My atempt, Beacon park meet-up
17/08/2025
Mavic 2 Pro
3. 8 or more people holding up a “Happy Birthday Grey Arrows!” banner (must be large and clear enough to be legible!)
Bonus point for attending if it is a meetup arranged through Drone Scene and four or more of the participants are GADC members
Isn’t Maroon a mixture of Blue and red. 
And white is a mixture of all colours.
Your point being? 
2 points and welcome to the Challenge!
We had a look at your picture and the largest building on the left - which appears to have NINE storeys. So then had a rummage around the internet and found Green Park is an area, not a single building.
So what’s that narrow, tall ELEVEN storey building in the centre? Is it part of the railway station or something else.
2 points and welcome to the challenge!
I’m not sure I’ll check 
As far as I’m aware it’s called green park village apartments .
7. A Building of 6 or more storeys
Location: Roxborough Bridge Roundabout, Harrow
Drone: DJI Mini 3
Time: 20:10 17/8/2025
And for a joker, my first ever Hyperlapse:
So I claim as bonus points:
And a joker for the hyperlapse.
I think that is everything. Another useful learning experience. Apart from the construction site, the remaining challenges will be a lot harder for me.
Peter
That pole looks frighteningly close 
It was fairly close, but I just went up and down, so was not over worried. The pole is a very tall light standard, illuminating the whole roundabout and the underpass, where I was.
However it did make me think about taking videos, as hard to compose shots and keep an eye on the drone. Maybe practice helps.
Peter
And space, I don’t have very good depth of field vision, and can’t often tell how close I am to obstacles, so try and leave a decent amount of space around the drone, it doesn’t always work.
Well done Peter - 8 points!
The tractor challenge has been made a little more difficult as harvest has been several weeks early this year - but not impossible!
Same here, my brain only receives signals from one eye unless I concentrate really hard. 360 obstacle avoidance ina drone helps - I’m rather more adventurous with my Mini 4 than my Mini 2!
I also rely on pointing the camera straight down to check that I am descending correctly onto my chosen landing spot.
<moderator's voice in hushed, David Attenborough-like tones> — If you want to check out the Leaderboard for the latest scores please carefully Click the Pic™ or scroll very gently upwards …Pretty much the same, I have a “lazy eye”, which basically means the brain turns off to my right eye. This means that although right handed , visually I do left . eg shooting a gun thus when shooting automatic rifles I get “fuck off hot shell casings” hitting my right cheek.
“ I’m rather more adventurous with my Mini 4 than my Mini 2!”
Funnily enough I’m the opposite, learned to fly using mini 2 se, so don’t really use the obstacle avoidance, and the mi I 4 pro is considerably more expensive.
7. A Building of 6 or more storeys
Location: Kaplan Living, Maid Marrion Way, Nottingham
Drone: DJI Mini 3 pro
Time: 00:43 19/8/2025
Bonus claimed - Building over 10 stories
Joker claimed - A flight between civil sunset and sunrise
Total 7 points please and thank you
As I had to pick my daughter up from work this morning, it was an ideal opportunity to capture Nottingham at night to pick up a joker while I was there.
We;; done Mark - seven points added to your score!
1. A construction site
Location: Between Northwick Park Hospital and Northwick Park, Brent London
Time: 18/8/2025 10:37
Drone: DJI Mini 3
This is my entry and annoyingly no ready-mixed concrete trucks as there were 2 on my recce. If you look at the skyline, you can see the Wembley Arch, city of London office blocks and with care the Shard and BT tower. The site is a former hospital car park.
Just one bonus claimed:
So two points claimed and that will be it from me for a while, till I work out how far to go for the water based challenges, Thames or Grand Union Canal and then where.
Peter
