=== Let's Drone Out — Episode 442 ===
Title: LDO 442 - Just A Formation Of Hawks
Recorded: 2024-02-15
Hosts: Andrew "Frank" Hyams, Tony "TheTonstar1" Marchant, Jack "Brightontillifly" Nash
Guest(s): (none recorded)
Total audience: 933
Platforms: YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySAoQuhclCU); SoundCloud (http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/1750195644-letsdroneout-ldo-442-just-a-formation-of-hawks.mp3)
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[0.0] Jack: Hello, and you're listening to Let's Drone Out, a special thank you to our lovely patrons
[6.28] Jack: that help donate so that we can pay the editor to remove the swear words and silly things
[11.36] Jack: we say.
[13.0] Jack: Massive thank you to…
[14.4] Jack: Carlos Campos!
[16.0] Jack: Art Faulkner.
[17.84] Frank: Sam Dahmer.
[19.68] Frank: On with the show.
[20.68] Tony: Let's drone out now.
[52.03] Jack: Hello, and you're listening to Let's Drone Out.
[55.71] Jack: Tonight we are joined by our Lord and Master Frank.
[60.03] Tony: Hello.
[61.03] Jack: My darling wife, Tony.
[63.31] Tony: Bulljaw.
[64.31] Jack: And my host, Jack, I brought him to our fly.
[71.15] Jack: How's it going?
[72.55] Jack: Okay, all right.
[73.83] Frank: The weather has slightly picked up.
[76.39] Frank: There's been some days where it's been almost bearable.
[82.91] Tony: Monday.
[83.91] Tony: It was Monday and it was lovely and then it all went down here again.
[87.99] Frank: There's still a word to it, Ed.
[90.67] Frank: Yeah.
[91.67] Frank: Yeah.
[92.67] Frank: It's bearable.
[93.67] Frank: Yeah.
[94.67] Frank: It's like…
[95.67] Frank: Yeah.
[96.67] Frank: And I saw the…
[97.67] Frank: Why am I…
[98.67] Frank: Caroline Tyler in the chat has just said, Hello, my rival, Frank.
[102.03] Tony: Well, what's that all about?
[104.59] Tony: How am I a rival?
[105.59] Tony: What have I done?
[106.59] Tony: What's happening?
[107.59] Frank: Oh, I know what I've done.
[110.59] Tony: Ah.
[112.35] Tony: Penny's dropped.
[113.35] Frank: Yeah.
[114.35] Frank: I have signed up to the wing race in May where I'll be racing this thing, this orange thing
[121.47] Frank: behind me.
[122.95] Frank: Yes.
[124.03] Frank: Wings over the valley.
[125.03] Tony: Ah.
[126.03] Tony: Don't you need about 20 wings?
[128.79] Tony: Like, you know, drone racing, it was one drone when we all first started and then it was
[134.51] Tony: piles of the same drone.
[136.63] Tony: You need at least six or seven.
[137.99] Tony: Do you need like 20 or just some hot glue or what are you going to need?
[143.19] Frank: Well, that is the good thing about wing racing is because it's still early days for wing
[148.59] Frank: racing in the UK, really, it's not massively competitive.
[154.55] Frank: So, you know, I flew this wing and this wing only at all the wing race events last year
[163.39] Frank: and it survived mostly.
[165.39] Frank: I mean, I've sort of rebuilt it a couple of times, mainly with like Yoo-hoo and hot
[172.19] Frank: glue and well, I mean, it was white when I started last year and it is now orange and
[178.07] Frank: green.
[179.07] Frank: So, it's been covered in various things.
[182.35] Frank: But yeah, I mean, Chris G was repairing his, it's mostly hot glue, Chris G's one, which
[191.75] Frank: I think was the winner.
[194.39] Frank: I didn't really pay much attention to like what the final results were of last year.
[199.15] Frank: I think that's how non-confessative it is.
[202.27] Tony: I was in it and I don't know who won.
[204.39] Tony: He won a few races, I think, with that old thing.
[208.83] Frank: He definitely did.
[209.83] Frank: He definitely did.
[210.83] Frank: He was absolutely beating everyone.
[214.27] Tony: On it, on it, as I say.
[216.99] Tony: And he couldn't even see his camera or remember we had him on, it was awful.
[221.59] Frank: It was very psychedelic.
[223.35] Frank: Yeah.
[224.35] Frank: So, yeah, it's the bar is, the bar for the equipment that you need is still low in wing
[233.27] Frank: racing.
[234.27] Frank: You don't have to have like a success, crazy, high spec, low weight monster with HD and
[243.75] Frank: everything like this.
[246.27] Frank: There's just like a load of bits that I had kicking around from like five years ago, longer
[251.71] Frank: than that, six years ago.
[253.71] Tony: Easy to get in there, into.
[256.03] Frank: Exactly.
[257.03] Frank: Exactly.
[258.03] Frank: And I'm not last.
[259.03] Frank: So that was the only thing that I was paying attention to was that I wasn't last.
[264.51] Frank: So, you know, it's all to playful when wing racing.
[271.99] Tony: Yes.
[273.99] Tony: I'm not very good at it though.
[275.99] Tony: I don't think I'd be joining.
[278.99] Frank: But I think wings, even though it's called wings over the valley, I think we're getting
[284.83] Frank: some X-Class along as well.
[286.99] Frank: Nudge, nudge, wink, wink.
[292.25] Tony: So far away, isn't it?
[294.25] Frank: It is quite a long drive, but it's not as long a drive as the Camarthen event.
[302.33] Frank: I think it was that one where it's like you drive to Wales and you're only halfway there.
[309.09] Frank: That was a long, long way.
[313.09] Frank: I don't know.
[315.09] Tony: If I go though, I probably want to take my bike and everything and make a week of it
[321.09] Tony: or something like that.
[322.09] Frank: You could definitely do that.
[324.09] Frank: They're lovely people.
[327.09] Frank: They are lovely people.
[330.09] Frank: They're very, very good hosts, very friendly.
[333.09] Frank: And the wing racing is not, again, because it's not massively competitive.
[338.09] Frank: So there's a lot of downtime between races where people are like, I mean, half of it
[344.09] Frank: is people are gluing their wings back together.
[346.09] Frank: The other half of it is the timing system and the gates and all of that.
[353.09] Frank: That requires a bit of maintenance.
[356.09] Frank: Plus, we like to keep our hosts happy.
[359.09] Frank: So there's lots of open flight line time in between races.
[364.09] Frank: And it keeps the stress levels down, keeps everyone involved.
[370.09] Frank: So you can bring along something else to fly.
[372.09] Frank: You can bring along a five-inch quad and you can fly that around and chase through some
[375.09] Frank: of the big models that the line of sight guys have got.
[381.09] Frank: So, you know, it's a good weekend.
[384.09] Frank: I thoroughly recommend it.
[388.09] Frank: You're definitely going.
[390.09] Frank: I'm definitely going.
[392.09] Frank: I have paid the money.
[394.09] Frank: I am going.
[396.09] Frank: I'm looking forward to that.
[397.09] Jack: Thank you, Jack.
[399.09] Jack: Was that all right?
[401.09] Jack: Yeah.
[402.09] Jack: I do apologize.
[404.09] Tony: It wasn't you.
