=== Let's Drone Out — Episode 114 === Title: LDO 114- Droningon Recorded: 2017-11-02 Hosts: Andy, Jack "Brightontillifly" Nash, Neil "NJ Tech" Jones, Tony "TheTonstar1" Marchant, Andrew "Frank" Hyams Guest(s): Ash "DroningOn" Ha Total audience: 2,750 Platforms: YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd7I-OgfQy4); SoundCloud (http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/382698749-letsdroneout-ldo-114-droningon.m4a) ===================================== No relation, promise! http://www.strawpoll.me/14313010 Ash - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYoEOmvbMm0LX6AsIwANvug Jack - https://www.youtube.com/user/brightontillifly NJ - https://www.youtube.com/user/neiljonesguitar Tony - https://www.youtube.com/user/TheTonstar1 Andy - https://www.youtube.com/user/TheAndyRC Frank - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfhaKilBilC3aNwxZJ9u4R [0.0] Jack: Hello and welcome to Let's Drone Out. Today we are missing Tony because he's an idiot [8.64] Jack: and uh straight out of rehab it's a beautiful [14.8] NJ: I don't even know what rehab I'm supposed to have been out of but yes apparently I'm out of rehab [18.88] NJ: yes I made it I escaped actually I wasn't released but hello did you escape yes you can make it up [26.48] Jack: you could be like sex rehab, drug rehab, fucking alcohol rehab [33.28] NJ: if only I was actually that rock and roll [39.36] Jack: Sophie fucking pants off [42.08] Andy: I think it was let's drone out rehab [46.48] Jack: mate that's just called therapy [50.48] Jack: we're also joined by droning on or ash [56.56] Jack: he's very good looking but not as good looking as enjo [60.48] Jack: honestly sorry mate um we're also joined by Andy RC he's only just got up [69.2] NJ: literally has just got up [70.56] Jack: you're looking more blink 182 without a hoodie on [74.0] Jack: really yeah I'm missing your cleavage [77.2] Jack: oh [83.28] Jack: enjo bit of cleavage you gotta love it and we are joined by the cat herder himself andrew [89.52] Jack: slash frank hello or the inventor of the fisto the rocket fisto sex toy industries [99.76] Jack: yeah why we're well I'm so waiting for an email from a sex company be like can we have one of your [105.92] Frank: fists what on earth are you talking about we're talking about the uh david vindestal [112.8] Frank: rc explorer rocket knife but with a fist right this makes a lot more sense thank you [120.64] Jack: three minutes in and we're x-rated already yeah oh okay I can show you something nice [126.24] Jack: someone I went and got a foyer drink and it says like do not open on the lid like that [134.64] Jack: and then when you open it it's got like a little ghost and it says boo how cute is that [140.4] Andy: have you gone vegan jack has tony converted you [145.68] Jack: yeah I mean I basically help I think I'm the most unluckiest vegan in the world basically I um [154.4] Jack: you don't want a vegan no no I don't I basically I said to him there's only two ways I'll ever [160.72] Jack: become vegan one if I get Vicky back which I haven't and two is if tony leaves me alone [168.4] Jack: and things have happened so yeah apparently your mic isn't working on zen caster [176.16] Frank: who's yours mine yes all right it might just be if you go in the top right hand corner it says [184.0] Frank: recording in progress yeah it's not recording anything though you might have to click the [189.68] Frank: settings and change which audio how many drone pilots does it take yeah I know we're supposed [197.28] Jack: to be like the edge of technology bleeding edge that's all off the edge that's what I think [205.52] Frank: I know loads of people in the chat this evening I mean there's there's some guy called the tonestar [211.76] Frank: one for starters um who's that guy yeah I know some got mr thrust got zero got green patches got [220.8] Frank: striker got uh anonymous fpv carl drone two bloods fpv got davey boy carl drone scotty fpv [230.64] Frank: crashed his dummy dale kennedy I mean scotty fpv oh got cknd uh got rob britain uh who else we got [240.08] Jack: loads of people hello everyone ash what's wrong with you like why did you want to go on let show [247.28] Frank: now you've seen an episode and yet you decided that this was you'd like to be after last week [254.56] Ash: how could I possibly say no I think everyone was watching it last week andrew andrew took [260.48] Ash: it down it was that bad I know I did notice I was waiting for the replay actually but when I saw [265.68] Ash: there was there was only highlights I thought it was a fun show I think it was good I'm so tempted [273.52] Jack: to dye my hair blue that was so funny I think that was my favorite the highlighter and the [280.96] Jack: dyed hair blue and also I'm like really pleased that tony looks 12 and the police are going to [288.24] Jack: start pulling over again thinking some sort of midget child's driving a car I think you should [294.16] Ash: put the entire episode back online I think it was brilliant just frank tell him why that's not a good [300.4] Andy: idea uh why isn't it there what is the re I didn't I didn't get to catch it all I watched a little bit [309.84] Andy: of it and it didn't seem too bad to me was there something at the end that I missed uh [316.72] Frank: in the highlights that I was I just sped everything up like 60 times and I still had to censor a whole [323.6] Jack: section oh shit my hangout thing was still on whoops oh dear yes nj I can still see you [336.32] Jack: um I wasn't ill the next day but um zero uh no daddy boy I wasn't I stayed up watching a [344.16] Jack: draw dwarf and drinking squash yesterday I was very ill but no one wants to hear about that [350.24] Jack: um grow a mustache then I'll look even more like a sex offender I mean at the moment like vicky's [359.92] Jack: lost my hair brush so I can't actually brush my own hair so like if you're wondering why jack looks [367.28] Jack: really disheveled that's why I mean what I'm dirty and I can't brush my own hair [373.2] NJ: I've I've like failed it's looking unusually tidy in yours actually jack I can actually uh [380.24] Jack: well I can see the floor I don't know there is like playstation stuff down there and crap [388.8] Frank: little spots and that's not even drone stuff like yeah I know usually your room's just like [395.28] Frank: covered in like carbon fiber and bits of solder there there is a pile of stuff I don't want to [400.72] Frank: deal with which is that look at that desk there's like a whole like three points of space on that [407.76] Jack: I know it's amazing you don't want to have a look what's below the screen you like preparing to do [412.64] Jack: a stream of your build or something I'm a little scared there was there was talk about that from [419.2] Jack: you being like the on the desk thing trouble is with on the desk thing was he would go on for [426.96] Jack: hours and wouldn't achieve anything like no other I've done shows I've done bad shows I've done [433.12] Jack: the worst live show known to man in this comic book shop and um and like that achieved more than [443.92] Jack: on the workbench or whatever the hell I called that thing tony it was awful wasn't it I quite [449.2] Frank: enjoyed it Davey boy wants more jack and tony bill videos so no because it just makes me win [457.92] Tony: panic agrees I agree I think we should do on one Saturday jack I've got a bill to do [466.96] Tony: it's being cut and actually my my new frame is just arrived in the UK so I'm hoping to get it [473.92] Tony: tomorrow or Saturday my vision we could we could um we could do a live build jack just me and you [489.68] Ash: you're working on a couple of build videos at the moment I think you said in your congrats with your [493.04] Andy: 40k as well thank you very much yeah uh just because we've got about two hours of light now [500.0] Andy: so it's I'm deciding to do some build videos which take longer and they're really I don't [507.04] Andy: know if you've ever done one yourself but they're just horrendous to edit they they take such a long [513.52] Andy: time like uh I um done a build video this uh two inch flex rc ascent it took uh I started it [524.08] Andy: at 9 p.m which is a bad thing to do anyway it's a bad time to start I finished filming at 3 in [531.92] Andy: the morning and then I've got six hours of stuff to edit down to about eight minutes so yeah it [540.24] Tony: takes a long time I'm leaving for hours people like it leave it for morning and have a breakfast and [550.4] Tony: all my subs come up like I watch nj's this morning yours and it films feels homely I like it I guess [558.64] Ash: also if you're building something it's nice to watch a video that's real time rather than [562.64] Ash: something that's edited because then you can in theory follow it as you're building the quad [567.04] Andy: I unfortunately don't have a house that's quiet enough to have three hours of peace before you [575.68] Andy: know before someone drags a bin outside or starts we've got um the house it's not it's not a bin [584.96] Jack: it's you know it's someone else's home look we all know you're up north you're like moving around [591.68] Jack: like the bins of caravan stop trying to pretend that they take the bins out where you are and you [598.8] Jack: do recycling we all know you have to burn it to keep warm burn your trash to keep warm in the [604.24] Jack: winter or you you get all your paper and you just pile it in the corner and sleep in it like a [609.36] Andy: hamster in northern I wish I wish it was that posh honestly you've got a room we missed you last [618.72] Jack: week Andy oh I missed nj and andrew how are you oh that was blooming [626.32] NJ: nj was rocking out so I've just been I've been so super busy and then next week I'm on my way [631.84] NJ: for 10 days around Holland so yeah it's it's crazy time although it's every chance I might [637.92] NJ: actually be around at that time to join the stream from Holland that'd be awesome no way [643.28] Jack: are we gonna get watch you be high I love it granted Holland is small but it isn't all the [650.56] NJ: red light district of Amsterdam just saying there are some quite uh mate you're a rock star you're [656.88] Jack: going to be on drugs not me I'm a twat [662.56] Jack: twat that offensive hang on let me just google the word twat [666.08] Frank: I think you can get away with and what while Jack's distracted um oh no definitely can't [673.92] Jack: yeah sorry ash we've no I can hit or crunch sorry ash we brought you on to to [681.44] Frank: invite you on but um how did you get started with the whole droning on [688.96] Ash: dot co thing um so about two years ago there was a big fiasco with a proud drone called xano [697.6] Ash: I don't know if you guys are familiar with it nothing to do with FPV racing or anything like [701.28] Ash: that but it was one of the first small micro um racing racing course but video capture kind of [708.96] Ash: drones type thing isn't it and it drags a lot of people in it had a really flashy promotional [716.0] Ash: video that got everybody excited as they do and thousands of people backed it and basically it [722.8] Ash: was crap and it didn't deliver the company yeah it was one I think it was the biggest crowd [729.92] Ash: thunder that failed actually so I was one of the I mean I was kind of fairly new to drones back [738.26] Ash: then it was quite some time ago were you talking about the lily no way before that xano [745.7] Ash: um company little company in wales uh [751.06] Ash: talking technology where over the bridge in wales oh wales oh there's your problem [760.18] Ash: um so that failed um a starting group for people to basically join and discuss and [766.42] Ash: write back is refunded and helps people to try to find lots of drones and then that really just [775.46] Ash: spawned out to a community and a group of people so we named it droning on and it went up from that [782.82] Ash: really and then the group group of bigger beer started writing editorials and then companies [788.34] Ash: wanted to send drones for review and a lot of crowdfund manufacturers wanted to send me drones [794.5] Ash: which is probably a big mistake because a lot of them weren't very good [798.58] Ash: honest to my own good so if it's rubbish i've always said it's rubbish um and it went on for [803.62] Ash: no really cool and somehow you've ended up here yeah you asked me last week and how could i [811.09] Andy: possibly say no we're sorry this has got to be the peak of his your career surely absolutely [819.41] Tony: i'm so honored and you know it was a peak of yours and look you're back every week now man [825.89] Andy: yeah now i'm sort of in the trough part [831.25] Jack: you can't climb out now [837.25] Jack: i love how he just foggied rips us and then takes a swig of his drink [845.41] Andy: we all know that's not water it is it is water yeah yeah i learned a lesson from last week's [853.81] Andy: episode and from now on it's only ever going to be water don't creep whatever we all know you're [861.73] Tony: quite lightning and special bro absolutely i like jack last week he was actually nice to me [869.73] Tony: you are actually a friend yeah but you know that you know you're just horrible to me permanently [876.93] Jack: i'm not it's yeah all right fair enough i got to the point where i got to the point where tony was [883.73] Andy: shaving his and i was like what am i what it sort of became like a special needs comic relief [895.81] Tony: it definitely was special needs we didn't put that in the title [900.53] Andy: yeah it was fun how much did you raise in the in the end 20 quid [905.49] Andy: that's it no one ever did something happen with the eyebrows did i hear as well did you [917.49] Jack: oh it's gonna oh it was gonna yeah tony was gonna show you boy and i was gonna show you my [923.81] Jack: one the opposite yeah that would have been so funny like if someone had donated that would [930.85] Jack: have been like i would have that i'd have to be 100 quid at least no no way 50 i can do it for [939.49] Tony: 50 i'll pay you 50 now if you've done yours no i don't know lie i hear that it takes months to [946.45] Jack: