Teston again

Another day at Teston bridge picnic site, but this time conditions were pretty good. The wind was its usual self all afternoon, coming and going , but it was blowing along the valley, which meant it was much more consistent than usual. So I decided to try and KAP the bridge and lock, and put up the flowform 30 to start. I had single fluffy tail on, but it proved too much for the kite as the wind was low, so the tail came off which allowed the kite to attain a much better flying angle.

Now I tried to position myself as close to the bridge as possible. First time out, the wind droped and I had to retreat to safety away from the trees. Meanwhile I also needed to discover why the rig was jittering and the camera continually firing. The second was easy, the trimmer for the shutter release had moved. The first was because the tx aerial wasn't fully extended.

So with those problems solved, back to my position of comfort by the bridge and hope to get a couple of decent shots. Well I got what I think is a nice one of the bridge


and a nice one looking up river towards the lock.


The latter one needed a little bit of fiddling in photoshop to compensate for teh bright sky.

Now another problem, I'd lost pan control. everything else was working fine. So bring the kite down to see that at some point, the support for the pan servo had bent slightly and was now just failing to engage the pan gear. This was easily fixed, but being a lazy sort, and having got the two keeper photos that I wanted, I called it a day for KAP and spent a pleasant afternoon just flying kites.