Hey from East Africa

[barnytj]

I'm English by birth, but have spent the last 12 years in various parts of East Africa.

I've been flying multirotors for several months now and am completely hooked. I do confess that there are possibly several dozen bits of rotor I have failed to find after some heroic initial crashes, but after the hard and sharp lesson that is courier fees, I am now considerably better.

I'm based in Nairobi, Kenya and am now expanding my photography business into AP.

So far I have an F450 an F550 and am impatiently waiting for a large shipment from the UK with a skyjib8 in it.

I'm running the F550 with Naza and stock motors/props, but with a not so standard Alware gimbal. I'm not as yet getting great flight endurance, but am also carrying a 600g sony camcorder. Still on 3s, so thinking of moving this one up to 4s, more powerful motors and Graupner props. Overall think the Sony camcorder to be a good mid-range solution as the optical stabilizing gets rid of all the rolling shutter I got with the GoPro.

Will start to post some photos and videos soon.. look forward to some constructive abuse..

Barny

Barny

 

[Bartman]

Barny,
Welcome to the site! Please post some footage when you're up and running (Probably a pun, though unintended, since we're talking about Kenya, no?)....it's always amazing to see the areas where people are flying multi-rotors.
Bart

 

[barnytj]

Thanks for the welcome Bart.. for an African flavour - here's a GoPro still above thousands of flamingos I got a couple of weeks back.. I'm going there again tomorrow with the kids to see if I can't get some decent video footage.

Don't fancy bird strike much, but it's an amazing site, and got to be worth the risk!


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[ersan]

wow that looks amazing! post some videos and pictures!