grow back if at all that's why i said 100 and i haven't got big bushy eyebrows either i've got [952.61] Jack: quite a feminine like i'd rather grow that moustache i'd look like a sex offender there's [961.09] Jack: any of the cops been pulling you over thinking a child's driving i'm not it's all right she's 23 [970.21] Tony: each of you sick fuck we're running can i just say jackson i'm ready for the [977.17] NJ: poll so so ash tell me what was the uh what were you doing before you got into the droning stuff [985.97] NJ: was there other areas of our sea you're into planes cars anything like that or was this [989.97] Jack: kind of your first main bench hang on hang on sorry nj just off let me translate did you have a life [996.85] Ash: before this yeah i've been flying everything planes gliders helicopters nitro electric [1009.49] Ash: this is about 12 so yeah i've always uh been into crashing things [1015.33] Andy: now i try not to crash them but yeah love it i'm guessing as well that you have like an interest in [1021.33] Andy: video production because like when i see your reviews i think that's how i should be doing [1026.13] Andy: mine they're always like really well filmed and great lighting and just really well presented [1033.17] Andy: so i'm guessing i'm guessing that you have like uh interest in video production and stuff as well [1039.49] Ash: or is that sort of a hobby as well well i started doing this so it was all very new for me and i [1044.69] Ash: hated being on camera as well but no i've learned a lot doing it and i hope i'm always trying to make [1050.85] Ash: i think everyone everyone's got a different review style and i for me if i just put the [1055.57] Ash: review up there i wouldn't enjoy doing it as much because i love doing the editing and stuff like [1060.93] Andy: that i'm not editing this i hate the editing part so that's really rare it's a good angle [1069.17] NJ: actually looks uh the as andy says i look really uh really professional uh so we collectives can [1074.53] NJ: we collectively hate you a little bit um no they're really really professional looking [1080.37] NJ: um so do you did you go out um did you really go out on researching your lighting setups and stuff [1085.97] NJ: or did you just go right i think this is the stuff i need let's let's go for it i just bought a camera [1090.61] Ash: a goprostruct it to my head and that's about it i mean literally some of my early videos there's [1096.93] Ash: so much i just listened back to them now the audio is rubbish because i'm um i've got the camera [1101.97] Ash: halfway across the room and i just didn't think about stuff like that but i mean it takes a long [1106.85] Ash: time you know editing these videos i'll be sent a really really cheap crappy little drone for review [1113.41] Ash: and the video will take me eight hours to film and edit and i think afterwards [1117.17] Ash: you know was it really worth it when the drone actually wasn't that good but actually it is [1120.85] Ash: because if it saves someone else from buying it or if it saves 50 people from buying it and it's [1126.13] Ash: worth one so yeah i do enjoy it keeps me busy but we we've got a six month old baby now [1132.85] Ash: and i must say it's thrown my whole reviewing and editing cycles absolutely out the window [1138.45] Ash: it's like andy said earlier trying to get a quiet moment in the house is almost impossible yeah [1144.69] Frank: that's the most difficult part for me yeah definitely i saw your um article recently on the [1152.29] Frank: the snap drone and oh yeah all the stuff that's going on with that um did you have you got hold [1160.21] Frank: of one of the uh pot dealers drones of choice or you sort of read about it when you got a hold of [1167.97] Ash: some information on it i after zano i tried to focus so i've got the review channel on youtube [1173.97] Ash: but i used the droningon.co website to write articles on any other crowdfund drone so [1180.13] Ash: anything that's currently being crowdfunded on the market like qdrone or selphi or snap as well [1185.73] Ash: as another one i try and write about it look at the specs see if it's viable and just really try [1191.65] Ash: and help backers to understand if it's worth investing in because there are unfortunately [1196.29] Ash: lots of people out there who are sat just waiting to give away their money to these campaigns uh [1201.57] Ash: snap was one that i always actually had hoped for but they seem to have been slightly distracted [1209.73] Ash: and they're now um struggling to get the drone out to the backers and there's thousands of people [1214.85] Ash: waiting for it and it's it started looking really good now it's looking a little bit dodgy [1219.49] Ash: the the drones that actually have ships people are crashing and flying out of control and [1226.21] Ash: worryingly the cnn has just been cnn have just been granted a waiver from the faa [1231.41] Ash: the heads of the public so it's a bit of a worry so i'm following that one really closely [1236.45] Frank: yeah because you know maybe if it was like a tiny whoop sized thing then it wouldn't [1241.49] Frank: be able to make for a problem but it's it's you know a fairly chunky piece of kit that [1246.93] Ash: hasn't been very thoroughly checked yeah that's a one and a half pound drone and their argument [1252.53] Ash: is will the props are shrouded it's you know fully enclosed props and it uses formula one [1257.57] Ash: technology to break up on impact well that's a little consequence to someone if it lands on [1262.05] Ash: break up on impact on your head exactly they also claimed um that it's got auto rotation [1270.21] NJ: there's absolutely no chance of that at all exactly yeah a drone can't auto rotate if it's [1275.97] Ash: got no power in the event of a failure how is a drone going to auto rotate and land softly it [1280.93] Ash: won't it might it might drop down a little bit slower but it's not going to have a cushion [1285.65] NJ: ball well for a start they'd have to be almost completely frictionless in terms of the ability [1291.09] NJ: to rotate and if they're a fixed pitch they'd have to stop the direction they're turning and [1294.69] NJ: reverse in the other direction by which time they would have fallen probably a thousand feet in a [1299.41] NJ: couple of seconds so exactly that's just that's just utter arse that's also on the assumption [1306.93] Ash: that the drone even fly a false level yeah of course there's no power to the rotors it's just [1311.25] Ash: going to be flopping all over the place so yeah i think they're struggling and a bit like lily [1315.73] Ash: the the sort of signs are there right now i think that that's the company in distress i think they're [1320.93] Ash: running out of money to produce enough drones to get out to their backers so keep an eye on snap [1325.81] NJ: now for advantage robotics we'll see yeah we're going to need a be aware section of let's drone [1334.13] NJ: out i think sort of warn people of all these uh sharp like companies and what they're up to [1340.45] Ash: it's not good there's a lot of them there's another one is q drone which is going on at [1344.85] Ash: the moment that's came on drone horrific little drone i've heard about that yeah thousands of [1351.01] Ash: people bought it um i warned them all that it was going to be crap and it is it just doesn't work [1357.09] Ash: and the other one is cell fly which is another one that's not even got out to the backers yet [1361.41] Ash: but it's looking painfully bad it's just i think we should do one no we already had nothing to do [1369.81] Tony: with it come on we can call it let's try now drone jack we have your face on it or something [1378.77] Jack: like that no it's bad enough i've heard a rumor that there's um my face is on the radio c stickers [1386.29] Jack: i think fab did it to annoy me yeah well you've probably got that dead on then so like yeah i [1393.33] Jack: might have to sue him yeah yeah there seems to be i don't even show up yeah there is yeah look [1405.57] Frank: i'm gonna kill him particularly every past uh week or so there does seem to have been a lot of [1412.13] Frank: dead man in the drug world god are we going there already are we going there already [1420.13] Tony: i don't know come on let's go there come on frank carry on i know where we're going [1426.45] Frank: yeah i mean everyone knows where this is going right so this is i mean are we talking about the [1434.93] Andy: drama on tony's new facebook page oh yeah that's where we're going this is my worst nightmare tony [1442.77] Jack: has got a groove like what is going on in the like trump's in charge oh my god tony [1452.69] Jack: who thought any of you right idiots that join tony's cult like mentality he thinks the earth's [1461.65] Jack: flat oh my god literally you're going to be drinking the kool-aid it is you should have named [1472.37] Jack: it heaven's heaven's back door oh i can't even show you talk about why the group was created [1478.77] Tony: yeah well it was created because i left wrote a riot because of the what an passport no one cared [1485.97] Tony: no one cared that you left yes they did no one's noticed 60 people cared because of my new group [1495.09] Ash: i think they're going to start to notice people dropping though because you know there's a lot [1498.77] Ash: of people that love that riot element yeah the reality is that i mean i i got sick of the [1504.53] Tony: posts in that group i left because it just yeah it just got it got a bit it got a bit silly didn't [1511.25] Tony: in that group they got a lot of followers but it just got silly i mean quite a lot of my mates [1517.01] Tony: said oh i left half a year ago a year ago i don't know why you're still on there and i was just [1521.81] Tony: like yeah well i'm not anymore because of what they've done i i've got friends half my friends [1527.65] Tony: think it was all right and the other half think it was a dumbass move and i think it was a dumbass [1533.57] Frank: move what do you guys feel about it so have we actually said what this is all about yet no [1541.65] Frank: so we're talking about no one else's site the the rotor riot bridge light and video um where [1550.69] Frank: they went out to uh somewhere in canada i can't remember where the bridge flew around a big [1559.41] Frank: uh bridge yeah a bridge too far bridge over travel water um and it's yeah there was lots [1568.85] Frank: of traffic on it and it's been taken pretty uh controversially as to whether it was you know [1577.09] Frank: there's no it didn't go wrong it all turned out in the end so does that mean it's fine or [1584.53] Frank: is it hashtag ruining the hobby um so there's kind of two sides of it no victim no crime versus [1589.57] Tony: ruining the hobby um uh let's take each an individual point of view on it [1598.69] Tony: nj first talk about it have you seen it what do you i haven't just i've been a little bit outside [1605.73] NJ: of all of that so i'm i'm i'm probably not the person to come to yet i'm i'm collecting opinions [1610.05] NJ: and thoughts so you you guys talk and i'll uh okay i'll have a think jack what are your thoughts [1617.09] Tony: oh god um let's go first with right everyone this is a sweary moment maybe [1627.25] Tony: oh come on what are your real real honest thoughts [1631.17] Jack: it's a bit of a bad end move really right for a start this in canada two chas lost his mind [1638.53] Jack: three you put that quad through someone's windscreen and then wrote writes and shit tv s is in [1648.21] Jack: shit uh tommy's going to prison and you know he's a pretty boy he's like nj do you know what i mean [1655.01] Jack: they're just gonna have a field day with his butthole you know like i tell you what man if i was in [1661.25] Jack: prison you'd be i think like all my christmas is come at once [1670.37] Jack: there's always a spin on it with you jack i wouldn't like anything more other than hand cream or [1676.69] Tony: vaseline there's always good from me you always there jack yeah um all right we've had enough there [1686.13] Jack: that's right canada where they just like made the rules really strict yeah yeah and don't we [1695.41] Jack: follow their pretty much their rules in part of the commonwealth yes yes tony exactly so [1703.81] Frank: bad move what because it affects us it's there for a stupid idea yeah of course [1711.6] Jack: of course look this is coming from like preston came on a show where i was the the typical kiss [1719.36] Jack: fan boy i mean what do you expect it's let's drone out no one is safe um i don't know i don't like i [1728.56] Jack: just i mean the other side of it is that he is a professional and uh they did have a clear clear [1736.48] Tony: view plenty of spoilers my thing is that anything could go wrong at any time though like has anyone [1741.92] Tony: driven down the road and had a blowout on their tire you know a prop burst an ese go things happen [1750.0] NJ: you know yeah i guess it comes down to that that same thing that i've i've talked about before you [1756.72] NJ: you have on drones just as you do on lots of them on helicopters a lot less of them on planes you [1763.76] NJ: have single points of failure uh and that's something that's out of your control you can [1768.72] NJ: have one ese just decide one of the vets wants to shift itself and blow up and and that's it's [1774.32] NJ: out of your control you don't know the qc even the best makes things slip through qc things can [1780.48] NJ: happen you can't just 100 trust it to the point of doing things that are potentially dangerous i [1786.24] NJ: mean bando's places where you're not you can't break something that's already broken it's you're [1791.68] NJ: out the way you're not around people but doing it something like something like that with so much [1797.52] NJ: attention so much publicity and so many people watching that channel personally i think that's [1803.92] NJ: a bit of a silly move because you're drawing attention to uh something where you know there [1809.76] NJ: are a lot of people that hang on everything these guys do and they think wow that's awesome i want [1814.08] NJ: to go out and try and there's people