A few photo`s taken from the parkzone radian glider

Bruthal

St Annes golf course, Bull Island, Dublin, - Howth head is in upper right of photo


Lansdowne Road - Northumberland Road junction, Dublin city


Car park at Shelbourne Road, Dublin city (Where we flew from)


Aviva Stadium, Lansdowne Road


Aviva Stadium, Lansdowne Road


Beach at Bray head, County Wicklow

Tabnabs

They're excellent, any chance you can label them for the folks who aren't familiar with the area?

Bruthal

Dyflin wrote: »

They're excellent, any chance you can label them for the folks who aren't familiar with the area?

yes i will do that.

Kashkai

Very nice shots there Robbie. Were you using a wide angled lens for the Howth shot?

Must have been interesting to say the least, getting the Rad back down into such a tight spot as that car park with all the tall buildings around. My Rad likes a long glide in.

Btw, how did you manage to keep an eye on her when flying over Dublin City? Weren't you worried that you'd lose sight of her behind some tall buildings? I temporarily lost sight of my Supercub behind a tree for only a couple of seconds a few months back but she came out from behind the tree in a nosedive that I only managed to pull her out of in time. Were you using one of your video gizmos to fly, i.e. fpv?

Bruthal

Prosperous Dave wrote: »

Very nice shots there Robbie. Were you using a wide angled lens for the Howth shot?

Must have been interesting to say the least, getting the Rad back down into such a tight spot as that car park with all the tall buildings around. My Rad likes a long glide in.

Btw, how did you manage to keep an eye on her when flying over Dublin City? Weren't you worried that you'd lose sight of her behind some tall buildings? I temporarily lost sight of my Supercub behind a tree for only a couple of seconds a few months back but she came out from behind the tree in a nosedive that I only managed to pull her out of in time. Were you using one of your video gizmos to fly, i.e. fpv?

It was wide angle for all the shots, its actually the go-pro hero video camera taking videos, i just took stills from the video.
When landing in tight spots i catch the radian in flight, just fly in and catch in flight.

There was no problem with losing sight, i just kept it well above any buildings so it was not a problem. It was all direct flying in them photos with the camera just recording video.

Bruthal

Actually now just looking again Dave, only the photo over Bull Island and Bray Head are the go pro wide angle, the others are from a compact camera which was filming in movie mode, so they are not wide angle, just Bull Island and the Howth Head.

coolwings

robbie7730 wrote: »

Actually now just looking again Dave, only the photo over Bull Island and Bray Head are the go pro wide angle, the others are from a compact camera which was filming in movie mode, so they are not wide angle, just Bull Island and the Howth Head.

Very good clarity for stills from video Robbie.

Can you post a photo or two showing the cam setup in/on the plane itself?

Bruthal

Here it is, just a strip of aluminium bent around a wine bottle and 2 other
pieces bolted to it, and camera attached, nothing to complex,
Just start camera and fly.

Bruthal

coolwings wrote: »

Very good clarity for stills from video Robbie.

Yes it comes out quite good from the movie clip. I am just pausing and using the Prnt Scrn buttons on pc. Then paste into corel paint.
If you were printing then taking stills with a still camera is better, but the stills from movie clips are good on the screen.

Storm 10

Lovely pics all right, how do you get to fly over the City do you need permission, if it lost control and went down in a busy street do you have to have special insurance, not being bitchy just wondering

Kashkai

God almighty Robbie, thats not a Radian anymore, its akin to a "Predator" drone. All you're missing now is a couple of air to ground missiles

You've done a hell of a lot of mods to that bird. Why did you place the receiver on the outside? Was the camera gear interfering with the signal? What is the antennae on the back btw?

Noticed that you have a second Radian now.

