Another Scotland trip

[Anderzander]

Super helpful thank you.

One of the things that seems to differentiate good footage is how smooth the transitions are .... I assume that’s just experience of being smooth in flying it ? 
 

Perhaps I could get my 9year old to fly it and film us - I was thinking it would work best on some of the high passes in the lakes - or the Yorkshire Dales where the countryside is wide and open. 
 

I had looked at the Mavic Mini ‘fly more’ package - I notice they have a Mavoc Mini 2 too now. 

[Badger110]

1 hour ago, steve b said:

Thanks for that explanation of How and Why , very interesting stuff . Was this a preset route programmed in ? 

No , I fly the drone using the camera as my eyes. I only use pre programmed routes if I’m planning areas for farmers or doing 3D mapping  
 

You can use goggles which are similar to VR Google’s which allow you uninterrupted view of what the camera/drone sees although you tend to find this being used by racing drones. Some of the stuff those guys do is madness! 

[Badger110]

1 hour ago, Anderzander said:

Super helpful thank you.

One of the things that seems to differentiate good footage is how smooth the transitions are .... I assume that’s just experience of being smooth in flying it ? 
 

Perhaps I could get my 9year old to fly it and film us - I was thinking it would work best on some of the high passes in the lakes - or the Yorkshire Dales where the countryside is wide and open. 
 

I had looked at the Mavic Mini ‘fly more’ package - I notice they have a Mavoc Mini 2 too now. 

The cameras are gimbal mounted and will provide a smooth viewing, it’s fairly easy to fly them if I’m honest but I’ve been brought up since the 80’s playing computer games, a fair few flying so it comes quite natural using the drone, but again, it really is easy

 

dji do some nice compact drones with decent cameras and loaded with some good software.

 

Yuneec and Parrot are the other 2 main suppliers for the market with Yuneec using quite larger units and Pareot make some nice specialist units for mapping and agricultural work.

 

a Mavic mini or even a Mavic 1 isn’t going to break the bank and will give you an idea of what it’s like to fly them.

 

There are rules and regulations as well to flying these, commercially and for pleasure only. You’ll need to read up in these and pass a simple online course to fly

[Peaklander]

That was very nice to watch. It played back in 1080p on my Mac (before i saw the direct link).

I was chuckling when you were talking about the 500' above ground level (and before you mentioned military). Where we are, on the edge of the Hope Valley 100' above the bottom,  it's about 1/2 mile wide with 1,300' - 1,500' hills on either side, the C-130 transporters come around from the Ladybower / Derwent reservoirs and are no more than 100' above and a little to the side of the houses. You usually get a few seconds warning as they are quite loud and appear to be moving very slowly. So I can imagine how important spotters are.