that aren't as competent there's people who maybe don't aren't [1818.0] NJ: as meticulous about pre-flight checking and looking after their gear and you just can't [1823.44] NJ: really i just find that person my personal opinion is that's a little bit irresponsible [1830.0] NJ: so yeah that's that's just my out in the corner obviously there's a probably a [1833.76] NJ: whole lot of reading and listening to lots of different sides but i yeah i think there's kind [1838.88] Tony: of a it's a bit of a silly thing to do i totally agree with you i think it is silly [1848.48] Jack: it's not it's not the clever hang on let me just draw a poll there good good publicity because [1853.76] Tony: any publicity is good publicity but yeah the trouble is road to riot is founded on riot you [1860.32] Ash: know it's founded on problems drama um breaking the rules and going against the regulations and [1866.64] Frank: yeah if you look at kind of the the stuff that chad kappa has done you know flight test was very [1872.48] Frank: much family family the kids you know getting more interested stem all that kind of stuff and now [1879.84] Frank: then the road to riot is then the kind of teenage rebellious counterculture kind of thing [1887.84] Frank: and and that this entirely goes in into that um i think it's not good because we've already seen [1894.08] Ash: videos on youtube of you know kids trying to do the building dives you know doing it from a [1900.0] Ash: rooftop and scrappy horrific flying worse than mine um and you know in crowded cities so [1907.92] Ash: some amateur is going to be trying to do a bridge dive and it's going to go horribly wrong and land [1913.12] Ash: on a windscreen no none of us want to sound boring or dull or miserable or you know party poopers but [1918.88] Ash: ultimately if something does happen you know you're on next drone out right yeah [1926.4] Tony: sorry i know what you're saying man oh definitely but yeah we're not like that [1933.36] Jack: how are you not like that coming from the man who hovers his washing machine and heats his wine [1939.44] Jack: up in the microwave that would be tony cheers god you're the type of person who gets his [1948.56] Jack: name stitched onto his slippers no one wants to steal those slippers you live alone [1955.52] Jack: whose slippers are they going to be of course they're your [1962.0] Tony: you know what i should buy some white socks for these shouldn't i [1965.28] Jack: oh my god please just kill me there's a straw pole in the chat um [1971.6] Tony: um i want to ask ndrc's opinion on this all dives matter and have you seen it and what [1984.08] Andy: i've seen it i think it's a really strange one because i i can't work out whether it was an [1989.6] Andy: accident that this happened because you know when you've got all of those those guys with such big [1996.32] Andy: personalities and stuff sort of um it's kind of like um the the comedy scene a few years ago [2003.92] Andy: where it was just like you know the the person who could shock the most was the most funniest [2009.6] Andy: kind of thing so is it is is it just that sort of it's gotten to the point where you know people [2016.48] Andy: just competing for the most craziest stunt or was it just that um you know it just shouldn't have [2023.12] Andy: been in there and it they didn't really know that that was what was going to happen i think is um [2029.76] Andy: the only thing that i would say is like as someone who owns a youtube channel is somebody posted a [2035.36] Andy: link and there was like a news segment and and did you guys see that where um where like like [2044.0] Andy: a news reporter guy went to the bridge and and i was thinking if this was me i would be i think [2049.52] Jack: i'm in so much trouble i just i would have more poo coming out of my butthole is that [2062.08] Jack: yeah i would actually have to like have food being funneled in because you have to remember [2067.52] Andy: as well that like i don't i don't think chad's completely in charge of all that either he's he [2072.8] Andy: saw well he's in charge of it but i think he sort of lets it be kind of thing doesn't he i think [2077.84] Andy: tommy does a lot of does a lot of that so i think i think also the fact he was there and filming and [2084.64] Frank: then spent the time money editing it and posting it on the youtube channel i you know i don't think [2089.92] Frank: he can argue that oh it just happened so his name is credited yeah yeah i think sorry ash gone go [2098.72] Ash: oh i also find it odd as well that chad noac originally seemed to leave the group because [2104.96] Ash: of stunts like this so i'm surprised that they're still doing it yep they're going to lose a great [2110.08] Tony: pilot a great personality he's actually posted that he thinks it was all right that baffles [2115.52] Jack: i'm confused about that same here i think i think he's here now still left oh yeah he's i think he's [2123.52] Jack: friends with tommy and trusts tommy's mentality rather than still being like i don't care because [2132.64] Jack: if you notice tommy's done that but he doesn't sort of you know and also the other thing with [2139.76] Jack: chad is that he's also preemptively contacted uh transport canada as well so it's not like it was [2150.0] Frank: planned well i'm thinking back to the building dive when it it turned out kind of it wasn't [2156.96] Frank: immediately obvious but it turned out they had shut a road or something when they were filming [2162.0] Frank: when they were flying down a road um so i'm wondering whether maybe there is more to this [2168.48] Frank: well it definitely wasn't shot this time no but maybe there were some [2175.92] Frank: uh sort of extenuating factors that made it safer than it seems from the video [2182.16] Andy: maybe yeah we need like an official thing and i think there's just been it's been like radio [2187.6] Andy: silence yeah from their side on it hasn't there i think the video got taken because um i i actually [2194.32] Andy: you can still watch it yeah i'm back up is it well yeah it's gone back up i found out about it [2199.28] Andy: from bruce simpson have they removed some of it nice you can't do that don't get me wrong it [2205.84] Tony: was a great video fun no no absolutely it's dangerous if there was no cars on there or [2213.28] Andy: they've still been more as incorrect well i what i want to know before sort of i want i want to [2219.68] Andy: know whether it was intentional was it meant to create what it has us here talking about it [2224.8] Andy: because that's you know that if that was planned that can be seen as a good thing like you say any [2229.76] Andy: sort of publicity is good publicity or was it just a mistake and and they didn't realize it would cause [2238.4] Andy: this much because like sometimes i'll post a video and like if i've gotten if i've flown a [2243.28] Andy: little bit too close to a house and someone will comment on it i'm like i didn't that was um i i'm [2249.84] Andy: not in you know i'm sure that it wasn't their intention i think the problem is as well that [2256.48] NJ: we've we're in a really funny part of the kind of exponent exponential growth of the hobby um you [2263.76] NJ: know it really is accelerating pretty quickly now and while it's growing that fast they're still [2270.16] NJ: kind of not i mean as far as the fa cia concerned this is just a big pain in the ass for them they [2276.0] NJ: got far bigger bigger things to be getting on with far more important things to be getting on with [2280.88] NJ: than the drone regulation stuff and that is the truth you know there's there's so much that they [2284.8] NJ: have to deal with in general and commercial aviation this thing's just just a big pain for [2289.2] NJ: them but the speed at which is growing this is a fragile time for the hobby and that's the bit that [2296.56] NJ: worries me is that because it's so fragile you get things like this it's ammunition um for the media [2303.04] NJ: and right now for the media drone related incidents however ridiculous they are drones are a buzzword [2309.52] NJ: and the media absolutely run away with it i mean one thing bruce said was what if you just go down [2315.12] NJ: to the brass facts about everything that's going on what data has been presented on how many drone [2321.04] NJ: related deaths there are around the world no matter how much this is growing no matter how big it's [2325.36] NJ: getting there are still zero drone related deaths you know it's it's that these things have to be [2332.56] NJ: put into perspective but it is as i said there is an element of this being still quite a fragile [2338.88] NJ: time and we have to be a little bit careful to try and protect the hobby by not doing things that [2343.44] NJ: are going to you know vote the media to to respond and they'll jump on anything at the [2347.6] NJ: minute we all know that so you know that i just say you know have fun but just just think and [2353.28] NJ: try and be as responsible as you can so that we can protect this i don't want to be 10 years down [2357.2] NJ: the road and find out we all just we're all down to find tiny whoops in a hall because that's all [2362.56] NJ: the law will let us do you know that'd be really sad i am i i think road to riot are missing a [2369.52] Andy: trick and i sort of um touched on it when we had chad on the show because the the original reason [2376.4] Andy: i was interested in road to riot is their that sort of mission statement was kind of to be like [2381.76] Andy: a top gear for drones and i thought wow that is that's a really good idea but to me i it's [2389.36] Andy: it's not become that at all i think i think um you know doing all this bridge diving and stuff [2396.4] Andy: you know to be edgy or whatever and i think bruce was kind of right in that you don't really need [2402.08] Andy: to do that i think what it's become is kind of like um an amalgamation of these vloggers and [2408.4] Andy: and it sort of is kind of like a vlog whereas i think they could like they could take all of the [2414.88] Andy: the latest tech all of the latest drones they could set up a track that never changes a bit like how [2420.48] Andy: top gear does they can say they could they've got all the top pilots they can they can put them [2426.56] Andy: around the track they can say yeah this is the fastest this is they can they can do drag races [2431.6] Andy: and stuff like that but they're not doing any of that kind of stuff i mean maybe maybe you know [2437.12] Andy: that's just not the direction that they wanted to go in but that's what i want to watch i'd love to [2442.48] Andy: watch that right i would i would prefer remember that i'm like yeah they they actually did do that [2450.08] Andy: originally didn't they with david they set up a track didn't they yeah it should be in the shape [2454.88] Tony: of a penis but doesn't it say doesn't it say on the on the start of the road right thing uh fly [2462.56] Tony: safely or something like that and then they and then they put that out and i was just like that [2468.32] Frank: do you remember the episodes uh i was it on road to right or was it just on [2474.56] Frank: uh chad's own channel where they're blindfolding people and getting to fly different quads um [2482.4] Andy: not knowing which quad they were flying that was road to riot very early on i think they they [2486.88] Andy: turned up they erased didn't they that um that's right they built it was the raggy quad wasn't it [2492.32] Andy: they they they took um the raggy frame in another one yeah that was more all that kind of thing as [2498.96] Andy: well wasn't that was more sort of a top gear sort of thing wasn't it yeah i mean where they were [2503.84] Ash: trying to fly drunk in a warehouse i mean at least they're in a warehouse you know they can't do any [2509.76] Ash: harm with the drone flying off other than to themselves but yeah the problem is they like the [2514.72] Andy: drama they're never gonna you know move to anything that's it that um that facebook page it's uh it's [2522.48] Andy: it's a challenging read because it's all about the it's kind of like banter in it in a school [2528.4] Jack: or something isn't it you know final glide's chicken sandwich video i can't remember that [2534.72] Tony: can any of you remember that no the one where he goes bunches out to about 10 000 foot and then [2543.63] Tony: comes back down yeah yeah i remember and flies around see that that i can handle that because [2550.43] Tony: he's in the middle of australia it's massive but you can punch out and you wouldn't see a plane [2556.11] Tony: i think thousand million miles it's australia nothing exactly and you can fly around a bloody [2563.63] Tony: campfire and things like that i can handle but when you're bridge diving when there's people [2568.03] Tony: going over with kids in their car and stuff like that and i've i've had i've had um plane and props [2576.43] Tony: have snapped through the flight you know and eses have gone wrong and things like i said single [2581.95] NJ: points of failure it's just one of those things richard harwood in the chat actually said something [2586.03] NJ: quite uh probably something we can all uh relate to i think maybe the first drone related death is [2591.47] NJ: if my missus finds out i bought another one never a true word said only 20 quid yeah yeah only costs [2601.31] NJ: 20 quid see another package has turned up i know who are full faked invoices [2612.59] Jack: but their mrs won't kill them like 20 quid wow that's a mile that is life i've not thought of that [2621.31] Andy: what's this thing that says dji on the side oh yeah it was 20 quid yeah that's it it's a copy [2627.87] Andy: it's a sample i've been reviewing [2632.83] Jack: well done though 40 40 000 and the rc oh thanks very much everyone [2642.83] Andy: it's been a long road though that's like three years of collecting people so yeah that's not [2651.15] Ash: that's not a long time to get to 40k that's really good it's probably it probably took me a year it's [2656.59] Andy: funny it's cumulative it probably took me a year to get to like a thousand you know but that's just [2662.91] Andy: that's just how