The 8th Grey Arrows Drone Club Birthday Challenge and Treasure Hunt

Nice shot of the hovercraft bbut there is a wee bit more work for you to do before we can award points:

All images for consideration must be posted in this thread with the number and name of the object claimed, the bonus points claimed, the time, date and location of the image and the drone used to take the picture.

So which bonuses, if any, are you claiming? :slight_smile:

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Just updated the entry. :slightly_smiling_face:

Just updated our scoresheet :slight_smile:

The Leaderboard gets updated arounf 19:15 each evening.

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4 - Tractor working in a field
Taken with a Mini 4 Pro near Melton Mowbray 11/8/25.
The combine is a New Holland - does that count for a bonus?

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Nice try but, unfortunately for you, no :slight_smile:

We do need to know which bonuses you are claiming before awarding points though!

This is my entry for 5. A water-borne vessel. Bonus points being claimed are

crew visible on deck
visible wake (About as wakey as a 2mph narrow boat can do!)

My Joker is a hyperlapse

Taken with a Mini 4 Pro on 12th August 2025

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@Ian5

Nice hyperlapse!

Are we going to tell the nice ladies and gentlemen reading this whereabouts along the A38 this was taken? :slight_smile:

Then we can credit you with 8 points!

Yes, the A38 is a long road.
It is at Wychnor Bridges, 1 mile north of Alrewas (6 miles north of Lichfield) 400 yards south of Dogshead Lane.
Or here OpenStreetMap

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Thanks for that.

We appreciate that it takes time to get used to the criteria we insist on for submissions. Looking forward to your next one :slight_smile:

We have credited you with eight points, the Leaderboard will refresh around 19:15 tonight.

Cheers. It is a learning curve for me, but not as steep as getting to grips with hyperlapse. And Vimeo. And Kuula…
Looking forward to todays leaderboard though. I might not be last :crossed_fingers:

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If you need help with anything you can alwaysuse the search function rather than going it alone. You will normally find that, whatever the problem, someone has found a solution. Or ask us, happy to help :slight_smile:

8. A Landscape not in the county in which I live

Location: A413 Layby, heading out of Amersham, looking towards Shadeloe House
Drone: DJI Mini 3
Time: 14:50 11/8/2023

This is my entry, apologies for slightly under exposed nature, due to strong sunlight, the RC was not easy to see all the details and missed the -3EV. Not the case for the other media submitted.

I also have a pano (a new learning experience):

And for a joker, a little video (my first & learning enough DaVinci Resolv to add a title and crop to 1 minute:

So I claim as bonus points:

  • AONB - the Chilterns Area
  • Still and 360 panorama
  • A lake in the foreground
  • A building with its own Wikipedia entry: Shardeloes House

Also a joker for an average video.

Finally (and I hope I have everything) my members’ Map entry:

That certainly was a challenge and now back to planning!

Peter

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This might be a useful website for people looking for construction sites:

https://www.buildington.co.uk/new-developments

Gives location and size and state of development. Search area can be easily refined.

Peter

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One of our judges moans about the bad sunlight performance of phones and tablets, not realising that the varifocals he needs to read the screen are also photochromic …

You seem to have gone for a full house - 5 points for the landscape with all conditions covered, five points for the video Joker :slight_smile:

Thanks, Peter.

If anyone else has any tips for websites useful for planning flights - either for this challenge or in general - feel free to share them in here. Who knows, if we get enough suggestions we might make a thread about it :slight_smile:

We use Google Earth and Google Maps,our own Drone Scene and County Rights of Way maps for planning which sites to fly and what hazaeds we may encounter. Drone Scene takes care of the aerial restrictions aspect, Googles Street View feature is great for checking for car park height barriers, charges, double yellow lines and the like The CROW maps are invaluable for working out accessand the occasional TOAL.

Most counties have a Rights of Way map somewhere on their websites these are the ones for West Sussex and Hampshire

WE use the Met Office app on our phones and also Airdata’s OKtoFLY for local forecasts, OKtoFly gives three days info for free or 14 days if you are registered for Airdata - it tends to be slightly pessimistic when it comes to wind strength.

Who has other suggestions?

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"And when the trial period ends tomorrow you can lease the RoboArt 3000 AI for this very reasonable monthly sum … "
Is this the new era of automated art? Or will the price be just too high? Is the scoring going to be handed over to AI too? Click the Pic™ to see the Leaderboard while it is still under human control!

@group-challenges

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8. A Landscape not in the county in which I live

Pleasley Pit in Nottinghamshire
DJI Mini 3 Pro
12 Aug 25 @ 19:20

Wikki Link - Pleasley Colliery - Wikipedia

Bonus point for a normal still and a 360 degree panorama (hosted on Kuula)
Bonus point for a lake or similar body of water in the foreground
Bonus point if a building with its own Wikipedia entry is clearly visible in the picture (supply a link)

A screenshot of your existing or newly added Members’ Map entry is required

and Finally the Video Joker

Total 9 points requested please good people of the committee, thank you.

Once again headed back to this beauty of a site in Pleasley, a lovely walk with Mrs A, some flying and photography followed by a take away on the way home… what a cracking summer evening, thank you GADC for the motivation.

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Nice video @akey_uk .I thought I could see the ghost of Fred Dibnah on the chimney, but was just a mark on my screen.

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The chimney on the engine house saved you from interrogation about which of the buildings in the background belonged to the colliery and museum and which were Pleasley Village :slight_smile: Mind you, now we have watched the video it’s a little more obvious.

As a matter of interest the wee island in the lake in the foreground has what appears to be a football goal on it. What’s going on? Any ideas?

9 points :slight_smile:

Glad I avoided tye interegation phase !!

Honestly no idea about that structure, there were a lot of birds hanging around that island so I stayed high and out the way.

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