Continued.....

I had dragged wifey off to the Great Orme at Llandudno, about 15 mins drive for us, on a bright, sunny, and windy Tuesday morning for the trial sessions, and with the lightweight Spektrum 2.4Ghz receiver on board, and the 30 grams extra weight of the complete camera assembly the COG was altered very little. Teetering on the edge of the magnificent Limestone "Sea Serpent" http://www.llandudno.com/orme.html over 370 feet above the Irish sea, I tentatively hurled the holy cow ( the plane dummy ! ) out towards the magnificent Conwy estuary, and after gaining a bit of height ( which did not take long in the stiff wind ) I started a few sweeps across the slope. Below the top face of this particular location is a winding cliff edge road, for sightseeing traffic and the local vintage coach. I tried to line up the road under the nose of the plane as I caught site of said coach, puffing its weary way around the 4 mile spectacular circular Marine Drive.
This little foamie funflyer was NOT built for sloping in a 35 mph wind !
I was glad of the power available to get me back to the ledge after a 15 minute session. Of course, I would have to wait until I returned home ( although with hindsight I could have taken my laptop with me for an instant review ) to check the results.
Back at mission control, I simply plugged the device into a USB port, Windows XP immediately recognized it, and I simply ¡§dragged and dropped¡¨ the file onto the desk. The unit actually shows up as 2 x drives when plugged into the PC- 1 x the inbuilt 6 mb drive, and the other, the MMCard I had installed earlier.
I confess to be disappointed with the results :(
Under any "power on" conditions, the image was virtually un-viewable. However, when "gliding / hovering¨ the picture was really quite good, so it looked like further trials were called for.
Dont miss the final thrilling episode folks !!