[406.09] Tony: It doesn't matter.
[407.09] Tony: I was just like...
[410.09] Tony: Jack, are you thinking about going or anything?
[413.09] Tony: Because wings and wheels is cancelled.
[418.04] Jack: Maybe.
[419.04] Jack: But I don't know whether I could drive myself there, to be fair.
[424.04] Jack: And I would need to figure out accommodate.
[427.04] Jack: Is it north or south Wales?
[430.04] Frank: South.
[431.04] Frank: Very south.
[432.04] Frank: It's just over, isn't it?
[434.04] Frank: Why?
[435.04] Frank: Is it a marven?
[436.04] Frank: No, no, no.
[437.04] Frank: It's more like it's not Newport, but it's in the nice bit that's sort of slightly
[443.04] Frank: northwestern Newport, I think.
[445.04] Frank: That's in my head.
[446.04] Frank: It was because I was working in Newport and it wasn't a massively long drive
[450.04] Frank: from there.
[451.04] Frank: But it was pretty.
[452.04] Frank: It was a nice, nice area.
[455.04] Tony: Can you promise?
[456.04] Jack: But like Newport's like where the steel works.
[464.04] Frank: That's why I'm saying it was a drive away from Newport into the nice bit, but not
[469.04] Frank: a massively long drive.
[472.04] Jack: The trouble is I'll be like constantly freaking out.
[476.04] Jack: Yeah.
[478.04] Frank: I'm not sure the toilet facilities are up to your standard in all honesty.
[487.04] Jack: Yeah, they're mainly just holes in the ground.
[490.04] Jack: And then wild dogs come and eat out of them at night.
[494.04] Jack: Yeah, that sounds about right.
[499.04] Frank: Sounds fine.
[502.04] Jack: I'll see how I feel.
[504.04] Jack: I'll see where I'm at and how I'm doing.
[507.04] Jack: Let me know where you're going.
[509.04] Frank: Yeah, without wings and wheels.
[514.04] Tony: There's Weston Park.
[516.04] Tony: Weston Park.
[517.04] Tony: Maybe we should three and a half hours as well.
[520.04] Frank: I know.
[521.04] Tony: I know.
[523.04] Tony: That could be our meet up thing because we've said we're going to meet up and then
[528.04] Tony: I think we'll be able to see.
[531.04] Tony: That's wag.
[533.04] Tony: Yeah, Mr. R.C.
[535.04] Jack: Andy R.C.
[536.04] Tony: Which would be nice because I haven't seen him for about three years.
[539.04] Tony: I'll need an Andy hug.
[541.04] Jack: It's been ages since I've had an emo sex with him.
[546.04] Tony: I know.
[547.04] Tony: You have to kick your leg off when Jack's about to shake your leg because he's up.
[553.04] Tony: A little jello rattle hanging off it.
[557.04] Frank: But keep it under your hands because it's, you know, all hush hush.
[564.04] Frank: But there's some people that do some head tracking FPV on fixed wing stuff
[576.04] Frank: and there's a bit of a meet up, but it's like a secret meet up.
[580.04] Frank: But if anyone's into their head tracking FPV scale stuff, then, you know,
[586.04] Frank: get in touch because there's a hush hush invite only.
[592.04] Frank: Your name's got to be on the guest list kind of kind of meet up.
[595.04] Frank: So.
[598.04] Jack: Hush hush.
[599.04] Jack: If on a podcast that anyone can watch.
[604.04] Frank: It's all right.
[605.04] Frank: There's only 11 people watching.
[607.04] Frank: We'll be fine.
[610.04] Tony: Well, we got 11 people.
[614.04] Tony: Good old.
[615.04] Tony: Good old.
[616.04] Tony: Do you remember when we got, what was it?
[619.04] Tony: Over a thousand months.
[621.04] Tony: There was some weird thing.
[623.04] Jack: That was YouTube erroring out, I'm sure.
[628.04] Jack: It's throwing us a bone.
[630.04] Tony: It definitely was something weird.
[634.04] Jack: Somebody go put the wrong light on the green link.
[641.04] Tony: Yeah, some only fans link with it.
[644.04] Tony: Let's throw it out.
[648.04] Tony: Did it not?
[649.04] Tony: I'm sure of something like that.
[651.04] Tony: Where did I say Richard Warwick said something in the chat?
[655.04] Tony: Does anyone know why wings and wheels got cancelled?
[659.04] Tony: I'd ask Frank about you.
[662.04] Jack: I don't know.
[664.04] Jack: He got distracted by something shiny.
[667.04] Frank: He's opening a shop.
[670.04] Frank: No, I don't.
[672.04] Frank: It's politics.
[675.04] Frank: It's a very difficult thing to do.
[678.04] Frank: At the scale that it was planned, it was going to cost a lot of money.
[683.04] Frank: It's a big risky thing.
[687.34] Frank: And sometimes it just doesn't work out.
[689.34] Frank: I mean, how many events have we heard about over the years?
[692.34] Frank: Have we worked on over the years that have been cancelled?
[696.34] Frank: Because either the insurers just don't want to take it on,
[701.34] Frank: or the venue backs out.
[705.34] Frank: It's a very difficult thing to do.
[708.34] Tony: We should do a little LDO one.
[710.34] Tony: We should.
[713.34] Tony: Yep.
[715.34] Tony: Frank, you enjoyed.
[718.34] Jack: Frank has finished his house.
[721.34] Tony: Just say meet here and do that.
[724.34] Tony: Do something.
[726.34] Frank: Yeah.
[730.34] Frank: We should definitely arrange to meet up at Western Park.
[733.34] Frank: We should definitely do that.
[738.34] Tony: If anyone knows, just do one day and stay the night
[743.34] Tony: so we can go for a curry and watch.
[746.34] Frank: Oh yeah, that would be good, wouldn't it?
[748.34] Tony: Then we could just go back.
[750.34] Tony: Oh, crash at the same house.
[752.34] Tony: We can't ever.
[754.34] Jack: We need a spare room so that we can just have Andy RC,
[760.34] Jack: but then know that he's not going to stay there.
[764.34] Frank: Was that like five years ago?
[767.34] Frank: Did we all just sort of bundled into an Airbnb near Western Park?
[774.34] Frank: On the Sunday legs, we went to the show on the Saturday
[778.34] Frank: and then just flew some places before heading home on the Sunday.
[783.34] Frank: Is that right?
[785.34] Frank: That was quite good.
[787.34] Jack: It was fun.
[789.34] Jack: I've done some upgrading.
[791.34] Jack: Oh yeah.
[793.34] Jack: And upgrading.
[798.55] Jack: You upgraded yourself?
[801.55] Frank: No, I...
[805.55] Frank: He was upgrading his computer drivers when we hit live.
[808.55] Jack: Yeah, I know.
[809.55] Jack: Yeah, and all the screens, I went blank.
[811.55] Jack: Perfect timing, Joe.
[813.55] Jack: I know.
[815.55] Jack: When don't you?
[818.55] Jack: So, my hard disks are now SSDs, so I can play video.
[828.55] Jack: So if I do this and share screen...
[830.55] Jack: Careful what you do.
[833.55] Jack: Like that.
[835.55] Jack: I'm huffing over the remove button.