it is it's like a snowball effect you know so all you other yeah we can't all be [2668.67] Andy: as sexy as um nj sorry say again we can't all be as sexy nj's channel's doing great i think coming [2679.31] Andy: up to eight thousand nj i think yeah i think it's just about to turn wow that's [2686.27] Jack: i bet you and any money a lot it's quite a substantial female viewing [2691.79] NJ: no occasionally i look at the youtube stats and it's always like something like 1.5 percent [2698.43] Andy: neither same one and a half females it's a shame yeah that's 4.9 female [2704.59] Ash: oh there you go if i wear lower cut tops like handy i'll see maybe i can boost that [2716.11] Jack: shit sorry about that guys i just kicked a load of tape off my table [2720.99] Tony: i got too excited did you mr frost has just hit 500 he's beating me but he's only been on youtube [2728.03] Jack: for 10 years did anyone see what he said earlier on he goes hang on there's something about his [2735.39] Tony: mission you read this out jack he's probably in his head building something and no honestly [2743.55] Jack: it is so funny like i i was crying i just say while we're on the subject of talking about [2748.99] Andy: uh you know the percentage of female subscribers is the all female episode happening next week [2757.71] Tony: is vicky presenting it as well next week it's it's on great such a subject i can't [2767.34] Jack: be on i cannot because i'm just going to be like ng fbv me and tony fancy [2778.14] Tony: me and tony are just like staring at her fb princess and um zoe snumbar hopefully but she [2785.74] Tony: is really really busy at the moment but she has said that she will come on time i'm hoping we can [2791.82] Tony: get them free girls on because they're spanned out youtube channels to me yeah i think i think [2797.98] Andy: zoe posted she did a big post on face group didn't she yeah she did about the dl dl dl yeah zoe the [2807.42] Ash: 3d pilot yeah oh she her flying is just unbelievable especially when you choose with a video and you [2813.42] Ash: don't know it's zoe initially and then you see the quad flying in a way that you wouldn't normally [2817.26] Frank: expect it to yeah great all of a sudden you're like oh it's gonna crash and then it just hovers [2821.98] Ash: then oh it's zoe okay i don't know how she gets ahead around that whole arming mid throttle stick [2827.66] Jack: and blows my mind i've tried um mr frost lamo i told my wife about eating the wine in the microwave [2837.66] Jack: she nearly spat her wine everywhere bloody sacrilege she said what the shit is he thinking [2847.58] Tony: then i had to bring it up again when our friends came up i'm sorry mr frost is it red wine [2855.58] Tony: they're probably boiling white wine knowing them not up north they're not north of there [2861.26] Tony: is this scottish well what's that if it ain't nor for god's sake no totally different animal mate [2875.02] Tony: i like red wine to be the same temperature as i am [2882.14] Jack: scott's the men and women are hairy northern just the women [2892.22] Tony: you're lying there [2895.9] Jack: i can't wait to jack you're a [2904.86] Frank: if anyone's around in london i'll put the call again around in london on the [2910.38] Frank: 15th of november so a couple of weeks time and wants to come and fly in a cave [2916.06] Frank: and 16th well it's yeah so we're in the excel center on the 15th and 16th if anyone wants to [2921.42] Frank: come and fly a tiny whoop in a cage with us on the 15th wow i've only booked the 15th [2927.58] Frank: well we'll survive is this a commercial show or something yeah this is a commercial uav show uh [2933.9] Frank: at the excel center uh yeah so 15th and 16th but on the 15th there's a drinks reception from [2941.42] Frank: uh five o'clock um until i think it's about an hour where we take over the demo zone for an [2948.46] Tony: hour and they're going to be working and drinking well we're definitely crashing at yours then [2956.06] Ash: whilst you're there there's a pretty cool drone called um it's made by a company called iMaze [2960.3] Ash: it's like a drone in a ball basically crash it into anything crash it into a wall and it just [2965.5] Ash: bounces off um pretty cool idea jack meets one of them i'd be good at crushing that [2974.38] Jack: sorry i'm just trying to apologize to all the scottish with the norden people [2978.3] Jack: like they are ripping me in the chat they're just like i've never oh man i i'm actually [2985.66] Andy: slightly sorry brothers is either chat us up brothers yeah have you guys um have you guys heard [2993.58] Andy: about this um thing that the caa are organizing um we've got in droning out scumming oh really [3002.54] Jack: droning on droning out is is you jack oh yeah why are you named so close to it must ruin your [3011.42] Andy: google search can i uh i i want to um admit something here right come on i when when i um [3021.26] Andy: when i first when i first found when i first found let's drone out i thought that it was [3028.54] Andy: droning on's podcast because the names are so similar i i thought and and there was a time when [3034.7] Andy: jack didn't have his camera on and i thought it was ash's voice i i thought i thought i thought [3044.62] Jack: i definitely don't have 4.5 we've been watching me i thought jack sounded like how ash would talk [3059.58] Jack: give me a sentence and you move your mouth to it [3063.66] Jack: what's your what's your intro like tell me your intro hi i'm ash from droning on right ready three [3070.7] Frank: hi i'm ash from droning on no you've got a mouth it no the lag on here is not gonna work [3078.38] Andy: the lag and also whoever's speaking like comes up on the big screen so it doesn't hang on what we [3085.26] Tony: can do frank frank you've got to put uh uh you know present ash oh no i'm feeling the pressure now [3095.74] Tony: that's it now all you've got to do is open your mouth and shut it all jack's got to do is say [3100.14] Jack: it like half a second later okay right it'd be like one of them chorneys cry he says hi what a [3114.3] Jack: we're sorry we are actually friends with you great honor um [3122.3] Andy: this is more controversial than road to riot this is [3130.3] Jack: nj's going back to the rehab safer in there i think we all need it after this [3136.06] Jack: right on three got it three one hi i'm ash from let's drone on that was way too slow [3147.02] Tony: it worked kind of i think it's a movie man [3152.86] Ash: andy you were talking about the caa thing are you going to that caa then i don't think so but yeah [3158.54] Andy: i've always been a big fan of simon newton i think he's been organizing it hasn't he so i thought [3163.9] Andy: that was a really interesting move because you know not so long ago we were sort of all all [3170.46] Andy: talking about you know these new drone rules and regulations and stuff but the fact that [3176.86] Andy: it seems that the caa are coming together with like clubs and stuff i mean that's got to be a [3183.34] Andy: good thing hasn't it um i think it's on invite only as well isn't it as long as i listen yeah [3189.34] Ash: yeah well well i there's only 150 spaces but i'm i'm going to it and i there's a plus one so if [3195.66] Ash: anyone wants to meet me there and use my ticket basically i've got two yeah it's like 11th to [3201.82] Andy: november so now i think something like that where where is it oh it's really it's down south though [3207.34] Andy: isn't it it's really it's uh that's it yeah it's like just above bournemouth kind of area above [3214.78] Tony: like yeah so yeah so it's pretty is not near bournemouth is it no it's not is it yeah i don't think so [3223.66] Jack: it reminds me that that's our north um [3226.38] Jack: um [3230.22] Andy: it's somewhere in middler uh no it's north of bournemouth yeah north of bournemouth [3237.1] Andy: yeah it's close it's kind of close to you guys you guys you're not helping yourself andiasi you [3241.82] Jack: know that i'm just imagining hairy hobbit feet now you northern you're just putting me in with [3248.46] Andy: the scottish guys aren't you no i'm sure i am gonna we're all gonna we're all gonna gang up on you [3254.86] Jack: and burn my house with me [3259.82] Frank: binary throttle is um put in the chat uh in the essex area tomorrow night they're trying some uh [3267.1] Frank: micro and woop racing around a big ship pirate ship um in a climbing frame in a uh park near there [3274.7] Tony: um isn't there a law against that well he's testing his wireless lighting system i think [3280.06] Frank: gary's put together a really impressive looking license yeah because i've watched i've seen some [3284.38] Tony: of his facebook posts where he's been like nights and nights sold in xd60s to about 100 lights so [3292.14] Tony: um good on you gav i i won't be coming but i'll be watching in [3297.98] Jack: anticipation to see how good it did you call in gary as well yeah from uh mini air show that [3304.38] Frank: is gary isn't it tony called and gary for some reason i never quite understood if i call someone [3309.82] Jack: something it sticks yeah if i'm frank i've noticed everyone calls me the c-word now you are [3319.98] Jack: in this chat it's not because you are then it may be i'm not that bad am i uh moving on um [3328.78] Frank: have you got anything else plans coming up um ash um i don't think no i was gonna go to [3335.18] Ash: the commercial show um i might we're gonna be there so stay clear of that lot [3342.94] Frank: what what are you guys doing are you there as a this group or yeah we uh doing a bit of a favor for [3352.06] Frank: hidden valley because uh they were going to be there doing this uh demo section but because [3358.94] Frank: they're still in a kind of twilight zone of not knowing what the hell's going on um they [3366.7] Frank: needed someone to fill in for them so we've kind of stepped in um to [3373.26] Jack: when you are sledge thrown out to do that is like you know you might as well try and get the [3382.78] Jack: ghostbusters back together should we dress up as ghostbusters and go no what is wrong with him [3392.22] Jack: honestly dying to be back to the future [3396.78] Ash: here's another story that's um been in the news today about um a drone that was knocked out of [3402.22] Ash: the sky at a football match by a toilet roll oh yeah it's been flown over the audience one of the [3409.26] Ash: crowd members through a toilet roll and basically it fell out the sky and landed on someone [3414.54] Tony: no yeah what was that as well something like that they might have found him [3426.62] Ash: trying to work out what it was andy you've you've had far more drones than probably anyone else [3430.7] Ash: that we know if you can identify what drone this this was and where have we got the link [3437.26] NJ: try and find the video was it like a professional rig if it was one used inside the uh yeah i mean [3443.74] Jack: it was a beautiful shot though i got right in there for the toy that was amazing yeah [3452.46] Tony: so was it um allowed to be filmed in there we assume so it looks like it was flying and [3458.78] Jack: flying along filming the crowd so but i don't understand why they bother with that because [3465.26] Tony: they've got the whole zip line yeah just use the wires and have a camera enough of it [3471.74] Frank: and you definitely wouldn't do it over the crowd would you maybe maybe it was a smaller club or [3477.74] Jack: something just trying to maybe not with all that many people there yeah oh god that was a horrible [3484.46] Andy: sentence oh it's terrible yeah typhoon h well that's that's a big that's a big quad cop to the [3495.9] Tony: before and on someone attacking it but it's a cheap quad cop to be flying around isn't it oh i think [3501.58] Jack: it's a hexacopter isn't it the hex this is tony being like i can't believe i got run over by a [3507.66] Jack: vox or nova i would have much preferred something like a bedley what's he gonna get run over you [3513.58] Ash: might as well get a run over properly it wasn't the typhoon is a definitely a quad cop so i'm not [3524.72] Ash: sure if it was an official drone or just something flowing into the the store wasn't it uh a unique [3530.64] Jack: typhoon um because i'm fat richard hardwood is that why you think i don't have any interest in sports [3538.56] Jack: yeah more importantly who takes a toilet roll with them to a stadium [3549.12] NJ: paper to save me time maybe maybe it was someone with with horrific ibs and then they threw it [3554.24] NJ: and immediately regret it goodbye socks ah yes 500 i think you're right the crones and ibs [3564.72] Tony: supporters [3569.44] Tony: sorry i shouldn't laugh for that [3574.56] Jack: you are so off my christmas card list [3576.96] Tony: see you in rehab before i get a christmas card from you jack it'll be [3584.08] Tony: from someone else with your name scribbled in at the end yeah yeah [3592.96] NJ: but i've got some sort of tech newsy bits there's some stuff that i'm just not going to get around [3596.96] NJ: to putting on so i was saying um by mistake i was in two of these this right it didn't look [3605.44] NJ: up it didn't look like this out of the box um but this is the spc maker 90 ng now this little guy [3614.0] NJ: no it's just a top but this little guy so this is nearly 200 quid n g [3622.56] NJ: nearly 200 quids worth of quad so i was expecting good things from this and it turns out i've had [3627.6] NJ: two of these um because the second one was sent by mistake and they're both completely unflyable [3633.76] NJ: because they're actually it's an f4 um with beta flight osd it's an only bus f4 f4 micro um [3640.08] NJ: some really nice components but this f4 i'm not sure what the mcu is on it but it's one of the [3645.84] NJ: dreaded terrible ones with horrific noise problems so it literally shakes itself to death two of [3651.28] NJ: those do that so yeah that's the spc maker 90 ng i don't know what any of you would honestly want [3658.4] NJ: to spend 200 quid on something that small but if you know anyone thinking about it stop them in [3662.48] NJ: their tracks it literally does not fly um so it needs a