The Grey Arrows 3rd Annual Birthday Competition and Treasure Hunt

What an epic short vid … totally irrespective of any challenge considerations! :+1:

… although, ripping the audio from your daughters vid and editing it in would have been “eipicer”. :crazy_face:

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I was going to do that but changed my mind last minute might do it any way when I get some spare time

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NO 14 A sequence of four or more canal locks
– Bonus point if there’s a barge in each lock

NO Bonus point

Neptune Staircase photo was taken on 3.08.2020
Neptune Staircase near small village Banavie four miles from Fort William

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You are getting to all the best places!

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They look like some posh locks :heart_eyes::+1:t4:

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Rob, true on all accounts.
This challenge has certainly ticked all the boxes :smile:
Whoever wins, we’ve all had a great time :clap: :clap:

Cheers
Steve :slight_smile:

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Back home know already making plans for next year got a lot more photos off places to put up when I get time little bit busy at the moment.

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macspite don’t worry about skint at least where having fun and getting out. Anyway I’m sure we would get bored if we was millionaires :rofl::joy:

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We’re still looking at another four weeks plus here mate :scream:

Move north :wink:

Wait… we’ve not announced next years treasure items yet :grimacing:

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We’ve pretty much used up this century’s allocation of sunny days - so we can make it difficult by having that as one of the items. :wink:

I did, When I were young.

Spent ten years trying to bring civilisation to the Mancunians.

Admitted defeat and came back south :slight_smile:

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What a waste of time today went to take a photo or video Yorkshire Heart Vineyard for annual birthday competition got there mavic would not take off you are in a no fly zone RAF Linton on Ouse I checked before I went I thought I was ok phoned another vineyard near by they said you have to put it in writing if you would like to fly here will have to find another place but did get a shot of a Harvester in a field.

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My sympathy.

Had the same problem on Sunday. DJI was emphatic I was in a no-f;y area. Dronescene had shown I was south of the NFZ. Fortunately I could change to Litchi which merely warned I was near to a NFZ.

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Similar with me today, off the main road drove for 10 mins up this hideous single track road, pot holes bigger than I don’t know what, rocks, dust, the lot!! I felt like the fucking Churchill dog driving up there, get to the top to find out where I was heading is closed! :man_facepalming:t4:

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I’d blame DJI for that one too :grimacing:

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I did say similar not same :smirk: still didn’t take off :joy:

Further to my comment re not being allowed to take off - and also my submission for item 24: A UNESCO World Heritage Site. Taken on Sunday 09/08/2020 at 14:55. Take off location below. No bonus point as I haven;t visited this area for drone photography before (but driven past many times when working)

(I would have tried for item 4, coos in a field but even though I shouted Lie down you b@s^^^ds at them in my best coo beastie wrangling voice they ignored me)

I had wanted to use the Inspire with the 14-42 zoom set at the telephoto end. I had planned the flight via Dronescene and Google Earth. Dronescene showed that the take-off area and flight path was neither NT land nor in the Larkhill danger area and FRZ.

DJI Go had different ideas and put up a big black box almost filling the screen telling me I was about to fly in a restricted area and did I accept the consequences. Repeated stabbings at the YES button did nothing, the other line of text just brought up an equally sized screen obscuring box full of terms and conditions that had no close button.

So I took off with the screen centre obscured, no access to the zoom or focus sliders and had to fly like a driver looking through a slit in an ice-filled windscreen. I alsp flew the Mavic Air using Litchi - which doesn’t seem to give a zoom control - but was even less happy with the resulting video. So zoom and pan is courtesy of my novice Resolve “skills”

Note: My planned flight was slightly awry. I WAS well out of the FRZ but I took a track a couple of hundred yards west of the track I had identified as being just outside the National Trust / English Heritage land.

So I flew over NT land. No one was in any danger as there was no idiot apart from myself taking pictures of the monument from a mile distant and south of the A303. One vehicle did come down the track, I assume the farmer in his LandRover Defender. Far from telling me to "git orf moi lan’ " he waved and smiled as I moved the H landing pad to the side of the track.

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Fatboy brilliant the steam train :steam_locomotive: footage.

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Thanks Neil

8: Beach Hut
Claiming 3 points please
Old Hunstanton Beach, Norfolk
9th August, at 2:45pm
Take Off Location: 52.954763, 0.503996

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