Anyone else starting to have nightmares about dual carriageways, military vehicles and other sundry competition items?
I’ve already overtook a Ferris wheel on the motorway shaking my fist at it having no idea where it was going.
I have since found one but the fair shuts at 4pm, so no chance of a night pic there! Sigh.
I know what you mean, List of Ferris wheels - Wikipedia was not helpful at all !!
Still … it’s a learning curve … 
Part of the reason for taking a while to reply to you has been the difficulty of selecting a frame from the video that actually shows the train you are claiming.
The idea behind making the train a photo or video item was so that the whole length of it could be captured either by a clear photo or by letting the train do the work and pass by a hovering aircraft that is videoing it. As some trains are long and or slow hyperlapse was allowed so that the full length could be displayed within the 30 second maximum length of the video. It was not a requirement.
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The only subject where a hyperlapse is optional but carries a bonus point is 14. A Funfair.
Shame that your mail train wasn’t longer. 
3 points in total
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Thanks, was actually expecting it to be a bit longer and was disappointed. I’ve seen them run 25+ wagons before!
Can you please clarify ‘green attached to a pub’? Most bowling clubs here in Scotland all have their own licensed bars in the clubhouse, but you wouldn’t describe them as pubs as such.
A late 2nd entry for today, I had to stay up past my bedtime.
McKee Clock, Bangor Co. Down, Mini 2, 28/07/22 10pm
Three points please:
A clock tower 
Clock showing ten o’clock
Ten o’clock being 22.00
Drone Scene entry 
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We are looking for a bowling green that is adjacent to or attached to a public house - licensed premises open to the general public for the sale of alcoholic beverages. You clubhouse incorporating a bar would not be a public house unless it admitted members of the general public without the need for being signed in by a bowls club member.
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Thanks for the entry Paul points added to the scoresheet 
Much easier for those living in the south east. We have distinct lack of red buses and indeed dual carriageways. On our roads both wing mirrors often are touching vegetation 
(had that the other day for one entry with grass growing on the road!)
Maybe like the AONB bonus point was eased for many perhaps the requirement for this might be
Still it is the taking part that counts and having a bit of fun relaxing.
Although this year, I think I might run out of time.
I enjoy looking at the entries. So keep them coming.
Thanks for the clarification. I’ve never come across a bowling green up here that is attached to a pub, even a google search produced nothing, must be a southern thing 
The change in wording from “A landscape in the next county to the one I live in” to “A Landscape not in the county in which I live” was to account for the fact that there are some counties that have no AONBs or NSAs in any neighbouring county. This would have made the AONB point impossible for some competitors to achieve. The wording change meant that it was now just very difficult.
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I think they exist a lot in northern England / midlands. Google maps is testament to that.
The fact that the majority are currently under a NFZ doesn’t help!
You do know there is a big bit of the midlands/north that isn’t Birmingham right ?
Bloody Southerners.
That’s what it’s all about Ian, for me too. There are at least a couple that, while maybe not impossible for me, are so close to it as to make no difference. I’m doing it for my own satisfaction. And winding up the @Committee is all part of the fun, not that I would do any of that, obviously. 
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the flight restriction zone covers way more than Birmingham though. I’m in Coventry and thats covered by the restriction zone also 
Not York though 
never! 
We will just leave this here:
The Challenge Committee reserve the right to modify the rules at any time …
…The Challenge Committee’s decisions are final
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You’d be surprised. It was difficult to find a pub that hadn’t ripped up the bowling green to turn it into a pub garden, more so during covid.
A lot of the bonus points this year are difficult, and the price of fuel means I go somewhere once and just hope for the best. I won’t be travelling around attempting umpteen times to find JCBs filling dirt trucks for eg like last year. From my entries I’ve already dropped a potential 8 bonus points.
Some may be impossible if I can’t grab them next week while near a coast, but currently weather also don’t look favourable and then there’s annoying the OH by revolving plans around marinas, caravan parks and train level crossings!
It is what it is and it’s not meant to be easy otherwise we’d all be tied. I just like taking part and flying in places I’d never think of, and the challenge of actually finding a TOAL point for some of them. I do sometimes question “who the hell is going to want to fly here” but I have enjoyed the many pubs I’ve got to visit already on this one! 
Finding loopholes is also fun. Others have perhaps let them out the bag earlier than they should have. I’ll certainly now be copying them!
It’s interesting to see a lot of regulars from past competitions are either slow off the mark this year or not taking part. The one major lesson I learned from last year was to get ones with a particular type of bonus point on the board asap, the rest as and when you can max the points until you run out of time.
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