which is like, shut up and fly, which is just me flying. [100.52] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: I guess the guy actually told me, like, shut up and fly. [103.88] Jae: So I mean, that's a lot of shows, [105.88] Jae: and that's a lot of content. [107.08] Jae: You have a job as well, do you mean? [109.16] Jae: Yeah, a job as well. [110.2] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: And then I have a live stream on Saturdays and reviews [118.56] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: every now and again. [119.44] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Yeah, it's too many videos, man. [121.44] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: I had, like, one video, and now it's, like, three or four. [127.76] Jae: I mean, we have our own N.J. here, [129.92] Jae: who's a very good content producer, you know, [132.44] Jae: always putting regular content on the whole stuff. [134.52] Jae: And I try. [136.44] Jae: It's tricky. [137.12] Jae: It's tricky, you know, to keep up with and keep [139.16] Jae: people interested, but still, it's good. [143.24] Tony: Yeah. [143.88] Tony: How's that un-brevoed build going? [147.6] Tony: Is that happening yet? [149.92] NJ: Me? [151.04] NJ: Yeah. [152.2] NJ: It's in a long line of other drones [155.32] NJ: that are currently awaiting building. [158.72] NJ: At least three others, the one that's pressing at the minute, [161.52] NJ: I have to get the new B Stretch-X built up. [166.28] NJ: So I'm just waiting on some EMAX whites to arrive for that. [169.96] NJ: And then once I've built that up and done my review on it, [172.76] NJ: then I will be focusing a little more [175.24] NJ: on getting that revo racer together. [177.28] NJ: But I've been looking at some very interesting aerodynamic [183.32] NJ: research, which leads me to think possibly [188.36] NJ: differently about some of the aerodynamic decisions made [191.16] NJ: on quadcopters, some fluid dynamics papers and bits [196.44] NJ: that I've been looking at, which, yeah, I'll get to it [200.24] NJ: when I've done some more reading. [201.48] NJ: That sounds heavy. [203.36] NJ: Yeah. [204.0] NJ: It's made me go cross-eyed very, very many times. [206.52] NJ: But can you put on spectacles and have a stick, [209.16] Jae: maybe explaining it in a blackboard? [211.96] Jae: And you can point to different things. [213.56] Jae: We might not understand, but fluid dynamics. [215.08] Jae: Yeah, don't worry. [216.08] NJ: I don't fully understand them either, [217.84] NJ: because they get very, very, very, very complicated. [220.84] NJ: But yeah, it's interesting to see the airflow behavior [224.68] NJ: around certain shapes and understanding the boundary layer, [229.0] NJ: because air is very sticky, so viscous, like there's a fluid, [234.4] NJ: and how laminar airflow moves around low-pressure objects [239.2] NJ: and separates from the boundary layer [240.64] NJ: and creates all these vortices and wake. [242.96] NJ: And yeah, it's interesting. [244.96] NJ: So I've been looking quite heavily into more of this. [248.12] NJ: I understand a little bit of it anyway, [249.96] NJ: but I've been doing a bit more in-depth reading. [251.48] NJ: So yeah, I'll get back to that [253.52] NJ: when I've got a less boring, long-winded version of it. [256.6] Jae: Or is it more on the whole fact of the re-vow then [259.2] Jae: and the aerodynamics of that? [260.6] Jae: And is that included in the- [262.2] NJ: It's, I could certainly highlight things on that [266.16] NJ: and on, especially on other quadcopters, [269.76] NJ: very, very interesting in terms of, I mean, [274.84] NJ: that so much of quadcopters is just anti-good airflow anyway [279.0] NJ: and it's just a giant, [281.28] NJ: it's just forcing its way through the air. [283.04] NJ: So there's not a lot of aerodynamic about a quadcopter [285.8] NJ: no matter what you do with it really. [289.0] NJ: But there are certain elements that could be put [291.68] NJ: into designs that I think could make things, perhaps. [295.32] NJ: And I mean, the biggest focus really is prop design [298.56] NJ: will help them the most. [300.92] NJ: But there is a reason why you can put a 1,300 milliamp [304.08] NJ: 4S battery on a wing and fly it for 40 minutes [307.08] NJ: and why you can put it on one of our quadcopters [309.0] NJ: and get two minutes out of it. [312.48] NJ: And aerodynamics plays a big part in that. [314.76] NJ: So yeah, it's very, I find it all absolutely fascinating. [318.28] Jae: Okay, well, maybe we'll have to have a little science spot [320.68] Jae: once you've condensed it down to layman's terms [322.72] Jae: that you might all understand. [324.28] Tony: Yeah. [325.36] Jae: Carlos, you know what? [326.2] Jae: You need the science show now [327.32] Jae: to cater for people like N.J. [328.48] Jae: There are people like you. [329.64] Jae: They get to the really nuts and bolts [332.84] Jae: of everything of the flying stuff. [334.72] Jae: So yeah. [335.96] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Why use aluminium screws instead of metal screws [340.44] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: because two grams. [342.64] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: I'm a bit more of a realistic [345.0] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: and I break things like there's no tomorrow [349.24] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: and sometimes I can fix it in the field with a stick. [352.04] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: So based on that concept, my science is more practical [356.32] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: than actually knowing what the hell I'm doing. [359.76] NJ: Bill, crash, fly, repeat. [361.88] NJ: Yeah. [363.44] Jae: Well, I believe you've been to the UKDS, [365.88] Jae: which that environment itself, [367.8] Jae: you have to tell us about it, [368.72] Jae: but that doesn't look very forgiving for quads. [371.76] Jae: If you crash, you're gonna have breaks [374.24] Jae: especially when you're racing around. [376.2] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Yeah, and especially on a race, [378.16] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: when you're on a race. [379.24] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Yeah. [380.88] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: And you crash, you kind of don't care [384.56] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: even about the condition of the quad. [386.28] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Like if you broke a prop, even like half a prop, [389.76] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: in a normal day, you wouldn't keep flying. [391.44] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: But if you're in a race, [392.84] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: you'll try anything to get an extra lap. [395.64] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Like no matter how bad that's gonna leave you at one. [400.6] Jae: So how long have you been racing for now then? [404.8] Jae: Because I know you've been at the nationals [406.64] Jae: and I know you've done a few other events [408.28] Jae: and it's for quite some time now, isn't it? [411.56] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Yeah, I think two years now. [413.2] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Wow. [414.04] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: If I'm not mistaken. [415.6] Jae: So, I mean, Tony, you've been, [417.96] Jae: how long now as a comparator? [420.24] Tony: Two years as well. [421.56] Tony: But I haven't done any proper races yet. [426.38] Tony: My mates basically have done real racing, yes. [433.06] Tony: Until we go to the Mini Air Show next weekend. [435.5] Jae: No, yes. [437.34] Jae: You signed up for a team then, Carlos. [439.5] Jae: Or are you doing any racing then? [441.46] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Yeah, I've signed up for a team [443.38] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: and the individual events freestyle. [446.46] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: And there was another one. [449.7] Tony: I don't remember. [450.54] Tony: Are you going as Carlos? [452.94] Jae: I'm sure Andrew can tell you the number. [455.7] Tony: Are you going as Carlos, Colleen, Tom? [457.94] Tony: Or Orat, or one of your characters, or all of them? [463.3] Tony: Yeah. [464.14] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: What are my favorite characters? [465.98] Jae: If anyone doesn't actually know Carlos, actually, [469.38] Jae: it's usually quite interesting to see, [471.42] Jae: persona of the day, whatever he dresses up as. [473.34] Jae: I mean, it's everything from allergy [474.54] Jae: to a big flight suit with a helmet and everything, isn't it? [476.58] Jae: I mean, it's really quite fun to see. [479.78] Jae: Yeah, I mean, but we actually... [482.78] Jae: It was just... [484.46] Jae: It was interesting to find out that you were [486.1] Jae: at the first ever International Drone Day event, [488.78] Jae: which is the first Mini Air Show down at the school. [493.3] Jae: It was just at the school [494.14] Jae: and it was blisteringly cold conditions. [496.38] Jae: But there was one quad that stood out [499.66] Jae: from everyone else's and it was a little quad. [501.54] Jae: I can't remember which one it was, [502.38] Jae: but we had a little Cartman on top of it, Eric Cartman. [505.26] Jae: And yeah, it turns out it was yours. [507.18] Jae: I only just found that out tonight. [508.26] Jae: That's amazing. [509.94] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Yeah, I thought it was funny [512.26] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: to make a sign that said, screw you guys, I'm going drone. [520.62] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: So it was helping, like a little sign on a Cartman [523.34] Jae: was helping a little sign that said that. [525.7] Jae: I think it was still on there. [526.54] Jae: I don't know if I... [527.38] Jae: I think I tried to stop a few pictures of it, but... [529.7] Jae: Well, that was year one. [531.26] Jae: Year two, one of the highlights of that whole weekend [534.54] Jae: was you up there with the Marist, [536.62] Jae: then Marist, Brighton and Hove. [539.06] Jae: This bumping is Ali G. [540.62] Tony: The Marist. [541.46] Tony: It was such a brilliant moment. [545.9] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: That was in a second. [548.34] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: I was... [549.94] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Yeah. [551.78] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: I had the outfit in my backpack [554.9] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: and I was like, should I take it out for the freestyle? [558.74] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: But then things were moving so fast [561.62] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: that I just didn't have time. [562.62] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: So I just went for the freestyle. [565.42] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: And then it turned out I won. [566.38] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: So I was like, no, this is too good. [567.94] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: I have to take the outfit out [571.3] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: and go as Ali G to meet the mayor. [574.38] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: I honestly didn't know I was going to meet the mayor. [577.18] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: And then when I got there, I was like, oh, it's the mayor. [579.82] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Hi. [583.66] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: She was so funny because... [584.9] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: I'm guessing she understood [585.86] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: because she held my hand like this, [587.9] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: like we did to Ali G in the movie. [591.9] Jae: I'm not going to go to do what you do, [593.58] Jae: but I'll acknowledge your fist bump. [596.5] Jae: Yeah. [597.82] Jae: I mean, there's no pressure for this year then. [599.46] Jae: I mean, this is the third year on now. [601.86] Jae: Any... [604.3] Jae: You can go and concentrate on racing actually [605.74] Jae: because one thing I always remember is the nationals [609.38] Jae: and how much actually nerves and stuff [611.1] Jae: can play on your ability to control your body. [616.22] Jae: Have you got anything for people that are coming up [618.46] Jae: to those sort of nerves for the first time this year, [620.78] Jae: maybe even at this moment? [623.34] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Practice as much as you can. [625.86] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: A lot of people told me a lot of weird things. [629.86] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Drinking to taking drugs to other bad things. [635.74] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Don't do any of those. [636.78] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Just relax, you can... [639.74] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: So this is basically the fight or flight instinct [642.38] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: that your body has. [643.7] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: It expels massive amounts of adrenaline. [646.9] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: And basically there's nothing you can do about it [649.66] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: unless you train for it. [652.38] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: And the more you get exposed, [653.58] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: the better you will be at managing this feeling. [657.46] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: But yeah, listening to music seems to help a lot [661.42] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: because obviously you want to get as abstract [663.7] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: to your surroundings as possible. [668.94] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: And breathing helps a lot. [671.38] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: So there's a... [672.22] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: I've even tested like combat type breathing [676.34] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: to get rid of adrenaline faster. [680.46] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Yeah. [682.7] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: But it comes down to you're more [687.7] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: and more exposed to these races [689.42] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: and at some points you... [691.42] NJ: Yes, it's a really interesting thing that [694.58] NJ: because I've always been a big freestyler [698.46] NJ: and I don't really do the racing thing. [700.02] NJ: But the last video I uploaded, [703.14] NJ: we went and set up a track and had a go. [705.26] NJ: