Where is this?

I believe it could be described as being just south of the pinnacle of WA locations

But I think you must seek in order to find

Tech question

What drone were you using also seems pretty light? Have you tried it in 20 to 25knots?

Cheers

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photosbykarlo said..
What drone were you using also seems pretty light? Have you tried it in 20 to 25knots?

phantom 3 ... about 15 to 20 knts that day... got some more video coming which is shot in 25 to 30 knts. I think you could fly it in gusts to 35 knts. with careful planing. It will start drifting in those winds and I guess there is the risk you'll burn out the motors or simply flip due to laws of aerodynamics.

Geez u hope you weren't too hungover

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stehsegler said...

photosbykarlo said..
What drone were you using also seems pretty light? Have you tried it in 20 to 25knots?

phantom 3 ... about 15 to 20 knts that day... got some more video coming which is shot in 25 to 30 knts. I think you could fly it in gusts to 35 knts. with careful planing. It will start drifting in those winds and I guess there is the risk you'll burn out the motors or simply flip due to laws of aerodynamics.

those are some pretty fat numbers! my p3 loses the ability to make any real ground into the wind at about 18 knots. the p3s top speed is 35 kmh which equates to around 20 knots. i would have thought not a snowballs chance in hell at flying in 35 knots. the inspire can handle it all however.

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Reflex Films said..
those are some pretty fat numbers! my p3 loses the ability to make any real ground into the wind at about 18 knots. the p3s top speed is 35 kmh which equates to around 20 knots. i would have thought not a snowballs chance in hell at flying in 35 knots. the inspire can handle it all however.

Not entirely sure what it means but the guy in the shop where I bought it said it had "the new motors" on it. The manual that came with it says safe to fly up to 25 knts. I flew it in 20 knts with 29 knts measured gusts. It held it's ground but would only fly at about 0.5 m/sec into the wind when the big gusts hit. Also flew it at Corros in about 25 to 30 knts with some higher gusts. There was serious drift happening in the bigger gusts. Decided not to fly it out over water.

I still think it might be able to handle 35 knt gusts if you take off upwind with an emergency option to bail out and land somewhere downwind. I found that when you go up to about 80+ meters the seabreeze isn't quite as strong allowing you to fly back upwind.

The biggest concern I would have about big gusts is that it will simply flip it upside down resulting in the motors shutting off and the entire rig crashing to the ground or in the ocean... not that it would make any difference.

Agree that the Inspire would be able to handle more wind... albeit at more than triple the price.

Thanks for that, it's interresting to know. Do you use FPV to follow the sailers around

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photosbykarlo said..
Do you use FPV to follow the sailers around

Just using the video down link shown in the app... FPV is a gimmick IMHO... I still want to be able to see what's happening on the ground... the tricky bit is getting the framing right. ie you have to treat the drone like a flying steady cam and operate in that way.

At the end of the day though it's just another tool to create images.

Fantastic vid. Great music, great spot great edit.

Wow! what a great spot! looks average wanna be wave sailor friendly, nothing hard core, plenty of easy sailing in between, great to watch a video that one can picture themselves sailing in! Nice work!

next trip to WA may have to hire a 4x4!

That was great! Thanks for sharing.

Would be tops on a big day! Probably heading there thursday for the first time. With so few sailors around these days, I can't see it ever getting busy.

Does it need much swell?

Yes it does,and Jonesy could not be farther from the mark it is not real friendly on the inside.
Just a bit of care required especially at the southern end

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Mark _australia said..
Yes it does,and Jonesy could not be farther from the mark it is not real friendly on the inside.
Just a bit of care required especially at the southern end

Thats what my mate reckoned too, that it needed a heap of swell, but swell doesn't look that big in the video? Was hoping to go Thursday, but won't bother if you don't reckon it'll be working.