A brief passing visit, just checking it out for a more detailed flight around the quarry.
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went for a walk along the trail on Sunday - didnt take the drone with as the other half was tagging along but I did scope out a few decent places to fly from as I too want the quarry - but also found a decent vantage point for the church on the hill too - now I need the weather to play ball.
Did you go down the trail Ian ?
Great pano - had no idea it was so big.
We didn’t explore the trail this time. But the car park was easy to find thanks to the signs through the village.
Thanks for the tip off, its a great location. Looking forward to going back there.
I sent the drone up just to see where the quarry was, and thought take a pano to look at later.
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Awesome mate - well when the weather gets better in like 2028 or something we need to get other there again and do something.
Happy to help you with the wheelchair etc if needed if the other half is not too keen. Mine is never overly fussed about drones so its a bit of a solo thing but all good.
Will DM you some info.
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I’m just getting jellyfin running on my nas, so I can play the drone footage on the the tv directly from it. Then a quick edit of my footage from the airport yesterday, which may be worth posting hopefully?
Great stuff.
Awesome you went to the airport yesterday - I let them know I was not going to the other week haha - got my holiday back too haha
And I have NAS envy haha - if my bonus is decent I will be talking to you haha as the Ugreen stuff has been on my wish list for a while
Took a ride along the Cloud Hill Trail and got these —
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A cracking sunny day. Cycling along the trail too?
Yeah I did. But then found I was in the FRZ for EMA when I wanted to take some photos of the church on the hill.
Thought about giving EMA a ring to see if they could say yes but then this beast came overhead and I was like - na no chance
So had a good ride to Swarkestone Bridge and back.
I’ll have to recheck my flight plan for an orbit of the church that i had planned. I’m thinking that I may have switched off that FRZ layer because I don’t remember it being that close.
There are pylons on the other side as well, but i was planning being way above them.
it is a bit of a tricky place to fly at for sure - just don’t be too far from the church and your fine - but its quite easy to be too far as it does seem that the distance to the zone is way closer than we think it is haha
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