Five rules for our outdoor field. What are they, and why these five?

Kollane is our outdoor field. Nobody runs it for us, so these five rules do.

Help each other.

Before the battery goes in.

More eyes, faster.

Leave it cleaner.

Yes, again.

Nobody knows everything, and this hobby is hard. Nobody here flies alone.

Lend a tool. Look at someone’s OSD. Share what you know.

Someone fighting a setting? Sit down and work it out together.

New at the field? Say hi. And when you’re stuck, ask.

Kollane has its own channel plan: 8 pilots at once, picked for the least interference.

Uneven on purpose. Evenly spaced channels mix into ghost signals on other channels (IMD). Don’t change the list.

Another field, another plan. Flying somewhere new? Ask the local marshal before you plug in.

Know, confirm and own your channel before the battery goes in. Not after.

A VTX sends as soon as it has power. Checking your channel by plugging in is the mistake.

About 0.1 mW reaches about a metre. It protects pilots in the air, not the one next to you.

No warning. The weaker feed is gone instantly, often at full speed.

DJI: the goggles transmit too. DJI pilots stand at least 5 m from everyone.

Need another channel? Never while anyone is flying. Four steps:

Wait until every drone is down and disarmed.

Call it out. Wait until the field says ok.

Change it, confirm it in the OSD, then power down.

Now the others can fly again.

From the radio? ELRS VTX Admin and TBS Agent change the channel while disarmed. Same courtesy: hold first. And there’s no “quick hover” exception.

A drone in the long grass, a battery, a radio strap. More eyes find it faster.

Someone walking the edge of the field, looking down? Walk with them. A long search with friends is a much better day than a long search alone.

Leave the field cleaner than you found it. There is no janitor at Kollane.

Zip ties, prop bits, dead batteries, snapped antennas, wrappers, bottles, foam, tape, lost screws.

Pick up other people’s too. Rubbish washes into the stream and hurts animals.

The first rule, once more. It’s the one that makes the other four work.

Someone breaks a rule? Tell them, quietly and kindly. Don’t just stay silent.

Made a mistake? Say sorry. Lost a race? Don’t be a bad sport. Pick up after others too.

Spinning props and people share this field. No drinking at Kollane.

Help each other: lend, share, ask, go over to the new pilot.

Fly on the Kollane plan. Know your channel before the battery goes in.

Never check by plugging in. Pit mode doesn’t protect the pits.

Changing channel: everyone lands, hold, change and check, “clear!”.

Somebody lost something? Go help. Take your garbage, and some extra.

Say it kindly, own your mistakes, never fly drunk or tipsy.