A giant massive nebulous gargantuan humongous ( and any other word relating to big that can be found in the Thesaurus) thank you! to all the good worthy people who took time out to wish me a happy birthday. Many thanks to you all. I've never been a great celebrator of birthdays Christmas Easter anniversaries or even England winning the Ashes. There is a Latin phrase that is used to describe this type of person but I prefer the good old Angelo Saxon description, "right miserable bastard!' So these FB wishes do mean a lot to me.
I had a great day, thank you but I didn't get the present that I so
desired. A drone. The first FUN present I've actually coveted since I
asked for a skateboard in 1973. Chris said I'd use it once or twice and
then it would collect dust in the back of the cupboard (along with my
unused skateboard!) Thank you all once again - (if Chris is reading this
- I better get a Drone for Christmas! or else the toys are going to go
a long long way out of the pram!)
Jan 2nd 2016
My wonderful partner Christina bought me a drone for Christmas! It was such a sweet thing to do as I had joked all the way up to that day that it was all I wanted. She still got me one and I have to admit I was choked by her unfathomable well of kindness.
After several indoor flights that resulted with the drone bouncing of the ceiling I ventured out into the garden. I managed to get it to hover at fifty feet before it tilted left and landed in our neighbours fortress like back garden. "Please Miss, Can I have my Drone back?" I asked much to her amusement.
I tried again and this time it veered to the right and landed in my other neighbours garden. 'Oh No!" Hang on, it's still upright I can fly it back. I got it to hover again and got it back over the fence- HIS neighbours fence.
I decided I needed to go to the park. I managed to get the drone to go up and down all right it was the turning I was having trouble with. I decided to see how high I could get it to go. It went up, and up, and up, so high I really was having trouble seeing it. I thought I'd hover and take a picture rather than film to save battery life.
My control box made all kinds of unnecessary electronic bleeps as it took the picture. I looked up and I wasn't really sure if it had finished going up. More electronic bleeps "Yeah okay, so you've taken a picture no need to keep going on about it!"
It was then I realised that it was telling me it was out of range "Bugger!" it was bloody high up! I shut off the power and watched as my drone fell earthwards. I engaged the power again so it would hover down and not smash into the ground on its return.
I watched it fall and after a few seconds I began to make out the shape of the drone! "Is it supposed to be diving nose first?" I thought . I gave it full throttle in a hope of damage limitation but still it hurtled down.
'I wonder what this lever does?" I inquired in desperation. The drone did a loop the loop , not exactly what I wanted but it did stall the dive and landed Safely . I think I'm going to have to read the instructions on this!
Jan 2nd 2016
My wonderful partner Christina bought me a drone for Christmas! It was such a sweet thing to do as I had joked all the way up to that day that it was all I wanted. She still got me one and I have to admit I was choked by her unfathomable well of kindness.
After several indoor flights that resulted with the drone bouncing of the ceiling I ventured out into the garden. I managed to get it to hover at fifty feet before it tilted left and landed in our neighbours fortress like back garden. "Please Miss, Can I have my Drone back?" I asked much to her amusement.
I tried again and this time it veered to the right and landed in my other neighbours garden. 'Oh No!" Hang on, it's still upright I can fly it back. I got it to hover again and got it back over the fence- HIS neighbours fence.
I decided I needed to go to the park. I managed to get the drone to go up and down all right it was the turning I was having trouble with. I decided to see how high I could get it to go. It went up, and up, and up, so high I really was having trouble seeing it. I thought I'd hover and take a picture rather than film to save battery life.
My control box made all kinds of unnecessary electronic bleeps as it took the picture. I looked up and I wasn't really sure if it had finished going up. More electronic bleeps "Yeah okay, so you've taken a picture no need to keep going on about it!"
It was then I realised that it was telling me it was out of range "Bugger!" it was bloody high up! I shut off the power and watched as my drone fell earthwards. I engaged the power again so it would hover down and not smash into the ground on its return.
I watched it fall and after a few seconds I began to make out the shape of the drone! "Is it supposed to be diving nose first?" I thought . I gave it full throttle in a hope of damage limitation but still it hurtled down.
'I wonder what this lever does?" I inquired in desperation. The drone did a loop the loop , not exactly what I wanted but it did stall the dive and landed Safely . I think I'm going to have to read the instructions on this!
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