whole ton of soft mounting to get it to [3668.0] NJ: even you know get anywhere near behaving so that won't go onto the channel but you've been warned [3674.0] NJ: um just it's worth you doing a short video on it anyway just to say i might very well just tag it [3680.32] NJ: onto as a like a news item so bad they sent it twice yes indeed so make one out of this this one [3689.36] NJ: is the now fairly modified leader 120 and i did a video just a couple of days ago and that [3696.32] NJ: and this thing is 75 grams and it is just amazing to fly i mean if you haven't seen the video on [3703.2] NJ: this check it out it really does stuff that i do with the five inch quads this will this will [3709.36] Tony: handle it with no problem at all but you gotta buy better props and things like that so yeah [3716.08] NJ: the props like these are actually the rotorex uh props and they're decent material they're the [3721.12] NJ: ones that actually come in two sections that you you kind of clamp them together um but they're [3726.96] NJ: really great performing props really well balanced um and on a good strong 3s this this feels like [3733.44] NJ: you know it's the equivalent to a 5s on a five inch it really shifts um but just wonderful to fly [3740.08] NJ: and then today as i got in um this which is literally hot off the press this is the new [3748.0] NJ: geprc sparrow that looks nice i tell you what this only weighs 145 grams so this is going to be [3757.36] NJ: a real monster because it's got um let me see what the stator is on this my eyes are terrible so it's [3763.36] NJ: a 3500 kv 1408 um and a 1408 uh because i was using 1306s on my other where's my other one [3772.96] NJ: there's my other this was a really hard get this was a reptile along isn't it look at it but that [3779.92] NJ: guy and then you look at this guy this this weighs a whole lot less that looks out for us and they're [3785.68] NJ: claiming this guy will quite happily fly with a gopro you can see they've actually put the straps [3791.76] NJ: and really and yeah that's what they're saying and with the stator size of this [3796.88] NJ: i think it might be possible i'm going to try i'm going to check it out um but this feels premium [3802.4] NJ: it's the only fault i'll say with it is unfortunately the flight controller they've [3807.2] NJ: gone for is kind of i think it's a pico blx or similar to that it's running on that firmware [3814.64] NJ: but unfortunately there's no osd osd on it and kind of it's just it's just a given now [3821.04] NJ: for a good premium quad you need it you need an osd it's nice nj isn't it as well i think [3826.56] NJ: it's about 170 um but when you compare that for 170 where's that for about 200 where's that from [3835.84] NJ: so this one's been sent by banggood it's literally a brand new uh quad this yeah i think i i think i [3841.52] Andy: seen it come up yeah i didn't realize i had no on-screen display there that's the only thing [3846.16] NJ: that's missing everything else really good up to 35 amp burst the um the swift edit the swift [3852.56] Andy: edits come with has that got an on-screen display is yeah that will have its normal yeah it's a swift [3857.68] NJ: one but it's got the 2.1 lens on it which is my favorite lens anyway so they come like that nj [3864.08] NJ: yeah this is it out of the box literally as you see what meal is the carbon i'll drop it i'll drop [3869.92] NJ: a link in the uh in the chat so you can that's quite a thick that's three uh three mil but [3876.0] NJ: there's hardly any flex it's really decent it looks crash freak as well that's one of my [3880.96] NJ: yeah a couple of legs a couple of leads on the back the xc30 obviously which is great [3885.36] NJ: and the soldering is good so and it comes with um the x not the xsr what's the mini xm plus [3894.8] NJ: no it's the one i had r xsr that's it um which is the little guy you can see just on the top [3902.32] NJ: yeah it's got one of it yeah has it got a buzzer as well yeah buzzers in there um you can kind of [3907.36] Andy: see it there just about i think the um i think the three inch class is going to be really popular [3913.28] Andy: because it hits that sweet 250 gram spot yeah oh easily well this this one's quite chunky [3919.68] NJ: comparison but this is quite an early uh yeah i think i got that one yeah the reptile if you [3924.32] NJ: remember that one and this still screamed and a lot of fun to fly um but if you look in comparison [3929.28] NJ: this thing's gonna weigh a whole ton less it's got the 20 mil stacks that's all just lighter [3934.72] NJ: in every way a much stronger motors than these emacs uh 30 no sixes so yeah i think they're [3940.8] NJ: going to be super interesting and then the last couple of bits i'll show you if you haven't already [3946.8] NJ: it's the uh i've got to say i'm a big fan of it it's very beautiful the uh the uh do you know [3954.24] NJ: the one thing i didn't do in that first part of the video review which i thought this is going [3957.84] NJ: to make people angry i never turned it on but maybe that's my clickbait for getting them back [3962.48] NJ: for part two i'll uh i'll turn it on just so you can see the screen on it no it's really nice [3968.24] NJ: it is how much is that they're about 270 wow um [3976.4] Ash: i'm not sure if i could bring myself to fly with anything besides the regular transmitter shape [3981.68] NJ: i'm so used to that it's quite nice yeah it's probably not coming out that great on here [3987.76] Tony: size as the um uh the cheapo uh x [3992.0] NJ: oh let me grab i can give you i forget all the blubbing names of these things [3996.56] NJ: so there's the two of them together [3999.68] NJ: if i just about get that in view and see it on there yeah so there you go the biggest thing [4005.12] NJ: as well sorry is it a touchscreen as well it's not a touchscreen but it's got that similar interface [4011.04] NJ: with the rotary encoder it's it's pretty nice i think the thing that i just disliked on this [4017.04] NJ: could you see how deep the recesses on the gimbals they're quite a long way in the transmitter on [4022.56] NJ: these and that was my biggest gripe with the qx7 i think you find the size character with that and [4028.24] Tony: then uh the normal tranis like so the normal tranis let me grab that so um i know what you're [4035.68] NJ: talking about and these these feel wise feel wise these are much closer um it doesn't feel as alien [4044.0] NJ: as this to the qx7 this fit the actual how it feels in the hands is actually quite similar [4050.64] Tony: which is important to me and me yeah when i sit down i've got to prepare myself take things out [4056.08] Tony: of my pockets and get it in the right position and it's a bit of a weirdo like that but and the [4062.24] NJ: other nice thing as well is i'd normally run with a stand on here but you can see they've made a [4067.36] NJ: really deep oh that's nice and also actually sits at quite a nice sort of shallow angle um but yeah [4073.84] NJ: that's nice so i'm going to go through the interface in this even though i'm going to [4077.68] NJ: put open tx on here because open tx is wonderful the actual uh horace software that they've put [4084.24] NJ: on here by a fast guy is actually really good um just to stop and it's got the logical switches [4089.52] NJ: special functions it's a little simpler than open tx but it's actually very good um so yeah yeah [4096.24] NJ: there'll be there'll be more on that guy um up and coming so yeah i think that's all the stuff [4103.36] NJ: that's currently surrounding me that people might be interested in um and the only actually [4109.2] NJ: one more thing while we're here i've been sent by my wonderful friends at ready eddie these new [4116.56] NJ: cells to test out and i there are a bit of a pain because you can only get these direct from ready [4121.84] NJ: eddie in israel and i know that means there's a bit of a premium to getting hold of these cells [4126.16] NJ: but these uh 1500 milliamp 95c i've had the 1300 milliamp i've flown the life out of them and [4133.84] NJ: they're all still brilliant these are really good cells um so yeah ready eddie cells and we've got [4140.48] NJ: bloods in the chat um i should just quickly point out the bloods uh his i did a review on his frame [4146.24] NJ: the archon and i'm going to be building that up soon it is a wonderful frame halo rc if you want [4152.56] NJ: to go over and check it his frame out and he's just one guy that's gone out and uh you know [4158.72] NJ: worked hard on his own frame he's got the parts being cut by armatan um so they're really nice [4163.92] NJ: high quality cuts and i've been very impressed with that frame so uh well worth checking out [4170.0] NJ: really if you haven't already i look forward to building that one but yes that's all in my world [4175.92] Andy: anyone else anything have you just while you're on the subject tension have you seen that um [4183.04] Andy: isheen have uh come out what are coming out with even more goggles yes it was linked in the in the [4190.64] NJ: chat earlier and i've just now had a gander so i shall um i shall do a bit more yes why [4197.84] Andy: why have they got four antenna ports it's two diversity modules so so so so like just more [4207.68] Tony: i guess more diversity what have you had four antennas on your head yeah i really would love [4216.16] NJ: to know how the rnd process works in that company uh because it just it baffles me it's like we've [4223.84] NJ: given them amongst all the reviewers we've given the information for them to worth what we loved [4229.84] NJ: and what needs improving for them to just watch a bunch of these videos and then go to the drawing [4234.24] NJ: board in chinese next it could and it could be brilliant the next set and instead they've gone [4240.16] NJ: let's have four antennas brilliant and that was something you know i've just really worried about [4245.12] Andy: how many kv you want i think i think they're on um there are systems out there that diversity [4251.68] Andy: systems that have more than two antennas though so i think that maybe that's what they were going [4257.36] Andy: for you've got that is it hobby king do a mammoth thing that points in all directions so maybe that's [4264.48] NJ: the idea yeah the overlord yeah i'd love to see someone strap an overlord to their head [4273.36] Jack: i mean i don't even make sense to me from my understanding of it isn't it that it's [4280.16] Frank: one for each eye for doing 3d so you've got diversity oh it could be doing 3d [4287.2] Ash: um i don't know yeah but how popular is 3d yeah it's a pretty niche thing but then there's the new [4294.08] Frank: um on the nerd cam isn't there a new nerd cam coming out that's really really tiny in terms of [4301.36] Frank: you know still got the the the distance between the cameras but it's like a really [4306.24] Frank: thin chip compared to the old ones that were really big and bulky um i can't remember who [4312.16] Frank: had it but i'm sure i've seen a photo of someone putting it on a tiny woop um so it's probably [4319.04] Andy: kylos because it's probably kylos you know that make yeah i think it was wasn't it i think i think [4324.56] Andy: 3d makes a lot more sense if you're flying indoors because when i've tried a 3d system and when [4331.68] Andy: you're flying outdoors you don't really get the the 3d effect because because a certain you know [4339.12] Andy: you have to be a certain distance away from objects for them to look 3d otherwise it's just [4343.76] Andy: like looking in the distance and everything's flat anyways so put it on a little micro flying doors [4348.96] Andy: why is it a flat andy no no the dimension oh sorry carry on sorry because there's something [4358.8] Andy: called parallax i i think isn't it eventually eventually it stops being 3d and it it goes it [4364.96] Andy: goes flat but it's yeah earth's still round i think anyways you can't prove it though well [4375.76] Andy: maybe we shouldn't go there no let's shall we just check that ash isn't a flat earth [4383.04] Ash: i'm definitely definitely not but i do i do remember i think it was last week Andy [4389.12] Ash: he bought some of you guys said about um the retailers the manufacturers watching our reviews [4393.92] Ash: and taking on board our feedback and the the manufacturers seem to watch the videos and they [4400.16] Ash: do absorb the feedback and the bug reports but the retailers um gear vest and banggood etc don't seem [4406.16] Ash: to actually watch the videos which is a real shame no oh god no i'm gonna mute jack for a minute no [4416.96] Tony: because ng fpv is in the chat and he's he's like oh my god i love her yeah i know oh god we said [4425.36] Jack: we fancied her oh no might not have been listening and hopefully oh god her boyfriend wants to [4434.24] Jack: rip our dicks off [4438.72] Tony: come on we've got to be nice we've got girls night i've enjoyed living [4444.08] Jack: ish anyway before i'm going for tony there you go there's nothing you can do about it [4451.12] Frank: before jack rudely interrupted you were talking ash [4456.56] Ash: you know what happens you've watched this go uh exactly this is much more controlled than [4461.28] Frank: last week we've we've gone past the hour so it's all going to devolve into hell [4468.64] Andy: on that subject on that subject ash the one thing that i will say about that is um i don't think [4475.44] Andy: it's as easy as as we think for um them to watch youtube in china i think i think there's i think [4485.2] Andy: there's a lot of golden firewall sorry yeah yeah well i i don't i think i think it is kind of [4494.0] Andy: blocked because it's it's kind of i think it's more around the comments and freedom of speech [4498.96] Andy: and things like that isn't it so i think uh same with facebook as well i think uh they struggle [4504.96] Andy: with so so maybe it's something to do with that and i think that that's why we get a lot of stuff [4510.08] Andy: is because it's difficult for them to have the same kind of impact if if they were to [4516.32] Andy: have a youtube channel and things like that whereas you know it's easier for them to set [4520.8] Andy: to