Good news everybody the other day I went to field right after my night shift to look for my sunglasses. Guess what I found them! Having gone to the field any ways I took my TT out for a short fly too
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Also finished my Mini Scout for the "
FT Mini Scout Newbie Challenge" and couldn't wait to take it out for a first maiden. Since the challenge is giving us an option to choose the best out of three first maidens this is still not my official submitted maiden video. I still have two more tries to do better
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iPhone footage:
GoPro footage:
My inputs about that maiden:
After I lost the plane in the field and looked for it for more than an hour with no success, I gave up. I went home sat down with all the video footage and started building a search plan. I took screenshots of the plane on it's last seconds in the air to try pinpoint its crash location, downloaded them to my phone and waited for time to go again to the field to search for it. I knew that if I left it out at the field overnight its electronics would be wasted, because of the moist that would be created during the night due to temperature drops.
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I managed to get an hour to search while my wife took our daughter to a treatment she had. I took our son and went searching. With him on my back I tried to get to the location in which I thought the plane crashed in, looking for landmarks which I have decided to use while looking at the screenshots at home. It wasn't easy because on the field things look different than they do from far out. We were walking for a bit and couldn't find it, knowing that it crashed before a certain landmark we decided to walk from side to side moving a bit closer every time to where I was standing when I was flying the plane. After walking that way quite a bit we found it, still having some free time till my wife came back to pick us up from the field and drop me off at work, we decided to go fly some drones
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This morning I finished fixing up the minor damages that were done (a loose servo), plus I re-enforced the place that I saw fit too. My mini Scout is now ready to be flown again, and I am itching to go for a second maiden and an attempt at the FT Mini Scout Newbie Challenge even though the wind is blowing at 30 km/hr.