[841.55] Jack: What year are you looking for, Frank?
[844.55] Frank: I think it was 2018.
[847.55] Frank: It might have been 2019.
[849.55] Tony: Are you this organised that you've got this?
[852.55] Tony: That any of those...
[854.55] Tony: This is amazing.
[856.55] Frank: Got the whale grip.
[859.55] Tony: Well, we definitely weren't there all at the same time.
[865.55] Frank: Let's try 2019 then.
[867.55] Frank: I reckon it might be 2019.
[874.39] Frank: They're all the same date.
[877.39] Frank: Western, the bottom folder.
[880.39] Frank: This is thrilling content for our audio listeners.
[883.39] Frank: Hang on.
[886.39] Jack: Oh, this is... Hang on.
[889.39] Jack: There's only one video, and it is this.
[893.39] Tony: And it's not working.
[895.39] Jack: No, well, it opens a different thing.
[899.39] Jack: I'm hoping you'll get sound.
[902.39] Tony: Tony, we know beard.
[904.39] Jack: It looks like Tony's...
[907.39] Tony: Oh, you're in a toilet, I reckon.
[910.39] Tony: Oh, no.
[911.39] Tony: There's Andy.
[912.39] Tony: What am I doing?
[913.39] Tony: What is going on?
[915.39] Tony: Classic LDA.
[916.39] Tony: Why do you keep this?
[919.39] Tony: This should have been good.
[920.39] Frank: I don't know.
[921.39] UNKNOWN: What is it?
[925.39] Frank: There's a video of Tony putting Tony's camera in the fridge.
[931.39] Frank: Here you go.
[932.39] Jack: I don't know.
[934.39] Tony: You idiot.
[935.39] Tony: What the hell are you getting on?
[937.39] Jack: I'm gonna stop there.
[938.39] Jack: And then Andy starts drinking my drinks.
[944.39] Jack: What is this?
[945.39] Tony: Wow.
[947.39] Tony: That is content for you, that is.
[950.39] Jack: There you go.
[951.39] Jack: Top tier.
[953.39] Jack: That's it.
[954.39] Jack: That's the only footage I've got.
[956.39] Jack: I've got other footage that's on the other hard drive,
[960.39] Jack: and it's where I rub Tony's leg and he slaps me.
[967.39] Tony: You're lucky I'll slap you.
[969.39] Frank: Yeah, I'd say I prefer Andy's video on Western Park Visit.
[975.39] Tony: That was a better video.
[977.39] Tony: That should be good.
[979.39] Frank: It's more exciting than the inside of a fridge.
[985.39] Frank: Fewer dogs' bottoms than I expected,
[988.39] Frank: given that he gave you his GoPro.
[991.39] Jack: Oh yeah, I forgot I did, man.
[995.39] Jack: We didn't.
[996.39] Jack: We all didn't.
[999.39] Frank: Defining feature of Jack at Western Park.
[1002.39] Frank: It's just shoving cameras into dogs' bottoms.
[1007.39] Jack: Hey man, it's, you know, it does it for someone.
[1011.39] Frank: Whatever floats your boat.
[1017.66] Tony: And now there's five viewers.
[1022.66] Frank: We've actually gone up without 13.
[1025.66] Frank: It gained us two viewers that inside the fridge.
[1028.66] Jack: Oh my God, it's going crazy.
[1029.66] UNKNOWN: I know.
[1031.66] Jack: That was actually quite nice, that Airbnb.
[1034.66] Jack: Prank knocks it out long every time.
[1036.66] Jack: That was good.
[1037.66] Frank: That was good.
[1040.66] Frank: What else we got?
[1042.66] Frank: Are you not planning?
[1043.66] Frank: Have you got any plans to get your X-Class out?
[1048.04] Jack: Do we even know whether it fully works?
[1051.04] Tony: The one that you built was flying once crashed,
[1054.04] Tony: and I haven't done anything since.
[1057.04] Tony: I haven't even joined my flying field this year.
[1063.04] Tony: Because I used it once last year, literally once.
[1068.04] Tony: And I was just like, I think, I don't know why.
[1071.04] Tony: Maybe it's because I've been doing other hobbies and stuff.
[1075.04] Frank: I mean, it was a really, really bad year for weather, for flying.
[1079.04] Tony: It was a bit crap, wasn't it?
[1082.04] Frank: But also, you've struggled to be able to use it, right?
[1087.04] Frank: Because they kept renting it out to other people.
[1091.04] Tony: Well, they've built a shepherd hut thing on there.
[1096.04] Tony: So people were just...
[1098.04] Tony: It was all right because mostly old boys, no offence,
[1102.04] Tony: but they can go, you know, while I'm at work, they're flying,
[1105.04] Tony: like Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Fezz, and Friday.
[1108.04] Tony: And then when it comes to weekend,
[1109.04] Tony: when you want to get everything together, they go,
[1111.04] Tony: oh, someone's in a shepherd's hut Saturday and Sunday, they can't fly.
[1115.04] Tony: And I was thinking, oh, great, what's the point of me spending money?
[1119.04] Tony: And then I asked the guys if I could do, like, paper fly,
[1123.04] Tony: and they weren't having none of it,
[1125.04] Tony: which I think they would have probably got more money out of me
[1127.04] Tony: by doing that, because I would have just said, you know,
[1130.04] Tony: fire to fly every time I go up there or something,
[1132.04] Tony: send it to the bank, I'm flying today.
[1135.04] Tony: But, no, I didn't want to know.
[1138.04] Tony: So I haven't joined.
[1140.04] Tony: So I know one definitely works.
[1142.04] Tony: And that one will work.
[1144.04] Tony: It was flying until the part failed.
[1149.04] Jack: Delaminated.
[1151.04] Tony: Yeah.
[1152.04] Tony: So I think it'll work.
[1154.04] Tony: It's just getting time to tune it and all that scholarchy.
[1158.04] Tony: And, yeah, it's just the size of things.
[1162.04] Tony: And I might be able to get down to Martin's,
[1165.04] Tony: but he's got a new hobby of drawing now.
[1168.04] Tony: That looks a bit...
[1170.04] Tony: And if you've seen that on Facebook, it looks quite good.
[1173.04] Frank: I haven't seen that.
[1175.04] Tony: You've done a drawing, of course, yeah.
[1177.04] Tony: Have a look.
[1179.04] Tony: So I haven't spoken to him for a little while, either.
[1182.04] Tony: But I know one definitely...
[1184.04] Tony: I miss Mary.
[1186.04] Tony: Yeah, he's in France, isn't he, at the moment, I think?
[1189.04] Frank: He's got good, lovely weather.
[1191.04] Frank: Blue skies.
[1193.04] Frank: Apparently, today is the last day that he's got good weather,
[1196.04] Frank: and then it's just going to be filling up the mill pond.
[1199.04] Frank: So that's why he was out sorting out the...
[1205.04] Frank: sorting out his long grass, doing the trimming.
[1209.04] Jack: Caroline, can we get the brand at said hotel
[1214.04] Jack: to see whether Frank agrees with it?
[1217.04] Jack: So it might be better.
[1219.04] Jack: We could just get the same hotel as you,
[1222.04] Jack: and at least then there's a gaggle of us.
[1226.04] Tony: He doesn't do tents.
