Flown this afternoon using real weather. Apologies for the UI in the way, haven’t looked up how to work the drone camera yet.
The Isle of Rum partially lit through a gap in the clouds
Flying over the west coast of Scotland, this is the mainland now though it is so heavily indented and the islands off the coast cover so much of the sea that it’s impossible to know from up here what is island and what is mainland, what is sea and what is lake.
Fort William and Ben Nevis, the tallest mountain in the British Isles, not appearing from out of the clouds until I passed it.
The western end of the Great Glen, and Caledonian Canal; a geological fault-line where the European plate crashed into the North American Plate millions of years ago. These mountains were once as high as the Himalaya, and the Himalaya will one day erode down to this level. It is still distinct in the landscape though as an plumb-straight valley cutting diagonally through Scotland from coast to coast, filled by a series of long-thin lochs. The canal was a Victorian innovation to save boats the time of going around the north end of Scotland.
Loch Ness, the largest lake in the UK by volume, no sign of any monsters but there is a rainbow!
Coming in to land over Inverness, on the east coast after a flight of just over an hour.
