Knowing that we have had some pilots recently asking about winter vPlus flying, I thought I would share with you guys have nothing to worry about....except frost bite!
Some of you know I'm currently into doing Top Speed flights with the badass vPlus. I got a surprise this afternoon after hearing a gust a wind across our fire place chimney. I had not paid any attention to the wind forecast since recently setting a new personal best. Also we are currently 20-30 degrees below the normal temp for this time of the year, and which all the middle part of the US is experiencing as well. So I heard another gust of wind, I grab my cellphone right away. I then begin checking out what amount of wind in the forecast that I had to look forward to. And......just what I wanted to see....27-29mph gust were forecasted. I checked my weather station and the max wind gust at that time was 21mph which is what I had when setting my personal best last week.
It then popped in my mind that 21+mph and 21 degrees equals a 5 degree windchill factor, and is NOT something a normal person would get excited about.
But that thought didn't last long and out to the shop I go to round up some warm gear to wear. So I go out to begin and wind was building up as I could hear it rolling up out of the valley to my west and through the trees in the woods on top of it. I tried cheating and set my quad closer to the house which was blocking a good amount at that time. But all that did was cause me to be outside longer because of coarse when getting that close to the house it blocked 3 GPS's I needed to get home point. So I drag the launch pad back to the normal spot and waited a little until 6 popped up. I end up doing a total of two separate missions that was around 6 flight pass attempts. I had enough and shut it all down. I forgot to mention we had 3 inches of snow which with the wind gust was a factor today for me. Strange part to this day is that one year ago to this day we had a Tornado that damaged a lot around 10 miles south of where I live.
I have video but I will only put it up when I can include an accomplishment with it. Out of my 6 attempts today I only had one with a some-what decent gust of wind.
Some of you know I'm currently into doing Top Speed flights with the badass vPlus. I got a surprise this afternoon after hearing a gust a wind across our fire place chimney. I had not paid any attention to the wind forecast since recently setting a new personal best. Also we are currently 20-30 degrees below the normal temp for this time of the year, and which all the middle part of the US is experiencing as well. So I heard another gust of wind, I grab my cellphone right away. I then begin checking out what amount of wind in the forecast that I had to look forward to. And......just what I wanted to see....27-29mph gust were forecasted. I checked my weather station and the max wind gust at that time was 21mph which is what I had when setting my personal best last week.
It then popped in my mind that 21+mph and 21 degrees equals a 5 degree windchill factor, and is NOT something a normal person would get excited about.
But that thought didn't last long and out to the shop I go to round up some warm gear to wear. So I go out to begin and wind was building up as I could hear it rolling up out of the valley to my west and through the trees in the woods on top of it. I tried cheating and set my quad closer to the house which was blocking a good amount at that time. But all that did was cause me to be outside longer because of coarse when getting that close to the house it blocked 3 GPS's I needed to get home point. So I drag the launch pad back to the normal spot and waited a little until 6 popped up. I end up doing a total of two separate missions that was around 6 flight pass attempts. I had enough and shut it all down. I forgot to mention we had 3 inches of snow which with the wind gust was a factor today for me. Strange part to this day is that one year ago to this day we had a Tornado that damaged a lot around 10 miles south of where I live.I have video but I will only put it up when I can include an accomplishment with it. Out of my 6 attempts today I only had one with a some-what decent gust of wind.
