Please submit proposed meetup locations in South to South-West
This isn’t a meetup, more of a “send me a proposed location to go scout” so I can get some info for organisers. I know there are lots of locations on drone scene, but it’s tricky to sift through to determine whether a given location is just good for a quick cinematic flight, a FPV bando rip, or has what we need for a meetup.
There has been quite a bit of talk about hosting a meetup South-West & South in addition to @bmsleight and co’s great work sorting stuff for South-East.
Specifically, I’m probably looking at locations within or not too far out from this boundary (yes, very selfishly centres around my home town of Bournemouth ):
Stealing from Brendan, I want to check locations for:
So, weather permitting, I’ll go to each location and compile a report of:
i) best parking (what3words)
ii) best meetup/flight area (what3words)
iii) details of walk from car park to flight area (including vid if possible)
iv) details of any adjacent amenities (cafe, toilet, etc)
v) details of nearby FRZ’s
vi) cinematic of flight area
vii) quick fpv rip of flight area if poss
Locations I remember seeing on the forum that are already on my list and I’ll be checking out:
no suggestions sorry as I don’t know the area, however in the north west we seem to have found a recently abandoned golf course that offers some good clear lines of sight as well as other interesting bits
maybe have a look through here at some of your local abandoned golf courses… something relatively recently abandoned means it may not have been redeveloped for housing or whatever (yet), plus they still sometimes have a cafe too in the old club house and parking
there is also a map with pins in it too if the names mean nothing to you (like me)
Oh neat, certainly wasn’t something I’d have considered so thanks for the idea and links. I’ll have to do some digging.
Great suggestions.
Southsea Common & Beach would be great with the monuments and open area for sub-250g flying, but unfortunately the bigger drones would probably not be allowed? (Widest open space there is 300m so if the common was completely empty we’d only just be able to sit in the middle and maintain 150m horizontal separation)?
Bognor Regis definitely has some promise, think I’ll play on the satelite maps and see what I can find online before taking a drive over and around Sidlesham, Merston, Colworth, Aldingbourne. Could possibly speak to the LEC Airfield/Bognor Regis Gliding Club to see if they’d be open to us stealing some airspace for a bit too.
Cowdray House/Park also looks good, that one is going straight on my list to checkout!
@smudge202
Farley mount.
Limited parking (gets busy in good weather), I’m not aware of any toilets, and a bit of a rugged walk from the carpark.
Very limited space for TOAL and a nearby farmstrip.
Fraser Range - Historical landmark
Southsea, Portsmouth
Southsea
PO4 9LP
There is parking albeit rough ground and also a 1.9 m height barrier but usually space outside for higher vehicles. Lots of history to this place (besides the filming of a Dr. Who episode in 1971 !). There are public toilets not too far away and a cafe/ chippy even closer.
I started to do an Edit on my post to warn about naturist beach but decided that one way or another people would find out. Years ago there was a fence and ww11 blocks where the MOD/Navy would fly a red flag on this beach to warn people of flying bullets. Of course as kids we ignored the warnings !
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