send stuff out and it's good in a way that they don't watch them because it means that [4524.96] Andy: we can be completely honest you know so yeah that's a good point but when they watch you [4530.88] Tony: like it's it that they should take on board the stuff that you've said and like well actually um [4537.68] Andy: what what what i found is i've been having um just recently um a lot of issues with people [4544.56] Andy: buying stuff from gearbest they recently had a problem with their shipping in fact i had the [4549.84] Andy: same problem i got something from them and it and it took six weeks to get here and i i um [4555.76] Andy: i fed that back to them and i said uh what and they they do take stuff like that on board [4562.24] Andy: i said you know you need to sort this out because obviously it's it's having an impact on you [4567.76] Andy: and i've been working with gearbest as well because um their prices are just vastly different [4573.84] Andy: than everywhere else so um i've been pointing out where like their prices are wrong and stuff and [4580.08] Andy: they listen to stuff like that so um but yeah less not not so much the the comments in youtube [4587.12] Andy: i and yeah i definitely think there's a language barrier there as well so yeah that's my take on it [4595.28] Ash: i agree and it was funny the other day there was a review of the drone that was said to be [4600.4] Ash: waterproof i know you've reviewed it before the h31 oh yeah yeah a long time ago i think that's [4606.96] Andy: my i think that's my most popular video for me enough i don't know my favorite drone to review [4612.0] Ash: so far and it comes it was said to be waterproof drone so i needed water and i i literally hunted [4621.02] Ash: around our city for hours to try and find somewhere i could actually fly it without you know get [4625.98] Ash: breaking any regulations and it so the incidents that happen do make you think twice especially [4630.7] Ash: as a reviewer but you know it can land on the water and it can take off it was sit there and [4636.22] Ash: wait for you to throttle up and it didn't it just sank yeah contacted the manufacturer and they said [4643.26] Ash: oh no worries we'll change the website fully understand them so some of the manufacturers [4647.5] Ash: are really good but i think you're right with the videos actually it is all blocked over there on [4651.42] Ash: facebook they have to connect to a vpn to get onto it so yeah gear best are very good like you say [4657.02] Ash: that they listen and that mainly the girls over there that that work for gear best are always on [4662.14] NJ: hand for price changes and stuff like that yeah i've had real real trouble getting any gear best [4669.82] NJ: stuff um because they they send me out a couple of review units and they just never turned up [4676.14] NJ: um and then now they've sent again and still i'm waiting for something to arrive to actually [4681.5] Frank: oh no they haven't got a fake nj sending them an address have they [4690.14] NJ: who would dare um yeah so that that is obviously sometimes the other problem i guess [4697.02] NJ: um you know they're they're not all some of these chinese companies are not always [4701.42] NJ: going the most legitimate route to uh sending sending uh parcels into the country certainly [4709.18] NJ: in terms of trying to avoid that i think um yeah so yeah yeah one of those things [4715.74] Jack: hobby thing clearly do that though didn't they they smuggle it in through europe [4720.86] Ash: well they didn't want to buy fat shark se's from them i go i think it was an 80 pound bill [4726.78] Jack: wow gutted no but um how they get the stuff to the uk store [4732.86] Ash: ah right i think that's what they do i noticed that whenever i watch anywhere these days they [4739.42] Ash: always come by sweden so gear best and banggood and hobby wow seems to have a lot of depots over [4745.18] Jack: there yeah you know what the swedish are like with copyright laws and tax [4750.78] Jack: and they're literally pirates [4757.5] Jack: you know like i i was you know like i'm sure i'm on some sort of list from being on [4763.98] Tony: friends with david i don't think it's um the list that you're thinking object [4771.42] Jack: he's definitely old enough [4775.82] Jack: and when i touched him he liked it [4777.98] Ash: yeah [4783.66] Ash: i got something new for you today um which is [4787.82] Ash: the your goodies i'm drooling over your um horrors that you've got there [4793.1] Ash: wingsland x1 there's a brand new little um i mean wingsland have a weird history they brought out [4799.42] Ash: a photographic videography drone the s6 little folding drone a great quality camera but the rest [4806.14] Ash: of the drone just a little bit unstable but still not a bad little thing this is basically a [4810.94] Ash: hundred dollar fpv racing drone a little camera on the front 640 by 480 um pretty good range on [4819.58] Ash: it as well but the weird thing is it's got optical flow as well so you basically can hold it at any [4824.7] Andy: point and it just hovers on the spot really nice in door right now that's becoming quite popular [4833.34] Andy: now even on the toy stuff isn't it the uh optical flow yeah and it's really good i mean it's really [4839.58] Ash: impressive as well this thing literally just you let go of the controls and it stops dead you know [4845.18] Andy: yeah i'm i'm the same actually it's the only nj that gets all the the great stuff that comes [4849.82] Andy: through nj gets sent nj gets sent a horse from bangor do you want to see what i got today from [4855.18] Andy: bangor i got sent a quad cocked to a little center so yeah i forty thousand subscribers [4866.22] Andy: a little tiny this is what you can expect so nj's got some kind of special i think he's quite classy [4874.46] Jack: he's definitely it definitely has something to do with being in rehab it's not that i think i'm [4881.66] Jack: just a bully it is man i just believe him always bawling on a budget mate i think is a [4889.34] Andy: bangor person takes one look at his profile picture and says just have all of the pictures [4895.18] Andy: nj on his plane on his private yeah sorry i can't chat now i'm on my private plane yeah [4904.3] NJ: sadly that wasn't mine i wish it was only kv you want [4908.3] Andy: oh i think i've got that one as well yes oh just wait till you fly and it's brilliant [4920.86] Andy: i i know the non-christmas version of it and yeah it was it was really tricky to fly [4927.82] Jack: how long before there's a christmas mr hankie [4932.94] Jack: you know like those pirouette barbie dolls you know the one that goes on the fire and the girl [4937.1] Jack: starts crying someone you're a you've got no life can you make one a spinning fairy drone mr [4946.86] Jack: hankie does everyone know what the hell i'm on about yes yes we do oh thank god don't give bang [4955.02] Jack: good any ideas oh man that's what i am literally waiting for but wasn't there a big one of them [4962.14] Andy: there was that's that's what it's for mr hankie provision power the flying love egg yes [4975.18] Jack: if you found that in your mother's closet you would think that was a christmas present you'd [4979.34] Jack: think it was her stash [4987.82] Jack: i'm sorry folks we waste all this [4992.22] Jack: i'm sorry mg please don't not fancy me anymore i don't think she does she's got a boyfriend [4999.9] Jack: mate she wouldn't touch us too toothless moonlight and dinner ladies with a 10 foot stolen dick [5004.62] Ash: andy that point does it is it is a point actually about these [5014.78] Ash: is just swamped with sub 30 30 pound drones yeah the reason there's a reason for that and that's [5021.82] Andy: because people don't want to spend even a hundred pound on a quadcopter and if you if you if you [5028.86] Andy: solely review premium stuff you miss yeah i think you're missing a trick because there's a [5036.3] Andy: the most like when i when i'm out flying the first thing anyone says well it's usually [5041.74] Andy: how far can it go and how much does it cost in the moment that you say anything above 30 pounds [5047.18] Andy: they'll go oh right i'll carry on walking my dog then so there's a huge there's a reason there's [5052.7] Andy: there's so many toys and i think it i think toys are a great thing because it's what got me back [5058.3] Andy: into this hobby after a huge break i i didn't know whether you know because i always flew planes so i [5064.06] Andy: never flew helicopters so i thought oh boy and i loved it straight away and uh yeah i learned to [5070.3] Andy: fly it on a cheap hubson thing and now i'm in a huge amount of debt so great so there's not getting [5079.82] Jack: these silly things down though have you ever just been flying something and you weren't that [5084.7] Jack: impressed with it andy and you were just like give me 30 quid you can have it and then just [5089.42] Andy: hand it to him and then just walk off not even that i i i pretty much um i i give a lot of what [5097.9] Andy: i give a lot away uh a lad um just yesterday i you know because obviously this gets a lot of [5104.54] Andy: interest and they're like uh if if it's like a toy one or a very cheap one and they're interested [5112.22] Andy: in it i'll say once the review's done uh this this where i live knock on the door and it's yours [5119.1] Andy: and that's that's how i sort of don't accumulate don't tell people that because you're just going [5124.62] Jack: to have weirdos knocking on your door you said i can have my love egg where's my love egg and then [5130.62] Andy: you're having to try and explain that to your mum no i think i think it's a great way to get into [5137.98] Andy: it and you know i've got like all all this sort of knowledge and stuff so i think it's [5144.06] Andy: bet it's better that they have one off me and i can sort of show them teach them and they they [5149.9] Andy: when i give them away they go and watch the videos as well so what was the lad's name yesterday [5156.22] Andy: josh i think isn't it probably not watching but uh yeah i gave it to a lad named josh i did that [5162.78] Tony: the other day i when i went to the star wars um thing last year i got a few drones from there [5168.38] Tony: and i gave one to one of my uh well someone who uh one of my neighbors and uh gave it to their [5175.9] Tony: son who is 10 and then i i got a nice little card two days later saying thanks for me they're [5183.9] Andy: getting there like at first it's great to get free stuff but then where like it's more stuff [5189.42] Andy: that you can deal with so um i gave i gave one away to um a charity a couple well it was a it [5196.78] Andy: was an event a couple of weeks ago and uh like they were where someone bids on it basically [5203.66] Andy: and then the money goes to charity when they bid on it so uh that one it was like it was [5209.18] Andy: just a toy one but it got 50 quid so that wasn't too bad so i try and i try and i know a particular [5217.5] Andy: person that has a lot to do with charities which is helpful because i i just offload them to there [5223.5] Andy: it's uh much easier yeah that's really good way of doing it like it's really tricky doing giveaways [5230.22] Andy: on the channel with with postage and stuff because for it to be fair you need to do it worldwide [5235.66] Andy: and you know sometimes a little you know i know 50 quid quadcopter could cost 50 quid to post it so [5242.54] Andy: i try and give them away locally into charities and things i'm really sad to hear that you're now [5248.38] Jack: in debt i think all your subscribers should donate you one pound oh i mean i'm 40 000 pounds [5255.9] Andy: you'd get 40 grand and if any anyone anyone who does this is spending a lot of money aren't they [5263.02] Ash: so have you considered only doing paid content because on youtube you can have a you know you [5269.26] Jack: work it's already bad enough he does let's draw now it would just make people hate you [5273.9] Andy: i i think no i i think if you're doing this any any of this purely for the money it's the wrong [5282.06] Andy: attitude and i i am like do you know a chap called uh colin first yeah he started doing paid [5291.5] Andy: content like you you see a video pops up and you have to pay one pound eight and i'm like [5295.82] Tony: i pressed on subscribe yeah that's true yeah i saw it like he'd done a washing machine one today [5300.94] Andy: and yeah it's great content but now he's doing paid stuff and i unsubscribe this is what happens [5305.66] Tony: when you get big though isn't it this is what happens you get to a certain amount of um uh [5310.86] Tony: subscribers and then like some people will sell out and just and do i've um i've considered [5317.34] Andy: patreon i think patreon's a great thing but i i suffer with stress quite a lot which is strange [5323.98] Jack: because i come on this show but that's why what the hell this is like therapy i'm a recovering [5332.06] Jack: alcoholic so i decided to work with let's thrown out at the let's thrown out bar this is like [5339.02] Ash: you realize you're not alone when you're on this channel i know like what the hell do you just [5343.82] Jack: come on here and just be like well that was over i'm glad i'm not tony and jack at least i'm not [5351.9] Andy: and then you just lay there asleep like warm and not at all i love chatting to you guys i think uh [5358.22] Andy: very underrated show and you get great people you guys have connected me as well [5363.9] Andy: with some great people you know i i'd never enjoyed it yeah yeah mj is awesome and i like [5372.62] Andy: i never thought i'd get i never thought i'd get the opportunity to speak to david or chad and [5377.82] Andy: that's amazing and um i've actually uh i got you guys to thank for um there's um a review unit [5385.42] Andy: coming and uh it's the underground fpv guys and apparently uh someone through let's drone out just [5394.78] Andy: basically they they weren't sure whether um they should send something um to for review to me and [5402.06] Andy: then they were like oh no it's cool it's like you know it goes on let's drone out and all this and [5407.1] Andy: i've got the