And the first thing I found out, [706.62] NJ: because I've not really been exposed to that, [708.3] NJ: which is something you're exposed to an awful lot, [710.74] NJ: was that my legs started to go. [713.26] NJ: I could feel my legs going. [714.38] NJ: I'm like, right, this is why everyone sits down [716.98] NJ: when they race. [718.14] NJ: Because as soon as the adrenaline kicks in [719.86] NJ: and you're trying to beat your lap times, [721.26] NJ: it's like, I've no control of... [724.1] NJ: I call it Elvis leg. [726.94] NJ: Yeah, literally just your whole body starts going, [730.06] NJ: Christ, what is this? [731.18] NJ: So yeah, I can see that's something, [733.7] NJ: that's a big part of the racing thing [735.9] NJ: is learning to control your adrenaline [739.06] NJ: and yeah, I get it. [741.1] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: And you can expose yourself to situations like this, [743.94] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: even on freestyle. [744.78] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Like for example, if I go in freestyle [746.58] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: in a place that I haven't been before, [748.58] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: and it's kind of dangerous for the world. [751.74] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: So in a place that I possibly might not know, [754.66] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: I was exactly like over water [756.54] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: or somewhere that you're just not confident, [758.14] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: like a huge tower in the middle of nowhere. [762.82] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: You kind of feel the same [763.9] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: and your hands start shaking [765.66] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: and you can even hear the props. [768.22] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Shaking from the quads because this is your... [771.98] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Yeah, so it's just exposing yourself more and more [774.3] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: to the situations until your body learns [777.22] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: that you're not gonna die. [782.1] Jae: Yeah, it'd be interesting. [783.78] Jae: Is this gonna be your first official race then [785.54] Jae: if you managed to make it down to the best show, Neil? [788.42] NJ: Yeah, 100%. [790.94] NJ: Yeah, I definitely need to get some more practice [794.5] NJ: in the experiment with the setup a bit. [797.7] NJ: But yeah, I'm up for trying, see how I do. [800.5] NJ: Just as much as Tony's been up for doing some freestyle, [803.14] NJ: I can't be a hypocrite. [804.22] NJ: I have to give the racing a go. [806.7] Jae: I would say, okay, my experience from last year, [809.98] Jae: which is the drone show was my first ever official race. [813.94] Jae: And actually flying around on 25, around hills [816.38] Jae: and all these other things, [817.26] Jae: swamping the frequencies and all sorts of just general, [819.9] Jae: not the best. [820.74] Jae: I didn't even have the best receiver setup. [822.94] Jae: Learning to fly through static and fly that way [826.1] Jae: is probably also a bit of training [827.62] Jae: that I wanna do before next week. [829.58] Jae: Cause we can have our perfect setups in our flat fields [832.38] Jae: with no other interference, no hills [836.46] Jae: on whatever power that was set, [838.02] Jae: which is officially 25 and always 25. [841.94] Jae: Yeah. [842.78] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: But races today have really improved more. [844.7] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Like for example, I've been racing on UKDS, [847.58] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: as you mentioned earlier. [849.5] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: And you'd think because it's indoor [854.02] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: and there's a lot of concrete through, [855.74] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: it's gonna be terrible. [856.62] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: And a lot of metal structures through [858.02] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: is gonna be terrible. [859.18] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: But actually, most people have perfect signal [864.22] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: because today also there's new components that help. [868.9] Jae: Hmm, yeah, the newer VTX things, yeah. [872.3] Jae: Yeah, cause I mean, I've seen a few of the, [873.7] Jae: just the straight FPV feeds from there. [875.98] Jae: Okay, there's glitches as you expect, [877.42] NJ: but it's remarkable. [879.34] NJ: Multi-passing is the biggest center in those environments, [882.02] NJ: but- [882.86] Jae: But you could protect that against on the walls, couldn't you? [884.3] Jae: You could have dampening materials on walls [885.98] Jae: if you did it properly, absorb radio. [889.58] Jae: So how many times you've been there [891.14] Jae: and what's your, do you wanna give a mini review then, [893.46] Jae: how you found it? [894.86] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Two, two times straight. [897.62] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Yeah, I mean, for a place that you can just like, [901.82] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: not talking about the IC release race days, [905.06] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: cause it's an open- [906.58] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Yeah, yeah. [907.66] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: That you can go at any kind you want. [910.34] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: It's pretty big. [912.7] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: It's the first thing that you noted. [916.14] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: The race course is quite tight. [918.18] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: So you're gonna need a few practice laps [921.78] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: in order to get the gist of the course, yeah. [930.38] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: But yeah, there's a big space for the pilots. [933.66] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: It's not like, you know, most races where, [936.38] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: I don't know if you guys been to many races. [938.94] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Well, probably Tony has, [940.98] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: but whenever the pilots get there, [943.14] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: you have like this tiny little space to set your quads [946.3] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: and then you have like massive amounts of people [948.22] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: just laying everything about. [950.46] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: And here at least they have enough space [953.06] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: that you can sit comfortably in a table without having- [956.86] Jae: And do they have things like sorting items [958.62] Jae: or if you need to make your pairs, [959.98] Jae: there's obviously bench space, [960.9] Jae: but do they have the tools there or? [963.42] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: I'm not quite sure because whenever I go there for a race, [965.58] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: I just bring my own stuff and I never bother to look, [967.82] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: but I think probably they might have something like that. [971.86] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Yeah, you can have simulators on site [973.86] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: that if you want, you can go and practice the course. [979.54] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Well, so I think it's Rotor Rush, [984.66] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: that's like a similar company [986.9] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: and they do the exact track [990.82] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: that you're gonna race in the i-series [992.82] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: and they release it like a few days before the actual race. [995.54] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: So that helps a lot. [996.7] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Like if you're a pilot, [998.18] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: that's definitely one of the things that you should do, [1002.42] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: like practice the track on the simulator [1005.38] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: just before you go flying. [1007.34] NJ: Chuck, that's a really good point. [1008.7] NJ: I think that's probably the one thing that always, [1011.54] NJ: when I look at the indoor events, [1012.82] NJ: especially where you have these tall, [1014.7] NJ: like upper and lower gates [1016.94] NJ: and you do half the circuit up on the upper side [1019.38] NJ: and then you come down the lower side, [1020.98] NJ: I'm watching, I can watch five or six laps [1023.18] NJ: and still not understand the circuit. [1026.42] NJ: So I think that's the thing, isn't it? [1028.62] NJ: It's like, I think these organizations, [1030.38] NJ: when they organize these events, really need, [1032.38] NJ: if they can, like a couple of days before [1034.26] NJ: to get something to the pilots [1036.22] NJ: to make the race more fluid and successful [1038.5] NJ: with people not going off track, trying to learn it. [1041.82] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: But that's something very interesting, [1044.18] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: because if I'm racing, [1047.38] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: like if you set me on the track and I'm racing the track, [1051.22] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: it's pretty, I can understand how the track flows [1055.1] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: quite fast. [1056.26] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: But if I'm watching someone fly the track, [1059.14] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: just especially on YouTube, [1060.46] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: like sometimes you see those guys flying the track, [1062.22] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: and I'm like, how does this guy know [1064.94] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: where the hell he's going? [1066.7] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: And people have said the exact same thing on my videos. [1069.02] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Like for me, I'm doing, like the track feels natural [1072.94] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: and fluid to me. [1073.78] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: But when I watched on YouTube afterwards, [1075.22] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: it's like, Jesus Christ, how do you even know? [1078.34] NJ: That is interesting. [1079.38] NJ: Yeah, one of the other psychology of that works. [1082.42] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Yeah, so when you're racing, [1084.54] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: it's much easier to understand how the track goes [1088.14] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: rather than just watching someone else race. [1090.38] Jae: Maybe that's when you're in the zone. [1092.26] Jae: You committed that to your mental function, [1094.36] Jae: having it, that's when you lose the point of your legs, [1096.7] Jae: maybe, in a race. [1099.62] Jae: I don't know, that's interesting. [1103.63] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: I have a question from... [1106.67] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Special chaos, if anyone's going to Portugal [1108.87] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: for the Yaria race in June? [1111.35] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: I'm actually, I don't know if the viewers know, [1112.95] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: but I'm actually from Portugal. [1116.11] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: And the... [1116.95] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Does that mean you're going? [1118.43] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: I know the organizer, [1119.67] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: because I've been there for a race before, [1121.91] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: and he keeps messaging me to go. [1123.95] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: So I might go to Portugal to race him. [1129.19] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: I'll definitely not. [1131.11] Tony: That'd be interesting. [1132.47] Tony: I've seen quite a few videos from Portugal, [1136.95] Jae: because Bruno, I think, is from there. [1139.23] NJ: Yeah, Bruno is, he goes back quite a lot, I think. [1143.23] Jae: In fact, you two had the other, [1144.27] Jae: who won that competition? [1145.87] Jae: Who won? [1146.71] Jae: No, Bruno, Bruno did. [1149.87] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Did you get everyone around? [1151.31] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: I went easy. [1152.43] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Yeah, well, there's only two. [1156.83] NJ: Well, maybe things could, he's a bit blind, though, isn't he? [1159.67] NJ: Yeah, tip it the other way, and now make him do a race. [1163.27] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: No, no, no, I'm, you know, [1165.83] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: I've been training more and more freestyle, [1167.83] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: and the objective, so the objective for that challenge [1171.03] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: was obviously to promote each other's channels. [1176.11] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: So, yeah, and, you know, [1178.03] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: YouTube is all about collaboration, [1179.63] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: so if you just do your own videos [1181.03] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: and you stay on your own corner of the world, [1183.07] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: you're not gonna be able to grow much. [1185.63] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Like, if you start collaborating with other people, [1187.47] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: and I thought that the type of, like, challenge [1191.51] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: was a good