[Quadzimodo]

Sounds like a great day out there. Congratulations to everyone involved in all aspects of the day.
Unfortunately if we had more notice, the field could've got mown during the week, but it is what it is.
As for the comfort zone of the pilots flying around swampy areas, perhaps it'll make them better pilots for the experience...

It certainly was a good day, great weather too really. The long grass did make some retrievals more time consuming. One battery, ejected during a collision with the start/finish gate, proved particularly difficult to find.

Sounds good... yeah mowing we can arrange with more notice... swampy is our eternal problem... especially after so much rain... if we try again... maybe we look at the driest part of the year.

We were good enough to provide a space for their competition event to take place as scheduled, with less than 48 hours notice, so the lack of a mow was not a problem and the least of anybody's concern. Having to postpone or move the event would have been a disaster for scheduling the national series.

Yeah, a dryer time of year might be better. I expect it might be difficult to schedule though, as all you need is one good rain and the event is best moved to dryer land.

Awesome day though. See the below vid for a perspective on the day from one of the novice pilots.

Hi guys. Well is not much more I could add to what is already been said except to say it was a great day weather was fantastic and those quad guys are fantastic full of fun and a pleasure to have at our field and I’m hoping we can repeat it sometime in the future this time we should be able to have the lawn mowed and run a barbecue and hopefully dry field.

Love your work mate. It would not have been the same day without you.

I wouldn't get our hopes up for a repeat performance. Reading Justin's review, I would suggest that the FPV guys did not like flying there.

"A number of the pilots commented about how (I am paraphrasing) out of their element they felt flying above such swampy ground. As with all fpv racing events, there were consistent crash outs throughout the day. Many fell on relatively dry ground, others ended up in the quagmire; with the result ranging from unscathed to completely submerged and out for the day."

We would be happy to host it again, at a cost, and certainly a BBQ would be provided, with sufficient notice.

I assume that Jason will direct deposit any cash made on the day, if so Jason, please use "FPV" as the reference. Thanks.

Feeling a bit out of your element is a long way from turning your nose up at something.



Any sane person would obviously prefer not to get their gear coated in mud if it can be avoided, but this did not impact on the intensity of the competition at all.



Dave has our account details so if a transfer has not already been made I would expect it is not far away.

There was always an old saying about PRCAC, If you can fly there, you can fly anywhere. These guys need to suck it up and get skillz

These guys certainly have got mad skillz.

For setup I would suggest the following :
No parking on the field, then put the pilot box at the field entry. This gives you a better separation between pilot box and race track, safer for visitors as they won't need to walk passed the racetrack and additional (and dryer) grounds over what was now used for parking and tents. Only downside is that all parking has to happen on the entry road or tucks road, but that was the case for a lot of participants anyways.

All good points. With more time to play with, and armed with what was learned this time, I have no doubt that we can make a better go of it.