Originally Posted by Colonel Blink

Fantastic location for FPV!! You are so lucky!

You know what? When I retire I think I've just got to visit the US with anFPV EZII in the luggage.......

Ah come on Blink. There are still some wonderful places in the UK that are waiting to be discovered and flown over with an EZ*.

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!
Excellent start to the 2012 thread Gene & Co. Plenty of and a few .
Thanks to Ashton for the EZ*II photos. M'plex have really made some great changes. I may have to shelve my plans for a Fun Cub in favour of a MkII star.

Originally Posted by mixer421

Thanks to Ashton for the EZ*II photos. M'plex have really made some great changes. I may have to shelve my plans for a Fun Cub in favour of a MkII star.

I can't take the credit for those!

Thank Verid in this thread - I just brought it to the attention of a wider audience

Here's to many an evening poring over build logs until I can afford one myself heheh

Originally Posted by Flypoppa

Ah come on Blink. There are still some wonderful places in the UK that are waiting to be discovered and flown over with an EZ*.

+1 to that!
Blinky, stop being pathetic . You live in a great country without fences and restricted areas all over the place. Once I retire I'll move to England where there's still free space to play .

Martin

Originally Posted by Flypoppa

Ah come on Blink. There are still some wonderful places in the UK that are waiting to be discovered and flown over with an EZ*.

I agree. But only this morning I was wondering about alternative places to fly locally. All the Leeds/Bradford park byelaws forbid any power other than rubber or muscle (even CO2 is expressly banned). This got me wondering about 'ad hoc' sites, which in turn made me ruminate upon cultural attitudes of the general public in different countries - and not just pertaining to FPV. In my opinion there are many countries (France, Italy, Spain etc) where Jose Publique would take the view 'Wow, that's great! Not for me, but enjoy it. Legality? Hadn't really thought about it'; in other countries (such as the US) I get the impression it's more 'If its legal, then enjoy it' whereas in the UK the general attitude seems to be 'If that's not illegal, then it bloody well should be'.

This attitude seems to be getting more ingrained - as a 12 year old I flew diesel power in the local park and hill. No one complained. Yet only a few months ago I had to take a diplomatic attitude on a full-sized pilots forum with a guy who had described an FPV video (not one of Trappy's) where the guy had reached several thousand feet as 'insanely dangerous'. I was threatened to have my EZ* blasted out of the sky by a couple of gamekeepers (aka thugs with shotguns and an L200 Bullymobile with half a brain between them).

Originally Posted by Martin.

You live in a great country without fences and restricted areas all over the place. Once I retire I'll move to England where there's still free space to play .

Sorry Martin, but I think you'll find that those days are long past. The Fun Police have taken over.

Originally Posted by Colonel Blink

I agree. But only this morning I was wondering about alternative places to fly locally. All the Leeds/Bradford park byelaws forbid any power other than rubber or muscle (even CO2 is expressly banned). This got me wondering about 'ad hoc' sites, which in turn made me ruminate upon cultural attitudes of the general public in different countries - and not just pertaining to FPV. In my opinion there are many countries (France, Italy, Spain etc) where Jose Publique would take the view 'Wow, that's great! Not for me, but enjoy it. Legality? Hadn't really thought about it'; in other countries (such as the US) I get the impression it's more 'If its legal, then enjoy it' whereas in the UK the general attitude seems to be 'If that's not illegal, then it bloody well should be'.

This attitude seems to be getting more ingrained - as a 12 year old I flew diesel power in the local park and hill. No one complained. Yet only a few months ago I had to take a diplomatic attitude on a full-sized pilots forum with a guy who had described an FPV video (not one of Trappy's) where the guy had reached several thousand feet as 'insanely dangerous'. I was threatened to have my EZ* blasted out of the sky by a couple of gamekeepers (aka thugs with shotguns and an L200 Bullymobile with half a brain between them).
Sorry Martin, but I think you'll find that those days are long past. The Fun Police have taken over.

My thinking is the density of people vs. parks. I can see any country not wanting you to fly near housing, schools or busy roads. That describes where I live but if no one is using the park people don't care.

At the same park I've shot 7' rockets and flown the EZ. Little old ladies gather to watch, even ask questions.

"Will you be able to put it back together sonny? We'll wait!"

Todd

Everybody, I'm signing in to the new thread. Hope anyone didn't drink enough to prohibit them from flying on New Years Day Hey Gene, great start to the new thread! It didn't hurt (much) did it?

-P.D.

Originally Posted by pdiddyg40

Everybody, I'm signing in to the new thread. Hope anyone didn't drink enough to prohibit them from flying on New Years Day Hey Gene, great start to the new thread! It didn't hurt (much) did it?

-P.D.

groan.. stop typing so loud.

Happy New Year, gang!

Great to see the new 2012 EZ* thread up (I slept in this morning, late night and all that...). Kudos to Gene, Rick & Bob (and Kevin) for all the good work.

We've been having an uncharacteristically warm, sunny winter, and I have been keeping my EZ* in the air. Blue skies and warm today, but a bit breezy. May have to get some flying in anyway, the EZ* is in the Yukon, ready to go!

Originally Posted by pdiddyg40

...
Hope anyone didn't drink enough to prohibit them from flying on New Years Day ...

I never drink and fly ... and of course I have been out flying on on New Years Day:

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Originally Posted by Jurgen Heilig

I never drink and fly ... and of course I have been out flying on on New Years Day:

Hi Jurgen.
Is that you in that pic? I'd like to use it on the picture post of page one, if you don't mind.

This way we can monitor your receding hair line over the year.

G

Originally Posted by 2500GENE

Hi Jurgen.
It that you in that pic. I'd like to use it on the picture post of page one, if you don't mind.

This way we can monitor your receding hair line over the year.

G

I don't think you will notice much difference over just ony year.

With increasing age, you need a slightly bigger space for the solar panel.

Jürgen

Originally Posted by Jurgen Heilig

I never drink and fly ... and of course I have been out flying on on New Years Day:

Nice photo! Is that a recent photo of your 2003, original EasyStar? It looks brand new!

Originally Posted by Zaurak3

Happy New Year, gang!

Great to see the new 2012 EZ* thread up (I slept in this morning, late night and all that...). Kudos to Gene, Rick & Bob (and Kevin) for all the good work.

We've been having an uncharacteristically warm, sunny winter, and I have been keeping my EZ* in the air. Blue skies and warm today, but a bit breezy. May have to get some flying in anyway, the EZ* is in the Yukon, ready to go!

Yes -GREAT NEW THREAD GUYS- AND Hello Nebraska- we are having a wind advisory here in Des Moines, Ia today winds 20-30 and gusting to 40+mph- so of course I will go try and fly the old Ez mk1 (just trying to total old beat up bird on video so justify replacement) besides this thing flies great in wind- love the challenge. Only real tough part for me is landing in turbulence. If we get some good video I will post it later..Happy New Year !!!