 From Orlando, Florida, it's FPV Late Night. Tonight, our special guest is Scadouche, and your host, Capricino. Welcome, everybody. Thank you for coming to this episode of FPV Late Night. I am your host, Capricino. And tonight, we have a guest coming all the way from China, and he's not even Chinese. Welcome, David Scadouche. Welcome, David. Hey, buddy. How are you doing? Long time no smell. Yeah, it's been like, well, I mean, I saw you earlier out in the lobby. But I mean, you know. Prior to that, it was with Drew. In China, when we were flying, yeah. So did the staff get you anything to drink? They did not, see? See? Actually, I had to go get my own sandwich. I had to do my own makeup. Drew wouldn't even let me use his eyeliner, so. Well, that's understandable. Yeah, it's quite good. You don't share your goggles, do you? No, no. I don't share chapsticks, so I can understand. Yeah, it's exactly the same thing. But he would have used my chapstick if I had let him. I bet he would. You know what? Nobody told me. My background was, thank you guys. We have a whole audience and nobody said anything. Yeah, let's play the background. Let's get the background moving. So that's your flying right there. That is me. So we first met when I came to China. Yes. And we went to the Bando Island. The epic Bando Island. That is like internationally worldwide known now from that episode. From that episode. What's funny is that episode was actually more popular than the Great Wall of China. Crazy. Yes. And now people come all the time. They message me on Facebook or whatever. Hey, we're coming to Suzhou just to fly with you at Bando Island. So how many times have you gone to Bando Island with newcomer FPVers? FPVers. FPVers. You know, I'm not even sure. I had the guys from Columbia come. I had a guy from Scotland come. Guys from Hong Kong, guys from all over the world. So it has become quite popular. Yeah, absolutely. I think what's really interesting to me is, and don't take this the wrong way, but a guy like you in a little town in China, and what I mean is an awesome guy like you in a little town in China. No, how does that happen? A little town of 10 million. Well, yeah, but that's a little town in China. The company I was working for, I got sent there from that company to correct some things that were going wrong with the production. They sent me over for two weeks, get everything back on line. Can you talk about what you do? Sure, absolutely. So production of what? Small electric utility vehicles. Okay. Like Cushman type things. Most of our contracts, it's like a golf cart on steroids. Okay, so like mega golf carts. Yeah, most of our contracts are like Disney World, Sheridan Resorts, Westgate. So you went over there for work? I went over there for work, spent two weeks. When I flew back, they were so happy with what I did over there. They said, hey, you want to just move to China and run the factory? Uh, sure. You just didn't have anything better going on? Didn't have anything better going on at the time because of where I was in life. So did you move over there and then get into FPV or were you into FPV? Actually, I started it over there. Okay. And that's, I was at a temple one time, you know, and I saw a guy flying a DJI around this temple. Uh-huh. And I didn't even know what a DJI, you know, this was like 2014. Was he a monk? No. Oh. I got a funny story about that. The monks were out there, and I was like, that's pretty cool, you know, I wonder how long, you know, I didn't, at that time I was only on a one-year contract, but I was like, that's pretty cool. I need to grab one of those and take pictures of like all this cool stuff I'm seeing for later when I go back, whatever. And I had no clue. I was walking around downtown one time and I see this kid flying a SEMA X5 out in front of a shop. And I'm like, maybe that's the same thing. It's got a camera on it. Right. So I bought it, you know, $40, whatever it was. All the instructions were in Chinese. So I lost like four of them before I learned how to fly the thing. And at that time I didn't have a VPN either, so I had no YouTube, no access. So finally when I figured out how to get through and get YouTube, I found like Quadcopter 101, a couple different things, you know, after I lost four of them, flyaways, what not, whatever. Oh yeah, the ending. It's supposed to be a family show. Thank you. Thank you for letting me know. Okay, so anyway, that led into the flight test days. So you used to watch flight tests? Absolutely. I was a huge fan of flight tests. And I saw the, when Bixler went down to Sarasota, where I'm from, the Fly Like Shar-Poo video. And they had Shar-Poo in the park, and we're flying around the park, and I said, that's Gillespie Park. That's right by my house. So you're like, I could do that. Yeah, well I put two and two together and figured out that Lumineer, Get FPV was like right down the street from my house. I went in, and that's when it was the small shop, and I met Tim, and I think Kevin worked there back then. And then you got sponsored? And then I got sponsored by them down the road. Wasn't it seriously that soon? No, it wasn't then. Oh, okay. So how do you like being sponsored? For me, I guess it's a little different than some