The Great Big GADC 7th Birthday Challenge and Treasure Hunt!

Item 3 An Access platform-scissor lift or cherry picker in use-not vehicle mounted✅

Taken Louth 10th August 2024 0643 DJI Mini4 Pro

Claim bonus point for orange or green colouring✅

Claim bonus point for two or more in picture✅

Claim bonus for two or more workers in one basket✅

Claim total 4 points

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4 points john768, how many beer tokens did it cost you? :rofl:

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£156 to be exact I am hiring the green cherry picker to do a roof clean, repaint on Tuesday they are dropping it off at 0930 so no flying on Tuesday. You might be able to have a day off and put your feet up😁

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CHARGE EVERYONE TO JOHNS HOUSE… Gets in car… Satnav… oh… back to looking.

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Found a plce with 2 yellow umbrellas and they were not persuaded in buying more for us.

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You can always help with roof cleaning. No charge for taking pic of a single cherry picker.

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Found a bar with 16 yellow umbrellas outside it!

We visit it before the end of the competition!!

Only flaw, is that it is in Poland :rofl: :rofl:

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Mini 3 Pro this morning around 8.30am, Pickie Fun Park Bangor

2. A public park

  • Bonus for a boating lake :white_check_mark:
  • Bonus for seven or more boats being used on the water (not attached to anything) :x:

This park has, among other things, a boating lake (just behind the café), a train, a mini flume, a chairplane, a splash area and a funfair. I’m forgoing the point for seven or more boats in operation because I’m not brave enough to go back in the afternoon when the boating lake is busy. Too many angry parents these days to be flying a drone where there are kids :frowning_face:.

Just the two points please.

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It’s either a boating lake or those are some very big swans lurking behind the cafe1

2 points :slight_smile:

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The swans are for adults and larger kids, there are disco ducks with little bumpers on them in a cordoned off area for the tiny tots. Like I said, I’m a big wimp, no chance of me flying around when it’s busy, even if I am within my rights. Thanks for the points.

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Should have run down and set the swans free of their moorings :rofl:

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Should have thought of that🤦‍♂️

Get your flight booked

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Save your time and money:

Entries must have been taken from a drone in flight (unless stated otherwise) and within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (except for our overseas members, all media must have been captured exclusively in their home country).

exactly!

But we are still going, so will miss the end of the comp…

Submit it anyway? That way we can all have a laugh when you’re told to Foxtrot Oscar :rofl:

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Item 16. A motorway or dual carriageway at night

  • Bonus for long exposure (2 seconds or more) showing light trails in each direction
  • Bonus for motorway or dual carriageway services on at least one side

I claim 2 bonus points for:

  • Long exposure (2 seconds or more) showing light trails in each direction
  • Motorway or dual carriageway services on at least one side

Service station on A14 at Kettering 09/08/2024 DJI Mini 3pro

I claim 3 points total, please

Side story, as I was flying my drone a police patrol car pulled up next to me, an office approached me and started asking me question! not the ones I thought he would? he wanted to buy a drone and was asking what was the best one to get and why,. So said DJI of course and then he went away not asking why I was flying a drone at night next to a duel carriage way and petrol station?

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Hello there Jason!

Late to the party but it’s still nice to see you. Have 3 points :slight_smile:

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Swan pedalos on a Bangor boating lake are an apt metaphor for today. Calm and unruffled on the surface but underneath major agitation as the pedalled paddles thrash the water …

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“It’s yet another crank call about village greens, Sir!”

To check out what today’s endeavours have brung - Click-the-Pic™ to be whisked nearly 700 posts up the thread to see the Leaderboard!

@group-challenges

To save argument next week this is what we expect for Village Greens:

How to find if land is a village green:

Find out where your local common land or village green is by contacting your local council. It keeps the ‘Register of Common Land and Village Greens’ for your area.

Each entry in the register includes:

  • a description of the land
  • who has rights to use it, and what those rights are
  • who owns it, or who owned it when it was first registered

As a very quick rule of thumb - if the space in question is surrounded by the back gardens of the houses it probably isn’t a village green. If the green is surrounded by quaint cottages, a rustic pub (with yellow umbrellas?) and a Norman church it probably is a proper village green :slight_smile:

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