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No Ghosts, just Ballparks
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(Video is at the bottom of the OP)

So on Sunday as some of you may have saw in my shoutbox (live chat I think it's called here?) message I was planning to drive to a ghost town and to fly there. This was going to be a stop along my way from Atlanta GA to Charlotte NC as I headed for a conference that I am attending this week. 

I happened to rent a big black Ford Excursion (the one on the right obviously lol) which instantly made me think of Men in Black for some reason... 

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So I packed up my flying gear... It seemed my cat Trixie wanted to go flying too!

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So I loaded up the MiB SUV with my luggage and my flying gear (and my Baretta... you never know what you might bump into in the wild... supposedly there are bears out there in Georgia and who knows what else... you know... like Ghosts!)

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Unfortunately when I got there the place was inhabited! Someone forgot to tell the ghost town people/website that you can't call a place a ghost town if the people living there are still living! Doh

The great part was that just 20 minutes north of this place was an amazing little park with some nice people (who were a little too friendly and wanted to watch posing a slight safety risk so I had to find a more secluded area of the park) and a really great softball field. This was especially useful because it didn't have the big nets behind home-plate which made for some fun flying. 

By no means am I smooth yet... there are plenty of corrections and jerky movements... but this video I think shows the progress and some of my emerging style as a pilot. There are a ton of cuts, but there were no crashes that day. I was flying "safe" or at least trying to avoid crashes by staying well away from obstacles as you'll probably notice. The cuts are because of time, so I cut out the boring parts where I am really just flying from one diamond to another to set up a trick without doing any tricks along the way. 



I have another video that is forthcoming. It was actually from flying the 2 days before @ the RC park. It's got a couple of gutsy moves and lots of successful gate passes but I was so excited about this footage that I had to put this video together first.

Thanks to everyone who watches my n00bie videos as I learn! I hope that the backstory and the narration help add to the entertainment value of the video

BTW, song info:
Title-Airport Sonata
Artist-Carl.Vegas
Album-No Music
Published 2016
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#2
Very nice! I thought there were a couple of gutsy moves in there - can't wait to see your other video! Big Grin
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(02-May-2017, 11:43 AM)sloscotty Wrote: Very nice!  I thought there were a couple of gutsy moves in there - can't wait to see your other video! Big Grin

Thanks! This has been a great trip and I am glad that I found the park even if I didn't get to fly at the ghost town Sad
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#4
Very cool! Story, video, flying, spot, and your own music Thumbs Up

My audio pc's died when i moved, i'd really love to once compose (or rather, slap together some samples) to an existing video... Sad
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Lookin' good Carl! Thumbs Up
I love baseball fields like that. There's one very similar next to my hidden soccer fields, but have yet to find it unoccupied Wink
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Thanks guys.

I have a history with music and it broke my heart at one point (Just before I became a professional quality nerd instead... talk about career change!). I didn't really make much of an attempt to make music again until last year when out of nowhere I got inspired enough to make my 3rd album. The difference in the album is it wasn't made for a particular audience, I just made it to make music. Airport Sonata (the song in the video) is the last track on the album and was literally inspired by learning about the "Sonata Form" in classical music. I thought "wouldn't it be interesting to compose a bit of EDM based on these rules"... then it was a boring song so I added some air-traffic control recording that I got the last time I was in Vegas and tada: Airport Sonata.

The fields were great... that park was really crowded in the rest of the area but I think because those fields were in the very back and up a steep hill (which hid them) that it made it less of a spot for people to be. There were other fields in the main section of the park and people were playing or practicing in those areas. I would say this is easily the best place I've flown so far having been limited to my basic open flying field, and a couple of parks where the baseball diamonds have big nets behind home plate just begging to snatch a prop!
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