I live in St Ives and I will hopefully get to take my mavic out for it's maiden voyage soon. Unfortunately my Nan's village is within Duxford airspace -_-
The mavic wont even take off if your near duxford, its a complete no fly zone for obvious reasons :-) let me know if you have any questions on the mavic happy to help, and enjoy the maiden flight.
Great stuff Jonathan. When you fly this far from where you started, do you navigate by the display on your tablet/phone? And to call it home when you're done, do you use the return home feature? Separately, it'd be interesting to see aerial footage of the Village College. Cheers.
Yes i have a link from the drone to a display connected to the controller either a phone or a tablet, the reason I did not go further over the lakes was that I was on the limit of the video signal so it would have been unsafe to go further away. The drone takes a very accurate GPS location of its take off position, if it loses signal it will auto return to home, it climbs to 100m then flys home and auto lands. I rarely use return to home as I prefer to be in control of the aircraft. Have had a request to over fly the center of the village so will do that very soon will include the village college (will do it out of school hours so there is no concerns)
I am going to try and do a video over North Stowe next, anywhere in particular in Longstanton you would like to see, I dont know the area that well but happy to try it.
Nice footage but Fen Drayton nature reserve is owned by the RSPB and I’m sure you would have needed their permission to fly a drone over their property - and unlikely that they would have agreed it given that the drone will upset the birds and wildlife. In future please fly drones responsibly 🙄
Hi Geoff Thanks for the comment, actually the drone was flown in full compliance with the CAA drone regulations. You do not need permission to overfly someones property, unless there is a specific no fly restriction. If upsetting birds was a reason to close airspace in the UK, nothing would be allowed to fly. When I flew from inside the reserve I actually did it with a warden stood next to me as they wanted to see the footage, so long as your not aggravating birds then there is no problems flying there.
Brilliant footage of a nice village and looking at this makes one realise just how green our landscape is. Spotted my house too.
This is wonderful. I would love to see a video of the length of the village from the church all the way down to Boxworth End.
+Anna Cranston will see what I can do, have to be pretty high up so we're not invading anyones privacy
I live in St Ives and I will hopefully get to take my mavic out for it's maiden voyage soon. Unfortunately my Nan's village is within Duxford airspace -_-
The mavic wont even take off if your near duxford, its a complete no fly zone for obvious reasons :-) let me know if you have any questions on the mavic happy to help, and enjoy the maiden flight.
Brilliant yet again
Thank you sir
Lived there in early sixties, my mum and dad owned the Spa shop, then down opposite the (Rising Sun?)
i’m afraid the rising sun is long gone, closed in about 1964 i believe
Great stuff Jonathan. When you fly this far from where you started, do you navigate by the display on your tablet/phone? And to call it home when you're done, do you use the return home feature? Separately, it'd be interesting to see aerial footage of the Village College. Cheers.
Yes i have a link from the drone to a display connected to the controller either a phone or a tablet, the reason I did not go further over the lakes was that I was on the limit of the video signal so it would have been unsafe to go further away. The drone takes a very accurate GPS location of its take off position, if it loses signal it will auto return to home, it climbs to 100m then flys home and auto lands. I rarely use return to home as I prefer to be in control of the aircraft. Have had a request to over fly the center of the village so will do that very soon will include the village college (will do it out of school hours so there is no concerns)
Can you do Longstanton?
I am going to try and do a video over North Stowe next, anywhere in particular in Longstanton you would like to see, I dont know the area that well but happy to try it.
Thank you. The new end if possible. I used to live there for 3 years. Am kind of missing it :(
Here is the one over NorthStowe ruclips.net/video/QErT-jlYGI8/видео.html
Nice footage but Fen Drayton nature reserve is owned by the RSPB and I’m sure you would have needed their permission to fly a drone over their property - and unlikely that they would have agreed it given that the drone will upset the birds and wildlife. In future please fly drones responsibly 🙄
Hi Geoff Thanks for the comment, actually the drone was flown in full compliance with the CAA drone regulations. You do not need permission to overfly someones property, unless there is a specific no fly restriction. If upsetting birds was a reason to close airspace in the UK, nothing would be allowed to fly. When I flew from inside the reserve I actually did it with a warden stood next to me as they wanted to see the footage, so long as your not aggravating birds then there is no problems flying there.