um it's a frame it's really unusual frame it's called the um core v2 and it's like [5415.1] Andy: design it's like molded carbon and uh that's going to be that's going to be uh going back to [5421.82] Andy: what ash was saying about builds i'm going to do a build of that coming up on the channel and you [5426.7] Andy: guys connected me with that so yeah i love coming on here it is weird isn't it how like let's [5433.1] Jack: drone out is like you're the geekiest second ugliest kid in high school and the hot girl [5439.02] Jack: kind of sits near you at lunch and talks to you and you don't know whether to ask her out or not [5445.42] Jack: and then basically it passed 20 years later and you're 35 and she was like yeah i would have [5453.58] Jack: i yeah i was kind of like waiting for you to kind of like you know ask me to get out you know and [5459.42] Tony: you're just like you wake up and find yourself in a room on your own talking to a load of men [5470.46] Jack: what the fuck yeah i know and you are like the only reason you haven't got a [5475.42] Jack: shotgun in your mouth is because you live in england [5481.66] Ash: fucking hell you were saying about patreon andy i think the problem with that is that then you're [5486.06] Ash: obligated to put out content and i'm always sure how many videos you put out on a weekly [5491.34] Andy: basis i don't know how you do it yeah man you're a lot of machine well it's it's quite it's quite [5496.94] Andy: simple really um i had a job and i was made redundant from it a year ago um this week actually [5505.34] Andy: so i i do youtube solely and um i don't do patreon i know we went off on a crazy tangent there but [5514.14] Andy: um yeah i do i do suffer from like i do get stressed and i think if i had a patreon [5521.26] Andy: you are you you're not obligated but i feel obligated if people are putting that harder [5526.86] Andy: in cash like there's just definitely pressure there even though it's technically not there [5532.86] Andy: in my head it's like i need to make content whereas if i don't have a patreon i i could just [5539.66] Andy: stop if i wanted anytime and and there's no consequence you know so um but it's something [5545.42] Andy: i think about because it's a it's a good way it's kind of the way i see it's kind of like um [5550.22] Andy: if you were busking in the streets and someone wanted to throw your pound or something like [5554.3] Andy: that they don't get anything from it other than enjoying your content but i think with patreon [5559.5] Andy: um like i see people giving out stickers and um sending products and things like that and i [5566.7] Andy: having the capacity to do that i i don't think i think i struggle i think there's there's there's [5572.38] NJ: probably a bit of a conception of how the patreon model works and for me because i have a patreon [5580.3] NJ: account which i set up quite early when i was kind of getting the channel uh or getting more [5585.5] NJ: serious about the channel but i think it's one of those things it's just a platform to to do [5591.1] NJ: whatever you want with it so i mean yes there is a kind of typical model with goals and [5597.1] NJ: pledge for this and you'll get that and literally with my one i said if you want to donate something [5602.62] NJ: because mainly because there's like a series of video might have been my flights all stuffable my [5608.06] NJ: build tutorials or tips and tricks if there's something that's helped you and you want to [5611.34] NJ: actually give something uh back then you're more than welcome to and then what i did is rather [5617.1] NJ: than say you know i put just a ton of list a list of pledges i say just do what you want [5623.02] NJ: uh i've got a facebook group an nj uh tech patreon facebook group where everyone that's [5627.98] NJ: in my patreon members can just talk to me and chat to me one to one i said i'll always uh help you [5632.62] NJ: out and i mean i'm i try and i will do this for as long as i can to reply to nearly everyone that [5638.38] NJ: comments on my youtube um but i try my best to not leave anyone obviously there's a point where that [5644.06] NJ: gets you know i used to do that but but the two things i stipulate in the patreon thing i say [5651.66] NJ: first of all if you've donated once then that's all you ever have to do and you're in this group [5657.1] NJ: for life and you can talk to me you've you've once given me a dollar to say thank you you're [5662.3] NJ: in the group and if you want to chat to me one to one i'll i'll happily help you out because that's [5667.1] NJ: why i got into this uh the whole thing was i love helping people i've seen people excited about the [5672.62] NJ: hobby the way i was and i try and support everyone on my channel as much as possible [5677.18] NJ: but the main things i do for the people that are in it i say you can donate once if you [5680.86] NJ: want to continue after that you can but don't feel that you ever need to and the other thing [5685.66] NJ: i do is i get this is where a lot of my stuff ends up i give away all my stuff uh to um my [5691.9] NJ: patreons as well because again like andy and i'm sure ash as well you end up accumulating stuff [5697.98] NJ: and i just give it back so you know i've uh got i'm going to be giving away so you're definitely [5704.86] Jack: getting into heaven you part with us dickheads on the show so you know and we probably know [5710.86] Ash: you're a good guy that's an interesting one on comments as well and also the sort of commitments [5717.02] Ash: of putting out reviews i started to i'm new and i've hardly got any subscribers compared to you [5721.74] Ash: guys but i do find there's quite a lot of people to put reviews out and you do you get to the end [5727.42] Ash: of the week and you haven't put a review out and you start i start to think i need to get a review [5731.58] Ash: out um and also yes building subscribers is so hard and getting comments on the videos i thrive [5738.14] Ash: on comments and i know i spend a lot of time putting reviews out and i love reading the [5742.86] Ash: comments that really makes me feel enthusiastic about doing more and more and i've been feeling [5748.22] Ash: really demotivated in the last few weeks just really because of subscriber building is very [5753.9] Ash: slow and i feel like i'm doing something wrong with my reviews maybe i'm being too honest um and [5759.74] Ash: also getting comments on the videos is also it seems to be hard work to get people to just write [5764.54] Ash: a simple comment and you can't ever force people to do that but all you ask is you know if you enjoy [5770.3] Ash: the review or if you don't enjoy it drop a comment but it's very the youtube audience i think is a [5775.5] NJ: very hard audience yeah no you're absolutely right i um i think it's uh if we understood [5783.74] NJ: how to get subscribers you know you could do the the most perfect concise exactly what people are [5790.06] NJ: after youtube video on a product and it might be for absolutely no reason at all uh one that [5796.86] NJ: doesn't get a number the review number or the the watch numbers that you want because none of us [5802.46] NJ: know how youtube's ever-changing algorithm works a prime example of that was i just out of a [5809.26] NJ: complete tangent did i bought a ts 100 when they started to become something you know the soldering [5815.98] NJ: line the little portable soldering line which happens in the next wicked soldering line and [5819.66] NJ: it's one i use as my main one now instead of a 140 pound weller and i just thought i bought it [5827.58] NJ: i bought it with my money and i just thought this thing is so good i've just got to do a quick video [5831.66] NJ: on it it's not really a quad focus thing but we use we have to solder it's part of the hobby [5836.06] NJ: and i put that video out and that's had like nearly 40 000 views and i'm like this is what the hell [5844.62] NJ: and it's and i've sold like in terms of like uh people clicking on affiliate links it's the one [5850.62] NJ: that as people have gone and bought loads and loads and loads and loads of yeah and i just think well [5855.26] NJ: hang on this is like all i'm doing is trying to review quads and build uh subscribers for quad [5861.42] NJ: related stuff and and then out of nowhere this ts 100 video has just gone through the roof and [5867.58] NJ: i exactly there are times when you just think what what do i have to do to get the right people [5872.62] NJ: to see videos and it's a real mystery and it's the same with editorial as well it's my website i [5878.94] Ash: write about drones i write about uh crowdfund projects one of my most read articles even today [5885.9] Ash: is an article i wrote about um endpoints in rx range in the in beats flight it you know look at [5891.98] Ash: analytics there's always somebody reading that article and yet to me that was probably the most [5896.38] Jack: insignificant article i've ever written and yet it's it's amazing though that is i learned from [5902.06] Jack: david wendestall's tricopter tutorials about that and that changes having resolution yeah and not [5910.06] Jack: having your quad drift is so good yeah and you're doing god's work not a lot of people know about [5918.86] Ash: it almost every drone that i get every quad that i review especially the micros their rx range is [5924.7] Ash: way out most people would never even notice they just bind their transmitter and fly it they'd [5929.74] Ash: never know that the endpoints are wrong so that's why i wrote it because people didn't seem to know [5933.82] Ash: about rx range it might be rendered irrelevant by newer versions of beats flight but have you [5941.02] Jack: you know the um sorry dude to cut you off um you know the fsi6 that's perfect like does anyone [5949.34] Jack: ever use one of them yeah that's a program a few of them i've got one that's there yeah they they [5955.42] Jack: just they're spot on fifteen hundred thousand two thousand they're really good yeah they know [5964.06] Jack: yeah it's like it's written for that isn't that weird it's really odd i've got um going back [5971.5] Andy: to the whole um the youtube thing you know you were talking about that um waterproof drone [5979.26] Andy: so that is i think i think that's probably my i don't and i don't know why it's probably [5984.62] Andy: my most popular video i think it's got 300 000 views so i thought yeah it's more views than my [5992.22] Jack: entire channel andy i know i'm going yours and mine too it's a it's a little bit do get his [5997.66] Andy: nickels out let me tell you what i did so they they sent me this um waterproof quadcopter and [6006.86] Andy: i could see straight away that it wasn't going to float like you say it doesn't flow it's got all [6011.82] Andy: holes in it and stuff so i took it to the local pond just down the road and i i let it just drown [6018.78] Andy: for like 15 minutes or something anyways that it's you know it's not like a um it's not really [6025.42] Andy: an interesting video but it's got like 300 000 views so i thought people are into this so i [6031.58] Andy: looked at what other waterproof drones there were and there was another so i said send me that i [6036.54] Andy: did exactly the same thing it got like 2000 views and it still has so so you can't explain that i [6044.78] Ash: remember that video andy you would um you were chasing the docks as well oh maybe that's what [6049.82] Andy: it was yeah that's what it was yeah just in case of caa listening only not intentionally and do you [6056.94] Andy: know what i've got a theory as well um i think i think i might have seen josh post about this as [6062.7] Andy: well he said to intentionally say something in your videos that are incorrect because people [6069.82] Andy: love you can't comment yeah i said i said in that in that um video so what's going wrong with let's [6076.14] Tony: thrown out yeah because this is misguided information permanently well you have to write an essay that's [6083.26] Jack: why in that um in the train the helicopter train thing i've never seen so many angry [6092.86] Jack: vipery comments of oh my sorry well anyways i called the duck i called them ducks but they [6101.42] Andy: were geese right and people went nuts when i did that so maybe that's it it could be i i often [6109.02] Ash: don't know why but you know when you're babbling on about a review to yourself talking to you [6112.7] Ash: your gopro and i often say milliamps instead of milliwatts and milliwatts yeah and people always [6118.86] Ash: comment on yeah you're so right they always pick up on little things like that there's plenty of [6123.18] NJ: pedants out there there's no definitely no shortage of them yeah i think josh calls them cynical [6129.5] Jack: bastards doesn't he well i can't get over that we've had like we've had some really famous people [6138.38] Jack: yeah and and then like you know mr steal the lot and the number one episode is yeah [6155.9] Andy: i am on drugs but well there you go that's your audience we need to let's flip out if you'd have [6162.7] Ash: put the whole of last week's episode online i guarantee that would have been your number one [6166.46] Jack: watched video i don't know man a lot of people like i think only the people watching know us [6173.9] Tony: and have been subscribers for at least six months would have got last week [6180.14] Jack: i did enjoy it though yeah that is my present to tony for being like a good friend you know [6186.3] Jack: he always wanted it and it was like i would have hate to have died and tony never to have seen me [6192.38] Tony: drunk do you know what i mean next time because you actually quite nice but it was fun you are my [6199.34] Jack: friend i do actually like you you know it's not across that way jake that's what that's what the [6205.18] Jack: kids can't can't like stress you know i mean you're friendly to all the animals if i was in trouble [6211.98] Jack: you'd help me oh i mean admittedly you're yeah admittedly you're a pain in the ass you know and [6219.42] Tony: i need some sort of 5s quad yet you've asked them no because i've lost the escs i've got them posted [6226.94] Tony: out by