Bruthal

Storm 10 wrote: »

Lovely pics all right, how do you get to fly over the City do you need permission, if it lost control and went down in a busy street do you have to have special insurance, not being bitchy just wondering

Well its very slow flying anyway, i catch it when its coming in to land so its not going to cause havoc, but there is risk with anything i guess. But that flying in the city is a once off id say. The owner of that glider had insurance on it at the time of that flight. That and an MK mikrokopter he had insured, but i would`t fly that near any city centre. Or anythig these days probably.

Bruthal

Prosperous Dave wrote: »

God almighty Robbie, thats not a Radian anymore, its akin to a "Predator" drone. All you're missing now is a couple of air to ground missiles

You've done a hell of a lot of mods to that bird. Why did you place the receiver on the outside? Was the camera gear interfering with the signal? What is the antennae on the back btw?

Noticed that you have a second Radian now.

The radian on the floor is sons one, the one hanging up is another fellas who i fly it for. Aerial on back is a 2.4ghz video tx. A bit tricky with the spektrum radio, but with the return to home auto pilot it works well, had it out to 5 or 600 meters anyway. Usually fly by direct view or using screen with spotter beside me. I wired it all internally and used multiplex 6 pin plugs to plug in video tx, and front mini camera.

I put the satellite receiver of the AR7000 on outside because inside canopy is tight for space, and on outside it might be slightly better diversity. Not much mods really, in seconds the video tx can be plugged out and the minu camera and its like a normal radian.

Storm 10

robbie7730 wrote: »

Well its very slow flying anyway, i catch it when its coming in to land so its not going to cause havoc, but there is risk with anything i guess. But that flying in the city is a once off id say. The owner of that glider had insurance on it at the time of that flight. That an an MK mikrokopter he had insured, but i would`t fly that near any city centre. Or anythig these days probably.

Thanks for the reply I was only wondering how it could fly over a City out of curiosity as I thought that you would loose sight of it, the pics are amazing quality how long can it stay in the air.

Bruthal

Storm 10 wrote: »

Thanks for the reply I was only wondering how it could fly over a City out of curiosity as I thought that you would loose sight of it, the pics are amazing quality how long can it stay in the air.

With the camera gear it will fly for 20 minutes, without it just as pure glider, flights of an hour or more are possible, average flight would be 30 to 35 minutes.

I did not fly it very far in the city, 150-200 meters, which is very near, as by direct sight you could fly 5 or 600 meters easily.
Once its up high enough it wont go behind buildings. Was quite a big open area at the car park we flew out of. But i did catch it on landings as the ground was very rough for landing on,

Storm 10

robbie7730 wrote: »

With the camera gear it will fly for 20 minutes, without it just as pure glider, flights of an hour or more are possible, average flight would be 30 to 35 minutes.

I did not fly it very far in the city, 150-200 meters, which is very near, as by direct sight you could fly 5 or 600 meters easily.
Once its up high enough it wont go behind buildings. Was quite a big open area at the car park we flew out of. But i did catch it on landings as the ground was very rough for landing on,

Thanks for that robbie7730 if you get any more put them up its nice to see things from a different angle and the quality being so good, good luck with the flying.

Bruthal

Storm 10 wrote: »

Thanks for that robbie7730 if you get any more put them up its nice to see things from a different angle and the quality being so good, good luck with the flying.

Yes i might put a few more up, because its stills taken from video there could be a few more alright. Is anyone else taking any?

Kashkai

I've a few vids taken from about 1,000 feet up of the countryside around my place. However, my "broadband" is very slow and the upload speed to youtube said it would take 8 hours to put a vid up. I don't know how to take a snapshot off a video. Pity as I have some nice shots of rolling countryside.

Btw, Robbie what is the "return to home" feature? If its what I think, i.e. a gps based bring the plane back to you, I'd be interested in getting this for my Rad as I have had one "flyaway" to date and I'm always a bit worried I might lose her again.

Bruthal

Prosperous Dave wrote: »

I've a few vids taken from about 1,000 feet up of the countryside around my place. However, my "broadband" is very slow and the upload speed to youtube said it would take 8 hours to put a vid up. I don't know how to take a snapshot off a video. Pity as I have some nice shots of rolling countryside.

