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8:37 AM St. George State Championships - NICA 4K- Utah High School Mountain Biking League

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• published: 06 Nov 2016
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Congratulations to all of the riders for an awesome year! What a season! The races will be posted as quickly as possible. Remember we are posting by time. I am starting in the morning and moving forward. Last week in Lehi I hit a power line at the very end of the day. Took my Inspire1 down. Yes, it is fixable. No, I have not fixed it... I bought another one but then I ended up leaving the props back at home so I did not fly the Inspire at all. That means that I did not get quite as much footage as I would have liked to but we still did pretty well with 110 GB of video. The file sizes still limit the length of the clip to 9 minutes but the Matrice M600 will stay up for 22 plus minutes of video at a time. So, most of the flights video segments are in three parts. You need to be careful to watch the additional parts as each segment will be posted as a separate video. We are never sure who we are following on the course so if you would like to find yourself... Find your race time and look for yourself. If you find yourself or your team mates in the race please comment by giving at least first names and the team name that gets coverage... And whatever flight got filmed at what minute marker. (For Example: JV Boys Division 1 at 3.08) I will change the title of the clip that the remark is given on to include "Women's JV's etc if you do this for me" This will help the other riders find themselves... One last thing. This footage is all 4K.. You can see a TON of detail BUT, when it is first uploaded it will only show in 360p until YouTube has time to process it. Give it a little time. Don't give up because it looks low resolution to begin with. If you have a smart TV this works great... My son's have decided that they are not going to Mt. Bikers any longer. Sad for all of us, let me tell you. I have really enjoyed this. BUT... the time commitment without my kids participation is probably more than I can swing in the future. I have been thinking about it and if Lori will have me will still plan to come do the Championship next year. Year end wrap up... and ideas for the next guy doing one of these. 1. If someone could come sit with the guy flying the drone who could keep track of lap times... So the drone operator would have a pretty decent idea of where the kids were on the track at specific times then he would be able to pick up the ride leaders for their last mile as they came through the finish. Then he could go back, find the next ride leader and bring them through etc. 2. If I were to do this professionally I would spend the money on a BNC to HDMI conversion box and a bunch of BNC cable. This would allow the remote from the drone to broadcast and run the signal down a cable that was a few hundred feet long. (the remotes on these have a BNC output which is the same kind of video out feed that a satellite truck would use.) This would be a few hundred dollars but would allow for the drones and the operators to stay well away from the public... while getting the video back to the big screen that Utah Mountain Biking purchased for this purpose. 3. Insist people... on pilots being licensed for these events. Make sure they show you your Rule 107 license. This year was different that way as the new rules only came out and you could only get a Rule 107 License as of August 29th. In the future NICA should require that to fly an event like this the pilot of the drone have a license. It insures that the pilots know what they can and cannot do. We are NOT to overfly crowds or those no participating in the event. (Yes, sometimes someone gets overflown even in my video but you will notice I go out of my way to go around people) Drones do not glide. A battery fault on most of them (not the big one which has multiple redundancies) means that the drone goes straight down. If everyone was wearing a helmet and sunglasses... risk would be lessened. Breaking the rules... is a concern for those who fly professionally to the point that they obey them out of concern that they would lose that FAA License. This year I provided a generator and asked the pilots who showed up to come fly with me... so that we would be able to tell where each of us was operating on the course and would not end up crashing into each other. For the most part this worked very well. And surprise surprise... most of those who flew with me... Had a Rule 107 licenses and were very responsible. I hope you enjoy the videos. Remember that they are shared here with a Creative Commons license. This means that you may use the video with Attribution. Oh, and if you need a really good Realtor... Please let me know. Selling Real Estate has given me the excuse to have these tools to play with. I have been selling for 23 years and have sold about 2000 homes. Drew with UtahRealEstate.net 801-636-3739!