[1229.04] Jack: No, I don't do tents.
[1231.04] Jack: Tony, I tell you what would be funny,
[1233.04] Jack: if Tony came and then set up his tent in the car park,
[1237.04] Jack: that would be funny on the roof of the thing.
[1240.04] Jack: We're in the hotel, Tony's outside.
[1244.04] Jack: We're on the extension lead, Abba.
[1251.04] Tony: I'm nearly going to buy a new tent.
[1254.04] Tony: I'm like, really?
[1256.04] Jack: Really?
[1258.04] Jack: Even though the canal is no longer functioning,
[1264.04] Jack: so you won't be...
[1267.04] Jack: I just want you to think of ordering a new tent
[1271.04] Jack: and then the nightmare of the carcoon,
[1274.04] Jack: which I don't even think you're still using.
[1277.04] Tony: It's there.
[1280.48] Tony: I didn't even use it this winter.
[1283.48] Tony: It's like 780 quid just sitting there.
[1286.48] Tony: It's because it worked.
[1289.86] Tony: It was good, but as soon as it's windy,
[1292.86] Tony: you're like, I'm hanging out the window all the time
[1295.86] Tony: checking if it's still there
[1297.86] Tony: and the car's not getting smashed a bit, isn't it?
[1300.86] Tony: It's fine.
[1302.86] Tony: Then when it snowed, it was really bad.
[1304.86] Tony: It just went...
[1306.86] Jack: Apart from that, it worked.
[1308.86] Jack: How's the double on the arch?
[1311.86] Jack: Is it getting worse?
[1313.86] Tony: It stayed the same.
[1315.86] Tony: I'm that close to selling it as well this spring.
[1318.86] Tony: I've got an MOT coming up in the next couple of weeks, I think, actually.
[1323.86] Tony: I need to cut the tyres.
[1325.86] Jack: What's the defining factor?
[1328.86] Jack: She's down, she's going.
[1330.86] Jack: You won't be able to get another one.
[1332.86] Tony: I just don't drive it.
[1334.86] Tony: He's just sitting there doing nothing.
[1337.86] Frank: Handy note.
[1339.86] Frank: He's more a DC2 guy, though, isn't he?
[1343.86] Tony: I think he is more of a 2 and a 5.
[1347.86] Tony: I don't know.
[1349.86] Tony: If spring had come, I'd put some tyres on it
[1351.86] Tony: and then I'll drive it all the time.
[1354.86] Tony: I want to keep it now.
[1358.86] Tony: Tony just wants two trees to sling his helmet between, exactly.
[1364.17] Tony: I've done that between two vans before.
[1368.17] Tony: I think that was very rough.
[1370.17] Jack: Grapple Lord, Cardiff, M4.
[1372.17] Jack: Frank, get on it.
[1374.17] Tony: Get on it.
[1376.17] Tony: Get on it.
[1378.17] Frank: The thing is, I like to have a drink.
[1381.17] Frank: Therefore, I don't then drive.
[1384.17] Frank: I just stay on site.
[1386.17] Frank: I like to be social.
[1388.17] Frank: It's quite social in the evenings.
[1391.17] Tony: Yeah.
[1393.17] Tony: I always stay there.
[1397.76] Tony: I was thinking about getting a hot tent and a stove.
[1400.76] Tony: That's my plan.
[1402.76] Jack: No way.
[1404.76] Jack: You're going to be one of those f***ing hot knob wumble f***ers
[1408.76] Jack: with a f***ing tin foil and the...
[1412.76] Jack: What are they called?
[1414.76] Jack: The surge burners or whatever they're called.
[1417.76] Tony: I'm just going to have a stove.
[1419.76] Tony: What's in a tent?
[1421.76] Tony: What's a hot tent?
[1423.76] Tony: It's the big TP tent.
[1425.76] Tony: Tent with a bit of stove foil.
[1427.76] Tony: And then you can have a stove in it.
[1429.76] Jack: Yeah.
[1431.76] Tony: Hot tent camping.
[1433.76] Tony: Okay.
[1435.76] Tony: You can use it in the summer.
[1437.76] Jack: And you've just got to have a way and hope that you don't asphyxiate yourself.
[1445.76] Tony: Well, I will take a CO2 monitor just in case.
[1450.76] Tony: I think people do take CO2 monitors in there with them.
[1454.76] Tony: But I've got one in my van.
[1456.76] Tony: I'll just take that out when I go.
[1458.76] Tony: But that's what I'm thinking about getting anyway.
[1463.17] Frank: I'll be opposite of an igloo.
[1466.17] Tony: Yeah.
[1468.17] Jack: Well, don't you prefer the car cone?
[1473.17] Tony: Because I'll need a pump running it constantly.
[1476.17] Tony: That means big batteries into the woods with massive lithium ion.
[1483.48] Tony: But I don't know.
[1485.48] Frank: It sounds like Jack's version of Heaven.
[1488.48] Frank: I'm just pulling a load of lithium batteries into the middle of nowhere.
[1492.48] Tony: Yeah, no.
[1494.48] Tony: Not going to happen.
[1496.48] Tony: It's rather like a fire in the tent in a tin can thing.
[1503.3] Frank: Have you got anything available to you, Jack?
[1507.3] Frank: Or are you just going full cold turkey FPV wise?
[1512.3] Frank: Have you got a simulator you can do?
[1516.3] Frank: If you were really desperate, have you got a radio handy?
[1520.3] Frank: Have you got anything?
[1522.3] Frank: No, you're just going full cold turkey.
[1526.3] Jack: Yeah, everything.
[1528.3] Tony: What are you going for?
[1531.78] Tony: Last summer?
[1536.09] Tony: Yeah, basically.
[1538.09] Tony: Well, apart from doing jobs with my DJI drone,
[1543.09] Tony: I think the last time I flew was when I went and saw Bruce in the Isle of Wight thing.
[1550.09] Jack: I think one of the last times was Chris G and Frank when we had the barbecue.
[1557.09] Frank: Oh, yeah.
[1558.09] Frank: Yeah, yeah.
[1560.09] Jack: I think that's the last.
[1562.09] Tony: Was that by September?
[1564.09] Tony: Did you fly then, Jack?
[1566.09] Tony: I can't remember.
[1567.09] Jack: Yeah, and I had a little bit of Frank's field and Frank flew his plane.
[1575.09] Jack: Oh, yeah.
[1576.09] Jack: And he was annoyed by the field pack not working
[1586.09] Jack: and you not knowing the sort of state of your batteries.
[1592.09] Tony: Yeah.
[1593.09] Tony: Well, Clive, it was nighttime racing last weekend.
[1597.09] Frank: Oh, the SGDC race, or is this something else?
[1601.09] Frank: Interesting.
[1602.09] Tony: I'd have to wait until the weather warms up anyway before I go out there.
[1608.09] Tony: I'm a fair weather flyer now.
[1612.09] Tony: I never used to be.
[1613.09] Tony: I used to go out in the weather flying, but no.
[1616.09] Jack: I remember that time at the standard park where we were up to our eyes in mud
[1623.09] Jack: and just dogs everywhere, every day.
[1627.09] Jack: I knew we were just like, what are we doing in the depths of winter?
[1631.09] Jack: You'd plug a battery in, take it off, and then the alarm would go.
