Just out of interest I thought I'd see how many 1080p movies I could run all at once on my new iMac since one playing hardly registers on the CPU at all. I limited it to 10, as thats all I could fit on the screen at a decent size. Admittedly I had to shrink them a bit (50%) to fit 10 on screen - but all 10 playing smoothly at about 30-40% CPU across the 8 hyper cores.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vwp1UgdnwNQ
This is an app I've knocked up for the Garmin Felix 3. It has a built in GPS and barometer, making it ideal as an all in one flight instrument. So I've built a paramotor fying app for it. Waiting for approval on app store. If you want it now, side load it from here:
3/3HR:
https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/10bbeff2-2ab0-4e18-8bb2-b6a3fd808873
5/5X:
https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/40a6a027-4876-ccd-gwehiopwe-3789facd93b6
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KM6FksCQNw
The rest of AD&M impressing us (some departments perhaps... more than others) with their panto efforts.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gssJb8iHDvc
First coastal ridge soaring flights today. First one, I couldn't find the lift, and landed on the beach. So I tried again, and got into it that time, but it was very westerly meaning I couldn't go very far - as I was more or less hovering facing west, and scooting along at 30mph when going east. But I spotted a pod of dolphins so when I landed I decided to try and find them and fly the drone over them - But before I found them, I found a wee baby dolphin beached on the sand - it was clearly knackered battling against the surf. So I waded in with it, and after a couple of attempts I _think_ it made itback out to sea (fingers crossed)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1erCgNiC7I
Moral of the story: Just because you checked your lines before you strapped in, if you've had a failed launch something might have become tangled - check again.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqwubrN4Kj4
7pm flight taking off from 1700m. Wind was strong and gusty. Even the pros were struggling. I screwed up first attempt and in the rush to get off, I didn't realise the wing had swapped around when it was laid back out, so turning resulted in a complete twist. Unfortunately I was already running by then, and it is a STEEP slope. There was no way I could stop easily, and my brakes were all caught up because of the twists. I do tend to make stupid last minute decisions in situations like this... and they usually end badly.. however this time I got away with it - one 360 pirouette later and I just made it before the rocks and got airborne!!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ6noNtz_qw
This is mk2 of a monocular video display I put together to view the output of my GoPro while flying. I have now added full real time telemetry overlays to the output I can see while flying. With this all I need to do is look up and I can see my altitude, speed, direction, vario, distance from home, direction to home, time in the air, etc.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqKC_HgARRI
This video is about 2016.03.Stratford St Mary Paramotor flight up and beyond cloud base (4.5K). The factors were right to see Glorys - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glory_(optical_phenomenon) And you can see my circular rainbow around my shadow clearly in the clouds.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdAswMadp6E