way to, [1195.19] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: to, yeah, like, promote. [1198.07] Jae: To collaborate, yeah, no, it was good, actually, [1200.39] Jae: and it's interesting when you can link [1202.43] Jae: to two different YouTube channels, [1203.51] Jae: because usually it's a related video [1205.63] Jae: that links you up to something else, [1206.95] Jae: so if it's flying, you wanna be a random person [1208.91] Jae: around the world that does a flying thing, [1210.35] Jae: but at least if it's titled Linked, [1211.95] Jae: YouTube does show more content based on that [1214.79] Jae: from these locations, so. [1217.07] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: But I want the challenge, Angie, for sure. [1220.07] Jae: You know, it's quite interesting. [1221.99] Jae: Actually, everyone that's spoken so far on tonight's show [1224.99] Jae: has a YouTube channel, has probably had a YouTube channel [1226.95] Jae: longer than they've even done the show and things like that, [1228.95] Jae: and maybe even longer than they've been flying. [1232.19] Jae: But Andrew, I don't know, do you have a YouTube channel, [1234.51] Jae: Andrew, are you still there? [1236.11] Jae: I do. [1236.95] Tony: I subbed to Andrew. [1238.95] Tony: He releases one video a year. [1241.67] Jae: Yeah, pretty much. [1243.83] Jae: Just after the drone, the mini air show, is that right? [1248.75] Frank: Pretty much, I do it when I've done something new [1252.11] Frank: and have a video, but yeah, I don't get a lot of flying, [1256.75] Frank: so I don't spend a lot of time editing either. [1260.91] Frank: So I haven't, I did, like, when I went over to France, [1264.91] Frank: I did a video. [1268.07] Frank: When I've done some whooping over winter, [1270.39] Frank: I did a video of stuff from that. [1273.19] Frank: But yeah, I just think I don't have a fancy GoPro [1276.91] Frank: or anything, so I don't have any fancy video, [1280.27] Frank: so I don't bother editing a lot. [1281.83] Jae: And actually, let's be fair, you're so busy [1283.75] Jae: doing so many other things anyway, [1285.27] Jae: I'm surprised you even have any time to. [1287.39] Frank: Yeah, like, Saturday, I managed to fly around a gate [1294.11] Frank: for the first time this year, so I'm like, yes. [1298.31] Frank: Around a gate or through a gate, just to be clear. [1300.51] Frank: Well, through a gate. [1303.55] Frank: I spent like three hours flying. [1305.31] Frank: First hour, I was just smashing into gates, [1307.31] Frank: and then I managed to actually relearn [1309.55] Frank: to how to fly through a gate again, [1312.07] Frank: and gradually got smaller and smaller gates. [1315.35] Jae: Well, maybe you could try some breathing exercise and stuff, [1318.51] Jae: and maybe that'll help you, if you don't know, actually. [1321.43] Frank: Yeah, I think, actually, I just need to fix one of my, [1324.15] Frank: because I was going back to one of my old, old, old quads [1327.19] Frank: that has no power, and so you kind of, [1330.27] Frank: if you slightly ease off the throttle, [1333.19] Frank: it just nose dives into the ground, so keeping it straight [1337.31] Frank: and level through a gate is quite hard on that one. [1341.15] Jae: Well, actually, a little while ago, [1342.79] Jae: we joked about having some techniques [1345.83] Jae: to help Tony in his race this year, didn't we, Tony? [1348.15] Jae: I think we're gonna be waterboarding to zen meditation [1351.27] Jae: and all sorts of things, who knows? [1352.95] Jae: Anything goes. [1356.11] Jae: Well, I think that'd be like a fear for your life. [1358.15] Jae: You might actually race, even better. [1359.75] Jae: I'm planning all these different ideas. [1365.29] Jae: Yeah, I suppose that's the thing, though, isn't it? [1366.59] Jae: It's mental preparation for these races, [1368.39] Jae: more than actually, yeah, music, okay. [1373.79] Jae: This is top tips, actually. [1375.71] Jae: Are you racing next week, Andrew? [1377.51] Jae: No, I will not be racing. [1379.63] Jae: Will you get to fly it all next week? [1381.07] Jae: Maybe you could open the proceedings. [1383.59] Frank: I'm sure I will bring quads down, [1385.99] Frank: and I will find some time to fly them at some point, [1388.43] Frank: but I'm not gonna be taking part in the racing, [1392.67] Frank: just because we need too many people [1394.63] Frank: to be doing other things, [1395.91] Frank: and everyone obviously wants to race, [1397.59] Frank: and anyway, if I can barely do a gate, [1400.95] Frank: then I'm just gonna be a waste of time. [1404.35] Jae: So, you know what? [1406.03] Jae: A few weeks ago, it felt like it was so close, [1408.07] Jae: but I didn't get excited, [1408.95] Jae: but it's like just over a week away now. [1411.15] Jae: I'm getting very excited. [1412.47] Jae: What's been happening next weekend, yeah? [1417.03] Frank: Yeah, it's slightly terrifying. [1419.31] Frank: I'm sure it'll be brilliant on the day, [1422.23] Frank: but, you know, it's like last minute, loads of things, so. [1426.59] Jae: So, there was a call from a new volunteers. [1429.15] Jae: Do you still need any volunteers for... [1430.95] Frank: Yeah, if anyone can spend time on the Friday, [1436.27] Frank: next week Friday, if you can come down [1438.55] Frank: and give us a hand setting up the course [1440.71] Frank: and that kind of stuff, we would be very grateful [1444.11] Frank: if anyone who's got time, you know, can spend some time. [1449.11] Frank: I'm sure people will be around, [1450.55] Frank: but helping on the actual event, [1453.83] Frank: I'm sure we'll need hands running things about and stuff, [1456.83] Frank: but, you know, that would be very grateful. [1461.39] Frank: Thank you, Tony. [1463.27] NJ: Yeah, Andrew, who's designed the track out of interest? [1467.43] Frank: So, Roto Racing have designed the track. [1469.63] Frank: Right. [1470.47] Frank: Are they open to library? [1473.95] Frank: Well, they haven't drawn it to scale at the moment, so. [1480.75] Frank: I think it will be a case of, [1482.15] Frank: if you come down and help build the track, [1484.03] Frank: then you'll probably have a fair influence [1486.51] Frank: on exactly how big different bits of it are gonna be. [1490.03] Tony: I like it massive. [1491.99] Jae: As many times as you want. [1494.31] Jae: Make it so you can fly it with a wig as well. [1498.78] Jae: No, don't. [1499.62] Jae: I'm sure it's a headache enough, actually. [1501.66] Jae: So, is there any more spots for, [1504.14] Jae: there's no more spots for the team registration, [1506.38] Frank: is that right? [1508.78] Frank: I haven't checked it recently. [1512.14] Frank: Oh, there was still two spaces, two team spaces, I think, [1517.22] Frank: but it might have changed since then. [1519.18] Frank: I haven't looked in a while. [1521.26] Frank: I've seen people are still signing up [1524.5] Frank: and buying tickets and stuff. [1525.86] Frank: So, I imagine there's another, [1527.66] Frank: at least another two teams on the way, [1532.02] Frank: or at least one team on the way. [1533.18] Frank: So. [1534.22] Frank: Awesome. [1535.18] Frank: There's probably still one team space out there [1537.62] Frank: if anyone still wants to get in on the team racing. [1540.98] Frank: Otherwise, it's still the freestyle. [1542.46] Frank: There'll still be solo racing while the freestyle's going on. [1547.32] Frank: There'll be the whooping in the barn. [1552.68] Tony: Yeah. [1554.6] Jae: Yeah, the cars will be well on that straight away. [1562.16] Frank: Fingers crossed Velocidrone will get there. [1567.64] Frank: They'll be hopefully pushing out something [1570.2] Frank: so that we can get some simulators going on site. [1576.2] Frank: We've been pushing them and nudging them, [1578.08] Frank: and Fraser's been offering his knowledge [1581.16] Frank: of all things back-end simulator-y. [1584.88] Frank: I don't know. [1585.72] Frank: It's beyond me, but apparently there's a good chance [1588.6] Frank: that we'll have Velocidrone simulators. [1590.6] Frank: Right, excellent. [1591.8] Frank: I always write them. [1594.4] Frank: Yeah, so Fraser's doing all right. [1596.2] Frank: He's absolutely championing on. [1598.48] Frank: We've been like, if you need, [1600.56] Frank: do you want to maybe stop? [1603.52] Frank: And he's like, nope. [1604.8] Frank: I can do this, so, okay. [1608.2] Jae: I thought always the term of putting on a show, [1610.16] Jae: which is essentially what it is, mini air show, [1612.08] Jae: was break a leg. [1613.12] Jae: But he's sort of broken his shoulder, doesn't he? [1615.48] Jae: Fraser, if you're listening in or even if you're not, [1617.8] Jae: I hope you'll be getting more soon. [1619.16] Frank: Yeah, please do. [1621.28] Frank: Out. [1622.12] Frank: Yeah, look after yourself. [1624.24] Jae: Well-being, yes. [1625.68] Jae: Yes. [1627.48] Jae: Yeah, no, it should be a good event. [1629.92] Jae: So let's hope the weather holds up for it. [1634.08] Frank: A few days ago, and it said it was gonna be like [1636.76] Frank: 18, 20 degrees, bright sunshine. [1639.84] Frank: And then I just- [1640.68] Frank: And it still is. [1641.68] Frank: Yeah. [1642.52] Tony: Just leave it. [1643.36] Tony: That's all we need to know. [1644.2] Frank: I'm not looking again. [1645.4] Frank: I don't know. [1646.24] Frank: No, no, no, you did tell me. [1647.08] Frank: I'm gonna think differently. [1648.96] Tony: It's gonna be fine. [1651.16] Tony: Carlos, do you bring in your, any night flying stuff [1655.12] Tony: like you did to- [1657.68] Tony: Okay, yeah. [1659.36] Tony: Oh, please. [1660.8] Tony: Did you include a wing? [1665.96] Frank: Oh, that was really good, yeah. [1667.8] Frank: At summers, yeah. [1669.08] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: The night wing, going off and exploring the, [1673.44] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: what was it, like kites in the distance? [1678.28] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Yeah, definitely, I can bring something, for sure. [1681.64] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: I'm thinking about, I've got given it. [1685.28] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Sorry. [1687.12] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Just get super cold at night, [1688.48] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: like when you're flying, you start freezing. [1691.12] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Maybe I can fly from the tent. [1693.8] Jae: Maybe fly next to one of those gas torch heaters. [1698.2] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [1699.72] Jae: As in, that's the pilot's circle, correct the line. [1702.4] Jae: And only if you're flying, or due to fly, [1704.44] Jae: can you go in that circle. [1706.08] NJ: Another good reason for us to build a track [1708.04] NJ: with fire gates. [1709.64] Jae: Yeah, well, that's good. [1712.32] Frank: Just put a petrol over on the gates. [1714.4] Tony: I think that's for a summer event. [1716.44] Jae: That might be for a summer event, [1718.72] Jae: but it's not planned. [1719.96] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Because it's a night course. [1724.88] Jae: A night course. [1725.72] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Like a night course track, yeah. [1727.76] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Yeah, I mean, LEDs are possible. [1730.48] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: It's not, you don't even need LEDs for the gates. [1732.68] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: There's something that always people, [1734.28] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: people always say, like they go through the hardest route, [1737.52] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: which is like, oh, LEDs over everything. [1740.28] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: You kind of just need little bits of LEDs in the track, [1744.92] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: and a little torch pointed at the gate. [1748.72] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: That's it. [1749.56] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Oh, yeah, to light it up, yeah. [1751.68] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Well, it'll be light up. [1753.2] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: And you kind of just need it on one side, [1754.72] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: because the other side won't happen. [1757.64] Jae: No. [1758.8] Jae: Does the dog go as well through the night gates [1762.08] Jae: as what it does during the day gate? [1763.64] Jae: Definitely. [1766.36] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: The dog is relentless. [1768.24] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: He loves the quotes, and he knows what it is. [1771.12] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Like when we're flying on the field, [1773.76] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: and it's the dog walker that comes with a ton of dogs. [1778.52] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: That dog gets free from his leash, [1781.88] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: and just runs to us, and sits, and watches us. [1785.52] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: And if I grab a quote, he's like, ah, go for it. [1788.52] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Go for it. [1789.0] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Go for it. [1789.64] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: And if I put the quote down, he's like, uh. [1791.8] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: And then he starts looking at the, at Rick, [1793.72] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: which is Rick often flies with me, [1796.44] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: until one of us goes up in the air, [1798.44] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: and then he just runs mental back and forth in the field [1803.48] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: that we're flying. [1805.56] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Like shouting at the drone. [1808.56] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: And the dog walker comes by, and he's like, oh, yeah, yeah. [1811.08] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: I told the owner to buy a drone, because he loves it. [1813.4] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: He just goes crazy. [1816.24] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: And then when we land, it kind of just sits. [1820.16] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: And the dog, the person that's taking the dogs walking, [1824.28] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: he's trying to get it, and he doesn't want to. [1826.28] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: He just runs away, always looking at us, just waiting. [1829.36] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Go, go, go. [1831.92] NJ: That's cool. [1833.8] NJ: Some dogs, I'm sure we all know this, [1836.6] NJ: that some dogs have absolutely no interest in the drones, [1840.12] NJ: and others just love it. [1843.08] NJ: Won't relentlessly chase