[1635.09] Jack: That's how cold it was.
[1638.09] Jack: The batteries just didn't work.
[1642.09] Jack: That was horrendous.
[1645.09] Jack: Yes.
[1646.09] Tony: And I remember you threw your chair into the tree to get another chair.
[1653.09] Jack: There was two chairs in the tree, something like that.
[1662.09] Jack: There was so much stuff in that tree.
[1666.09] Tony: Yes.
[1667.09] Tony: I'm going to wait until it warms up.
[1669.09] Tony: But I'd probably fly again in Isle of Wight when I go and see Bruce again.
[1673.09] Tony: Have a nice little fly.
[1675.09] Tony: I might try a long range out to the needles and back right around the needles
[1679.09] Tony: and come back something like that.
[1683.09] Frank: Logie says he's got all his stuff packed away, ready to move houses as well,
[1689.09] Frank: apart from a few whoops and a drift car and a race car.
[1694.09] Frank: Apart from that, everything's packed up.
[1699.09] Jack: What made you move from that other place?
[1703.09] Jack: That place is quite nice.
[1706.09] Jack: I suppose you need more space.
[1710.09] Frank: How far are you moving?
[1711.09] Frank: Are you still in the same neck of the woods?
[1713.09] Frank: That's the question.
[1714.09] Jack: Yes.
[1716.09] Jack: I think maybe the broken road was the final straw.
[1721.09] Jack: It never did get fixed.
[1724.09] Jack: He had to go a long way home.
[1727.09] Tony: It looks like we're not the only ones.
[1729.09] Tony: In the chat and on-scale saying,
[1731.09] Tony: I'm still yet to fly the quarter one at Courage Christmas Giveaway
[1735.09] Tony: and then I've been building race cars.
[1740.09] Tony: It's not just us.
[1742.09] Tony: There's a few people not flying as much.
[1746.09] Tony: Logie said he needs another bedroom and he's not moving far.
[1751.09] Tony: Not flying far.
[1752.09] Tony: Not moving far.
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[1781.09] Frank: I've seen Caroline has been putting out a load of videos recently.
[1786.09] Frank: Caroline's hiding that RC.
[1788.09] Frank: There you go.
[1789.09] Frank: Check out her YouTube channel.
[1791.09] Tony: We did see.
[1792.09] Tony: I've seen that.
[1793.09] Tony: And I've seen the RC.
[1795.09] Tony: He's done a couple of flying ones.
[1797.09] Frank: Oh, yeah.
[1798.09] Frank: He's published some videos that he recorded like two years ago.
[1802.09] Frank: God, was it that long ago?
[1804.09] Frank: Yeah.
[1805.09] Frank: Yeah.
[1808.09] Frank: Yeah.
[1809.09] Frank: It sounds like he's doing loads more, which is good to hear.
[1814.09] Jack: Tony, what episodes have you been listening back to?
[1821.09] Tony: I started from the very start of pilot episode.
[1826.09] Jack: How far did you get?
[1828.09] Tony: I listened to about 10.
[1830.09] Tony: I enjoyed listening back.
[1834.88] Jack: How many episodes till Frank joined?
[1837.88] Jack: Did Frank show up?
[1839.88] Tony: Frank's not there yet.
[1841.88] Frank: No, I was just like in the background for ages because I was just writing emails for ages.
[1846.88] Frank: Just inviting guests on.
[1848.88] Tony: Yeah.
[1849.88] Tony: It's quite a nice listen, actually.
[1851.88] Tony: So we were quite funny together, me and you.
[1856.88] Jack: I mean, I just I love to live in each other.
[1861.88] Jack: I know.
[1863.88] Jack: Even the one I listened to, I listened to the Gale one because obviously Bob's been like leaving messages and stuff.
[1872.88] Jack: I listened back and we were figuring it just started and we were trying to figure out who, what order Google Hangouts puts us in.
[1881.88] Jack: And it started nicely.
[1885.88] Jack: And then he's next to me and then and then everyone's next to Tony for some reason.
[1894.88] Jack: We've got no idea why or how anything works.
[1898.88] Jack: And it was I can't I can't imagine how people used to listen to that because it was whoever spoke would pop up.
[1905.88] Jack: And sometimes it would change or wouldn't change depending on the sound level.
[1912.88] Jack: So you weren't quite too sure who was talking or what the hell was going on.
[1920.88] Tony: Well, I did because I was there.
[1924.88] Jack: Yeah.
[1925.88] Jack: Yeah.
[1926.88] Jack: You had a lot of different view if you were part of the call and my word.
[1932.88] Jack: Yeah.
[1933.88] Jack: How we ever did any of that.
[1936.88] Tony: But yeah, listening back was was pretty enjoyable.
[1939.88] Tony: But listening to us talk about F3 boards and things like that.
[1942.88] Tony: And it's, you know, wow.
[1945.88] Tony: Yeah.
[1946.88] Tony: I was talking about stuff moving so fast, like every two weeks.
[1948.88] Tony: Oh, there's another update on bigger flight.
[1950.88] Tony: And then what we're going to have to go for board and, you know, and then we're talking about drawing batteries when you worked at the radio.
[1959.88] Tony: See.
[1961.88] Tony: And yeah, so it was quite nice reminiscing because it's about eight years ago, I think the first one.
[1968.88] Tony: Maybe nine, nearly nine.
[1970.88] Tony: I don't know.
[1971.88] Tony: We've been nearly flying FPV for 10 years, probably.
[1977.88] Tony: Not far off.
[1979.88] Jack: Is it just the F7 now is like the latest thing?
[1982.88] Jack: And that's it.
[1983.88] Jack: I wouldn't even know.
[1985.88] Tony: I have no idea.
[1988.88] Jack: Let's go to the oh, my God.
[1992.88] Jack: Bobby R.C.
[1993.88] Tony: I've seen what's on there.
[1997.51] Tony: Yeah.
[1998.51] Tony: Yeah.
[1999.51] Jack: H7.
[2001.51] Jack: And then go to new products and then see what's new.
[2008.37] Tony: Clive FPV said you should try and get Zoey on again.
[2011.37] Tony: She's backflowing and looking happy.
[2013.37] Tony: Yeah, I did see.
[2014.37] Tony: She's looks like she's lost weight and got herself out of the hole she was in for a few years.
[2021.37] Tony: So good on her for that.
[2023.37] Frank: She's got contracts signed for MAC 1 and DCL.
[2028.37] Frank: So she's definitely doing well.
[2031.37] Frank: Well done.
[2032.37] Frank: If you've seen any of the recent live streams, which is streaming her flights from a bedroom, basically.
[2041.37] Frank: Just like ripping around, doing 3D and everything.
[2045.37] Frank: It's really good.
[2047.37] Tony: Nice, nice, nice.
[2049.37] Tony: Off access is in chat.
[2051.37] Tony: Hello.
[2052.37] Tony: But we're going to have a cold back next week.
[2056.37] Frank: Cold still away for a few weeks, I think.
[2060.37] Frank: About halfway through.
[2062.37] Tony: Oh, really?
[2063.37] Tony: Has he gone for like a month?
[2064.37] Tony: Yeah, yeah.
[2065.37] Tony: Oh, lucky bugger.