Btw, Robbie what is the "return to home" feature? If its what I think, i.e. a gps based bring the plane back to you, I'd be interested in getting this for my Rad as I have had one "flyaway" to date and I'm always a bit worried I might lose her again.

Yes it steers the plane back if signal lost, was tricky to set up when i tried a while back, because the eagle tree system has to sense when there is a receiver failsafe, so this time what i did was, as i was binding the Tx to Rx i set the throttle sub trim to -20%, so this is the level the spektrum Rx will bring throttle to if signal lost, and the eagle tree senses this and auto pilot comes on, so the only time the throttle can now reach -20% is signal loss and the AR700 goes to failsafe. I also programmed the aux2 switch to mix with throttle so switching this brings throttle to -20% also and in effect i have a return to home switch. Otherwise to test the return to home involves using the on screen menus while in flight. A switch a lot simpler to test the autopilot. Its the eagle tree OSD pro im using.

To take snapshot off video, play the video full screen, pause it, press ctrl and Prnt Scrn keys on pc together. This copies the screen image as you see it. Then open a paint programme and click edit, paste as new image. Save as jpeg renamed so its easy to find.

Vlc media player is a great player for getting full screen playback. The Ctrl-Prnt Scrn copies the entire screen image so if you just had video in a small window you would need to crop the image after.

Bruthal

Prosperous Dave wrote: »

I have had one "flyaway" to date and I'm always a bit worried I might lose her again.

The return to home wont work too well in windy conditions anyway, with light gliders i tend to fly up wind more so than down wind if its a windy day, if you get into trouble upwind its more likely at least to come a bit nearer to you, where as down wind it will fly further away.

Bruthal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz3fQkADBuA

Bruthal

Northumberland Road - Lansdowne Road junction. (looking up Pembroke Road)


Dublin city looking east along Pembroke Road



Woodlawn Estate, County Galway



Woodlawn Estate, County Galway



Woodlawn Estate, County Galway



Woodlawn Estate, County Galway



Aviva stadium

Storm 10

robbie 7730 you should show the picture of the Aviva Stadium to the Rugby HQ I bet they would purchase a copy from you its brilliant, well done.

Storm 10

Only spotted the video now very good ,you put a big finger print on the lens before take off Thanks for putting them up and giving us a different look at Dublin.

You should post these in the Aircraft Thread so the guys there can look at them it has a big following on that section.

Bruthal

Storm 10 wrote: »

Only spotted the video now very good ,you put a big finger print on the lens before take off Thanks for putting them up and giving us a different look at Dublin.

Its not a finger print unfortunately, the fella i do the flyin with, its his go pro camera, they come with a protective case but we dont put that on because of weight, so the wide angle lens glass protrudes a little from the casing. The very first use of it i had it pointing direct down on glider and scratched the lens coating on front garden wall putting glider down on it. He has since got a second go pro camera so i use the scratched one for experimenting with different setups.

Bruthal

Radian in flight

Plug

robbie7730 wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz3fQkADBuA

Feck this crap Im going to buy one in 2 weeks:D

Bruthal

Plug wrote: »

Feck this crap Im going to buy one in 2 weeks:D

The picture taken in post #26 is taken using a flycamone v2, not too bad of a camera for recording your flights.

The video in the post you quoted (#27)is a cularis glider, but the radian is great for starting and a fair bit cheaper.

There is a parkzone radian pro just new out which has ailerons as well, the standard radian just has rudder. elevator and throttle. But for starting off thats plenty. I think the non aileron one is better for photos as its more stable wing shape helps keep it level.

Plug

Do you have a link for that?

Bruthal

Plug wrote: »

Do you have a link for that?

To what, the camera?

Plug

robbie7730 wrote: »

To what, the camera?

The new glider with the ailerons.