Hi, I finally decided to join. I am fairly new to FPV and bought my first quad back in May. I currently own a Meteor75 2S and C2 Flea 3S.
I have three more builds in the pipeline (Twig XL 3-4S Acro, Raven 4" LR (probably 3S1P Li-ion), Twig 2" fun/ripper).
Areas of interest are Whoops, Long Range and Acro builds. I would like to delve into racing eventually, but more as a way to improve stick control which would hopefully improve control in other areas.
I fly analogue and ELRS across all drones. Will probably go to HDZero once it matures a bit.
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I am based out of Sheffield (primarily), but can be found up around York a fair bit as well.
I mostly fly around Sheffield, but haven’t hit any of the main bandos yet. I probably won’t hit the smaller stuff for a while until I have better control. Though I see there are a few interesting spots over in Chesterfield and the big one down Matlock.
Beyond that there seems to be a lot of spots around Selby and York.
It’ll probably be a while before I can afford to drop money on those sorts of upgrades.
But it would be cool to meet some other pilots. I haven’t met anyone so far that flies. But I also tend to keep to myself when flying and avoid people for the most part. Our hobby tends to be more to the clandestine side of things.
Some of the places you all fly, I would also like to get some air time at.
Central. About 5 mins walk from the Moor. Doesn’t take me long to get over your side, I clocked about 15 mins out to Sheepbridge last week, 20 mins to Chesterfield Centre, not that I generally go that far.
Been wanting to have a look at the Realstone bando for a couple of months, but haven’t got round to it so far. It looks perfect for my low state of acro skills. Nice open space that I can practice in. Not so bothered about going inside the buildings currently.
Ah. I work at citygate, on the end of the moor. But I mostly work from home.
By realstone, you mean the bolehill quarry bando? I’ve not heard it called that before.
Its 10 mins from my house and I’d go a lot more if I’d not lost several motors to the magnetic dust there. Though I think I know where exactly that is now. I’ve been meaning to go back for a while now, would have been there on Wednesday evening, but the moors called to me.
It’s the one that you get to by cutting into the backwhacks in between Chesterfield and Clay Cross, roughly SW of Chesterfield. When I looked it up on Google, it came back as Realstone and some people on YT have called it that a few times.
I also want to hit Matlock Bando. It looks like the days of that being available are numbered, although some people were down last weekend according to YT. I read the other thread on here about it.
Doesn’t take me long to get over your side, I clocked about 15 mins out to Sheepbridge last week, 20 mins to Chesterfield Centre, not that I generally go that far.