[2066.37] Tony: I've been watching his Instagram stories and been like, oh, you're nice.
[2070.37] Frank: Yeah, he's talking amazing stuff.
[2073.37] Frank: Yeah, we've got some sneak previews in a little group chat.
[2078.37] Frank: Yeah, it looks really cool.
[2081.37] Jack: What I love is that he's Canadian.
[2086.37] Jack: So like everything's fine and he's happy and he's really polite.
[2091.37] Jack: Yeah, he's friends with me.
[2094.37] Jack: So all he gets is just bad attitude, general grumpiness, sarcasm, which he can't bless him.
[2107.37] Jack: It's not in his nature to decipher.
[2110.37] Jack: It's just, you know, he just has to hope that I'm being sarcastic and not just being a dickhead.
[2121.37] Jack: There's a fine line and there's a very large gray area.
[2125.37] Jack: And I feel sorry for him.
[2127.37] Jack: But the amazing things he's doing, I'm slightly proud of him.
[2131.37] Tony: Yeah, he's been doing some nice flying spots, isn't he?
[2136.37] Tony: He went back to the one he went last year and found his prop still in the same place.
[2141.37] Tony: And he's been quite a way up a mountain.
[2144.37] Tony: Was that today or yesterday?
[2146.37] Tony: And flown long range, isn't he?
[2149.37] Tony: Yep.
[2151.37] Tony: Is he heading into his YouTube channel, do we know?
[2154.37] Frank: Yeah, there's definitely been one while he's been out there that he's put up with some OSD and stuff as well.
[2161.37] Frank: It's pretty cool.
[2164.37] Jack: He sent me something.
[2169.37] Jack: He edited a video that I need to upload.
[2173.37] Frank: And he was moonlighting on off-axis is the podcast that off-axis has.
[2181.37] Frank: A live stream, whatever.
[2184.37] Frank: Along with Zoe.
[2185.37] Frank: So there you go.
[2187.37] Tony: There you can go and say hello to, well, I suppose you could watch that back.
[2191.37] Tony: What's it called, podcast?
[2193.37] Tony: I think I've subbed to it.
[2196.71] Frank: I can't remember right now.
[2198.71] Frank: Let us know.
[2199.71] Tony: It's always on a stupid o'clock while I'm in bed.
[2203.71] Frank: Yeah, it's like two or three o'clock in the morning for us, I think, isn't it?
[2208.71] Tony: I believe so.
[2210.71] Jack: I can, I might be able to play you now.
[2214.71] Jack: FPV your world.
[2218.71] Tony: Yeah.
[2219.71] Tony: How's your beard now since you chopped it, Jack?
[2222.71] Tony: It's looking a bit better.
[2224.71] Jack: It's all over the place.
[2225.71] Jack: And there's like long bits in life, really.
[2230.71] Jack: You weren't expecting that, were you?
[2232.71] Jack: No.
[2233.71] Tony: I was like, you were like, oh my God.
[2236.71] Tony: I went to barbers today, but you didn't have time to cut more.
[2239.71] Tony: Mine's desperate for a trim.
[2243.71] Jack: Oh, fuck.
[2244.71] Jack: Hang on.
[2245.71] Tony: What are you trying to do?
[2247.71] Tony: I'll show us cold stuff.
[2250.71] Jack: Yeah.
[2251.71] Jack: Download anyway.
[2254.71] Tony: Has anyone heard from Blue Owl?
[2257.71] Tony: Do we know what she's up to?
[2258.71] Tony: Yes.
[2260.71] Tony: I spoke to her last week, week before summer.
[2265.71] Tony: This is weird because I just literally looked over and looked at my other laptop
[2269.71] Tony: and it's got hundreds of stickers on it.
[2271.71] Tony: And I was like, Blue Owl, I wonder what she's up to.
[2277.71] Frank: She said she's not had much chance to fly because she's in the middle of the city,
[2285.71] Frank: but FPV is still definitely in her heart.
[2290.71] Frank: That's what she said.
[2292.71] Tony: That's a good thing.
[2294.71] Frank: Yeah.
[2295.71] Tony: Well, it's never going to die for any of us, really.
[2298.71] Tony: It's just taking a backseat for some of us now.
[2301.71] Tony: Who else was there?
[2302.71] Tony: Do you remember the first girl stream we had on?
[2307.71] Tony: There was someone who I spoke to on Instagram years ago.
[2312.71] Tony: FPV Princess is something like that, is it?
[2317.71] Frank: Yeah.
[2319.71] Frank: I haven't heard from her for years.
[2321.71] Frank: I can't remember.
[2322.71] Frank: No.
[2323.71] Tony: Long time.
[2325.71] Tony: I know Mako's still doing stuff.
[2328.71] Tony: Oh, yeah.
[2329.71] Tony: We should get her on for a chat, actually.
[2333.71] Tony: Just on my own because she's doing a lot.
[2337.71] Frank: Well, maybe we just hear more about this Mac One thing.
[2342.71] Frank: But this looks...
[2345.71] Frank: I could be wrong because I haven't read enough about it,
[2347.71] Frank: but my understanding is it's like a DCL team that's all women, right?
[2355.71] Frank: Yeah.
[2356.71] Frank: I think so.
[2359.71] Frank: So, is that why he's on it?
[2362.71] Frank: I think Mako was on it.
[2364.71] Frank: I don't know who else.
[2366.71] Frank: But, you know, that would be interesting to hear more about that.
[2370.71] Frank: I mean, I didn't really hear much about DCL, to be honest.
[2373.71] Tony: No.
[2375.71] Tony: Well, I could hear it.
[2376.71] Tony: That would be interesting.
[2377.71] Frank: I feel funny.
[2379.71] Tony: Yeah.
[2381.71] Jack: No, I suppose I still got the simulator and everything, wouldn't I?
[2387.71] Frank: Yeah.
[2388.71] Frank: Well, no, they're going strong.
[2390.71] Frank: They still do cable TV stuff, I think.
[2394.71] Frank: I could be wrong.
[2395.71] Frank: I could be talking out my ass.
[2397.71] Frank: Don't listen to me.
[2399.71] Jack: You never.
[2401.71] Jack: I know.
[2403.71] Jack: What are Frank doing to uni?
[2409.14] Tony: I don't know.
[2410.14] Tony: I've got any flying tricks coming up.
[2412.14] Tony: Or anyone doing anything, apart from your going to Wales, which is...
[2418.14] Frank: Wales.
[2419.14] Frank: Secret squirrel meetup.
[2422.14] Frank: There's EMF camp that I might try and...
[2426.14] Frank: Whoop.
[2427.14] Frank: A few other people might try and whoop some circus tent things, possibly.
[2434.14] Frank: Or, I mean, we have been allowed to fly in the fields previously,
[2438.14] Frank: and there's been, like, big LED arrays in the fields,
[2441.14] Frank: so that could be quite fun.
[2445.14] Frank: Are all the goats still alive?
[2448.14] Frank: Are all the goats still alive?
[2451.14] Jack: Remember?
[2452.14] Jack: L-D-O, no.
[2454.14] Jack: L-D-O, no.
[2456.14] Jack: How much do we have to pay for someone to just slaughter goats?
[2466.14] Jack: Yeah, that's not happening.
