Fly 2 with 1

Disclaimer: This fly took place in Lisbon - Portugal.

Please take a moment to check your local regulations if you ever feel tempted to try this at your flying area.

I have accepted a challenge from my flying buddy to try to have a 1 hour fly with my recently built PA Pelican, a variation from the FT Guinea Pig.

During this fly I had a lot of time to think about new challenges and crazy stunts.

An idea ocurred to me, "what if I take my Quad and fly around my plane to get some footage?"

What an awesome idea.

My buddies didn't approve it at first.

To do that I need to be able to switch off my remote to connect it to my PQuad250.

I only have one remote...

So I tried out all that was required to achieve that.

First the RTL mode.

Then it was time to test the radio failsafe function....It worked too.

It was time to prepare my Pquad250, a homemade wood mini Quad, equipped with a Mobius camera and FPV gear (naturally).

Flying the quad with the plane in the air was challenging enough, but once I got in the air I had to face an unexpected new challenge.

Find the plane in mid air.

If you fly FPV, you may be aware that resolution is crap, so it is quite difficult to find an object unless they have very good contrast. As you can see by the picture that is not the case. There are many colours filling the screen. It is easily confused with houses or clouds.

Finally with my buddies' help I could find my own plane.

As I started chasing and circling arrund it, I totally forgot it was my own plane. It was so beautiful flying around it.

Well the dream finished a few seconds later, as someone just started shouting that the plane was flying away.

I don't think you can imagine the feeling, but you can try.

It was pure panic. 

I was trapped with my googles on, flying the quad and all of them shouting to me that the plane was flying away.

I landed as fast as I could, but as I landed, the plane had already recovered its course around home position.

It was an Epic moment and most probably a unique one in my flying history.

This proved to be possible, if you are surrounded with the right people. My flying buddies were an essential element of the achievement. Their support and guidance made the task a lot easier and gave me the necessary encouragement.

I leave here the challenge for the FT Crew to repeat this stunt in their most crazy/funny videos, and eventually explain the way only they can, what it takes to do all this.

Thank you to my suport team:

Luis R

Luis G

Miguel S

Paulo C

Carlos F

Hope you can all feel inspired and define your own challenges.