The Eastside FPV Mission Food Australian Drone Nationals Qualifier.
This is where I cover stuff that didn’t make it in the video. This year they decided Thomas automatically qualifies for the Australian Drone Nationals since he’d won both the 2016 & 2017 Aussie Nationals.
The organisers decided to let Thomas design the track, since he was already qualified and it wouldn’t in any way advantage him. The track was released well in advanced and most clubs had a couple months or more to practice the track.
The criteria for the track design was to use 5 flags and 5 gates, with the idea being anyone could setup the track and easily practice it. Thomas’ track design was very intentional in that he wanted the track to not favour a specific setup. Essentially he wanted something that wouldn’t give any clear advantages to either high KV or Low, or light vs Heavy etc
Mission foods is the Title Sponsor for the Australian Nationals and allowed each club a prize of $250 to either the fastest qualifier or a race at the end to qualifying. What they did was run qualifying with the top 3 consecutive laps being recorded and those Top qualifiers went into a race at the end of the day for a $250 prize which is the race in this video.
Anyway even though Thomas produced the fastest qualifying time at this selection event the local competition was insane! We really do have some of the fastest pilots in EastSide FPV!!!
Anyway a massive thanks to EastSide FPV for once again putting on such a fun event and also Mission Foods for not only their support of Thomas but also FPV Drone Racing in Australia at the Club and National Level. Show them some added love the next time you’re shopping, since these guys are supporting our community.
Hope you enjoy the video.
Image of the Track Dimensions
The Australian Drone Nationals Qualifier Track – Will have this link in the video I just uploaded.https://youtu.be/9flAqZcg0zY
Posted by BMSWEB YouTube on Saturday, June 16, 2018
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My Helix suddenly stopped reporting the vbat voltage in the OSD. It just reads 0.0v all the time now. There appears to be no damage or wire issues.
Woo man he’s really fast , always enjoy ur videos
Always inspiring. Hope you guys make it to the IO again. My son was sad he missed it last year. We already got our passes for this year. Best of luck Thomas.
Thomas on that 1s hype! lol
I wish I could have done this with my dad, that’s worth more than any prizes and money :). Well done to you both, power team.
Great Thomas , 🤙🏻
Wow, that was great 🙂 Inspiring and exhilarating! Thought I was already but, subbed!
fantastic Thomas the rocket ship
What camera angle do u use?
Godzilla!
nice flying but I dont like Mission tortillas lol
Nice! Anywhere to find track dimensions? Always looking for more 5 gate 5 flag tracks to setup for our meetups!
A few of you have messaged me asking about the track dimension – I’ve added it in the description and also linked here. Enjoy 😀
Thought my practice was going well on this track til Thomas mentioned his expected lap times. He almost halved my times. Doh. Oh well, there goes that dream lol
I’d love to fly this track
How is the winner determined Thomas? Is it fastest pilot to complete 6 laps or something else.
I was thinking exactly what Snake commented lul.
CMRC for the win!!!!
That was a really cool run down on the thoughts behind the track design!
It was a super fun track to fly at our AFPVR race day, and my lil 3″ didn’t do too bad ^_^
ok i’v worked it out; Thomas has been on an intensive course with house flies. my biggest problem is i miss a section of the course every time i blink, must rewatch. Incredible!