it for the full three minutes. [1847.08] Jae: Dog exercising, yeah. [1851.6] Jae: They're the ones that don't like them, [1853.12] Jae: don't have a fuss about them, because it means that they. [1858.08] NJ: So Carlos, let me ask you, what is your current build? [1862.84] NJ: Any new favorite things you've added to it recently, [1865.2] NJ: or have you been running the same build for a while? [1868.04] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: A build? [1868.76] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: I don't know if I can show this. [1874.86] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: The pile there. [1877.58] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Wow. [1878.86] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: It's a drone pile. [1882.34] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: There's no way around. [1883.66] Jae: The pile. [1884.86] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: No, no, that's just the pile. [1886.46] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Where's the graveyard? [1888.42] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: The graveyard. [1889.34] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Well, I kind of have a couple here on the sides to rebuild, [1894.5] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: but there's a few drawers that are the graveyard. [1898.38] NJ: What's your favorite, you got a favorite flight controller, [1903.38] NJ: or ESC motor, or anything that you think [1905.94] NJ: always goes in your builds you've noticed, [1907.94] NJ: or has it changed a lot? [1910.14] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Yes. [1910.78] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Well, lately, I've been using the Betaflight F3, [1916.26] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: just because I'm a big user for TVS unifying. [1923.74] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: You can connect the Betaflight F3 flight controller directly [1931.26] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: to the unify, and just change the channels through it. [1936.82] NJ: Yeah, smart audio. [1937.9] NJ: Yeah, it's very useful in that. [1939.7] NJ: And it's nice and low profile, that board. [1942.78] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Yeah, yeah, and it has a PDB included. [1945.14] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: So all my race quads now have that, [1949.14] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: because it gets easier to change during the race. [1950.98] NJ: Excellent. [1951.38] NJ: Yeah, I must give one of those a go. [1952.74] NJ: I think I might be putting that into one of these quads that's [1955.62] NJ: being built and try it out. [1958.74] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: But I have a big problem. [1963.3] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: I'm going to admit it online. [1965.26] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: That's the first step, right? [1967.9] Jae: There's a few things have been announced, but not your problem. [1971.1] Jae: So please, please. [1973.38] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Well, my problem is I have too many quads, [1977.3] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: and I always build, I build two of each, always, [1981.3] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: like whatever it is, like two microquads, to night quads, [1990.8] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: to freestyle quads, to racing quads, to everything [1996.72] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: has to be twos, because I found that. [1999.12] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: So that means that everything, something always needs to be repaired. [2006.16] Jae: Yeah, it's a good philosophy. [2007.56] Jae: You know, there is someone that shares the same philosophy. [2009.96] Jae: His name's Clinton, but hopefully he's going to have it. [2014.44] NJ: Clinton's like three or four of every quad, isn't it? [2016.76] Jae: Well, no, that's because he replaces a couple of them. [2018.88] Jae: It ends up three or four total cost. [2020.76] Jae: But I guess when you're buying parts, I think fair enough, [2025.44] Jae: a frame and a build, you actually build two whole ones, [2028.24] Jae: or do you just buy the bits to build a whole? [2030.44] Jae: Yeah, two whole quads, yeah. [2032.76] NJ: You build two whole quads. [2033.68] NJ: I think it really makes sense for racing, though, doesn't it? [2036.04] NJ: Because the most downtime you can't afford, you know, [2039.32] NJ: you want to plug in the next one and go. [2041.8] Jae: I wouldn't pay for freestyle events if we had freestyle events. [2044.52] Jae: But, no. [2047.28] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: No, I have two freestyles as well, yes. [2049.64] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Two freestyle events. [2051.4] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: I have three. [2052.72] Tony: Is there any drag racing at the Mini Air Show? [2056.8] Frank: We haven't planned anything, but I'm [2058.64] Frank: sure there could be on the Sunday. [2062.76] Jae: As in, I think you can. [2065.68] Jae: In fact, Martin from Fossil Stuff has a speed camera, [2069.16] Jae: doesn't he? [2070.2] Jae: Maybe arrange something for the Sunday. [2071.72] Jae: I meant the possible bike. [2072.8] Tony: I have a speed camera, already has a speed stop. [2075.08] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: So, actually, Glint has contacted me for this exact thing. [2081.8] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Oh, you got one. [2082.6] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Drag race. [2083.92] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Because, yeah, I have one, and mine is rigged. [2087.04] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Because once, yeah, it's very important. [2091.2] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Because why don't you want to do a drag race? [2097.24] Frank: Because you have to stand there and have drones flying at you [2101.6] Frank: at high speed, and that's not good. [2103.8] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Who wants to be like, oh my god, please don't kill me. [2107.96] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: So, I tied a servo to my speed gun, [2112.28] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: and I can just remotely beep. [2116.0] Tony: Maybe we should bring your one, then. [2119.08] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Yeah, yeah. [2120.0] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: What we should do is ask me if I could bring it, [2122.56] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: but then it didn't. [2124.64] NJ: What we should do is, in that case, [2126.36] NJ: use your servo-triggered speed gun. [2129.12] NJ: Put it on a giant inflatable doll, [2131.2] NJ: but its head is a big gate, and you [2133.76] NJ: have to fly straight through the head of this giant doll [2136.36] NJ: with the speed gun. [2137.48] NJ: I'll put it all tussed out in my head. [2139.08] NJ: It'll be brilliant. [2139.8] NJ: You know what I did there. [2142.36] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: I was testing, so I like to test a lot of things. [2147.24] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: And the latest thing I was testing [2149.12] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: was how fast your quads really go. [2153.16] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: And it was incredible, really. [2155.08] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: I got really different results, like something like this. [2159.0] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: This is a 4-inch, what, right? [2161.68] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: And it has a silly motors from E-motor, a 2007 PB. [2167.96] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: But it's only an 1806, and it runs only 4-inch. [2172.28] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: How fast do you think something like this could go? [2176.44] NJ: What KV is doing, how much does it weigh? [2179.56] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: 2,500, and it weighs 200 grams. [2182.04] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: But it does 4-inch. [2184.88] Jae: I mean, they can scream, can't they? [2186.08] Jae: What KV? [2186.56] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: 80. [2187.44] Jae: What KV? [2189.28] Jae: 2,500. [2190.04] Jae: 2,500. [2190.84] Jae: Oh, I'm sorry, yeah. [2192.24] Tony: 80, eight miles an hour, and then it does it again. [2197.4] Frank: In a trail of fire. [2200.0] Jae: Oh, no, it deafened everything in shattered windows [2201.76] Jae: as it screamed, and it just belivered. [2205.44] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: It actually doesn't scream that much, [2207.0] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: but I was curious to find out that this goes faster [2211.44] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: than my racing work. [2213.48] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: So this little thing goes at 92 miles an hour. [2217.96] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Wow. [2218.76] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Not just about 92 miles an hour. [2221.28] NJ: Well, there'll be a high power to weight on something like that, [2223.8] NJ: and there'll also be less drag being slightly smaller, [2227.64] NJ: and smaller props. [2228.56] NJ: The props create a lot of drag vortices, [2230.92] NJ: so that's probably a lot to do with it. [2233.0] NJ: But maybe that's the future of the fast races, [2235.72] NJ: go for the small 4-inch. [2238.36] Jae: But then this ultimately brings back the class size, [2242.08] Jae: the size of the glass that you're flying in, [2243.56] Jae: because the gate at that size is much easier. [2246.0] Jae: You can scream towards it and turn much later. [2249.36] Jae: So, yeah. [2250.96] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: 92, have you ever flown at those speeds? [2255.24] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: No, I'm just saying. [2256.36] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: You're holding on for your life. [2257.88] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: You know, there's a gate. [2259.44] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: You're like, oh, gate by. [2261.92] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: There was a gate there, I think. [2263.36] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: I saw it. [2264.28] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: I'm not quite sure. [2265.76] Tony: You know, your fighter, he's just flying a 3-inch. [2271.04] Tony: Very, very fast, and beat most 5-inch quads. [2275.36] NJ: Yeah? [2276.76] NJ: Yes, it's highly possible. [2279.56] NJ: The 130 I have, it's not as if the lap times on that [2284.92] NJ: are miles behind the 5-inch quads. [2288.56] NJ: Yeah, it's kind of interesting. [2290.52] NJ: Yeah, there probably does need to be some real class [2293.76] NJ: separation, because they all have their pros and cons that [2296.44] NJ: make them unique enough to stay within their own class. [2300.8] NJ: Yeah, it'd be good to see that. [2301.92] NJ: You're going to bring that with you to the show, Carlos. [2304.28] NJ: I wouldn't mind seeing that. [2306.2] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Yeah, yeah, I can bring one. [2307.52] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: And I have an even one with even sealier motors, [2311.6] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: like 22 or 5 motors, running 4-inch. [2316.56] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: It's crazy. [2318.16] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: And that one did 98 miles an hour. [2322.92] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: It weighs like 230 grams, which is ceiling 4 quads. [2328.81] Tony: Paperweight. [2331.45] Tony: They're saying 250 is the best weight. [2336.13] Tony: 3-inch with 41,000 KU, the 850 milliamp hour 4x battery [2343.97] NJ: is the new thing. [2347.17] NJ: That is the one that sold me exactly that specification, [2349.85] NJ: Tony. [2350.37] NJ: And I kind of just didn't even care about 130s. [2355.61] NJ: To the point where I was sent the 130, this was probably [2359.77] NJ: back in November, I was sent one. [2361.45] NJ: And it kind of sat on the shelf. [2362.81] NJ: And I kept thinking, oh, I've got to review it. [2364.25] NJ: I've got to get around to doing it, [2365.29] NJ: because it's been sent over for me to look at. [2367.41] NJ: And I just left it, because I thought [2368.97] NJ: it was going to be pretty rubbish. [2370.49] NJ: And still, to this day, it is the most fun flying machine. [2374.81] NJ: And I mean fun. [2375.89] NJ: It's not the fastest. [2376.77] NJ: It's not the most powerful. [2378.13] NJ: But it is so much fun. [2379.77] NJ: And you can freestyle in the tiniest gaps [2382.69] NJ: and have such a blast with it. [2383.89] NJ: And it handles great. [2384.89] NJ: So, yeah, 130s, I think they're really coming into their own. [2389.53] Jae: When you were building that that night [2390.93] Jae: and bending the wires around the arms, [2392.69] Jae: because they wouldn't fit in a certain way, [2394.89] Jae: I never thought it'd actually be a stay-up for you. [2397.93] NJ: No, it's such a pig to build, because they're just [2400.49] NJ: so tiny to work on. [2402.05] NJ: But because they're that bit lighter, [2405.37] NJ: and there's such a small amount of inertia in the quad [2407.89] NJ: when it hits stuff, nothing breaks. [2409.81] NJ: Props don't break. [2411.37] NJ: The antenna doesn't break. [2412.93] NJ: It just sort of bounces off whatever it hits. [2414.85] NJ: And then you just pick it up and fly again. [2417.49] NJ: There's an argument, I think, for everyone to own a 130. [2421.29] NJ: I can't explain it until you get one, build it, and fly it. [2423.97] NJ: And then you'll come back and say, yeah, you're absolutely [2425.81] NJ: right. [2426.33] NJ: It's a total fun machine. [2427.53] Jae: It's also like there's a dead tree where we fly. [2430.73] Jae: And it's on its side. [2432.05] Jae: So there's lots of gaps and things to fly through. [2434.17] Jae: And you can do it with a big one. [2435.45] Jae: But you can't be as adventurous. [2437.29] Jae: And also, you don't want to break as much. [2439.09] Jae: So actually, they truly have their right. [2442.37] NJ: The other thing, I think, as well that's [2444.25] NJ: good about the 130s, like the one that I've been playing [2448.57] NJ: with, is because they don't quite have the same bottom end [2452.13] NJ: grunt that a 5-inch propeller will have, [2454.61] NJ: you have to be a lot better with your throttle management. [2458.33] NJ: And that's a really good thing to learn as a pilot anyway. [2461.49] NJ: So when you're coming out the bottom of power loops, [2463.49] NJ: you can't just brute force your way out of it. [2465.81] NJ: Because the prop size just won't give you the grunt. [2469.25] NJ: