Random Chitchat 2017

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In the end I decided not to. I finally saw the requirements for the race and I chickened out. It seems the race will be quite a high-profile event, they'll be pre-selecting pilots who can enter based on their previous results and videos, they have some international pilots coming. And I don't have the required equipment - my video system is too powerful (600mW instead of their required 25 mW) and I don't have all the LEDs they require (at least 24 LEDs with changeable color, each side of each arm needs light). They also wrote that the track will be very difficult (and I've seen the venue, the ceiling is really low). All in all, I'd pretty sure end up smashing someone else's pricey quadcopter to pieces. Or my own not-that-pricey-but-still-not-cheap one.

I'll go there as a spectator and try to fish for contacts for the community, so that I can join them gradually.