sponsorships, because I can afford my own gear. It's not like I need... Wait, so you're saying FPV pilots are poor? No, that is not what I mean. That's what I heard you say. That is not what I mean. I'm kidding. What I'm saying is, is I'm not locked in to have to use certain gear. Because if I crash this, I can't afford to rebuild one, or I can't afford to rebuild one, or I can pick and choose what I want to use. I would say it's a very frugal crowd. So it's not like I'm forced into using their gear and promoting their stuff in order for me to continue to get stuff from them. It doesn't matter either way. I'm sponsored with them and work with them because I like what they do. As a matter of fact, you can afford to build your own because you designed your own frame. I did. And you sent me one. But I haven't actually... I've only hovered it because I had a bad motor and I burnt out the ESC and I have not been able to replace it yet. So unfortunately I have not built it yet, but I'm curious of your assessment of my build. I love it. Did I do it well? It is absolutely beautiful and I like that you use the slam too because a lot of people stay away from the slam nowadays with the foreign ones. They can't get a stack in there. Yeah, I really wanted to keep it as low as possible. Because like you saw, you can do it either way. It comes with two sets of cheeks so you can do the high deck or the low deck and two sets of standoffs so you can do it either way. But what I was really impressed with and I'll be honest, when I first got it, I'm like, oh great, another frame that looks slightly different than the others. But what I was impressed with was the build and the layout. The build was super easy. You can tell... I mean I love that you have... you have three screws for the top plate. Yet it's still very firm. It locks into the front plates. I like that a lot. So I am excited to fly this because... And you know what? That was my whole thing behind that frame. I wanted something super stupid simple. Like you can just look at it and know how to build it. So is it... It's not in production though, right? No, but it will be soon. How soon? I'm not sure yet. I'm just going to hand this over to somebody and let them run with it. You know, I don't... What's your goal with this? What do you want to accomplish with this? I want people to have a stupid, easy, tough frame to build. The sense of pride of saying, hey I helped that person get in the air. Exactly, that's it. With a few headaches it's possible. With a few headaches it's possible. You don't need a GoPro mount. You don't have to think about it. It's all 10 millimeter screws. You just stick it together. Strap your GoPro on and go. So the name of this is... The Skadoosh. Okay, so you're going with your pilot name. Sure. For the frame name. So that brings me to my next question. How did you get your pilot name? That's a great story. Before I had the name Skadoosh, I was posting under the name Guelo, which means White Devil in Chinese. In Southern Chinese. Because I was the white guy in China and that's like a common saying over there. Look at the Guelo, look at the Lowe. We had went and seen Kung Fu Panda. And my son and I were running around giving each other the mushy finger hold of death. And the rules were if you got the clean pinky tap, you had to freeze for 10 seconds. No matter where we were. In the subway, in the store, so you're walking through the grocery store and you sneak up on me. That's an uncomfortable amount of time. Yes. People are looking. Only white guy in the store. And he's weird. Yeah, he's weird. He's frozen. What's going on here? At that time, people were just starting to subscribe to my channel and I was like, I needed to do something a little more, a more popular, more friendly, a more grabby name. Not everybody's going to know what Guelo means. That was exactly at the time that I was looking to change my name and as we were messing with it, my wife said, why don't you just use skadoo? She has been running around yelling skadoo for three days. Right. Yeah. Perfect. And that's how it came about. Nice, nice. Well, thank you for taking your time in the U.S. and coming into the U.S. It's my pleasure, my friend, always. Did you get to fly today? Absolutely. Who'd you fly with? And yesterday with Drew, of course. And just Drew? With Drew. Robert couldn't make it because he couldn't get a ride. Oh. And TAC came and picked me up this morning but I did fly with Robert yesterday and Robert is amazing. But TAC came and picked me up. We hit a couple of parks. We had Jamie. We had Drew. We had Nick with us. Nice. And we had a ball. As always. I'm glad you got to fly in your home state. When do you head back to China? Next week. Okay. Because I come in the summer and pick my son up and fly him to China every summer. Oh, wow. For his summer vacation deal. I take him out to the Great Wall and see all this stuff. That's got to be a crazy trip. Yes, awesome. That's my only, he will be 16 next month. But I've been doing this since I've been over there. So he was like 13, 12 the first time he came over. Wow. Again, I want to thank you for coming on. Always a pleasure, my friend. It's been great. 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