How much KV you're running, it will sink. [2472.77] NJ: So you really have to smooth out and work [2474.97] NJ: on your throttle maneuvers. [2476.13] NJ: And it makes you a better pilot, I think. [2478.65] NJ: And there's a lot of pluses to it. [2482.09] NJ: Yeah, big fan. [2485.36] Tony: MATTOS. [2486.36] Tony: MATTOS have got some nice little quads coming out. [2489.44] Tony: Have you seen any of them? [2490.88] Tony: They have. [2491.4] Jae: I've seen MJ's thing. [2493.92] Jae: They look sweet. [2495.16] Jae: Have you built yours yet, MJ? [2496.84] NJ: Well, I'm waiting on Mr. I-Drone there [2499.12] NJ: to send me over a couple of delicious tornado motors. [2503.92] NJ: When they arrive, I'll do a build video on the 136R. [2508.12] NJ: And John, one of the ATTO designers, [2512.4] NJ: has done a great job with that quad. [2514.04] NJ: It's super light. [2515.12] NJ: And the videos that he's put up of his build [2517.76] NJ: is making me even more excited to build this thing [2520.36] NJ: and get it going. [2521.4] NJ: So yeah, hopefully, fairly soon, I'll do a build video [2525.52] NJ: and then lots of flight footage on the, oh, there you go. [2528.92] NJ: Neil's just said, leaving tomorrow, mate. [2530.64] NJ: Now I'm even more excited. [2532.2] NJ: But yeah, great, great little frame. [2535.28] Tony: What was she going to show us, Carlos? [2538.16] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: I've been flying this. [2539.44] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: So this is an Aurora 90, which lost a motor. [2544.68] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Believe it or not, this was keeping up [2546.84] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: with a 5-inch racing one in the train. [2553.48] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: But on straights and turns, it's fine. [2559.16] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: As soon as I need to dive, as MJ was saying, it goes. [2564.92] NJ: Yeah, that's where the power, oh, the thrust [2567.4] NJ: starts bottoming out. [2568.56] NJ: So yeah, I just think it's great for teaching you [2572.32] NJ: to really smooth out your maneuvers [2573.96] NJ: and think about how you're going to approach something [2576.6] NJ: because you've got a set amount of power to work with. [2580.84] NJ: So yeah, you know. [2583.04] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: But I found that I was racing this on the high throttle [2587.92] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: all the time. [2589.32] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: That's probably why the motor went give up. [2591.52] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: So now I'm building another one. [2595.96] NJ: Was you Boris? [2596.96] NJ: That's really tiny. [2598.24] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: How was you Boris? [2600.28] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: This is 2S, and it's going to be 3S. [2606.28] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Wow. [2607.0] NJ: Yeah, I've got one of those Aurora 90s, [2608.76] NJ: which I've yet to finish. [2610.68] NJ: But it's running on 2S. [2612.72] NJ: Is that what your one's running on? [2614.32] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: 2S, yeah. [2615.28] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: You can run it on 3S. [2616.6] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: All the components allow for 3S. [2618.24] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: But you need to change the motors, otherwise I wouldn't [2620.2] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: recommend it. [2620.68] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Just right. [2621.2] NJ: So are those the 10,000 or the 8,000 KVs? [2624.56] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: No, the ones that I have are the 7,000 to 5,000. [2627.88] NJ: Yeah, I see. [2628.4] NJ: I think that's a better KV. [2630.0] NJ: I've got one that was sent to me as a bit of an earlier model. [2633.04] NJ: And the components that they gave me, [2634.84] NJ: they gave me the 10,000 KVs, which I don't think [2637.16] NJ: is a very good match. [2638.08] NJ: They're too high. [2639.32] NJ: So I'm expecting the motors to bog quite heavily. [2642.48] NJ: So I might strip it down to get it lighter [2644.84] NJ: and see if that will compensate. [2647.6] NJ: Yeah, it looks like a fun quad. [2650.96] Jae: You know, we've got quite a busy chat room tonight, guys. [2653.4] Jae: And I feel we haven't actually given any shout out so far, [2655.72] Jae: really. [2656.24] Jae: But we've got our regulars at Mr. Thrush, Derwin, [2658.68] Jae: and Stryker, and we've got GMAC FPV in there [2661.52] Jae: who makes a funny hit of the videos. [2663.24] Jae: And other ones about that. [2664.88] Jae: Did anyone see? [2665.8] Jae: And this is one of my favorite videos, [2667.48] Jae: was the one that you did with the toast. [2669.8] Tony: Yes, toast. [2672.6] Jae: Loved it. [2674.12] Jae: Stay frosty. [2675.08] Jae: Hobo, we've got Chris in there. [2676.72] Jae: There's loads of people. [2677.72] Jae: So thank you all for tuning in. [2679.2] Jae: We've got Clegga, Nick Truss. [2681.72] Jae: It's such a busy night. [2682.72] Tony: It's a nice chat room. [2684.04] Tony: Wow. [2686.52] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Look what you do, Carlos. [2687.48] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: You bring everyone to the show. [2688.8] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: I know. [2689.32] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: I'm a big star. [2690.76] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Big star. [2694.2] Jae: No, it's good to have people in there. [2698.3] NJ: So have you still got the least of them, Carlos? [2702.02] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Dude, I do. [2703.62] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: It gave out on me, suddenly. [2705.34] NJ: No, because I really want one of those. [2707.18] NJ: They look good fan. [2708.5] Jae: Carlos, nice day, isn't it, really? [2711.38] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Carlos, nice day. [2712.22] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Carlos, nice day. [2713.18] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: I think I have a bit of PewDiePie now, as well. [2715.74] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: So it's like a good time. [2718.9] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: You're absorbing all the other YouTubers out there. [2721.06] Jae: I'm absorbing them. [2724.06] Jae: Actually, you know, there's sometimes, though. [2725.78] Jae: I'll tell you one thing. [2726.62] Jae: It's a style and a time for a thing. [2728.14] Jae: And to copy these styles and things, they work. [2731.3] Jae: They formulate how they work. [2732.74] Jae: And people want to see this thing. [2734.38] Jae: So it's good. [2736.02] Jae: And how do you find in vlogging? [2739.06] Jae: Have you always vlogged? [2739.98] Jae: Because your old videos weren't vlogging. [2743.58] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: No, my older videos. [2745.18] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Well, the thing is that I really just started proper YouTube. [2752.66] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Yeah, proper YouTube, a few months back. [2754.94] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Because, you know, like, I don't know, [2758.98] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: two months before Christmas, I would say. [2762.22] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Because before, much like Andrew was saying, [2767.78] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: you don't really think about this. [2769.26] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: But when you're posting videos online, you're like, oh, you know, [2772.5] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: it's just whoever sees them sees them. [2774.62] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: You don't really care. [2775.38] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Just post so you can have a memory of it later on. [2778.9] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: And then you think, oh, maybe I'll post something. [2781.14] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: And it'll go viral. [2782.1] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: And then I'll be super well-known. [2784.06] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: And everybody will love. [2785.94] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: But in real life, things don't quite work that way. [2790.34] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: And if you happen to hit a hit, it's very hard to then repeat [2794.22] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: that formula and keep repeating that formula. [2796.66] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: So I actually went to a workshop. [2802.3] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: And the guy that was talking was actually surprisingly good. [2807.14] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: And he taught me, like, he showed me. [2808.98] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: It's like super obvious things that no one ever thinks about. [2814.14] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: But once you hear them, you're like, of course, I'm an idiot. [2819.26] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: But these things actually made me change my channel [2822.62] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: into something a bit more serious and consistent. [2826.42] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: And yeah, that's why I'm there. [2828.42] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: The Carlitos show. [2831.14] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: It's not just about the show. [2833.14] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: It's a little bit consistent in having stuff [2835.06] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: that people can watch. [2839.26] Jae: The thing is, you can actually have many YouTube channels [2841.18] Jae: anyway. [2841.66] Jae: You can have different ones you can have to start up. [2844.78] Jae: Because just to let everyone know, [2846.22] Jae: if you want to find Carlos's videos, [2848.02] Jae: you can go to youtube.com slash seek, S-W-E-K, N-D, F-P-V, [2855.14] Jae: is it? [2856.54] Jae: I think it will put the chat in the link in the chat room, [2860.1] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: actually. [2866.58] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: I seek and, no, he's in the F-P-V. [2871.0] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Put the mirror in your screen, and it should be on the screen. [2874.84] Jae: Yeah, there we go. [2875.84] Jae: I've already seen it. [2876.84] Jae: So yeah, YouTube. [2883.02] Jae: I mean, one of your famous YouTubers, [2884.58] Jae: we're still trying to get on this show. [2886.3] Jae: And maybe one day, Tom Smith. [2889.74] Jae: What do you say? [2891.46] Jae: Yeah, but he's gone from one that was actually very [2894.26] Jae: entertaining and actually playing into a lot [2896.02] Jae: of the camera and things, and quite funny things, [2899.06] Jae: like holding a picnic black coupe with a stick. [2901.38] Jae: I loved it. [2901.98] Jae: But he's then gone to the other way of just saying, [2904.78] Jae: I'm just flying. [2905.34] Jae: Let the flying speak for itself, which I value as well. [2910.54] Jae: It's not easy to always know what the audience want, [2913.02] Jae: and also cater to the audience for what they want. [2916.38] Jae: He shouts a lot. [2920.38] Jae: But when he's flying? [2922.18] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: No, when he's on his vlogs. [2924.1] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: He's like, y'all, that's one of them. [2928.42] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: You're what? [2929.42] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Yeah, I did a video, and I went and asked him on F-P-V stances. [2936.78] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: And it was like, and I had a friend helping me recording. [2940.94] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: It was just stupid stuff. [2943.7] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: And one of the stances was the Tom Smith stance. [2948.26] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: And when I say F-P-V stances, you normally [2951.26] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: stand up to fly, or sit down, or crouch, or whatever. [2956.3] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: So the Tom Smith stance was me on top of, it was so dangerous. [2963.5] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: I can't tell you. [2964.38] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: I don't know how this guy flies and doesn't kill him, [2966.86] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: so everything will happen. [2969.26] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: It was me on top of a children's playground. [2974.7] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: And these are those things that the kids climb up. [2977.42] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: This was me, though. [2978.42] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Yeah, Jungkook, whatever. [2980.38] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Standing on top of it. [2982.14] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: And I was actually flying a quad. [2984.02] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: And I was shouting, yeah, I'm just shouting the whole time. [2987.26] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: And it was so, when I finished, like, shit, this is mental. [2991.18] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: I'm going to kill myself. [2992.54] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: And it was windy as well. [2993.66] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: So props to Tom Smith for not dying. [2998.54] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: And I asked him, like, I do that. [2999.82] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: He finally would be posting this. [3001.14] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: And it was fun. [3003.72] Jae: I mean, it's recent videos. [3006.56] Jae: One of my favorite pirates to watch for another speed aspect [3010.6] Jae: of it all, just amazing. [3012.0] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Yeah. [3014.0] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: It should be more crazy, like, about-to-die videos [3016.84] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: that those really take the video. [3022.12] Jae: It's hard to just walk up-and-coming talent [3024.6] Jae: these days, though. [3025.4] Jae: So maybe on one of your shows, you [3027.96] Jae: could start featuring the many up-and-coming names. [3030.92] Jae: Because you're obviously