... I won't let anyone fly my bird.
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I've let people fly mine on several occasions. The first time they simply played with forward backward left and right like I'd instructed them to. They then did that for a while as I got some great DSLR shots of it in flight. So they actually helped me heaps.
The second time was almost the last time. The idiot did the same 4 directions for a moment, then without any idea what he was doing flew it out over the lake and around behind the line of trees and promptly lost fpv because of the trees. I was incredibly unimpressed that he'd be so stupid. The other new people were content to just play within the limits of their knowledge. This moron nearly put me off ever letting anyone ever use it again.
But I relented and gave the controls over to another person just this Easter weekend just gone, and I took a very calculated gamble based on what I knew of the 16 year old boy that I allowed to fly it. I knew he'd be careful with it. I knew he'd work within his limits. And I'd expected those to be quite low limits. I had misjudged him totally - in a good way - I had expected him to be as novice as the first people I ever let fly it. Instead he flew it like he's been flying many many times. He made some small errors, moved right instead of yawed right a couple of times, and rose instead of moved forward on one occasion, but he did everything in slow careful very smooth movements, and I find it hard to believe he's never even flown a small toy version.
He was over the moon about the opportunity I gave him. I think the experience will have him owning one as soon as he can. He talked on several occasions over the rest of the camping weekend about "That was an experience I never thought I'd get" and was so grateful. It was a huge thrill for me to have been able to have that kind of a good influence in his life. And besides, his Mum's pretty cute, so any brownie points I can get with her are a good thing
