Since we came out of winter, I've been very much flying freestyle, and not doing any car park flying.
It's been a new learning curve trying to practice tricks, and it's nice not driving home from every session thinking about the parts I've broken and need to replace. The carpark is brutal.
Now Smokin' Drones have had a couple of competitions recently with some good prizes and the most recent one was a speed challenge on the Multi Gp Tsunami track. At first i didn't enter this because i have no race gates. But on the last day, (when i realised not many people had entered
) i decided to give it a go.
I gathered everything in my house that i could use instead of gates (basically a bag of my clothes) and went to set up the track.
I used the local school field and it was about 20mph winds that day and threatening to rain, but as i had left it till the last day, i didn't have any choice, and had to get the flying and editing of video done in one evening.
Anyway, i had A LOT of fun. Its given me the racing bug and makes me want to give it ago.
When running the track i had to be really strict, and keep very low, because since i didn't have gates, i didn't want to be disqualified.
It was so much fun pushing to get faster and faster each battery and I'm quite glad with the way it came out
I would love to now give this a go with race gates, since i believe i could shave another couple of seconds off, just by being able to see the gates, and also not having to fly so low.
If anybody knows the track record for this, i would love to know.
Peace out