[2468.14] Jack: So...
[2469.14] Jack: Goats slaughtering, or they've got more goats?
[2473.14] Jack: Well, that field's not going to happen.
[2476.14] Jack: No, not showing.
[2478.14] Frank: Yeah.
[2480.14] Frank: So, yeah, if anyone has a field, and they want some L-D-O people
[2484.14] Frank: rocking up and flying around for a bit, shout.
[2488.14] Tony: Yeah.
[2490.14] Tony: I think we could find somewhere.
[2492.14] Tony: We could all go to France.
[2495.14] Tony: Menacely.
[2496.14] Frank: Yeah, that would be good.
[2498.14] Tony: I would enjoy that.
[2499.14] Tony: That would be a very good L-D-O meet-up in France, wouldn't it?
[2503.14] Frank: Yeah.
[2504.14] Frank: There is a potential venue that I'm eyeing up for the 10-year thing
[2514.14] Frank: that's got proper toilets, proper caf, proper campsite showers
[2523.9] Frank: being rented out before they allow lots of flying there.
[2529.9] Frank: I think it could be a good potential, but...
[2532.9] Tony: Lid airport.
[2537.9] Jack: Well, Lid airport, the state of the sort, I mean.
[2540.9] Jack: Getwick.
[2541.9] Tony: Getwick, you've shot there just for us, wasn't I?
[2544.9] Tony: Yeah.
[2545.9] Tony: Come on, it's our 10th anniversary.
[2547.9] Jack: It'll be cheaper than when it did happen.
[2552.9] Tony: Well, we know how to just to shot it there, don't we?
[2556.9] Jack: Yeah.
[2557.9] Jack: What are you doing?
[2558.9] Tony: Oh, I was waiting for that.
[2562.9] Jack: I still want to make that shirt.
[2565.9] Jack: Tony Dunn and Getwick.
[2569.9] Frank: We're just the screenshot from Sky News of Tony with goggles on on top of his van.
[2575.9] Jack: Yeah.
[2576.9] Jack: Doug, you do it.
[2578.9] Jack: Now Mr. Martin come down.
[2580.9] Jack: I'm like waiting to see and stuff.
[2584.9] Jack: Don't do it.
[2585.9] Jack: Don't do the aggravate it.
[2587.9] Jack: These friends are jacked.
[2591.9] Frank: Have you seen the the the near mess that has been making the rounds recently?
[2601.9] Jack: Another one.
[2602.9] Jack: What?
[2603.9] Jack: What have I called now?
[2606.9] Jack: Prox.
[2608.9] Frank: Air Prox, yeah.
[2612.9] Frank: So there's the Air Prox board with the other sort of group that gets submitted all the
[2620.9] Frank: kind of near misses or if things where something could go wrong.
[2626.9] Frank: And there was one from last June, which I feel like if it had had the word drone in
[2638.9] Frank: would be in would have been in the Daily Mail by now.
[2642.9] Tony: Straight away.
[2643.9] Frank: Yeah.
[2644.9] Frank: But it's it said muddle jet all the way through.
[2649.9] Frank: And and, you know, somehow that that makes it OK.
[2654.9] Frank: They they they anonymized quite a lot of the things about it.
[2659.9] Frank: But you can see on the map that it's in a place very near a town called Buckminster.
[2670.9] Frank: And is going.
[2674.9] Frank: And the manned aircraft was a was an RAF Hawk that was in a formation flying at low level
[2685.9] Frank: from RAF.
[2686.9] Frank: Waddington with a load of red.
[2689.9] Frank: Yeah.
[2690.9] Frank: Well, it didn't mention what color they were.
[2693.9] Frank: But it was definitely a hawk.
[2696.9] Frank: It was a formation of hawks from RAF Waddington flying at low level.
[2702.9] Frank: And the the modelers on the ground at this place in this field near Buckminster did shout
[2710.9] Frank: it's redacted a hawk formation.
[2717.9] Frank: So, you know, that's that's quite clear what that was.
[2722.9] Frank: So you got a model jet.
[2724.9] Frank: You got the red arrows.
[2726.9] Jack: No, not pointing any fingers.
[2729.9] Jack: They may or may not be any of Frank's views.
[2734.9] Jack: No.
[2735.9] Jack: No.
[2736.9] Jack: Do not reflect the show or the view of the other two.
[2740.9] Tony: Well, if it's in the formation, it's going to be a red one.
[2745.9] Jack: Do not be on fire.
[2747.9] Jack: Be careful around busy roads.
[2749.9] Jack: Don't take advice.
[2752.9] Frank: And they know.
[2758.9] Frank: Yeah.
[2759.9] Frank: So they reckon they had a minimum separation of 100 feet vertically and 400 meters horizontally,
[2768.9] Frank: which is that is that is quite close for aircraft.
[2776.9] Frank: But Waddington radar and didn't notice that there was anything in the air apart from the formation of hawks.
[2785.9] Frank: So they didn't pick up like a fairly big jet turbine model.
[2792.9] Frank: So that's interesting to know.
[2796.9] Frank: And the the hawks didn't see it.
[2800.9] Frank: Notice it.
[2801.9] Frank: They didn't or at least they they claim they didn't notice anything about it.
[2805.9] Frank: But the the reason it all happened is because Buckminster is a like permanent site where they have permission to fly up to 1500 feet or whatever it is because it's permanent.
[2824.9] Frank: They can't issue a no time for it because a no time is only allowed to be a temporary thing.
[2831.9] Frank: It's permanent. So it's not a no time.
[2833.9] Frank: But model flying doesn't end up on the air charts like the maps of everything they need to think about.
[2841.9] Frank: So it's listed in like a database of things, but it's not actually shown anywhere to anyone.
[2847.9] Frank: So that's why kind of Buckminster, the BMFA Buckminster site is a bit unusual.
[2857.9] Frank: So that happened like last June.
[2862.9] Frank: It was published something like last August.
[2865.9] Frank: But then it was highlighted in the airport report in December.
[2872.9] Frank: And that was published fairly recently.
[2877.9] Frank: So the December report was published recently.
[2882.9] Frank: So it's that's kind of been hitting all the various kind of like G.A. light aircraft, all of those kinds of sites.
[2890.9] Frank: So I imagine it will probably be in the Daily Mail about a month's time once I've actually figured out what it all means.
[2897.9] Frank: That was kind of interesting.
[2901.31] Frank: It was just the sort of thing that sort of got my back up that I feel like if if it had been a drone flying legally, I feel like they'd have come down a bit harder on them.
[2913.31] Frank: And I feel like it would be a bit more publicized than this model aircraft.
[2920.31] Tony: But sort of that would have done more damage.
[2928.31] Jack: Yeah, that is a is a question, isn't it?
[2932.31] Jack: What did the drone safe app say about it all?
[2937.31] Jack: What do you mean?
[2940.31] Frank: Well, it's a permanent flight.
[2944.31] Frank: Yeah, they've got permanent permission to fly up to 1500 feet.
[2948.31] Frank: So they were flying legally.
[2953.72] Frank: They noticed it.
[2954.72] Frank: They spotted it.
[2955.72] Frank: They had spotters that went, oh, there's Amanda coming in at low level.
[2959.72] Tony: You better hurry up and get down.