an intimate thing [3032.2] Jae: with all these sort of people. [3034.0] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. [3035.16] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: I agree with him. [3036.72] Jae: Because not everyone wants to put themselves [3038.44] Jae: in front of a camera right there. [3039.36] Jae: That's the truth, you know, not even on a show. [3041.96] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Yeah. [3042.88] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Benny is especially hard to get on camera. [3046.76] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: I was annoyed. [3048.12] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: I'm raised like, dude, shoot something with me. [3051.0] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: And he's like, ignore it. [3056.35] Jae: I'm going. [3061.8] Jae: So, NJ, flying with team Ziplouda. [3065.48] Jae: What's your team name then, Tony, team Fossil? [3069.2] Tony: Yes, but there is only actually three Fossil pilots now. [3074.2] Tony: We've borrowed someone from our Sunday flying. [3079.72] Tony: All our pilots are away that weekend. [3082.32] Jae: So I haven't, you know, I hadn't actually told NJ yet. [3086.28] Jae: They're actually team chameleon now. [3088.0] Jae: And three of them will be, yeah, he's [3089.4] Jae: got to buy a chameleon and build it before next week. [3091.56] Jae: Bah. [3093.16] Jae: They're good friends. [3095.24] Jae: Anyway, that's another complete other discussion. [3097.36] Jae: But team chameleon slash. [3099.76] Jae: Carlos, what's your team? [3100.84] Jae: Do you want to give any shout outs to your team [3102.84] Jae: or your other team? [3105.56] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: It's team KFC. [3113.04] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: I know KFC. [3115.32] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Q-R-R-C something, team three, the power of the chickens. [3122.08] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: I don't remember what else. [3125.04] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: I wonder if this is going to be a team. [3127.04] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Sounds savory. [3131.24] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: I hope Tom says the whole thing. [3133.08] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Not Tom, Tom, sorry. [3136.88] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Is this one commentating? [3138.64] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: He has to say the whole thing. [3139.88] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: I think, well, he sometimes tunes in, you know. [3145.19] Jae: He might be listening. [3146.43] Jae: Who knows? [3149.72] Frank: I think Niall from Rotoracing will be doing quite a bit [3155.24] Frank: of the commentating. [3156.08] Frank: So we'll have to get him like a whole list of all the names. [3160.2] Frank: And you can just imagine. [3162.24] Jae: Yeah, the power of the chicken is coming up. [3167.04] NJ: It sounds like a bizarre horse race, isn't it? [3171.84] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Maybe I have maybe I can take like a chicken suit. [3175.08] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Chicken suit. [3175.72] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: That's what I was thinking. [3176.64] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: That might be your inspiration. [3179.88] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Oh, I have a McDonald's outfit. [3184.36] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Like Ronald McDonald, not the workers outfit. [3188.68] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: I have like a Ronald McDonald, super creepy outfit. [3192.32] NJ: That sounds terrifying. [3194.24] Frank: OK, so the whole long team name I've got written down here [3199.4] Frank: as entered is Kentucky Fried Chicken KQRC Team 3, [3206.2] Frank: the power of the chicken makes you stronger, be the chicken. [3210.16] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: What? [3212.48] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: I think that was a fair name. [3213.8] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Fair name. [3215.8] Jae: Maximum number of characters, yeah. [3217.68] Frank: To squeeze this into the 10 character limit, [3224.24] Frank: it's been squeezed down to Cock-a-doodle. [3228.12] Frank: He's a chicken. [3229.04] Frank: Cock-a-doodle. [3229.64] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Oh, yeah, Cock-a-doodle is the... [3230.96] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Cock-a-doodle, that's clever. [3232.6] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Clever, yeah, I like that. [3234.6] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: It has the word. [3235.92] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: I don't know if you can say it. [3237.52] NJ: We all just need to wear the KFC buckets on your head. [3241.12] Jae: I wonder how many people with this knowledge [3242.96] Jae: are going to make cock noises around the hill. [3249.2] Frank: Have you seen the KFC bucket plane that Peter Sreepo made? [3255.84] Jae: I did, actually, yeah, where it rotates the buckets. [3259.2] Jae: Yeah. [3260.64] Frank: I don't know if I ever saw flying. [3262.96] Frank: That's aerodynamics. [3265.0] Frank: Did it fly? [3265.92] Frank: I think on a board. [3266.72] Frank: It did. [3267.36] Frank: It just was very unstable and fell apart, I think. [3269.92] Frank: But it flew for, like, a good half a battery. [3273.36] Frank: Wow. [3275.64] Jae: Wow. [3276.48] Jae: I'll save a next. [3277.6] Jae: Was that a flight test or something, wasn't it? [3279.56] Frank: No, I think that was just Peter Sreepo's own channel. [3285.68] Frank: Whatever that is now. [3286.92] Frank: It is just Peter Sreepo, I think. [3288.72] Frank: I can't keep up. [3289.88] Jae: I can't keep up with all these channel changes [3291.28] Jae: in different... [3292.16] Jae: I mean, they come up with a recommendation [3293.4] Jae: if you don't see them, but... [3294.4] Jae: How do they look like? [3295.24] Jae: N.J., you're a successful YouTuber. [3298.0] Jae: I'm doing OK. [3299.36] Jae: What... [3300.52] Jae: He finds millions every month. [3302.24] Jae: Oh, my goodness. [3303.44] Jae: God. [3304.32] Jae: Money showers over here. [3306.16] Jae: Sweet feet, the tank of water. [3307.76] Jae: If you check out the car windows, [3309.64] Jae: he's driving along, we'll catch up with you. [3313.2] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: What recommendations do you have for growing channels? [3317.8] NJ: Do you know what? [3318.88] NJ: It's such a hard thing because YouTube... [3322.24] NJ: No one knows the way YouTube's advertising algorithms [3326.88] NJ: and networking algorithms work and catchment areas. [3330.12] NJ: It's such a tricky thing. [3332.04] NJ: I think it's just having some kind of angle. [3337.68] NJ: I think that's what really worked for me [3339.68] NJ: in terms of kick-styling the channel. [3341.16] NJ: So I think the one that sort of took off, [3343.96] NJ: sorry to use the pun, [3345.4] NJ: is when I started doing my Acro series [3348.68] NJ: and I did one that kind of explained [3351.32] NJ: a video called Pop Drop Maneuver Catch, [3353.56] NJ: which was about the basics of popping for your first roll [3358.16] NJ: or your first flip. [3359.92] NJ: I think that one's at about 45,000 views now or something. [3363.4] NJ: That did really well. [3364.72] NJ: And then off the back of that, I started doing more of those [3367.0] NJ: and then eventually, as the channel grew, [3368.64] NJ: I got offers to send stuff for reviews. [3372.44] NJ: So I think it was about having that one angle. [3375.52] NJ: That's what worked for me anyway. [3377.8] NJ: And then just being really, really brutally honest [3380.4] NJ: about stuff you get for review [3382.24] NJ: because if you say everything that's sent to you is brilliant, [3386.0] NJ: people will soon start thinking. [3388.84] NJ: They'll stop respecting your opinion. [3392.68] NJ: So, yeah, I think that's it. It's just having that angle. [3394.76] NJ: And a lot of the guys with the really successful channels, [3398.6] NJ: it's just content. [3399.88] NJ: You just got to keep going because I think I'm now... [3402.92] NJ: I've probably been seriously doing it for about, [3405.76] NJ: I don't know, probably a year and a half now, [3409.12] NJ: maybe a little less than that. [3410.24] NJ: And it's about 104 videos, I think, now, [3413.92] NJ: which doesn't... I don't know if that sounds like a lot for the time. [3416.36] NJ: Probably not. [3418.44] NJ: But, yeah, it's just making sure the content's good [3421.08] NJ: and then being regular, you know, [3422.56] NJ: don't leave people hanging for too long without something. [3425.76] NJ: So it's pretty boring advisory for what's more for me. [3429.44] Jae: From mine, because, I mean, I've had quite a lot of views of mine, [3431.76] Jae: probably more than both of you put together, [3434.0] Jae: as in 1.2 million. [3435.72] Jae: But I've only got 700 subscribers. [3437.92] NJ: All that from Make It Dancing. Unbelievable. [3441.36] Jae: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll tell you, there's some good moves. [3444.52] Jae: Anyway, what I'm saying is, the most popular ones are [3447.2] Jae: how to do something, how to do something. [3449.64] Jae: How to are the ones that people want to see. [3452.2] Jae: It's an education tool that people will think, OK, [3455.24] Jae: so you're like, you know how to live stream. [3457.96] Jae: Things like that, how to do certain things, [3460.64] Jae: get you more views that people will follow. [3462.4] Jae: Because they think, oh, there's other things that's going to come this way. [3465.0] Jae: Like, or if you've enjoyed other reviews or other manoeuvres. [3469.0] NJ: I think there's also, the other thing to bear in mind is that, [3473.48] NJ: I mean, I don't... [3475.36] NJ: I see some YouTubers, I'm not going to name people, [3478.2] NJ: but there are some out there that clickbait a little bit with, [3482.08] NJ: like, oh my God, such and such happened on the thumbnail. [3486.52] NJ: Or, you know, wow, best whatever, question mark. [3489.56] NJ: You know, stuff like that, where you're sort of clickbaiting people [3493.4] NJ: into something that might not actually be relevant. [3496.36] NJ: And that kind of annoys me a bit. [3498.32] NJ: It does work, but for me, I'm kind of trying not... [3501.24] NJ: I don't really want to be like that. [3502.64] NJ: For me, I'm trying to stay focused on being honest [3505.8] NJ: and getting content that people will regularly want to come back to. [3510.0] NJ: But then again, you know, the allure of having a million patron members [3514.08] NJ: and, you know, lots of ad revenue from YouTube. [3517.4] NJ: Because we all love to be doing this full time. [3520.6] NJ: You know, if I could give up what I do and just do the channel, [3523.8] NJ: I'll do it in a heartbeat, because it's something I love, you know. [3527.0] Jae: I'd like to do things in the kitchen. [3528.88] Jae: Yeah, Chris, over at Joe, I quite rarely point it out. [3532.24] Jae: 1.7 million views on how to fry an egg. [3537.64] Jae: How to fry an egg with FPV goggles. [3539.64] Jae: That's what all students say, isn't it? [3545.32] NJ: Yeah, it's interesting. [3548.64] NJ: But I think, like, as Carlos said, synergy. [3550.88] NJ: Sorry to use that terrible American phrase. [3553.96] NJ: But there is something for synergy as well, [3556.16] NJ: just, you know, helping each other out. [3558.08] NJ: You know, like when I fly with Bruno, I drop Bruno in there [3560.72] NJ: and into the video and link channels and try and help people out. [3565.24] NJ: And we all do the same to try and help grow it, I think. [3568.2] NJ: But that's the strength of the community, which is very unique to, I think, [3571.48] NJ: to us as quad people, like we're a unique bunch of people. [3575.28] NJ: We all try and help each other out, [3576.64] NJ: whereas there's lots of other hobbies where the competition causes [3580.76] NJ: quite nasty rivalry, but everyone just sort of gets on in our hobby, [3584.32] NJ: which is why I think it's the best. [3586.32] NJ: For now. [3587.32] NJ: For now. [3588.32] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Is that a threat? [3590.32] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Oh, yeah, isn't it? [3592.32] NJ: Yeah, I've never liked you. [3594.32] Jae: I will steal all of this. [3596.32] Jae: Carlos, we're thinking. [3599.32] NJ: And that's what I want you to think, is what I mean to say. [3602.32] Jae: No, no, Bruno. [3604.32] Jae: The camaraderie, actually, to make sure people can fly energy. [3607.32] Jae: It is actually still quite lucky that that exists. [3610.32] NJ: Yeah, it's awesome. [3611.32] NJ: That's what makes the events awesome as well. [3613.32] NJ: I think everyone just hooks up and shares the experience that we all love. [3618.32] NJ: And it's always good fun. [3621.32] Jae: So the next event where you'll see, hopefully, all of us that are on this call, [3625.32] Jae: I think you're the only uncertain at this moment. [3628.32] NJ: Yeah, it's looking more certain as we go. [3632.32] NJ: So, yeah, fingers crossed. [3634.32] Jae: If you haven't bought tickets and you're not turning up next week, [3637.32] Jae: why not? [3638.32] Jae: You can go over to MinnieAirShow.co.uk and buy tickets there. [3642.32] Jae: I think you were saying, Andrew, for some last-minute events that are still there. [3646.32] Frank: Oh, yeah. [3647.32] Frank: Well, there's still the other one, at least one team, I think. [3650.32] Frank: And then, yeah, it was all the freestyle, single racing, all this kind of thing [3655.32] Frank: that will still be going on way, you know, way, way, way, way. [3661.32] Jae: If you signed up already, you should have got a pilot pack to tell you. [3666.32] Frank: Yeah, the pilot packs have been sent through. [3668.32] Frank: You can also get them on the website on the Competitions and Activities page. [3675.32] Frank: There's the pilot pack for the Rotor Racing event, [3679.32] Frank: and also the pilot pack for the freestyle is up on there as well. [3683.32] Frank: So that's MinnieAirShow.co.uk, and then click on Fly, [3688.32] Frank: and there's Competitions and Activities. [3691.32] NJ: Is Egg and Spoon going to be a thing? [3694.32] NJ: Sorry? [3695.32] NJ: Egg and Spoon going to be a thing, because that was very funny last time. [3698.32] NJ: Egg and Spoon, hopefully. [3699.32] Tony: That's just an Eldinger exclusive, I think. [3703.32] NJ: Well, Ektras was kind of smashed out in the park [3706.32] NJ: on the Egg and Spoon stuff, didn't he? [3708.32] Jae: On the flips, but Tony's the VEG star. [3711.32] NJ: Yes, he did win the races. [3714.32] NJ: He won the whole lap. [3716.32] Jae: And the bizarre twist, I actually got a free exchange cheese sandwich [3719.32] Jae: from that whole thing as well. [3724.32] Jae: It's hand-delivered. [3726.32] Jae: It's hand-delivered? [3727.32] Jae: Well, hand-delivered. [3729.32] Jae: Next time, drone-delivered, that's for sure. [3731.32] Jae: Drone-delivered, yeah. [3733.32] Jae: Actually, we have actually