subscribing you better not have lost them i know i've lost them i've lost one of my kissy [6232.22] Jack: essees that's why i haven't done anything to the b if you don't look i've done nothing i can't [6240.54] Jack: i've only got three escs yeah that was like that last week what the do you do i've been looking for [6246.78] Jack: the esse did i already live in a little flat it's like like watching a married couple is [6255.82] Andy: over the end sorry we just went off stopping just each each turn of the argument gets louder and [6261.98] Ash: higher pitched i wonder if you know i think i apologize nanny last week my first thoughts [6268.78] Jack: were there's gonna be those two dressed as women that would never happen like never ever [6275.9] Jack: jack shall we then you can know the atmosphere you can i've got i would just look like the the most [6283.1] Ash: awful tranny i'll be like clickbait thumbnail for you and the title could be jack traditions [6290.3] Jack: yeah that's it [6301.66] Jack: i like janet more so he's look at him [6313.58] Jack: all the way higher to work you know talking about these new batteries and like all the sticks on [6318.86] Jack: the qx7 and then 20 minutes later they're screaming janet really loudly and he's just like [6326.86] Tony: why do i bother like why i think it'll be actually quite funny if we dressed up as women next week [6334.62] Tony: i'm not dressing up as women ever okay but is it only moves up for that weird okay [6341.98] Jack: that's a whole bit more about you than me tony that's all i'm putting [6348.94] Jack: plus i you know i want to be perfect for mg fbv i'm gonna find my hair brush or buy a new one [6358.54] Tony: you're gonna find it in there you can't even find the ese i might i might cut one of my [6363.1] Tony: shirts really low as well that always works look at andy i'll see he's unzipped he's it [6368.78] Jack: i know i'm making him stop it don't listen to him andy i'm feeling very vulnerable now after [6375.74] Andy: all of this let's talk about it i know not your fault you're northern yeah you're lucky i'm just [6382.46] Andy: wearing a top at all it's far too yeah yeah you weren't wearing a hat earlier on in your video [6388.94] Andy: what's that about i had my hair cut and i had it it was it was a judgment call i can't really see [6395.42] Jack: but i had it cut short oh very nice yeah uh what's what's next for you uh uh ash what's um [6405.58] Ash: what are you planning on doing uh what do you mean in life or yeah very broad questions you know [6413.9] Jack: because there's only so many times you can go look if it's on kickstarter it's shit [6419.26] Ash: true well i mean i so i don't just follow the crowdfund manufacturers and retailers [6424.7] Ash: are sending bits and bobs so nowhere near as much as you guys but you know i i'm trying to be more [6430.62] Ash: selective about what i say yes to now because they do always want to send you the thirty dollar [6435.42] Ash: drones i'm trying to find drones only drones or pods that i can do other than just reviewing [6443.26] Ash: everything like you know the channel quadcopter 101 that guy reviews about five drones a day [6448.86] Ash: and i you know i i don't i think you can easily bombard your audience with too many reviews of the [6454.62] Ash: say essentially the same drone so i'm trying to he does well though doesn't he that guy is fine [6461.18] Andy: he's like over 100 000 subs i'm telling you there it's there's a huge market for the toy [6468.06] Andy: thing even even if they're very similar i will i i always say if it flies i'll i'll review it [6474.62] Andy: yeah obviously we all love the premium stuff but there are some great cheap stuff out there and [6479.9] Andy: people have one thing that i wanted to ask you because um the only kickstarter sort of [6485.9] Andy: a crowdfunded thing i ever got involved in was the uh the extreme flyers one well micro drone [6493.5] Andy: yeah i wanted to ask you yeah yeah that's the one i wanted to ask you has has there been a [6501.58] Andy: completely what you would say completely successful crowdfunded project like everyone [6508.54] Andy: was happy with it like the majority because like that's why i'm getting from this is like [6515.34] Andy: a lot of people pile so much money into it and then they're just disappointed every time [6520.06] Tony: i know one um what's that um quadcopter what the following one purple plastic air dog [6528.22] Ash: air dog that work our dog has been very popular yeah it hasn't really conquered the consumer [6535.02] Ash: market it's quite specialist sports um market because it's waterproof and it's foldable and [6540.78] Ash: you have to wear a watch yeah i mean that's one of the real niches about air dog it's got a tracking [6545.82] Ash: bracelet which you don't have to worry about carrying around a phone or a transmitter strike [6549.98] Ash: uh starker is another one a norwegian sort of air dog copy which again is struggling to get to [6555.5] Ash: market but it's finally being shipped out to customers now and they seem quite happy with it [6560.46] Ash: so yeah there are some success stories but i think um even if the product is really good [6567.74] Ash: a lot of the frustration can come from the time that it takes to get that product to yeah i mean [6573.34] Tony: air dog looks really good though everything i've ever watched on it look really really good it's [6579.02] Andy: it's a really unusual process i think i think it's interesting crowdfunding because it's like [6584.46] Ash: a loan really isn't it it is what my advice to customers would always be to make sure that when [6590.06] Ash: you do put your money into a company on a crowdfunding basis that it's very clear that [6594.38] Ash: your money is only invested when the product goes into production yeah your money's not used to fund [6599.74] Ash: rnd or marketing or anything else or you know even running costs of offices and staff because [6605.18] Andy: that's what sometimes happens it's class as a gift isn't it i was looking okay it's class as a gift [6610.94] Andy: and because of that they i don't think they have to pay tax on it as well as long as it's [6616.7] Andy: invested into the product yeah i think i believe so because i always thought that's it's really [6622.7] Andy: strange because technically you're just getting given a lump sum of money and surely you know [6628.7] Andy: if you were to do that as an individual well i don't know because like if you look at microdrome [6632.62] Andy: for example it was like didn't it raise like millions three three million if someone all of [6639.18] Andy: a sudden gives you three million you think the tax money go hmm what's that all this about but [6643.82] Andy: i i believe that um it's it's sort of classed as a gift it's a real um interesting oh my god [6652.7] Jack: that is a fantastic way to launder money isn't it yeah well then this is the problem now drone [6658.7] Ash: manufacturers or some individuals are taking advantage of that they're actually creating [6663.42] Ash: crowdfund campaigns for drones that already exist so they're actually saying we've got this amazing [6669.5] Ash: drone and it's going to be spectacular and it's going to be shipped on time [6673.74] Ash: when actually it's a product um i'm trying to remember the name of it i'll post a link [6682.86] Ash: well literally for a year people invested a load of money and they were furious because they found [6689.26] Ash: that after the campaign had concluded that the same drone had been on amazon for a year at half [6694.38] Ash: the price under a different name so it's it's a shame that the crowdfunding concept is being [6700.86] Ash: dragged in in the mud um andy there's one that you'll remember called air selfie oh yes was that oh [6708.14] Ash: yeah it was crowdfunded oh yeah i remember that well they sent me another one um interesting [6715.74] Ash: yeah exactly there are some very minor differences but they saw my review and they said [6719.74] Ash: where did you get it from we don't believe it's from a uh an authorized seller um and i said well [6725.66] Ash: here's the the photos of the box of the label of the serial number and they didn't say either way [6730.54] Ash: yes or no it's it's um legitimate but we'll send you another one for review so there's something [6734.46] Ash: this one um and my review will be live on it in a few days to compare the two but so this actually [6740.54] Ash: is quite impressive it's air-grade aluminium it's beautifully made oh yeah it doesn't fly [6748.14] Ash: brilliantly outdoors but indoors the video is pretty good so some of them are i would say [6753.26] Ash: crowdfunded drones are on the whole partially successful but i'm yet to see a 100 uh successful [6761.9] Ash: drone campaign that's been crowdfunded and has left every single backer happy i like um there's [6768.46] Andy: an episode of family guy that touches on crowdfunding and i think peter just sort of says like a back [6773.9] Andy: handed comment get uh it just says get a proper loan like normal people like that has anyone seen [6781.58] Jack: those annoying like top 20 conventions on youtube and like there's always drone and the sausage [6791.42] Jack: egg maker you know you poke the egg in the thing and the sausage of the egg comes up and [6797.74] Tony: my life yeah yeah read into what you just said jack all right how about this read into this [6807.66] Jack: andrew slash frank hello why is kermit the frog messaging us [6815.02] Tony: he messaged us today yeah have you not heard any of his um downloads we should download he's [6820.94] Tony: probably listening now he's found a guy found our channel on um apple not on soundcloud whatever [6828.86] Tony: the apple one is we upload to i choose yeah and he has found us and and found us on facebook and [6837.1] Tony: message oh yeah yeah and then he has actually um done kermit the frog voice which i have quite [6844.7] Tony: confusing so hello kermit you know you are i can't really remember his name phillis harsley [6853.18] Jack: that's it you got to check it out ciel yeah it's really strange having kermit the frog tell you that [6861.82] Jack: about esc's and how funny the show is i was like i was like man these painkillers are good [6868.62] Jack: i'm like totally like wow um anyone um rob bryant said about it quickly get kermit on [6881.82] Jack: our listeners man they're just like they are just piss-taking little bastards [6889.18] Jack: bridge gate update chad capper rob bryant posted about it oh okay does anyone want to read about [6896.38] Tony: it don't make me nicely mike frank is he sensible frank he's in roe riot and read it out [6906.54] NJ: stick it out to the screen jack go on get kermit oh no oh no please well we've [6911.98] NJ: well you put the link in the uh chat and we'll put it in the description of the video as well [6915.9] Frank: so people can go and have a read but uh uh this morning i woke up to a letter of investigation [6921.58] Frank: from transport canada in the letter i was invited to call and assist with the investigation of the [6925.9] Frank: violation of canadian aviation regulation caar 602.41 which states no person shall operate [6931.98] Frank: an unmanned air vehicle in flight except in the course of uh it stated the maximum fine 25 000 [6939.42] Frank: canadian dollars i was not obligated to say anything uh i was allowed to hang up at any [6945.9] Frank: time without affecting the results of the investigation very polite uh chad declined [6952.14] Frank: to give any details until he was able to consult with the lawyer um but uh let him know that he [6959.1] Frank: intends to be accountable for his actions and number one priority is that they don't uh [6966.06] Frank: negatively affect the hobby so i mean it sounds like he's you know that's that's a pretty humble [6972.06] NJ: uh and you know thought well thought out that's fun that's kind of good to see as i say it's just [6979.74] Jack: kind of sad that it's a shame yeah is this did you read it all uh it just sounds like they're [6990.3] Jack: gonna continue looking into it but you know this looks like um bloody leonardo da Vinci's writing [6998.86] Jack: on my phone because it's all mirrored like it looks totally nuts if there'll be any complications [7005.26] Ash: around whether the flying was done for commercial or um the funniest thing for me was it the drone [7015.02] Tony: was under 250 grams i was like yeah but i know well that's what that's what the news said but [7022.3] Andy: the news always gets stuff wrong so i wouldn't i wouldn't look too much into that so now [7028.06] NJ: um on that subject i'm definitely excited with the performance of these micros you know that's [7038.06] NJ: just that that 250 grams thing if it ever became a thing doesn't really upset me nearly as much [7045.42] NJ: after flying a 75 gram well with the battery it's going to be more than that but not much [7051.26] NJ: after flying that and getting the performance that i did out of it you know big smile on my face i [7055.34] NJ: just thought well we we can get great performance under 250 grams if that's where we did ever end [7061.66] NJ: up uh but let's let's hope it doesn't come to that i think what i hated about that statement [7066.86] Andy: there was that um the news came across as saying that oh look what look what this thing can do [7072.78] Andy: and it's under 250 grams it's like it's like forcing that 250 gram limit to be even lower [7080.62] NJ: then always find a way to spin the twist the words yeah that's what it came across to me sorry [7086.38] NJ: that's not the case but i suppose we should probably think about wrapping up as we are now [7094.78] Jack: so uh thank you for listening to let's show now um next week we'll be joined by kermit frog [7101.74] Jack: and jay will be smoking weed in amsterdam tony will be drinking red hot red wine [7109.1] Jack: microwave yeah microwave ash if you want to come on you might as well you look all right [7114.7] Jack: um andy rc if you can be asked and frank slash andrew laws help if he never comes on [7122.54] Jack: because nothing will ever get done thanks for us guys really appreciate it telemetry lost