[2962.72] Frank: He pointed it straight at the ground, dropped down.
[2967.72] Frank: Yeah.
[2968.72] Frank: All right.
[2971.72] Jack: It's almost like we're competent in our operation.
[2977.72] Jack: Yeah.
[2979.72] Jack: We police ourselves.
[2984.72] Jack: Enjoy having fun and don't want any malicious harm to anyone.
[2991.72] Jack: It's funny that, isn't it?
[2994.72] Frank: Yeah, just don't mention Pat Boy Slim or the other guy that got fined recently.
[3002.72] Tony: I think someone flew over his concert.
[3008.72] Frank: He flew into his concert, crashed into the stage.
[3012.72] Tony: Did he crash?
[3014.72] Tony: Yeah, they crashed into the stage.
[3016.72] Tony: A drone?
[3017.72] Tony: Well, a DJI drone, isn't it?
[3019.72] Frank: I don't know.
[3022.67] Frank: I'm guessing he was doing the whole running out of battery thing.
[3026.67] Tony: He's had a few beers.
[3028.67] Tony: He's flying over.
[3030.67] Tony: He crashed.
[3032.67] Tony: Was that a Brighton beach?
[3034.67] Frank: There was a Brighton beach, yeah.
[3036.67] Tony: You're not allowed to fly at the beach, aren't you?
[3039.67] Tony: But probably not over 10,000 people.
[3042.67] Jack: No, you're not allowed to fly at the beach, but you're not allowed any video footage.
[3046.67] Jack: Because the council say they own all the footage.
[3053.67] Jack: What?
[3054.67] Jack: You need permission to film or something.
[3057.67] Tony: Well, I think you can fly at beaches and record at beaches,
[3061.67] Tony: but probably not fly over that amount of people.
[3064.67] Frank: If you've seen the video, which it was plastered all over the news,
[3068.67] Frank: so I think that is illegal video just being posted everywhere,
[3073.67] Frank: so that won't encourage anyone.
[3076.67] Frank: Yeah, it was just like right in the middle,
[3078.67] Frank: just pointing downwards at this...
[3080.67] Frank: It's a concert, so there's like eight and a half thousand people there
[3083.67] Frank: all squished together.
[3084.67] Frank: They wouldn't be able to move out of the way.
[3086.67] Frank: So, yeah, not amazing.
[3089.67] Tony: Not a good idea.
[3090.67] Tony: Definitely had a few beers.
[3092.67] Tony: Yeah.
[3094.67] Frank: It was a fine, like 900 quid, I think it was, give or take.
[3102.67] Tony: Not bad.
[3103.67] Tony: Probably got a 1500 quid for the shot.
[3109.67] Tony: Slap on the wrist.
[3111.67] Tony: I'll say worse from them DJ auditors.
[3114.67] Tony: Or the auditors.
[3116.67] Tony: Something's going to happen with one of them
[3118.67] Tony: and they're going to ruin it for quite a lot of us, I think.
[3122.67] Tony: Have you seen any of them?
[3124.67] Tony: Oh, yeah.
[3125.67] Tony: Oh, God, they drive in there.
[3126.67] Jack: Oh, I think that learns.
[3128.67] Tony: I know there's a couple of them as well, isn't there?
[3130.67] Tony: There's quite a few doing it in here.
[3134.67] Jack: They must have a very small penis.
[3140.67] Tony: I agree.
[3142.67] Jack: Like negative and not overflow either.
[3148.67] Tony: Then on that note.
[3150.67] Tony: Yeah, isn't it?
[3153.67] Frank: Good, don't it?
[3156.67] Frank: What else has been going on?
[3160.67] Frank: The FPV combat gear, like the sort of laser tag for models.
[3168.67] Frank: They've released some new hardware up to version 2.6.
[3174.67] Tony: Oh, wow.
[3175.67] Frank: I don't know what that means.
[3176.67] Frank: I don't know what the features are because I've had the version
[3182.67] Frank: probably one sitting on a shelf for five years.
[3187.67] Tony: There's not no one to fly with.
[3189.67] Tony: That is basically the one.
[3191.67] Tony: That is a problem that needs two to tango.
[3195.67] Tony: Yeah.
[3196.67] Tony: At least.
[3198.67] Frank: Yeah.
[3200.67] Frank: What else has been going on?
[3203.67] Frank: Oh, did you see the news about NASA's drone on Mars?
[3209.67] Tony: Yeah, it broke his prop.
[3211.67] Frank: Yeah.
[3212.67] Frank: I don't know.
[3213.67] Frank: They haven't got the dowel props.
[3214.67] Frank: They haven't quite got that far yet.
[3216.67] Tony: It done well, though.
[3217.67] Tony: It's supposed to only fly a couple of times, and it's done 20 or whatever.
[3221.67] Tony: It's flowing really well.
[3224.67] Tony: It's a shame the carbon prop broke.
[3228.67] Frank: Yeah, 72 flights and flew more than 14 times further than planned.
[3236.5] Frank: Wow.
[3237.5] Tony: That's pretty awesome, isn't it?
[3239.5] Tony: That's pretty good.
[3240.5] Tony: Good bit of engineering.
[3241.5] Tony: Did they catch the prop?
[3243.5] Tony: Because I see it's got a cup.
[3246.5] Tony: Has it just gone brittle because it's so cold?
[3249.5] Tony: I don't know.
[3250.5] Tony: I don't know what happened.
[3252.5] Tony: Maybe it hit a pole in the studio or something.
[3255.5] Frank: I think they were planning on wiggling it a bit and finding out what happens to see whether
[3261.5] Frank: they can work out a bit more about it.
[3263.5] Frank: But yeah, it's quite interesting, isn't it?
[3265.5] Frank: They built this thing purely to be like, can we get something to fly on Mars?
[3271.5] Frank: That was the entire goal of the thing.
[3274.5] Frank: It was like, can we get something to fly on Mars?
[3277.5] Frank: Everything else is a bonus.
[3278.5] Tony: Goal exceeded.
[3280.5] Frank: Yeah, it's pretty good.
[3282.5] Frank: Yeah.
[3284.5] Frank: See, humans, if they put their minds to it, can do big things.
[3290.5] Frank: Speaking of big things, shall we...
[3294.5] Frank: Jack, do you want me to leave this out?
[3296.5] Tony: Is that what you're going to say on it?
[3299.5] Tony: You bastards!
[3303.5] Jack: No worries.
[3305.5] Jack: Massis, thank you to all our lovely patrons who keep this show going.
[3312.5] Jack: You have been listening to Let Drone Out.
[3316.5] Jack: Being joined by our Lord and Master, Andrew Slash Frank.
[3320.5] Jack: Bye!
[3321.5] Jack: My darling, my Tony.
[3323.5] Tony: Oh, I put up with it, but I still do.
[3325.5] Tony: Bye.
[3326.5] Tony: Bye.
[3327.5] Jack: Bye.
[3329.5] Jack: And I've been brought into live fly.
[3331.5] Jack: And thank you to everyone who tuned in.
[3334.5] Jack: Good night.
[3335.5] Jack: Bye.
[3336.5] Jack: Bye.
[3337.5] Tony: Bye.
[3338.5] Tony: Bye.
[3339.5] UNKNOWN: Telemetry lost.