delivered biscuits to Bright Until I Fly, Jack. [3737.32] Jae: I don't know if he's in the chat room this week. [3739.32] Tony: I haven't seen him. [3741.32] Jae: He might have been earlier, but yeah, I think we need to do stuff. [3744.32] Jae: We need to take the lead, really, at MinnieAirShow [3747.32] Jae: to start delivering food to hungry campers that are out in the field. [3752.32] Jae: Now, I don't know how that's going to happen. [3754.32] Jae: I don't know about safety and stuff, but we need to make it happen. [3757.32] Jae: I have a quad that does that. [3759.32] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Dary, what's that called? [3760.32] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: I have a quad that does that. [3762.32] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Wow, are you going to bring it? [3763.32] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: The parachute. [3765.32] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Yeah, I can. [3766.32] Jae: There is actually, I mean, just so you know, if you weren't aware, [3769.32] Jae: there is a wacky build and stuff, isn't there not? [3771.32] Frank: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [3772.32] Frank: Yes, yeah, there's the wacky build and the tidy build. [3777.32] Jae: Is there any small children we'll be able to carry up on a drone yet? [3780.32] Frank: I'm sure we'll find some. [3782.32] Frank: They'll be wandering through. [3784.32] Frank: We'll just grab them to mental quads. [3786.32] Jae: I think the sheeps out there have had too much stress lately, [3788.32] Jae: so we'll just go for humans. [3790.32] Frank: Yeah, yeah, definitely. [3793.32] NJ: I think the tidy build will have to be done at the very first event [3799.32] NJ: because the tidy builds might not all be there by the last event. [3802.32] Frank: Yeah, we've said that the tidiest builds that will be, [3806.32] Frank: while everything is kind of getting going on the racing, [3810.32] Frank: there's not, yeah, we're not having to have pieces put back together for that. [3816.32] Jae: And management, have you got any tips at all? [3819.32] Jae: I mean, it may be in the pilot pack or I have to be involved yet. [3823.32] Frank: As everywhere, it will be 25 milliwatt raceband, [3828.32] Frank: so don't turn on if you don't know what you're doing. [3833.32] Frank: Make sure that you're on the right frequency. [3836.32] Frank: Quite a lot of people are getting unifies [3840.32] Frank: and that sort of thing. [3841.32] Frank: They've got the pit mode and got smart audio and stuff, [3845.32] Frank: so they can deal with that easily. [3847.32] Frank: But you don't need the more convenient, [3851.32] Frank: but make sure that you can do raceband 25 milliwatts. [3855.32] Jae: For any tramp owners of tramps, and that's the PTX, not any other type, [3860.32] Jae: are we going to be able to do the ones that are there? [3864.32] Jae: Are they going to be able to set them with the one setting? [3866.32] Jae: I have no idea how... [3869.32] Jae: I don't know. [3871.32] Jae: It is something very stressful. [3874.32] Jae: It's hard to mention frequencies at these events, [3877.32] Jae: so please be able to make sure you can change your frequencies [3880.32] Jae: or to check your fail safes well before you turn up. [3883.32] Jae: Yep. [3886.32] Frank: To check your fail safe, [3889.32] Frank: because this isn't always clear for people who haven't done it before. [3893.32] Frank: Take your props off, number one. [3896.32] Frank: Number two, turn everything on. [3899.32] Frank: Your transmitter and your quad. [3902.32] Frank: Get the motors running up and then turn your radio off. [3905.32] Frank: That's exactly what I was going to say. [3907.32] Frank: If your motors don't stop immediately, [3910.32] Frank: then you've done something wrong [3912.32] Frank: and you need to fix it before you come to the event. [3915.32] Jae: 100% concur. That is the way. [3918.32] Jae: If you missed that, just watch this episode back again. [3921.32] Jae: Yep. [3923.32] Tony: The Scottish lot are only doing tramp PTX. [3929.32] Tony: They're not allowing anything in their race. [3932.32] Tony: If you haven't got a tramp, you're not writing. [3935.32] Jae: For which one, sorry? [3937.32] Tony: Scottish nationals, I believe. [3940.32] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Really? [3942.32] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: I think they're trying to make FPV races great again. [3953.32] Tony: They're just trying to make it easier, I suppose. [3955.32] Tony: I mean, for the race director just to wave a wand over your quad. [3959.32] Tony: I mean, I'd prefer it. [3961.32] Frank: Yeah, I think it's the guys that are running it. [3963.32] Frank: I've had some experience of doing it that way [3966.32] Frank: and it's worked really well for them. [3968.32] Frank: Hopefully, it scales up well to having lots of people. [3971.32] Jae: I guess the one thing is, [3973.32] Jae: don't rely on somebody else being able to set it [3975.32] Jae: or don't rely on the radio. [3976.32] Jae: Make sure you can set it in the worst-case scenario [3978.32] Jae: without its radio scripts or whatever. [3981.32] Jae: Make sure you can set what is there. [3983.32] Jae: Because sometimes you'll have to swap between PTXs. [3986.32] Jae: You may only have a five-minute window. [3988.32] Jae: So if you need to look up codes and stuff, [3990.32] Jae: it's a bit too late. [3991.32] Jae: You need to have everything ready to change. [3994.32] NJ: And don't just think. [3996.32] NJ: Don't think of codes in terms of band and number. [3999.32] NJ: You need to know your code. [4001.32] NJ: 1-5-7-40. [4003.32] NJ: 5-7-40 is the number. [4005.32] Jae: Yeah. [4006.32] Jae: Everyone just likes to spin it out. [4008.32] Jae: Yeah, 1-5-7-40. [4009.32] Jae: What band is it? [4010.32] Jae: I don't know. [4011.32] NJ: Bands and numbers, they're meaningless. [4014.32] NJ: It's the actual, what it is in Megahertz, [4016.32] NJ: the 5-7-40 is the important bit [4019.32] NJ: or whatever your particular number is. [4022.32] NJ: Because if you look at it in terms of bands, [4024.32] NJ: a lot of these will cross over each other. [4026.32] NJ: They're not all done out in a big, long, straight line. [4029.32] NJ: They're all parallel to each other, [4031.32] NJ: and they've all got spaces between them. [4033.32] NJ: And that's how you have to think of them. [4035.32] NJ: So know your number. [4037.32] NJ: The best thing to do is to print it out [4042.59] NJ: and just stick it to your battery box, [4044.59] NJ: just so you've got it there [4045.59] NJ: so you can look up exactly the frequency. [4047.59] Jae: If you really can look it up, [4048.59] Jae: make sure you've got someone with you [4050.59] Jae: that can do it for you. [4051.59] Jae: Because the race we're going to... [4054.59] Tony: I need to bring someone with me. [4059.59] Jae: At least you're honest, Tony. [4060.59] Jae: Thanks for being so honest. [4062.59] Tony: It's dyslexia, mate. [4063.59] Tony: It just gets in the way. [4066.59] Jae: That would explain it. [4068.59] Jae: So if you do suffer from dyslexia, [4070.59] Jae: maybe also find Tony. [4072.59] Jae: He'll have somebody else there anyway [4073.59] Jae: to help you out as well. [4077.59] Jae: It should be fun. [4078.59] Jae: Last year, there was a mix of people [4080.59] Jae: and big credit to road racing. [4083.59] Jae: They kind of had people that... [4085.59] Jae: Obviously, they knew they were the new parts [4087.59] Jae: by the speed they were going around. [4088.59] Jae: And if they missed the odd gate and stuff, [4090.59] Jae: they'd still count a lap. [4091.59] Jae: It wasn't quite the same, [4092.59] Jae: but they were making sure the pro pilots, [4094.59] Jae: who should know what they're doing, [4096.59] Jae: they were much stricter on governing their race, [4099.59] Jae: to make sure they're passing through gates and stuff. [4101.59] Jae: So the important thing is to have fun [4103.59] Jae: and then we will be people [4104.59] Jae: that may have never even raced before. [4106.59] Jae: Actually, NJ has never even raced before, [4108.59] Jae: so go easy on the other face. [4110.59] NJ: Race fudging. [4111.59] NJ: Let's see what happens. [4112.59] Tony: You've been fine on singing. [4114.59] NJ: Yeah, you've been fine. [4116.59] NJ: I was working. [4117.59] NJ: I know. [4118.59] NJ: It'll be the tortoise technique, I think. [4119.59] NJ: Keep it clean and make it round the track [4122.59] NJ: and let everyone up front crash out. [4124.59] Jae: Yeah. [4125.59] Jae: Well, don't forget we've got... [4126.59] Jae: Look up, just hold everyone. [4127.59] Tony: It's going to happen. [4129.59] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: One thing I can tell you is that [4131.59] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: when you go into a race, [4133.59] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: you race at like 30% skill, if that. [4137.59] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: It feels like someone has got into your quad [4140.59] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: and changed all the settings, [4141.59] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: even if you feel like 15 minutes before. [4144.59] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: When the first race is, [4145.59] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: if you're like, [4146.59] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: what the hell is wrong with this? [4148.59] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: I can't explain it. [4149.59] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Why? [4150.59] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: I guess you're nervous. [4151.59] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: It's probably the bad vibes. [4152.59] Jae: It's the bad vibes, man. [4153.59] Jae: They're interfering with the radio waves, you know what I mean? [4160.59] Jae: It'll be fun. [4161.59] Jae: It's hair-raising, but fun. [4162.59] Jae: Stressful. [4164.59] Jae: I know there's a few people coming all the way down [4166.59] Jae: from Scotland to next week's event. [4168.59] Jae: There is. [4169.59] Frank: Yeah. [4170.59] Jae: Definitely. [4172.59] Frank: I think some of them are even in the chat, [4174.59] Frank: so how are you guys looking forward to seeing next week's event? [4178.59] NJ: Yeah, amazing work. [4179.59] NJ: That's quite the drive. [4181.59] NJ: I think they're flying. [4182.59] NJ: Quite the quicker they're flying, actually. [4184.59] NJ: They're flying. [4185.59] NJ: I think they're flying. [4186.59] Jae: Obviously, I don't know the current. [4188.59] Jae: I've never had a problem taking batteries on planes [4190.59] Jae: and even a number of batteries. [4192.59] Jae: I always get in touch with them first, [4193.59] Jae: but I guess a lot of people are having to find that out the hard way. [4197.59] NJ: Well, look, I did the whole of Australia in November, [4201.59] NJ: and I mean the whole of Australia. [4202.59] NJ: We flew literally around all the main cities in Australia. [4206.59] NJ: On the way out, we went through Singapore, [4208.59] NJ: so it was four flights there and back, [4211.59] NJ: and then all the flights internally, [4213.59] NJ: and I had absolutely zero issue. [4216.59] NJ: I just had all my batteries in one of those Maplins cases, [4219.59] NJ: a clear case with each compartment, [4221.59] NJ: so each battery is separated from the other, [4223.59] NJ: the ends taped up. [4227.59] NJ: And I also printed out the watt hours [4229.59] NJ: so I could clearly show I'm well under, [4231.59] NJ: and you will be, even with 20 batteries. [4233.59] NJ: Where are you well under? [4234.59] NJ: Oh, yeah, well under. [4235.59] NJ: So that's not the issue. [4237.59] NJ: In fact, the only thing I got confiscated [4239.59] NJ: was on the way back through Singapore, [4241.59] NJ: they took the electrical tape off me. [4244.59] NJ: That was it, which was a bit bizarre, really, [4246.59] NJ: because I don't see how I could take out [4250.59] NJ: the electrical tape. [4251.59] NJ: I might be able to repair something. [4253.59] Jae: It's like they probably would take zip ties off you as well. [4256.59] NJ: Yeah, but I mean electrical tape's so rubbish. [4258.59] NJ: What can you do with that? [4259.59] Jae: Well, no, you wrap it around the thumbs, [4260.59] Jae: and I'm not speaking from experience, [4261.59] Jae: but wrap it around. [4262.59] Jae: That's what I was going to say. [4263.59] Tony: I think it's going to get on top. [4265.59] Jae: Okay. [4268.59] Jae: No, no, but behind your back, [4271.59] Jae: as long as you get the thumbs together and wrap it enough, [4273.59] Jae: that's probably why. [4275.59] NJ: What kind of advice is this? [4280.59] NJ: The playing specifically. [4283.59] NJ: Yeah, generally. [4285.59] NJ: See, that's someone before a race, yeah? [4288.59] Jae: Well, if you tie the shoelaces together, [4290.59] Jae: that's one thing. [4291.59] Jae: Come and find the back, that's another thing. [4292.59] Jae: I'm looking out in the face. [4294.59] Jae: I'm not even able to stick with a button. [4297.59] NJ: But yeah, flying with lipos, [4299.59] NJ: most of the time they don't batter an eyelid, really. [4302.59] NJ: It's not an issue whatsoever. [4304.59] NJ: Just, as I said, on those separate compartment clear cases. [4309.59] NJ: Yeah, that's it, exactly. [4311.59] NJ: Look like you care about showing them, [4313.59] NJ: you're transporting them safely, [4315.59] NJ: and there won't be any issue at all. [4319.59] Jae: And confidence going through airport security. [4322.59] Jae: If you don't look confident, [4323.59] Jae: it doesn't sound like you'd look more suspicious to me. [4326.59] Tony: Stop looking around. [4329.59] Jae: Really good thumbs. [4330.59] Jae: Are we going yet? [4331.59] NJ: Some people just look shifty. [4333.59] Jae: Well, because in the one hours though, [4335.59] Jae: I think I had a borderline limit [4337.59] Jae: when I was taking three 5M batteries [4340.59] Jae: that were, well, 5,000 milliamp power for sale. [4344.59] Jae: So it's not, it's all right for races [4348.59] Jae: and a small collection of batteries. [4350.59] Jae: But you can't take lots of batteries. [4352.59] Jae: What did you work out the limit, N.J.? [4355.59] NJ: I can't remember what it was, [4357.59] NJ: but you could take, you could probably get like 20 batteries [4362.59] NJ: seem to fall under the maximum, [4365.59] NJ: what hour rating, what you could take, [4367.59] NJ: from what I remember. [4368.59] NJ: I mean, I only took about eight with me when I went out, [4372.59] NJ: and that was absolutely no issue. [4374.59] NJ: You could easily have taken double that, basically. [4380.59] Jae: Yeah, I wouldn't mind flying somewhere, [4382.59] Jae: but I'm going to Spain, [4383.59] Jae: and they don't really like them over there anyway, [4385.59] Jae: so I won't get to fly in the next long haul flight. [4387.59] Jae: Well, is he going on holiday and taking a drone anyway? [4391.59] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: No, I went to Mexico, Cancun, [4395.59] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: and I took a Mavic Pro, but I didn't get to fly it much