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Good man. Reminds me of trying out parachuting, forgot the chute!!!!

Think you are right don the goggles, and try and keep my eyes open, have been taking the goggles with me every time and I turn them on to see if I see a picture and I always do. I shall go into betaflight and do as you suggest. Stand by for the next episode of the “Red Baron hits the dirt again”.

Hi Stamford, thanks for the tips. Funny you mention about hands shaking, well I can tell you mine are shaking without goggles on. The little beasts put the fear of god in me. Without the goggles on and everything I can think of in parameters as low as possible I can hover the things without too...

Funny how the old memory kicks in now and then. Mostly the then rather then the now.

Been using the stuff or similar for years now. Learnt it in my ham radio days.

Hi Tony, yes i am aware of the water threat so have coated the boards in silicone conformal coating then when I get them back home I give them a hair drying. So far no problems with the electronics. I will take a look at the PDB’s tomorrow. That’s good news about the gyro on the new board. Thanks.

Yep I came up blank on the board. I will order a PDB board as you say. I am living in France at the moment with my brother, we are in the French alps, so lots of snow, the good thing about that is the field I go to to test these things is yes you’ve guessed full of snow so when I crash no hard...

Hi Tony, yes having fun is what I intend to have. Yes and those frames I have are rather tight, had a job fitting the new receivers in them. I think they are classed as a 5” frame. It would of been easier if it were 5” tall and wide ha! Just got back from testing again, had set it up for Angle...

Hi Guys I will reply to you all as one and firstly thank you all for responding. You are correct in basically saying the best way to learn is with what I have and the Mavic and Spark has put me into a false sense of security. I shall persevere and have ordered many props. I have now set up both...

Thanks for the heads up rdsok. I did look at the forum titles but wasn’t sure where to post my cry for help, got it wrong first time, probably I am doomed from the outset. Hopefully one of the masters will see my cock up and put it in its right place for me. Many thanks again.

Have been flying my DJI Mavic Pro and Spark for several years now but recently bumped into a couple of youngster flying racing drones. Anyway to cut a long story short I got interested. So at 69 years young I thought now retired so let’s have some fun with whatever years are left. Purchased to...