Can you spot the unvoluntary spectators?
*Geeh, have to admit the one on the bench wasn't intentional, but I guess he didn't mind as we spoke to him walking by afterwards. I'm trying to smoothen up my flying, but was really tired and had a hell of a headache tonight, so..

However flying is therapeutic 
Happy takeoffs & landings, everyone!

Lovely!

The mirror smooth river reflecting the sky made the video. Nice smooth and fluid flight.

Thank you!
..and - exactly!! I couldn't believe how calm the surface of the river was. I definitely have to go back and try to catch another evening like this, and take some time to focus on the reflections and "rewind" :oP
Oohh, I already have an almost "prosthetic" feel for my quads, *chuckle..
Well, in the end, that's what the whole transhumanism-discussion is about!

Mankind has always wanted to fly and FPV is an amazing step towards actually doing that. If only we could feel the motion of the craft and the wind with our muscles and ears as we fly...

Millpond rivers or lakes just don't exist here, close to the coast as we are. Calm days are something that happens somewhere else! After my initial beginner crashes, a large number of 'cartwheeling over the field' or 'hedge trimming' incidents have been caused by gusts of wind or forgetting to account for wind speed when flying upwind.

I hope your Indian summer holds!

Beautiful spot and your work on flying smooth is paying off. I love how the reflection looks brighter than the surroundings, it really adds to the atmosphere.

Awesome video! The scenery is truly gorgeous. Nice music selection and flying too... goes well as an entire package

Sports car! Ferrari.

(29-Sep-2017, 10:06 AM)Carl.Vegas Wrote: Awesome video! The scenery is truly gorgeous. Nice music selection and flying too... goes well as an entire package

Muchas gracias, so nice of you!
I guess that "my kinda thang" - spontaneously stumbling onto sceneries and somehow interpret them. That's something I want to exercise, I'm definitely not the racing guy - too slow for that   Doesn't mean that I don't like speed, though..
I feel a strong pull towards tall buildings and the mountains.
Looking forward to your vids too!
Hasta priesto!!

(30-Sep-2017, 01:49 AM)campagnium Wrote: Muchas gracias, so nice of you!
I guess that "my kinda thang" - spontaneously stumbling onto sceneries and somehow interpret them. That's something I want to exercise, I'm definitely not the racing guy - too slow for that   Doesn't mean that I don't like speed, though..
I feel a strong pull towards tall buildings and the mountains.
Looking forward to your vids too!
Hasta priesto!!

I can understand how that would definitely be great. Unfortunately both where I live today and where I grew up much of the beautiful places are owned by the government (more specifically the US national parks service which is off limits for flying RCs). So I'll live vicariously through those of you who make videos is beautiful places and stick to my crazy flying in boring places lol.

(30-Sep-2017, 10:55 AM)Carl.Vegas Wrote: I can understand how that would definitely be great. Unfortunately both where I live today and where I grew up much of the beautiful places are owned by the government (more specifically the US national parks service which is off limits for flying RCs). So I'll live vicariously through those of you who make videos is beautiful places and stick to my crazy flying in boring places lol.

By all accounts, if you take off from outside the park and land outside the park, there is nothing they can do.

I think it's pretty creepy that the parks service monitors YouTube and then gets warrants to force Google to disclose the subscriber's details and then force the subscriber's ISP to link the IP address with a physical address so that they can impose a fine...

Hey guys,
..this one would actually be worth a thread, huh?
How is society reacting to FPV. Of course, it's related to the topography of the country in question, but not only. How strict the laws are, is not really a good indicator either, as some countries have strict laws, but tolerant populations (..my experience in Italy, for example).
Switzerland would have pretty permissive laws. The problem is that every association and even every communce may add their own rules to the basic package. They have to be compatible with the superposed federal legal structure, but at times they follow a very weird "local" direction, however there's plenty of potential for endless debates, and that's what happens, if something is new. Like "drones".
So we have people caring for birds, and the environment, and their privacy, and horses, dogs, other animals..
The point is, Switzerland is too small for everybody to have his or her "special" rules followed all of the time. Most of the time, okay, but we all have to be a little tolerant and accept exeptions. Otherwise, we'll exclusively communicate through lawyers, and we know that that leads nowhere..
Where no complainant, there no judge - I try to stick to that.
..but it just isn't enough. I got accused nonetheless and despite of very humanistic communicative approaches. At this point, I focus on what can effectively be proven, and admit no more than that. In the two cases I have experienced, the proof was not sufficient, as a consequence. People would have been better off with discussing and finding a common agreement, but hey - it wasn't me filing a lawsuit..
My hope is that, over time, authorities will get tired of accepting charges from paranoid people. It's usually those bathing in daily boredom who jump onto such a train for entertainment..

I'm relaxed, generally speaking: FPV cannot be stopped anymore, it's been seeded to firmly within some very resilient minds already..
It may be the trying ground for a general aspect of an evolving society, whose members are starting to materialise their out-of-body-experiences, where claiming personal freedom becomes a question of imaginative power and not accepting the artificial boundaries of bigotry, that are traditionally cast upon technological improvements. As progress accelerates itself, legislation will always be one step behind, so as long as we keep up w the technological evolution, we'll be served options to at least partially evade actual laws.
Happy exploring, everyone!

Last time you mentioned you had to go to a "police interview", how did that turn out btw? Respectively, what was the reason?

The first rule of any police interview: keep your mouth shut and admit nothing.

(01-Oct-2017, 03:02 PM)fftunes Wrote: Last time you mentioned you had to go to a "police interview", how did that turn out btw? Respectively, what was the reason?

Well, I gave my interview - there was a farmer in BL who sustained that he had to shoot one of his animals because they were afraid of drones. I was visiting the region with a friend from Italy, and the spot had been recommended by a local restaurant owner. That day we just were taking a look at the spot, and the farmer made us advance on a little side-road when we entered. My car got stuck, and after a while the farmer turned up yelling at us, discriminating our provenience and doubting my intellect.
The plot is obvious: I'm just the one he was looking for in order to get rid of his animal and make someone pay for it. Obviously, I didn't admit a thing, as there was nothing to admit, but stated that I have witnesses and that I'll prosecute him to the full extent if he continues to waste public resources (..which are paying for the whole comedy).
The case resides on some desk of a state attorney in Basel - let's see how things turn out. What puzzled me most was the degree of aggression we were confronted with. Well..

(01-Oct-2017, 04:17 PM)unseen Wrote: The first rule of any police interview: keep your mouth shut and admit nothing.

You're oh-so-right on this one - personal experience?
I had to admit to myself that there's not really justice, there's just personal interest. Police officers usually want to avoid complications, so the more linear and obvious the story, the more they're likely to go for it. In a lawsuit, there's no reality and no reason, there's just the collective of proof that has been admitted to the case, so basically, all one has to focus on is any kind of proof. No proof, no lawsuit.
And the facts have always to be interpreted, somehow: What an enthralling invitation to confusion!