there. [4399.59] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: No? [4400.59] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: No, it's very touristy, and you kind of don't want to be. [4402.59] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: I actually made a video about it, which is, [4405.59] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: like, just because you have a drone [4408.59] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: and you go on a vacation doesn't mean that you, [4410.59] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: even if you can fly it, it doesn't mean that you should fly it. [4413.59] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Yeah, exactly. [4414.59] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: And that's an important thing that most people just are like, [4416.59] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: oh, I have it, and I'm out here, and I brought it all the way, [4419.59] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: so I need to fly. [4421.59] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: I must fly. [4422.59] NJ: Yeah, that's a really, really good point. [4424.59] NJ: And when I actually joined the Australia FPV forum [4429.59] NJ: just to chat with people before I took the drone out and said, [4433.59] NJ: look, is there any places I shouldn't, [4434.59] NJ: or is the community there? [4437.59] NJ: Luckily, I ended up hooking up with Paul and Thomas at BMS Web, [4441.59] NJ: which was awesome, and great fun. [4444.59] NJ: But, yeah, I recently went to Morocco for a small holiday, [4448.59] NJ: and although there is a scene there, [4450.59] NJ: I was told generally speaking about, [4452.59] NJ: well, I've read a lot of stories of stuff getting confiscated [4455.59] NJ: on the way in and by airport security, [4457.59] NJ: and I've read enough and did enough research to think, [4460.59] NJ: you know what, I just, I won't do it on this occasion. [4462.59] NJ: So, yeah, do your research. [4464.59] Jae: Top pilot in that country. [4468.59] NJ: Yeah, it didn't seem like it was too friendly [4470.59] NJ: for turning up with drones in that instance. [4473.59] NJ: So, yeah, I guess, yeah, do your research before you go. [4476.59] NJ: Definitely worth checking. [4480.59] Jae: Cool. [4481.59] Jae: Tony's looking like half asleep. [4482.59] Jae: Are you all right there, Tony? [4484.59] Jae: You weren't turning very well. [4486.59] Tony: I feel a bit better. [4487.59] Tony: I'm happy to have seen you. [4489.59] Tony: I am tired tonight. [4491.59] Jae: So, just as a, we're all racing next week. [4494.59] Jae: This is the, wow, this is weird. [4496.59] Jae: I just came in to realise that we're all going to be racing. [4499.59] Tony: Yeah, you're not my friends. [4501.59] Tony: You're not my friends next week. [4503.59] Jae: Yeah, you're not. [4504.59] Jae: We're going to have to start trash talking these other two, [4506.59] Jae: aren't they? [4508.59] NJ: I can't, I'm terrible at trash talk. [4510.59] Jae: Come on, give us a load of trash talk. [4512.59] NJ: I need some kind of long game where I can get in there. [4514.59] Jae: Thank you, Tony. [4516.59] NJ: No, I can't trash talk Tony. [4520.09] NJ: He's the, no. [4522.09] NJ: Have a good one, pal. [4524.09] Jae: Maybe after next week, make up the club if you can. [4528.09] NJ: Yeah, however, gloating once winning is a different thing. [4536.85] Tony: Neil's asking in the chat if I've polished my head. [4539.85] Tony: I've actually shaved it tonight, so you might look a bit polished. [4543.85] Tony: And my lamp's on, Neil, so yes. [4547.85] Jae: Maybe we should assign a shine factor every week. [4551.85] Jae: Yeah. [4552.85] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: How shine is, Tony said. [4556.29] Jae: Well, I don't know how we could keep on going. [4558.29] Jae: We haven't gone over for a little while. [4559.29] Jae: We've been going over the last hour and 20 minutes. [4561.29] Jae: But I haven't, is there any other questions in the chat room? [4563.29] Jae: Have you got any questions last chance to put them in there [4565.29] Jae: before we probably? [4566.29] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Do you have any questions for Carlito? [4568.29] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: No one ever asked me. [4570.29] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Don't they? [4572.29] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: I've got some questions for you there. [4574.29] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: No, no, no, no. [4575.29] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Like, what's my nickname? [4577.29] Jae: I've wondered, yeah. [4579.29] Jae: What? [4580.29] Jae: Okay, what is your nickname? [4582.29] Jae: I'm all confused. [4584.29] Jae: CKD. [4586.29] Jae: Oh, well, I posted it in the chat earlier. [4588.29] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Yeah, but it's actually a nickname that's, [4591.29] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: I don't know how many years, like a lot of years. [4595.29] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: A lot, a lot of years. [4597.29] Jae: See, my chip card was my first ever internet handle [4599.29] Jae: back in Australia, actually. [4601.29] Jae: And that's why it's stuck. [4603.29] Jae: So when I wrote this to YouTube, I got chip card stuff. [4607.7] Jae: So, yeah, CKD. [4608.7] Jae: Can't remember when you got it from then. [4610.7] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Mine is from when I played Quake many, many, many years ago. [4617.7] NJ: And it's all good enough to remember Quake. [4620.7] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Yeah. [4623.7] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: We should have that reading that little bit. [4625.7] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Quake one. [4626.7] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Ha. [4628.7] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: None of the demos. [4630.7] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: And CKD is like the shortened version of Seek and Destroy. [4636.7] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Destroy. [4637.7] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Yeah. [4638.7] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: It was either that or Dr. Doom. [4641.7] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: So I went with Seek and Destroy. [4647.3] Jae: And that's what stuck now for... [4649.3] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: And that's what stuck like over, I don't even remember, like... [4653.3] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: 20 years, maybe? [4656.3] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: So... [4657.3] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: 1993 or something? [4658.3] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Yeah. [4659.3] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Wow. [4661.55] Tony: Mine was a nickname I got given to me about 20 years ago. [4665.55] Tony: Something to remember. [4666.55] Tony: So I just get stuck with that. [4668.55] Jae: And, N.J., since we're all now chatting, [4672.95] Jae: because mine came from a comic book that was about mountain biking [4675.95] Jae: and chip card was Black Sheep Group. [4678.95] Jae: And so that's why I did that one. [4680.95] Jae: But it's actually a hippie term these days. [4682.95] Jae: So actually I'm really happy with what it means. [4683.95] Jae: It was the first tree-hugging movement. [4685.95] Tony: And that's kind of my stuff. [4688.95] Jae: Weird how it went wrong for the time I chose it. [4692.95] Jae: Yeah. [4693.95] UNKNOWN: Yeah. [4694.95] NJ: Very interesting. [4695.95] NJ: Yeah. [4696.95] NJ: Mine was just because I didn't know what on earth my YouTube channel was going to... [4701.95] NJ: Because it was so random. [4702.95] NJ: There was all RC stuff. [4704.95] NJ: And then I was doing some stuff on... [4707.95] NJ: If you really want to look back further deeper into my channel, [4711.95] NJ: you'll see a video on starting up the startup sequence [4715.95] NJ: and operation of the A10 Warthog, [4717.95] NJ: which I know how to start up and operate. [4719.95] NJ: Because I was... [4720.95] NJ: Yes. [4721.95] NJ: I have a strong tie to aviation and... [4724.95] NJ: Yeah. [4725.95] NJ: So I just put N.J. Tech because it was all kind of techy things I was into. [4728.95] NJ: But then, much to my demise, [4730.95] NJ: I get no end of people saying, [4732.95] NJ: hey, man, where abouts in New Jersey do you fly? [4735.95] UNKNOWN: Yeah. [4737.95] NJ: Which, yeah, I always reply, [4739.95] NJ: yeah, I'm nowhere near New Jersey. [4741.95] NJ: Bit of a swim to come and see you, I'm afraid. [4744.95] NJ: But, yeah. [4745.95] NJ: But the N.J. Tech, as in New Jersey tech, have never sent me a letter. [4750.95] NJ: So I think I'm all right to keep it that way for now. [4753.95] Tony: Fine, man. [4754.95] Tony: Strike is telling us we've got to do 24 hours. [4760.96] Tony: So I'm about to get another cup of tea. [4763.96] Jae: Okay. [4764.96] Jae: Hold on. [4765.96] Jae: I've got an idea for that. [4767.96] Jae: Maybe we do it in Scotland, [4769.96] Jae: which would be good because then we can get more people incorporated in it. [4772.96] Jae: But also then you can also potentially go through in the height of June, [4776.96] Jae: maybe June to July, it would go all the way through. [4779.96] Jae: So maybe one to think about more after mini airshow is... [4783.96] Jae: You can do a let-turn-out special up there. [4786.96] Jae: But I'm trying to fly that 24 hours and always stream the whole thing. [4791.96] Tony: That will be... [4793.96] Jae: What will happen is we'll get drunk after the first hour [4795.96] Jae: and then it will just be somewhere else. [4797.96] Tony: Then I'll be like that. [4800.96] Tony: Like, it's... [4801.96] Tony: No, I didn't... [4802.96] Tony: Well, then I'm gone. [4804.96] Tony: You know, that's 12 hours of sleep. [4807.96] Jae: I know there's quite a few people that are up for that challenge. [4811.96] Jae: I think Ektras is up for that challenge. [4813.96] Jae: I'm always up for challenge, stupid challenges like that. [4815.96] Jae: 24 hours. [4816.96] Tony: I wouldn't want to do it on my own here. [4818.96] Tony: I'd have to, like, all come to yours to jail or, you know, be together. [4823.96] Jae: Yeah, you need people there, you need to eat the right food. [4826.96] Tony: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [4828.96] Jae: Carlos doesn't drink coffee or caffeine. [4830.96] Jae: Do Carlos. [4831.96] Jae: Very commendable. [4832.96] Jae: But how would you survive overnight? [4834.96] Jae: Do you need sleep? [4835.96] Jae: Cocaine? [4836.96] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: No, I'm good. [4838.96] Jae: Other amphetamines as well? [4842.96] Jae: A little bit of cocaine. [4845.96] Jae: No, well, we're certainly up for that strike. [4850.65] Jae: I'm not even in this chat room anymore. [4852.65] Jae: I keep on being out. [4853.65] Jae: Have we got other questions before? [4858.6] NJ: Who's coming up here to Scotland? [4860.6] NJ: We've got an air show. [4862.6] NJ: We've got an anthem. [4864.6] Frank: Well, we saw one at the... [4866.6] Frank: Yeah, I was going to say, we should get Jonny Banton to take the stage and sing something. [4874.6] Tony: It was Rich last year. [4876.6] Tony: Richie Rich, Anarchy FPV last year. [4879.6] Tony: We were playing the guitar and we were singing songs. [4883.6] Tony: It's on one of my YouTube videos, a start for singing. [4886.6] Tony: It's quite funny. [4888.6] Tony: There were we, Andrew. [4890.6] Tony: It was the final, wasn't it? [4892.6] Frank: Yeah, the British Championships, yeah. [4894.6] Frank: Yeah. [4895.6] Tony: So that was fun singing that all night. [4899.6] Tony: Couldn't fly the next morning because I was pretty paralytic the night before. [4904.6] Tony: But yeah, hopefully around the campfire, Rich is going to bring his guitar again. [4909.6] Tony: So if you want to join us for a sing-song, we can make a song up about that. [4913.6] Tony: Maybe you could bring your guitar as well. [4917.6] Jae: I think also, it usually deteriorates into drum and bass. [4921.6] Jae: Well, not deteriorates. [4923.6] Jae: It moves on to... [4925.6] Jae: It's going to be quite a musical night, usually on the nights, isn't it? [4928.6] Jae: From live music to... [4930.6] Frank: Yeah, we'll have quite a few speakers, I'm sure. [4934.6] Jae: Yeah. [4936.6] Tony: You'll be more mics again in the evening. [4942.6] NJ: Sounds good. [4944.6] NJ: Excellent. [4945.6] NJ: That was a very good show. [4947.6] NJ: It's great to have you on, Karloff. [4949.6] NJ: Thank you for having me on. [4951.6] NJ: Proper chat. [4952.6] NJ: Yeah, you'll have to come back. [4953.6] NJ: Definitely. [4954.6] NJ: We'll have to get you on a live stream next weekend. [4956.6] NJ: Yeah, we need to all do lots of live streaming, I think, next weekend. [4959.6] NJ: I can't remember what the signal's like down there. [4962.6] Tony: You have to stand near the right-hand corner of the barn in the corner, [4970.6] Tony: and you get a 4G there. [4973.6] Tony: I know exactly where you get a 4G. [4976.6] NJ: You're only from those mobile cell towers, don't you? [4979.6] Frank: We have got some fairly fancy internet connection devices. [4990.6] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: That's something we could use the DJI things for. [5002.6] Jae: So, you will get to hear some Team Squawks or Team Proclocks from Karloff. [5009.6] Jae: Oh, yeah. [5010.6] Jae: Come on, let's hear some, because that's what I want to hear all weekend. [5013.6] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: KFC. [5016.6] Jae: There is a game out that you can actually practice on, that. [5019.6] Jae: Oh, yeah. [5022.6] Jae: We want perfect chicken. [5024.6] Jae: We want to have all the chickens flocking to team in Tucky-Fod Chicken. [5028.6] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: I hate you, because they were like, [5031.6] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Carlos, can you create a team? [5033.6] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: And they were like, okay. [5039.6] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Are you sure? [5040.6] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Yeah, yeah. [5041.6] Carlos 'Carlito' Costa: Okay. [5043.6] Jae: Last chance. [5045.6] Jae: Well, Niall, hopefully you are reading that out. [5047.6] Jae: It's going to be no end of fun. [5049.6] Jae: But thanks for coming on to the show. [5051.6] Jae: Thank you all to Tiny and Andrew for the Mini Airshare updates [5055.6] Jae: and to N.J. for, as always, connecting you on the show. [5058.6] Jae: Pleasure. [5059.6] Jae: You're listening in, everyone. [5060.6] Jae: And you will find us again, same time, same place, next week. [5065.6] Tony: Peace. [5066.6] Tony: Thank you to all. [5067.6] Tony: Thank you. [5068.6] UNKNOWN: Very nice. [5069.6] Jae: Yeah. [5070.6] Jae: Sponsored by Fuzzy Stuff. [5071.6] Jae: Thank you very much for supporting our patrons. [5073.6] Tony: Thank you very much. [5074.6] Tony: Thanks, Carlos. [5075.6] Tony: Goodbye. [5077.6] Tony: Bye.